@Karoli - Back at ya!

#introductions

Hi,
I released the book Russian Nazi Troll Bots in 2018, a primer about GOP trolling and other related stuff.

#AmWriting - Working on an as-yet-unannounced book on underground/independent journalism and online activism for Feb 2024 release.

Music and concert reviewer at Hippo Press, NH's largest alternative paper.

Favorite animals: kittens, possums, raccoons, turtles

Least favorite animals: Anything that stings people for no reason

Politics: Progressive, civic humanist

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Just a note to say that I'm following anyone who replies to, favorites or boosts anything I post here. If Twitter wants to kill itself I'm happy to help.

At least everyone on Twitter has irrefutable evidence that Musk is the stupidest, scummiest billionaire ever made.

From Jeff Tiedrich, today: "holy fucking shit, twitter is crashing and burning faster than a tesla."

That's some truth, right there.

Stolen from Twitter, this about says it all folks.
I've lost at least *six* mutual followers whom I really liked. Very early in the game here, but CoSo may very well be the end of Twitter as we knew it. You can practically hear the stampede of Biden lovers running back to Facebook. Holy crow folks.

@VDOVault - Huh, good points. I still have friends from the old troll/flamer groups, and once every month or so, someone will talk about "The good old days."

We used to trash the homophobes pretty relentlessly, but you're right, it was - as was everything else - rife with misogyny.

As for OT stuff, Reddit mods do a good job, but they overdo it IMO. Like, I can't ask a question about wealth inequality in ancient Greece in some dumb Ancient Civ group? Why tf not? That place is a total PITA IMO.

@RandomSnakeFacts - Kool, well good luck with it! Seems to me that CoSo will be Mastodon's catchall/general interest platform, so you'd probably be wise to be a little active on this place.

@VDOVault - Oh, absolutely, same. Usenet was great, there were no nannybots, and if someone got bullied off the internet, they often deserved it, sorry. Us alt.flame guys used to go into the racist groups and pound them to a pulp. It was self-policed, and it worked.

Reddit is ok, but the mods are absolute cancer there. Hate that place, but it has done a more or less adequate job of replacing usenet for long-form debate/discourse.

@RandomSnakeFacts - That's why the fediverse has great potential. Like, you could either stay here or move your stuff to a reptile/snake-centric SM platform, and wouldn't have to spend half your time scrolling through worthless tweets from mainstream blue-check dingbats like Rob Reiner, going "Myeahhh, boy, I don't know how else to say it, folks, Trump is a poopyhead!"

Twitter is *full* of self-serving dweebs who don't actually *want* political change. So much cringe.

@DinoDNA - Twitter started out as *the* place for keeping in contact with professional colleagues and practicing the art of making one-line jokes. Nowadays it's full of pompous asses who just want to show off their pathetic amount of niche "expertise." Honestly, if I hadn't been trying to platform my books I wouldn't have stayed there any longer than five f--king minutes.

You know, a lot of people worked hard to build platforms on Twitter, and now it's screwed, thanks to Musk's suddenly opening the door to the 4chan scamps.

The site is trashed. All I see from the old #resisters is unintentional boosting of 4chan-centric racist memes etc when they broadcast their outrage: "Well I *never*! A Nazi frog? What on earth!"

This colossal screwup by Musk will put CoSo & the Fediverse on the map in a big way. Well *done*, Musk, you sad, egotistical, funny looking moron.

One thing I didn't like about Tribel was how during sign-up it really wants you to "find your bubble." I'm a #Squad stan progressive (I know, I know) who has conservative friends, vanilla Dem friends, even a few anarchist and Pepe-ish friends.
Bubbles are cancer.

As of today I'd call it the Holy Trinity Cemetery of Possum Memes. It's absolutely dead rn.

@etakeh @th3j35t3r
Definitely the consensus from what I've seen. Tribel really shot themselves in the foot. Really dumb.

@etakeh @th3j35t3r
Thanks for the note.
I signed up for Tribel also just to do the Pepsi Challenge going forward for a bit. Pretty sure CS will win out. We'll see I suppose.

Well this is gonna be a screwy day, isn't it. Be interesting to see if this app crashes today, with tons of people flocking here to take a hard pass on Elon Musk's massive ego-gasm.
Cheers!

Good morning, testing the waters here to see what happens. Progressive/leftist stuff and really dumb jokes are what I usually do on Twitter under @esaeger. Bernie Sanders, AOC, Squad supporter, and yes, I know how hopeless that is.
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