Notices by Austin Kocher, PhD 🌎 (austinkocher@mastodon.social), page 3

I don't know what it takes to get an article retracted for egregious factual misrepresentation, but I've reached out to Breitbart News about John Binder's recent article that egregiously misrepresents our recent research. Let's hope they do the right thing and issue a retraction. More information below.

Evan Prodromou, who helped inspire & create the #ActivityPub protocol that makes @Mastodon run, called this recent #Twittermigration a “tipping point”.

“I have not been this excited about federated social networks since we published ActivityPub. The shift has started. … We’re doing this. Don’t be on the wrong side of history.” @evan

Blog post here: https://evanp.me/2022/11/11/its-happening/?utm_source=thenewstack&utm_medium=website&utm_content=inline-mention&utm_campaign=platform

Looking for a user-friendly way to learn more about @Mastodon and the #Fediverse? Visit https://fediverse.info/ to:

1. Add your account + hashtags to a list of searchable profiles.

2. Find other accounts with shared interests.

3. Check out really cool open source projects in the Fediverse (one example: Instagram alternative called @pixelfed).

4. See a full list of smartphone apps for iOS and Android.

@FediFollows @feditips

https://fediverse.info/

Musk claiming that a lot more people are engaging on Twitter is like me claiming that a lot more people are stopping by to look at my new house after I set it on fire. It’s in our nature to stare at something while it burns.

I remain genuinely and pleasantly shocked that in the course of 10 days or so, we all just went, “no way, eff this, we’re going to @Mastodon”, and now we’re just here and people are so nice and writing alt-text in their images and sharing great stuff and using content warnings and everything. Obviously none of this would have been possible without years of work by #Fediverse / #ActivityHub devs that came before. Even so, this is really something, no? ?

Amazing. LOL. I love it. @Gargron

@Gargron Congratulations! That’s a ton of people. I’m curious, Eugen, about your teams capacity and the hardware capacity. Any issues when it comes to scaling right now or any foreseeable issues? And any way we can help? I’m donating through Patreon and encourage everyone else to, too, but curious if there are other things to look out for.

I don’t know if Twitter will ultimately implode. I don’t know if Mastodon represents the future of social media. All I know is, I have personally seen a tremendous outpouring of positive energy on @Mastodon this week and that gives me hope. Thank you.

Mastodon will update to 4.0 soon! Here are the most exciting new features (in addition to fixes & changes):

- ability to follow hashtags
- ability to filter by language
- ability to translate posts
- ability to post HEIC files (i.e. your iPhone’s native photo format)
- define user roles (big deal for admins)
- define sign-up process on your Instance (admins again)

See all changes here: https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/releases/tag/v4.0.0rc1

Thanks, @Gargron and @Mastodon Team. #Mastodon4

@Gargron Photos or it didn’t happen. ;)

I'm thrilled to welcome some more of my favorite people to the @Mastodon platform! Check out these amazing folks:

@tusk81 (Gabe Ortiz!) is here!

Immigration law heavyweights @Gsiskind and @chuckk also in the house.

As well as:
@BonnieHonig
@Colarusso
@katelister
@kalhan
and many more.

If I missed you or if your username doesn't make you easily identifiable, please introduce yourself so I know you're here!

#TwitterMigration #TwitterTakeover #Introductions #Welcome #ImmigrationMastodon

I had no idea this was possible and now I can’t imagine it any other way. I think it’s paradigm shifting for a lot of people, @Gargron.

Cool! Thanks for sharing. @Gargron @zeitschlag

@_L1vY_ @Mastodon @Gargron @feditips @FediFollows @Mastodon@mstdn.social Oh interesting. I thought everyone was experiencing some sluggishness. I should have included that as an option, thanks for the comment.

@Gargron This is awesome! Thanks for adjusting so quickly to the influx of users.

I decided to support @Mastodon on Patreon at $10/mo because I believe in open source development and keeping the Internet free and open to the public, not controlled by a for-profit company. People who can’t pay, should not have to. Those that can, please consider doing so and let’s build a better platform together. There are other places and ways to donate and support, this is just one. 
@Gargon @Mastodon@mstdn.social @feditips #SupportMastodon #TwitterMigration #Patreon

@Gargron @Mastodon now has a Patreon account with memberships starting at $1/month. A great way keep the platform growing! ?
#mastodon #patreon #SupportMastodon 
https://www.patreon.com/mastodon

@Gargron For those of us that used Twitter primarily for news, I wrote a post about how to keep up with news (specifically immigration news, policy, and research) without Twitter here. Might be useful for some people.

https://austinkocher.substack.com/p/keeping-up-with-immigration-news

@Gargron That’s pretty funny.

@Gargron I absolutely love this. Excellent model, great service, eager to support this financially. Let’s do this, friends. ?