I didn't watch the video, so don't ask for a TLDW.

I'm predicting Twitter will be dead or irrelevant in 3-5 years. But how Musk is abusing Twitter is very entertaining and dramatic

Meta employees to be offered real estate in the Metaverse as part of severance package.

— Douglas A. Boneparth (@dougboneparth) November 7, 2022

Factcheck: None of this is real.

I can't tell if this joke or not. Thanks alot Elon!!! But great tweet regardless

@nekobit @lain discuss

Is Twitter to Mastodon the new Digg to Reddit?

Another reason we need to Just Stop Oil.

Clicking the 'preview channel' button doesn't work - it merely reloads the page.

Navigating to a message directly like so: https://t.me/kiwifarms/80 shows an error. Is it over for chuds?

Coomers discuss

https://old.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/yoats3/tumblr_is_bringing_back_nudity_reversing_the/

Update: so far things not going well on Mastodon. After the initial post, nothing I try to post is showing up. And despite setting it *not* to send an email every time someone follows me, it's sending them. I hope these are just teething problems.

— Paul Krugman (@paulkrugman) November 6, 2022

Orange Site:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33494221

Very rare to see Apple make an announcement like this. Not looking good for either side. 😬

Orange Site:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33498342

https://old.reddit.com/r/apple/comments/yo5flk/update_on_supply_of_iphone_14_pro_and_iphone_14/

https://x.com/MasterPandaWu/status/1589393063327444992#m

https://rdrama.net/h/slackernews/post/120649/anticcp-and-anticovid19-precautions-sentiments-on

BE ADVISED THE FOLLOWING IS NOT ETHICAL.

It's not unethical, either, it's just braindead stupid.

The Startup Mentality which popularized social media is pretty simple and you should learn it if you want to

MAKE MARSEY A SUPERSTAR

More impressions is more impressions. More. More is more. How is more? Do more.

This means: retweets on rdrama's twitter. Sharing posts from /h/museumofdrama that make the place look cool to fediverse instances.

MORE.

Suck them in. They look. They see a cat. They see an anorexic girl. Is it a sexualization of anorexia? Does it make this place look truly countercultural for those who read deeply enough into the irony? (I think so, but jesus @carpathianflorist you went there and as much as I don't respect you, I respect you.)

MAP THE TABOOS.

QUEER THE BOUNDARIES.

More impressions means more. More is more. More.

Fly, my pretties, into the fediverse, and BRING IT TO BEHOLD, AS IN DARSAN, THE CAT GOD MARSEY.

Per Apple Newsroom

CUPERTINO, CALIFORNIA COVID-19 restrictions have temporarily impacted the primary iPhone 14 Pro and iPhone 14 Pro Max assembly facility located in Zhengzhou, China. The facility is currently operating at significantly reduced capacity. As we have done throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, we are prioritizing the health and safety of the workers in our supply chain.

We continue to see strong demand for iPhone 14 Pro and iPhone 14 Pro Max models. However, we now expect lower iPhone 14 Pro and iPhone 14 Pro Max shipments than we previously anticipated and customers will experience longer wait times to receive their new products.

We are working closely with our supplier to return to normal production levels while ensuring the health and safety of every worker.

Orange site demands people die so they can get their iPhones

Xi's obsession with "zero-covid" will continue to lead to things like this, and will seriously wreck their attractiveness as a manufacturing hub for the world over time.

Protect your citizens? Not in the way of my consooooooming. We explotied China for cheap labor and now they're unattractive so we must go to an even cheaper place so my $1000 phone can be shipped over in a massive container ship using a shit tone of diesel fuel or flown overnight because I need it now

COVID-19 restrictions, jesus. What is this 2020?

Wow, don’t think I’ve seen Apple issue a PR like this before. No doubt Apple’s considering now more than ever to continue to diversify their supply chain. China seems to have no issue continuing with their Zero-Covid approach.

Diversify diversify diversify

Glad I got mine weeks ago and didn't have to wait for a Welfare check to arrive

r/apple

3/ This year, they didn't sell much of anything.

A coalition called Stop The Deal spent time educating and using media buyers and big advertisers at the event to ask Twitter some basic questions about potential Musk takeover before giving him a guaranteed income for 2023.

— Angelo Carusone (@GoAngelo) November 5, 2022

Not working well for you Elon Musk? Did you fire too many employees or fired the wrong ones?

Twitter killing itself speedrun? Reminds me of Digg

https://old.reddit.com/r/facepalm/comments/yo192g/twitter_now_asks_some_fired_workers_to_please/

To nobody's surprise the network I shilled a couple months ago that was niche and fun has now made it to r-slurred masses, and it's probably gonna tbh but i dunno man, people don't like this Elon Musk guy very much.

tl;dr Twitterstrags ruin everything and don't listen to 's lies. He's simply [[[filtered]]]

also tl;dr: https://shitposter.club/notice/APKkND0tCtuy4cAF4y

First off, I'm going to start off by shilling good instances. Peep their local timeline and users, get an idea of how it works.

