"I know I bought the world's most prominent social media platform, and swiftly ran it into the ground, but now I'm going to reactivate the account of Nazi troll Nick Fuentes and things are going to get a lot worse." ~Elon Musk, probably
I didn't think it was possible for me to despise #ElonMusk any more, but here we are. This unbelievable #narcissist now wants to fill the sky with #advertising billboards. What a great supplement to that boring night sky! Instead of enjoying nature, we can look at Elon's celestial #whiteSupremacy and #antisemitic hate ads!
I'm getting a little sick of self-serving billionaires begging for money. There's something inherently wrong with the literal richest man in the world soliciting money from normal people.
#ElonMusk just proved how absurd, and detached from reality he is. In the mind of this ultra-wealthy apartheid supporter, pretty much everybody can afford a $100,000 ticket to #Mars by simply working hard, and saving their money! Meanwhile, back on Earth, more than half the country can't afford an unexpected $1000 emergency. Fuck you, Elon.
#ElonMusk can deny embracing “#GreatReplacementTheory” all he wants. But it’s a scam. In addition to pushing it himself, he’s used #Twitter to create a far-right information safe space where an extraordinary outpouring of “great replacement” and “white genocide” #propaganda is absolutely flourishing.
Why the hell did #ElonMusk even bother to do this interview with #DonLemon? He was clearly in a repressed rage throughout the discussion, actually shaking with tears forming in the corners of his eyes as Lemon asked completely fair, and straightforward questions. This is not a reasonable person. This is someone on the brink of uncontrolled violence.
"If I died knowing that I did what was right, or did my best to do what was right, and even if in the history books they said I did wrong, I would still feel okay about that. I care about the reality of goodness, not the perception of it", said #ElonMusk, who considers himself the ultimate arbiter of the reality of goodness.
Would you believe #ElonMusk's philanthropic endeavors are actually just a self-serving vehicle for his own further enrichment? Because that's what's happening.
Is #ElonMusk really this stupid, or is it an act? Immigrants who enter the country illegally cannot vote, and they have no pathway to legal citizenship. So, what the hell is Musk talking about? It's offensive for someone that rich to be this dumb.
#MAGA venture capitalist #PaulGraham believes #Twitter has gotten a lot better under #ElonMusk's control because he's not inundated with viewpoints other than his own. Of course, this is because Elon has welcomed #whiteSupremacists and #antisemites with open arms while openly discriminating against everyone else. The only people left on the platform are bigoted #MAGAts.
Whispers what if there is an e-petition in the works for Canada's Parliament to provide all MPs, Senators and others with a "free, decentralized, and federated" alternative to Twitter and other corporate social media platforms...
⭐(& other reaction buttons) are the❤️button but this only tells the author I like their post, nobody else.
🔁Boost🔁Repost etc moves info around. That shows something to my followers.
There is no algorithm. We choose & not some algorithm under corporate control. We choose by 🔁boosting🔁 posts and by using #hashtags. More things get seen here. Wider ranges of conversation topics happen here. It's more organic, more human.
Ch.8
I can think of #Fediverse being like a fleet, with many types & sizes of ships. Different social platforms. Different sizes of servers. But all communicating & co-operating across the Fediverse. We're a fleet.
Multiple feeds reflect this eg:
🛳️Home includes everyone I follow from multiple social platforms, any servers.
⛴️Local=everyone on my ship (my server).
🚢Federated=1 step beyond, people that my locals are connected to, have followed or are searching.
Ch.7 #Likes vs #Boosts / #RePosts
⭐(& other reaction buttons) are the❤️button but this only tells the author I like their post, nobody else. It does not make the post more visible.
🔁Boost🔁Repost etc moves info around. That shows the post to my followers home feed.
There is no algorithm deciding for us. We choose, not some algorithm under corporate control. We choose by 🔁boosting🔁 posts and by using #hashtags. More things get seen here. Wider ranges of conversation topics happen here. It's more organic, much more human.
Ch.9 #AltText
When uploading images try and describe the images in the alt text box, this is good for people using screenreaders, blind, partially sighted etc. Try to remember to include ppl.
Ch.11
I can think of #Fediverse being like a fleet, with many types & sizes of ships. Different social platforms. Different sizes of servers. But all communicating & co-operating across the Fediverse. We're a fleet.
Multiple feeds reflect different ways of seeing posts from across the fleet. They can have different names but broadly they fall in to 5 categories.
🛳️Home includes everyone I follow. Whatever ship they currently call home. Posts from multiple social platforms, any servers.
⛴️Local, my server =everyone local on this ship (my current account server location).
🚢Federated, other servers = 1 step beyond, people that my locals are connected to, have followed or are searching.
#Hashtag feeds = posts using the hashtag you are interested in.
🎏Custom feeds = feeds with criteria I can define & refine over time.
#ElonMusk appears to be fully committed to destroying the #platform he hilariously paid $54 billion for. I guess he didn't think #advertisers were fleeing fast enough. 🤷♂️
If you're curious about the set of dog-tags that Elon Musk is wearing while he's smirking and telling people "Go fuck yourself", they're from the IDF.
Haven't seen anyone else report on it yet, but Elon Musk, Twitter's Nazi-meme-posting owner, is wearing dog-tags from the Israel Defence Forces. He's making a visible dog-whistle to show support of Israel's genocide in Palestine.
A year ago, I decided to give Mastodon a try and I've never looked back. I found fellow Twitter refugees and discovered amazing OG Fediverse accounts. Many of the folks I discovered in my local feed are still my favorite follows. Y'all are stuck with me now. ❤️