Aaron Parecki

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Westfall https://twitter.com/TwoFacedJohnMcC

@bestofdyingtwit lot going on here

Portland, Oregon • 48°F

Tue, Nov 22, 2022 7:59pm +00:00 (liked on Tue, Nov 22, 2022 9:19pm -08:00)
Christine Lemmer-Webber https://octodon.social/@cwebber

This is the best article about the recent rise in the fediverse I've seen! https://thenewstack.io/devs-are-excited-by-activitypub-open-protocol-for-mastodon/
And it opens with a quote by @evan and has several by me and even @blaine appears! Someone actually did their homework!
Relatedly, here's a lovely interview with @evan from just a few months back! https://thenewstack.io/challenges-of-creating-a-decentralized-open-source-twitter/

Portland, Oregon • 48°F

Wed, Nov 23, 2022 4:09am +00:00 (liked on Tue, Nov 22, 2022 9:01pm -08:00)
Digitalyn https://mastodon.xyz/@Digitalyn

I'm gonna tell your grand-kids this is Elon Musk.

Portland, Oregon • 50°F

Tue, Nov 22, 2022 8:31pm +00:00 (liked on Tue, Nov 22, 2022 6:04pm -08:00)
emilygorcenski https://indieweb.social/@emilygorcenski

If, every time you see a terrible person saying something awful, instead of being outraged about it you just read a chapter of a book, your life will be immeasurably better and the cause of justice will not be set back even one nanometer.

Portland, Oregon • 50°F

Tue, Nov 22, 2022 11:28pm +00:00 (liked on Tue, Nov 22, 2022 6:03pm -08:00)
slate https://twitter.com/PleaseBeGneiss

the end of twitter is taking forever did tolkien write this

Portland, Oregon • 50°F

Tue, Nov 22, 2022 4:45pm +00:00 (liked on Tue, Nov 22, 2022 5:25pm -08:00)
Megan https://social.coop/@InBabel

Watching George Takei go from “We’ll try this mastodon thingie and see if its any good” to “We need to liberate our minds from shackles of billionaire oligarchopathy.” in one week flat, has been an absolute joy.

Portland, Oregon • 52°F

Tue, Nov 22, 2022 10:02pm +00:00 (liked on Tue, Nov 22, 2022 4:02pm -08:00)
SungWon Cho https://twitter.com/ProZD

if twitter goes down, here’s where you can find me:

in my home enjoying my life

Portland, Oregon • 51°F

Fri, Nov 11, 2022 9:42pm +00:00 (liked on Tue, Nov 22, 2022 2:31pm -08:00)
Rob Sheridan (Parody) https://twitter.com/rob_sheridan

Quite a sight watching the world’s richest man cope in real time as he realizes that buying the entire cool kids’ table only results in MORE wedgies

Portland, Oregon • 42°F

Mon, Nov 21, 2022 10:04pm +00:00 (liked on Tue, Nov 22, 2022 8:43am -08:00)
Arkady https://twitter.com/ArkadyKoshka

Cats are so good. There’s just a little guy in my house! We hug! We don’t speak the same language! We’re best friends! He bites me! I make up little songs about him! He doesn’t know my name! We fall asleep next to each other!

Portland, Oregon • 41°F

Mon, Nov 21, 2022 4:01pm +00:00 (liked on Tue, Nov 22, 2022 6:43am -08:00)
Jenna Stoeber | listen to Burnt Cook Book Party! https://twitter.com/thejenna

right now Twitter is a group of people trying to decide where to take the afterparty and we've agreed to either the east-side Denny's or the west-side Denny's, and all you hive folks are like "what if we went to iHop" even though it took 40 minutes to narrow it down to a Denny's

Portland, Oregon • 41°F

Mon, Nov 21, 2022 6:52pm +00:00 (liked on Tue, Nov 22, 2022 6:34am -08:00)
Dan Hon https://dan.mastohon.com/@danhon

