Kagan MacTane @[email protected] (he/him)

NYC/SF front-end web dev who loves fun, efficient UX. Cocktail and sci-fi fan, feminist, accessibility advocate, 🥓 and 🍣 lover, progressive SJW.

[Kagan MacTane @[email protected] (he/him) @kmactane]

@coyotegoth Thanks!

[Kagan MacTane @[email protected] (he/him) @kmactane]

Writing question: I have a female character who likes motorcycles. She's 29, grew up in the US.

What are some movie/TV/etc. characters that might have been formative "girls can ride motorcycles? Cool, I wanna do that when I grow up!" influences? #motorcycle #ActionGirls

[Kagan MacTane @[email protected] (he/him) @kmactane]

.@Iconfactory has 16.1k followers on Twitter and about 4.1k on Mastodon. Their last tweet received a mere 9 likes/3 retweets, and an amazing 287 favorites/163 boosts on Mastodon.

Even "followers" don’t SEE what you’re saying here anymore. Why stay?
https://t.co/2XaVKSWbFM

[Kagan MacTane @[email protected] (he/him) @kmactane]

Tired: I'm not joining #Mastodon because I'm scared of picking the wrong instance.

Wired: It doesn't matter; I can move instances later, and *nobody will even notice* if I don't tell them!

https://t.co/3TEvPESZXx

Make the switch. It's really nice over there!

[Kagan MacTane @[email protected] (he/him) @kmactane]

In case you were following Taylor Lorenz, the WaPo tech reporter who was suspended *on Saturday* (i.e., *after* Musk "reinstated" at least some, but by no means all, of the previous round of censored journalists), she's on That Other Site: @taylorlorenz@(not-elephant).social.

[Kagan MacTane @[email protected] (he/him) @kmactane]

[A major] social media network... has been captured by a partisan actor who is weaponizing internal company (possibly and possibly user) information for partisan/ideological purposes, with uncertain consequences for the next American elections. https://t.co/W5AffFZeGg

[Kagan MacTane @[email protected] (he/him) @kmactane]

Elon's given behind-the-scenes data access to anti-LGBTQ bigots and promised them protection.

Twitter is not safe for LGBTQ people to be on at all and this problem won't be rectified - it can only get worse because it is the desire of the new owner.

https://t.co/pOw1ZSVjFY

[Kagan MacTane @[email protected] (he/him) @kmactane]

Twitter's Trust and Safety Council is losing members after Elon fired its head and has stonewalled the council.

Do not trust Twitter; you are not safe here. (Unless you're a right-winger. Elon likes those.) https://t.co/poejN9rhtI

[Kagan MacTane @[email protected] (he/him) @kmactane]

Thought I'd stay on Twitter to keep a bigger platform for things I want to say. But in the past 2 weeks on #Mastodon, I've had a post hit 130 boosts, and another hit 305. Others have gone over 10 more routinely than my tweets have.

So I've got a bigger audience there. Already!

[Kagan MacTane @[email protected] (he/him) @kmactane]

Twitter will no longer enforce its COVID misinformation policy.

People can now lie about COVID here with impunity.

https://t.co/8EpSfs2iva

[Kagan MacTane @[email protected] (he/him) @kmactane]

My apologies to anyone still using Gothpunk/Freak Nation/etc. email. I just noticed it's been down. I have restarted it and your email should now be arriving; if not, please restart your mail program. I'm sorry about that.

[Kagan MacTane @[email protected] (he/him) @kmactane]

The head of the NAACP has called on advertisers to leave Twitter: https://t.co/ZfwL8kkWZi

[BSten @Bahstenn]

@epistemophagy i was confused by the servers at first. but i googled which one was popular and cool with lgbtqia+ and just picked the first one.

[Kagan MacTane @[email protected] (he/him) @kmactane]

@coyotegoth Yeah, they *did* break here, in the past, but I'm not sure how possible that will be in the future. I think it'll be very hard for stories about injustice, particularly against marginalized people, to gain traction here anymore - and I'm sure that doesn't bother Musk at all.

[Kagan MacTane @[email protected] (he/him) @kmactane]

So, let's take stock. In the past 2-3 weeks, Elon Musk has (in no particular order): 🧵

1️⃣ Fired practically all the content moderators
2️⃣ Reinstated all the kinds of people who had already demonstrated just why content moderation is necessary

1/

[Kagan MacTane @[email protected] (he/him) @kmactane]

Trying would not be a good use of our efforts. It's better if we just leave, and the quicker Twitter collapses, and is acknowledged to have done so, the better - for decent people and also for society and democracy.

You can find me on Mastodon. /end

[Kagan MacTane @[email protected] (he/him) @kmactane]

The best course now is to let Twitter become worthless, a place nobody pays attention to anymore. Like Parler and Truth Social. That's where it's headed; it's inexorably going to be overrun with shitposters, disinformers, and Nazis. We can't possibly stop that. 6/