@GossiTheDog and a friendly preemptive reminder to, uh, long term members of our happy mastodon community: if the first thing you say to someone who’s come is “you’re a bad person for not coming sooner!” they’re going to delete their account and tell everyone else not to bother trying
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One for #mastoadmin - I have reason to believe the UK government may ban Twitter within a week or two, so you may see an influx of users.
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@GossiTheDog Really can't see that happening given that thousands of British companies and organisations (including the government itself) almost exclusively use X.
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@Umiamz @GossiTheDog same. They will talk a good talk, but be fearful of doing anything.
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Better to leave before ...
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Any of those companies and organisations - including HMG - that are still on Twitter have made a public statement that they support fascism and child porn.
Nothing but contempt for their whinges.
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@GossiTheDog Hmmm.. I'd wager money that we won't see anything as decisive on the topic - or if we do, it will only be temporary (i.e. a ban wouldn't last more than 3 months as some "deal" will be done for something or other about the USA that reverts it).
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Ditto not self-censoring in order to not make "the algorithm" downrank their posts.
There are many aspects of the Fedi culture that I really like (and some about how some people behave that rubs me rather the wrong way), and/but many of those are also exactly ones that people have been trained for decades by commercial asocial media to *not* do. Unlearning those habits isn't something that just happens.
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Paging @mastodonie ICYMI. 👆🏼
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@Umiamz What would the Chancellor of the Xcheckor have to say about the ban? @GossiTheDog
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@GossiTheDog And the first idiot with "it's not Mastodon, it's the fediverse" will appear.
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@GossiTheDog When you say you "have reason to believe", is that anything beyond the articles about Ofcom (e.g. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ckgjzknepvzo)? Like, do you have insider info in some way?
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@0xabad1dea @GossiTheDog @stonebear2 It’s like training a dog. When you’re teaching a dog a trick and the dog finally does the thing, don’t punish them for not doing it sooner.
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@GossiTheDog what are your sources for this?
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@GossiTheDog yea, that's not gonna happen
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@GossiTheDog You may actually see a surge in VPN usage.
Anyway, this would be a Net Neutrality infringement.
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@GossiTheDog Probably not, but if it's true, than people will probably go to Bluescam™.
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@GossiTheDog Would like to see each political party setup their own instance.
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@GossiTheDog If you know people who might want to join Mastodon but struggle with the picking a server part this site has a curated list it can suggest from with a push of a button:
https://fedi.garden/