Good instances

If you want to get on the good Fediverse, join some of these instances.

• shitposter.club

• seal.cafe (hosted by our friend @kroner, includes Marsey emojis)

• sneed.social (I recently noticed this one and I really like it)

• rdrama.cc (reg's open, our official one , nearly 1.8k fricking emojis and all the Marsey emojis from here, synced)

  • Will probably run Treebird, my own lightweight frontend soon as default, other frontends are broken so if you want a twitter experience, use fe.soapbox.pub. Here's a very old build of Treebird while im still working on the async codebase refactor

• cawfee.club

• outerheaven.club

• udongein.xyz

• kiwifarms.cc (Literally never up since the Keffaling)

Teh History

A snippet quite literally taken from Wikilibertarianism for teh lulz

In 2008, the social network identi.ca was founded by Evan Prodromou. He published the software GNU social under a free license. It defined the OStatus protocol.

This is all you BIPOCs need to know. The GNU bros and Free software chuds basically put the concept of decentralized social media into action. Nowadays, GNU Social is pretty dead, it hasn't gotten any updates besides a few pokes, even the official GNU Project account is hosted on Mastodon for fricks sake.

I joined GNU Social around 2018, but only to peep it for like 5 minutes and lost interest as I wasn't really into social media or even shitposting and I was a tad bit younger.

Mastodon was born

I'm jumping from 2008 to 2016 here because frick all happened besides the community growing and some oldstrag networks like shitposter.club (still alive and thriving on Pleroma!), sealion.club, and a bunch of others I always forget. Mastodon supported the OStatus network like the rest of them did. Pleroma was born a few years I believe after Mastodon (and some others were born but everyone forgot about those). Mastodon is written in Ruby, which is a piece of shit unscalable meme language that resulted in Mastodon being slow as fricking dogshit, pumping its peepee into the mediocre speed (but good scalability) that is PostgreSQL. Pleroma was born due to Mastodon's poor performance concerns and, quite honestly, also has performance issues but is written in a much cooler meme language, Elixir. Can also run on a Raspberry Pi its so lightweight, but PostgreSQL ruins the fun of that.

ActivityPub (or as Carp calls it, ActivityPup) is the standard for Federation proposed by the W3C, you know... the people who lifted up the web, also a bunch of Jews i dont like but whatever. This is where everything has headed since, it's a seemed to hold up well. Gargron adopted it early, making Mastodon well known for ActivityPup. Pleroma added support and switched over to it. Basically everyone seemed to slowly abandon GNU Social somewhere around this point as the implementations of ActivityPub got more stable.

I used to have an Image booru called thebub.club which was full of oldstrag memes comparing Gargron to a Jew and all the other stuff and all the "happenings" and fun stuff on the network.

Alright, so basically, EVERYONE who used GNU Social fricking despised Mastodon. Mastodon only cared about branding, being as slow as possible, and blocking a million instances. It was probably the first time in the history of the network where blocklists were a thing, it was basically a "Mastodon" disease.

Not even to mention it didn't truly give a shit about federation, but mostly just hating freeze peach. Did you know? Both Pleroma and GNU Social have never had "flagship" instances, ever. Pleroma's developer doesn't even stay up to date on his own software, and yeah, GNU Social never had a main network, it just made software. This encouraged people to create their own instances of the software and encouraged Federation, it works. Mastodon? Lol, two flagship instances (mastodon.social, and mastodon.online), and a third one owned by some very greedy dude called mstdn.social (but not really flagship, just only cares about the branding). You can see how this hurt federation, with mastodon.social having 800k users, m.o having 143k. (confirmed though the api btw)

I wasn't lying about Mastodon being terrible software that can't fricking scale, every admin on large instances has to have beefed up servers to Federate alone, when Pleroma doesn't seem to have these issues as much.

Eventually, more software spawned. Soapbox was created by Alex Gleason, a well known TERF vegan r-slur who got banned from Pleroma's development team lmao. I've been developing Wormhole, the Marsey approved backend in C++ (and im developing a frontend for Pleroma/Wormhole/Mastodon, but im not shilling that as it isn't related since im only talking about backends). There's also Honk which is proof-of-concept but idk much else.

Now there are journ*lists being bullied off the network

Anyway, I think that's all the important bits, also the stuff I know. There's instances which have spawned, but I really only wanted to roll out a history of the software and people behind it.

@nekobit @DrTransmisia @garlicdoors @schizo @jannies @lain discuss

Orange Site:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33493433

JUST IN: Elon Musk confirms some Twitter employees sold verification badges behind the scenes under previous management.

— Watcher.Guru (@WatcherGuru) November 5, 2022

@schizo @nekobit @Bardfinn @garlicdoors @DrTransmisia discuss

Orange Site:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33486497

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