Sunday Reads: Mastodon Migration
Posted: November 6, 2022 Filed under: 2022 Elections, corporate greed, Elon Musk, Free Press, Free Speech, hate crimes, morning reads, open thread, Political and Editorial Cartoons, right wing hate grouups, social media, the GOP, the internet, Twitter, U.S. Politics, White Christian Nationalism, white nationalists 40 Comments
Cartoons first…via Cagle:
A few more things…
As for Mastodon…
I’ve sign up with mastodon and it seems cool so far…
If you would like to give it a try: https://mstdn.social/invite/diPNC9x2
And if you want to follow your Twitter people just use this tool: https://fedifinder.glitch.me/ or https://pruvisto.org/debirdify/
Journalist are signing up…you can find them some of them here: https://journa.host/explore
You use the same hashtags as you do on Twitter. If you sign up with the link I have shared, there is moderation on that server…
If you want to cross post from twitter to Mastodon: https://crossposter.masto.donte.com.br/
For more information on Mastodon: https://docs.joinmastodon.org/
Meanwhile, in a town not far from Banjoville:
So if you go to Mastodon…I will see you there.
This is an open thread.
peej
Carissa
ecocatwoman
grayslady
mablue2
JJ Lopez aka Minkoff Minx
peggysue22
skydancingguestblogger
Mona (aka Wonk the Vote)
Sky Dancing 
Have a safe day!••.
This just made my day:
Thanks for the info on Mastodon. I’m trying to work up the energy to try it, but I have an awful headache today so maybe tomorrow.
I hope you feel better BB…I could see it catching on, with governments having there own servers, or news and organizations having their own servers. Kind of like how on the web the .gov and .org is used. But only it would be the entity that is responsible for the server. So it is like email in that sense. If that makes sense.
OK I actually tried it, but I never got a confirmation email. I tried twice. When I tried to get help, it just said I don’t have a confirmed email.
The usual procedure is to send a link to the email addres you gave. Once you click on the link, that verifies it as a real email address (not some kind of robospamming). So see if there’s anything in your email. If it’s aged out, try the process again, but check your email sooner.
There are 100,000s people signing up to Mastodon just now, so their servers are being upgraded to deal with the load. Depending where the admins are in the process (these are all volunteers working in their copious free time) things can be a bit slow.
PS. Hope you feel better soon!
They never sent me the confirmation email. I tried twice. I also emailed them, no response. Today I tried messaging them on Twitter. Right now I don’t have a good impression.
I registered on a different server and got in.
Yes, I should have mentioned trying that. Good thinking. As I say, the servers are run by volunteers, so if one gets overloaded, trying another route is the thing to do. (That tends to be true of all open source software 😀 )
Unfortunately, I can’t follow JJ, because her server is still telling me I’m unverified. I’m not sure I have the energy to deal with Mastodon.
Take it a bit at a time, when you’re up for it. I bumped into that “you’re not verified” on other servers too. One thing that seems to work is to search for the person you want __in the search bar on your mastodon page__, not in the usual url bar.
So, for instance, if you were looking for me, you’d enter @quixote@mastodon.nz (I think! Something like that. Oh dear. Not sure I remember. Learning curve!)
I haven’t visited JJ yet either, but she’s found me 😀 . I’m working on it 😆
What’s your mastodon address, bb?
Thanks for the useful links, JJ. Like debirdify
Love the second picture.
I want to believe this tweet is true but where is the information coming from? I see no change at FiveThirtyEight.
The clip of the Christian conservative was very good. Hope lots of people see that and VOTE ACCORDINGLY. Good for her.
Grand Old Pervs!!
and he suspended their accounts! Chief Twit and Misogynist!
What’s new? The pre-Musk Twitter suspended women right and left too.
Here is some information:
Well and good, but I’m cynical. Twitter, et al., was supposed to democratize social media too. I’d be happy to be surprised. We’ll see.
Good signs are that the platform is open source and ad-free. Plus if the person running a server sells it to, oh, say, Musk, the rest of Mastodon can block that server and/or give its users new homes without them losing followers.
I’m sure a real evil genius could figure it out, but I have a hard time even imagining how you’d turn that into a monetizable mound of crap.
Luna, we do not agree on things of this nature…but I believe you would be able to find a server that would not have any issues with a post like that. At least I think you will.
Sounds like you believe that women do have dicks? ((*boggle* *mind*))
Of course trans people shouldn’t face discrimination in jobs, housing, etc.
It’s not a human rights for men to be in women’s private same-sex spaces and sports. That would override women’s rights for the sake of men’s feelings.
I don’t know on mastodon.social, which I think is the biggie right now. Haven’t had occasion to respond to the kind of post which needs that information
. I have seen a new arrival saying ‘Zomg! Where do I go to be safe from terfs?!’ So there is that.
Not sure what it’s going to take for the understanding to percolate into general consciousness that women do have standalone rights, not to be taken away for anyone’s convenience. Just like trans people do. (Rights to your own spaces. Validation isn’t a right. etc etc)
I’m hoping the major resistance going on right now in the UK will be a big step on the path.
Welp, I read the terms of service (not that they call them that) not a thing I normally ever do. And you’re not allowed to have “sexist, racist, homophobic, or transphobic” content and be affiliated with the group.
The typical wording when problems haven’t been thought through. I have a suspicion I know what the reaction would be if one started a women’s rights server or a lesbian rights one. (Gay men, of course, don’t get one hundredth of the harassment.) I’m pretty sure they don’t federate with spinster.xyz, although I don’t know the history of who decided what in that case.
Oh well. Maybe someday women will actually be understood to be full actual citizens of planet earth.
Betcha the terms of service place ‘transphobic’ (aka biological reality) content as worse than ‘sexist’ conduct.