Notices by Mike McHargue (mike@robot.rodeo)

It's wild how, "Car manufacturers elected to electrify the premium and luxury segments of their product lineup and interest rates are sky high," gets turned into, "people don't want electric cars," in the media.

I don't know who needs to hear this, but the term "woke" didn't start with kids on Twitter.

The was first recorded by Lead Belly in the 1930s in a song called "The Scottsboro Boys," about the dangers Black Americans faced traveling through states in the Deep South. The original line was "best stay woke," as in, "remain aware of the dangers of racism."

Black communities shortened the term to "stay woke," over time, and eventually added "woke" as a state of being--or constant awareness.

I'm skeptical of #Bluesky because it's built on the same tech VC mindset that has been so harmful in prior generations of social media.

I'm skeptical of the #fediverse and #Mastodon because Black and brown people get shouted over by tech leftists when they have the audacity to name their experiences here.

That crap shows up in my timeline every single time I log on.

Before you say, "my feed isn't like that," let me ask, "How many Black and brown people do you follow?"

The flu sucks. Ugh. What a delirious blur the last 2(?) days have been.

I miss universal masking, especially during seasons where respiratory infections are high.

It's actually pretty amazing that a open source product developed by a tiny non-profit, running on a network of servers self-funded by volunteer administrator and moderators has managed to absorb some portion of one of the world's largest for-profit social networks.

It's a miracle the whole thing didn't collapse or catch fire.

Great job everyone.

For all it's advantages and faults, #Mastodon was not built to be a *new* Twitter. It was built to be *not* Twitter.

That distinction is important.

@thatonecalculator @jefmes @joncollinsdev When explaining tech to non-technical folks, I've made a career around "all models are wrong, but some are useful."

The orbital model of the atom is wrong, but useful to understand both the parts of an atom and to lay the foundations of chemistry. We can get to wavefunctions later.

@thatonecalculator @jefmes @joncollinsdev Except in this case gmail is a bunch of federated instances?

There is no single site or app that is "Mastodon." This isn't like Twitter, or Facebook.

Mastodon.social isn't "Mastodon" anymore than Gmail is "email." Gmail is one very popular email server, Mastodon.social is one very popular #Mastodon server.

Same goes for mastodon.online, mstdn.social, mas.to, etc.

This seems to be tripping up a lot of new people during the #twittermigration to the #fediverse

#FediTips