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   Evan Prodromou (evan@prodromou.pub)'s status on Monday, 12-Dec-2022 10:16:58 JST Evan Prodromou

   Every time you post on Twitter, you produce value for the advertisers.

   You tell everyone in your network there that it's OK to stay. That you're all helpless to leave.

   You tell the people who've lost their jobs, the people who are being hounded and harassed, that they are not important to you.

   You know you're going to be ashamed of it later.

   Just stop posting.

   Do it here, not there. Connect here, not there.

   Don't reply, don't like, don't retweet.

   Stop feeding your life into the machine.

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     John Panzer (jpanzer@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 12-Dec-2022 14:04:46 JST John Panzer

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     • ares

     @evan @ares I agree with fighting them. But when the “space” is defined by the people and connections and ongoing content, is it actually surrendering to simply, collectively, turn away from Elmo and his thralls? Or is it winning?

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     ares@kolektiva.social's status on Monday, 12-Dec-2022 14:04:47 JST ares

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     @evan

     or you stay and fight

     you tell everyone in your network that it's not okay to surrender spaces to fascists without a struggle

     you tell the people who've lost their jobs that we'll resist the new owner using his own wealth and resources

     you provide an alternative example for all the normies still there that they don't have to be radicalized and recruited by haters and inciters of violence

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     Evan Prodromou (evan@prodromou.pub)'s status on Monday, 12-Dec-2022 22:07:25 JST Evan Prodromou

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     • WTF

     @Kitchi why do you think your followers stay

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     WTF (kitchi@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 12-Dec-2022 22:07:26 JST WTF

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     @evan Imo that is probably not going to happen as long as our government officials and MSM and our followers stay.

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     GNU Too (gnu2@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Monday, 12-Dec-2022 22:14:09 JST GNU Too

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     • John Panzer
     • ares
     @Kitchi @evan @ares @jpanzer but our space should be "the internet" not some freedom dennying closed source corporate platform monitizing human suffering.
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     Evan Prodromou (evan@prodromou.pub)'s status on Tuesday, 13-Dec-2022 03:20:28 JST Evan Prodromou

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     There's a link on Reddit.

     https://www.reddit.com/r/WhitePeopleTwitter/comments/zjxrmu/stop/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android_app&utm_name=androidcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

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     GNU Too (gnu2@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Tuesday, 13-Dec-2022 03:26:27 JST GNU Too

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     @evan dude, sanatize your links bro!
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     Evan Prodromou (evan@prodromou.pub)'s status on Tuesday, 13-Dec-2022 05:25:53 JST Evan Prodromou

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     • ERiC jZ

     @zygie24 now you have a chance to become the sports influencer in Mastodon

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     ERiC jZ (zygie24@mas.to)'s status on Tuesday, 13-Dec-2022 05:25:54 JST ERiC jZ

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     @evan finally cut the cord today. In good conscious I could no longer stay. I’m gonna miss the sports related info, but I’ll be fine. Had enough of the unchecked and promoted bigoted content.

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     Evan Prodromou (evan@prodromou.pub)'s status on Tuesday, 13-Dec-2022 10:26:52 JST Evan Prodromou

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     • ERiC jZ

     @zygie24 https://www.wikihow.com/Become-Popular-on-Social-Media

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     ERiC jZ (zygie24@mas.to)'s status on Tuesday, 13-Dec-2022 10:26:53 JST ERiC jZ

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     @evan I love the way you think Evan. If I only knew how lol. I guess it’s never too late to learn.

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     Evan Prodromou (evan@prodromou.pub)'s status on Tuesday, 13-Dec-2022 12:32:37 JST Evan Prodromou

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     • James M.

     @jamesmarshall I think there's an option for early adopters to build a more just and welcoming environment so that when communities move here it's already a better place.

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     James M. (jamesmarshall@sfba.social)'s status on Tuesday, 13-Dec-2022 12:32:38 JST James M.

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     @evan
     I've heard from Black folks here say that hastag-BlackTwitter there is a literal life-saver for many, and is used to keep the community quickly well-informed of relevant issues, e.g. killings by police. Unfortunately, there is not anything nearly as effective here, yet. I'd love everybody and that community in particular to migrate ASAP, but it will take at least a little time. How can we help?

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     Evan Prodromou (evan@prodromou.pub)'s status on Tuesday, 13-Dec-2022 12:33:38 JST Evan Prodromou

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     • wino

     @wion why? I link so people know I'm the same person.

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     wino (wion@writing.exchange)'s status on Tuesday, 13-Dec-2022 12:33:39 JST wino

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     @evan

     I left the fowl site near five years ago (and the FB account I never used, and Google everything, and LinkedIn, and dozens of other shite accounts from the silly-con valley surveillance era). It was a train wreck in progress. Now was inevitable. The political debacle of 2016 was the last push I needed. I never looked back, and I’ve been happy about that small ecological contribution to the planet.

     So I agree. But, man, delete that fowl link in your profile if you’re gonna preach. :)

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     翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Tuesday, 13-Dec-2022 16:40:37 JST 翠星石

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     • GNU Too
     @gnu2 >closed source corporate platform
     The server software is proprietary (or at least is SaaSS), but that's a lesser issue to how the client JavaScript on twitter.com is proprietary software.
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     Evan Prodromou (evan@prodromou.pub)'s status on Tuesday, 13-Dec-2022 21:20:55 JST Evan Prodromou

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     • wino

     @wion OK. Good luck in your work.

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     wino (wion@writing.exchange)'s status on Tuesday, 13-Dec-2022 21:20:56 JST wino

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     @evan

     Ultimately I care not what you do, but I hold a certain standard to anyone taking an anti-centralized social media stance, whatever their agenda. If people are going to play the card, they open the door to some alternate reflection. I’m sure you can appreciate that, at least. TIOLI.

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     Evan Prodromou (evan@prodromou.pub)'s status on Tuesday, 13-Dec-2022 21:28:26 JST Evan Prodromou

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     • Bajker🇨🇿

     @bajker Mastodon software is made by a non-profit.

     https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2021/08/mastodon-now-a-non-profit-organisation/

     Mastodon instances are run by different entities.

     I pay for my personal one myself.

     Other instances are run by organisations for their staff.

     There are instances run by individuals.

     Some take donations.

     Others are run by cooperatives.

     I think in-stream ads are going to be a hard business model for this network, since readers can filter them out.

     Does that answer your question?

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     Bajker🇨🇿 (bajker@mastodon.pirati.cz)'s status on Tuesday, 13-Dec-2022 21:28:28 JST Bajker🇨🇿

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     @evan Does mastodon have any financial strategy to keep it running if its number of users increases by an order of magnitude? Without future potential advertisers and dependence on advertising profits?

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     Evan Prodromou (evan@prodromou.pub)'s status on Saturday, 17-Dec-2022 03:09:56 JST Evan Prodromou

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     • Patricia Kayden

     @kaydenpat just copy the link and paste where you want

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     Patricia Kayden (kaydenpat@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 17-Dec-2022 03:09:57 JST Patricia Kayden

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     @evan How can we retweet posts from Mastodon? I'd love to share posts from here on blogs I frequent.

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     Evan Prodromou (evan@prodromou.pub)'s status on Saturday, 17-Dec-2022 03:10:33 JST Evan Prodromou

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     • Patricia Kayden

     @kaydenpat also, try "boost" to repost within Mastodon