Toots

Let's face it.  Twitter is done.  Elon Musk has killed it by [url=https://www.reuters.com/technology/twitter-start-layoffs-friday-morning-internal-email-2022-11-04/]laying off half the employees[/url], [url=https://gizmodo.com/elon-musk-bans-remote-work-twitter-1849766493]banning remote work[/url], [url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/twitter-announces-blue-check-subscription-service-monthly-fee/]adding a monthly subscription cost[/url], and even considering [url=https://gizmodo.com/elon-musk-twitter-paywall-genius-idiot-nazis-tom-fitton-1849756014]putting content behind a paywall[/url].

Twitter users are looking for a new home, and many of them are flocking to [url=https://joinmastodon.org/]Mastodon[/url].  This is a distributed social media that's been around for several years, and lets you [url=https://joinmastodon.org/servers]host your own server[/url].  [url=https://darkshade.social]Darkshade[/url] even has an instance!

It's like twitter, but tweets are called toots (following the elephant theme) and accounts are named @user@server.  You can follow me @diddly@darkshade.social

It really seems Musk is trying to kill Twitter completely.  Now he's demanding the remaining employees to [url=https://www.bbc.com/news/business-63648505]work long hours at high intensity or be fired[/url].  After also firing employees [url=https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/15/tech/elon-musk-twitter-employees/index.html]on Twitter[/url] for daring to correct false statements, he's not inspiring any loyalty.

While it has been fun running a Mastodon-like server, I've decided to take darkshade.social down.  I tried moving the instance to another machine, but I'm stuck running Pleroma, and that's a convoluted mess to migrate.  It was really only used by me anyway.  If you're looking for me now, I've moved to diddly@sunny.garden