💫Nerd Alert: Learned how to resolve my mastodon server issues and will be opening up federate.social for a new cohort of applicants today. Hoping to attract 50% newbies and 50% folks looking to jump off of a chaotic crowded big instance. Stay tuned. #GetFederated
Why join my #fediverse instance?
⛔️I’ve already blocked (defederated) several nasty servers for troll-free trust and safety.
🆘I respond to reports and enforce the clearly posted rules.
👨🏻💻Guidance and support learning a new way to do social media.
🌐A more focused federated feed
Things to consider:
💸If you plan on bringing a large follower base along, are you willing to chip in on computing costs? Say $8/mo?
📦When you move instances/servers, you leave your posts behind but you take your followers with you because it forwards on. I’ll walk you thru it.
🐘Applications are open again for a limited time to form a new cohort joining my new mastodon server at federate.social
At sign-up, in the required "Why do you want to join?" field:
—Include your twitter handle
—Your main reason for wanting to join my server
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OK I’ve seen enough from this poll. Let’s experiment with the #Fediverse together. Applications to join my new mastodon instance are now open. federate.social
Already have small core of familiars posting comparable content #OnThere at a steady clip along with all new voices I’ve never met before. I’ve been playing around for a weekend and already my notifications for masto have overtaken my twitter notifs. You have to work at it tho.
I know it’s sad to let go and endure sudden change. So many of us have invested so much of our life #OnHere. The problem for us is that it was always for sale. Even if it’s messy, masto is not for sale. Right now, and for what it’s worth, that’s a feature. Not a bug.
Bekah Mercer suing Alexander Nix for £16M for causing downfall of her precious Cambridge Analytica. Nix insists to High Court that his comments captured undercover by C4 are not to be taken literally, blaming others for stonewalling the ICO investigation
🔐law360.com/articles/15243…
“Nix, who was chief executive of Cambridge Analytica, also denies that the company was "engulfed in scandal" following a series that aired on Channel 4.”
Weird then how CA/SCL claimed it needed to go out of business because being engulfed in scandal chased away all their clients
I doubt it came up in Dynamo Recoveries Ltd. v. Nix, case number CL-2022-000321, in the High Court of Justice of England and Wales but Bekah had an OCEAN score for *all* US registered voters; forensic proof was Trump 2016 db leaked to Channel4 who then showed voters their files.
It’s all very 1980s. Mortgages are expensive. Iron Maiden and Judas Priest t-shirts are a hot commodity but so are satanic panics. A dark cloud of nuclear war looms large. Indy music sounds like The Cure. Conservatives have a weird way of promoting censorship. A virus politicized
England’s PM is a woman and Charles III is in the spotlight… just free associations how the 2020s are like the 1980s … everything old is new again
A US president who was an entertainer before politics and did some very bad things in office spawning investigations but retained full party support nevertheless
Remarkable to see FTC draw out the mindset of A/B split testing as a catalyst for breeding deceptive design patterns in UI toward a harmful UX. #DarkPatternsftc.gov/reports/bringi…
no one worried that covert, unethical, profit-driven automated psychological experiments on non-consenting subjects would yield harm but who cares because chart go up
That famous startup guidebook taught tech bros to intentionally deceive people with A/B as a business model discovery strategy and now it infuses the ux of everything.