That’s one of the things I’ve been meaning to do—Mastodon. Totally forgot about it. DL’d it and never opened it. So it’s still Post for now but it’s not winning many over either.
It’s August. If ever there was a month for ignoring typos it would be August.
That’s one of the things I’ve been meaning to do—Mastodon. Totally forgot about it. DL’d it and never opened it. So it’s still Post for now but it’s not winning many over either.
It’s August. If ever there was a month for ignoring typos it would be August.
I signed up on Mastodon with as many journalists as I could find on topics I like, but it's thin on the ground compared to Twitter, where you can just read free journo quips and snarks all day. My supply was cut in half when some service called "bird.makeup", which echoes Twitter posts to Mastodon, stopped working a few weeks back. (And it was probably a good thing, people like Dan Froomkin simply snark at bad journalism all. day. long.)
Most of what I've signed up for now is just jokes ("Meanwhile in Canada" and "Mostly Harmless" are not to be missed for daily smiles, and occasional searing commentary, a la political cartoons.) and "Polling Canada", daily polls - the global warming argument is *quite* over, no need to engage any more - and posts from my own chosen server, 'urbanists.social' - highlighting every good deed of bikes and transit, every evil of cars and SUVs, the world over. ("Kid hit by an SUV is 8X as likely to die as one hit by a car", just today.)
It's fun, and Mostly Harmless. I've gone from being angry at journalists endlessly griping about Twitter, but not leaving it, to being glad about it. I have enough journalism via substack, honestly. Maybe Twitter should just die, and Mastodon not replace what it was.
That’s one of the things I’ve been meaning to do—Mastodon. Totally forgot about it. DL’d it and never opened it. So it’s still Post for now but it’s not winning many over either.
It’s August. If ever there was a month for ignoring typos it would be August.
I signed up on Mastodon with as many journalists as I could find on topics I like, but it's thin on the ground compared to Twitter, where you can just read free journo quips and snarks all day. My supply was cut in half when some service called "bird.makeup", which echoes Twitter posts to Mastodon, stopped working a few weeks back. (And it was probably a good thing, people like Dan Froomkin simply snark at bad journalism all. day. long.)
Most of what I've signed up for now is just jokes ("Meanwhile in Canada" and "Mostly Harmless" are not to be missed for daily smiles, and occasional searing commentary, a la political cartoons.) and "Polling Canada", daily polls - the global warming argument is *quite* over, no need to engage any more - and posts from my own chosen server, 'urbanists.social' - highlighting every good deed of bikes and transit, every evil of cars and SUVs, the world over. ("Kid hit by an SUV is 8X as likely to die as one hit by a car", just today.)
It's fun, and Mostly Harmless. I've gone from being angry at journalists endlessly griping about Twitter, but not leaving it, to being glad about it. I have enough journalism via substack, honestly. Maybe Twitter should just die, and Mastodon not replace what it was.