@GalaxyKate Currently imagining the “Fediverse Connector“ overlay, which shows a high-speed maglev train network with stops on each nation. Only challenge is how does one shoot for Europe as an ideal for train usage, and not say… Snowpiercer.
@tomcoates FFS is right. I love that each Mastodon server lists out their ban policies, the servers they have banned and why. But I also don’t get a sense of like… what is the right number? I imagine reputable lists will surface… but in the meantime we all suffer.
@yeemachine I think about that one exhibit with the gigantic film strip so much. The one that shows the entire film, with a few lightbulbs around the case illuminating different points in time. So good!
@saylor@elonmusk You’ve literally just described one of the plot points in Dave Egger’s The Circle and The Every novels, which are NOT roadmaps for a healthy world.
Remember when ”paid blue checks” were the biggest controversy we had to talk about? Well, this week you can use the new quit.* prefix to view everyone who has quit Twitter in real time.
https://t.co/9X2t7vMWeE
🫡💙.realtwitter.com also works if you’re emoji-inclined.
As per usual, when a new Twitter trend erupts, https://t.co/HbzPaWB2fX is there for you:
✅.realtwitter.com
Only non-“Blue” (aka traditional) verified accounts you follow
💰.realtwitter.com
Only people you follow who now pay for their “check”
@tomcoates You know if it weren’t for this thread I never would’ve realized that I joined right during or after SXSW 07. I didn’t go until 09, so I must’ve heard about it through the grapevine then.
“Web3” gets so much flack, but one of my favorite examples was from last year when hicetnunc imploded and… a new server spun up the next day, re-ran the OSS code and just started reading and writing back to the same blockchain. Imagine if we could do that for Twitter.
If it were a game of 4D chess, maybe the point of destroying Twitter would be to convert $44b of debt to Tesla shares, bringing in a new class of significant, angry shareholders to vote him out of the CEO role? Seems easier to just quit, but then stock price would go down, so…?
My LambdaMOO character is >25 years old, followed by my Amazon and eBay accounts at >20 years, and then probably Flickr at 18. I was really hoping Twitter was going to keep going, but I suspect like the original SMS shortcode that it’ll 404(04) soon enough.
What I can’t stop thinking about though is: what does one do with a $44b broken toy? For all the trouble it’s been through, at least Flickr has stayed up through so many resales.