sciencemastodon.com is one of the many independent Mastodon servers you can use to participate in the fediverse.
A mastodon instance designed primarily for science journalists and scientists. Those who wish to join: to avoid significant delays in accepting your application please let us know your real name, your affiliation, and your area of expertise. Thank you!

Administered by:

Server stats:

176
active users

A reminder that there is NOTHING Musk can do that will prompt journalists to stop supporting his business.

Disgusting on his part, as usual.

But disgraceful on their part.

Posted this again on the deadbird site:

Standing offer for journalists: I'll help you get set up on Mastodon and will help you bring your Twitter audience along (and find new followers and rich engagement there). All I ask is that you migrate -- over time, not instantly -- your social media activity there.

@dangillmor

we should put together an official Fedi Welcoming Committee. help start servers. talk them through stuff. did anything like that exist in the days of the early web?

@dragonsidedd @dangillmor

but what got most people from just using AOL to browsing the web? I can't remember.

@wjmaggos @dangillmor Several factors:
1. Netscape Navigator
2. Pr0n

Bro broke through the iron curtain into the sterilized part of the Fediverse.

@dcc @wjmaggos @dangillmor @dragonsidedd

@dcc @Maholmire @dangillmor @dragonsidedd

I would like less server blocks. more good faith disagreement. imo the compromise is dark fedi servers that don't want to be defederated, not tolerating users who harass people. posting crazy or even mean shit should be tolerated as long as you don't @ people with stuff they probably won't like. it's obvious etiquette people understand IRL. do what you like with friends etc. obviously there will be some edge cases but most of this is pretty obvious.

Had a bunch of poasties on my case the other day about the dangers of bringing a child into today's world.

Y'know what I did? Muted the thread. It's that simple, there's no need for people to resort to nuclear warfare over mean comments.

@Maholmire @dcc

it's not imo. if people expect to have deal with random assholes all the time themselves, they won't spend any time on the fedi. you don't get to be an asshole IRL, we shouldn't tolerate that here. use two accounts. don't put the burden on the rest of us.

I would rather just use the one account and interact with people who can roll with the blows. I've tried maintaining a #mastodon account, @Mastolmire and found that it was far too sanitized for my liking. I ended up getting suppressed on the instance I had registered on for no other reason than having opinions that didn't jive with the liberal majority that use Mastodon.

Just like with real life, you need to be able to stand up for yourself and don't let people walk all over you. When you make it clear that poasties and other degenerates won't get a rise out of you, they tend to leave you to your own devices. Not once have I been harassed on the Fediverse, and that is because I curate my own experience through interacting mostly with acquaintances and their mutuals.


The toxic elements of the '*Dark Fedi*' do exist, but I don't interact with poasties enough for it to be a nuisance for me. That is why I am of the opinion that people are too quick to use something which should've been used as an absolute last resort and only when all other avenues have explored.

@Maholmire @Mastolmire

I have experienced drive-by assholes. I know lots of people have. I want everyone on the fedi. You should not be suppressed for non liberal opinions, but also people should not expect to get trolled for putting up pictures of themselves or their family or strongly supporting black, gay or trans issues etc. my sense is that the people who report few problems don't do that. very few on dark fedi use anything like a real name or profile pic afaik. compromise is not evil.

@wjmaggos @dragonsidedd @dangillmor

Major killer was DSL. You no longer needed AOL to log into the internet. You were always on

It took a couple years but by 2000 people were using the open internet through various browsers. People learned they didn't need a spoonfed corporate service to access the content. MSN died around the same time DSL was available~ same with Prodigy/Juno. Then, cable came

Here's hoping that happens with the fediverse versions of corp. social media and other platforms

@paul @wjmaggos @dangillmor Yeah thinking on it now... you're right, it was always-on DSL/cable that killed AOL.

AOL/CompuServe were about "getting online". Suddenly we (at least, our household PCs) were *always* online. No gate, no gatekeeper.

@wjmaggos @dragonsidedd @dangillmor

I was a Usenet holdout. Lol

The Time Warner merge killed everything it touched.

They had all the tech but screwed the migration from being a telecom dialup service to portal/service of all things.

Also, those numbers seem low until you consider each dialup subscriber had multiple family members users. At its peak, nearly half the US population used it to get on the internet

@paul @wjmaggos @dangillmor
> Usenet

Sometimes I uuencode my pr0n, just for old times' sake