There was a terrible misunderstanding, and in an attempt to solve the four hardest problems in computer science (the other three are naming things and off-by-one errors), the cryptobros thought they'd nailed cash invalidation.
#sorry #notsorry

Portland, Oregon • 41°F

Tue, Nov 22, 2022 4:52am +00:00 (liked on Tue, Nov 22, 2022 6:24am -08:00) #notsorry #sorry
Alex Heath https://twitter.com/alexeheath

For anyone still wondering how content moderation is going to work on here now, here’s what Elon Musk said at an employee Q&A about his planned moderation council:

“This is an advisory council. I will hear what they have to say and I will either agree with it or I won’t.”

Portland, Oregon • 44°F

Tue, Nov 22, 2022 1:34am +00:00 (liked on Mon, Nov 21, 2022 6:41pm -08:00)
Scott Hanselman https://twitter.com/shanselman

I feel like Mastodon is doing a great job, as is Discord. I was getting the word out on my blog, podcast, youtube, forums, and other platforms long long before Twitter existed. I think we will be OK. Always bet on the Open Web IMHO 😍

Portland, Oregon • 47°F

Mon, Nov 21, 2022 10:44pm +00:00 (liked on Mon, Nov 21, 2022 2:47pm -08:00)
Molly White | @molly0xfff@hachyderm.io https://twitter.com/molly0xFFF

as sad as i am about the rapid destruction of twitter, the (re)surge in blogs and newsletters has been lovely

back to the #indieweb!

Portland, Oregon • 47°F

Mon, Nov 21, 2022 10:30pm +00:00 (liked on Mon, Nov 21, 2022 2:46pm -08:00) #indieweb
Damion Schubert - @ZenOfDesign@Brokentoys.social https://twitter.com/ZenOfDesign

Summary: "We're stopping ads for lots of reasons, but most significantly the tech around ads is completely busted and we don't know who to even talk to about it because all our contacts quit or were fired."

Portland, Oregon • 46°F

Mon, Nov 21, 2022 6:30pm +00:00 (liked on Mon, Nov 21, 2022 12:36pm -08:00)
rahaeli https://twitter.com/rahaeli

If you put a service on the internet, people are going to use it to hurt each other. Demonstrating you're aware of the ways they will -- and the ways it can hurt you -- is table stakes for entry in 2022.

Portland, Oregon • 37°F

Mon, Nov 21, 2022 4:09pm +00:00 (liked on Mon, Nov 21, 2022 8:24am -08:00)
rahaeli https://twitter.com/rahaeli

Okay, look, I can't sleep so you all get the cranky rant: I have seen multiple people responding to my criticism of Cohost and Mastodon, and Shep's criticism of Cohost and Hive, saying that we're just "haters" who are trying to destroy alternatives to Big Tech.

Portland, Oregon • 37°F

Mon, Nov 21, 2022 4:09pm +00:00 (liked on Mon, Nov 21, 2022 8:23am -08:00)
Peter Yang https://twitter.com/petergyang

Source is this post on @TeamBlind:
https://us.teamblind.com/s/4dnbo1Ft

Portland, Oregon • 37°F

Mon, Nov 21, 2022 3:39pm +00:00 (liked on Mon, Nov 21, 2022 7:58am -08:00)
Peter Yang https://twitter.com/petergyang

An advertiser explains why they’re pausing their Twitter ads campaigns:

Portland, Oregon • 37°F

Mon, Nov 21, 2022 2:15pm +00:00 (liked on Mon, Nov 21, 2022 7:57am -08:00)
Eric Schultz (parody) https://floss.social/@wwahammy

I think it's funny that ActivityPub has done more decentralization with a few million in total funding versus what blockchain did with tens of billions.

Portland, Oregon • 37°F

Mon, Nov 21, 2022 4:37am +00:00 (liked on Mon, Nov 21, 2022 7:48am -08:00)

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