Dr. Flowers @AlliFlowers@talkedabout.social

Notice To New Users

Welcome. You will love Mastodon.

As you know, you need to join a server, also called instance, and there are thousands to choose from. It DOES NOT MATTER WHICH SERVER YOU JOIN, you can still communicate with everyone. Bigger instances may be a little slower right now because of all the #NewUsers, so consider a midsize or smaller instance with under 20,000 users to spread the load.

Here is a list of larger and midsize instances >>> https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1hN-0bNfjaV7UTuLP6eudmXCNNPdeNQoFtbfcqxl4FFQ/edit#gid=0

#twittermigration

If you want to share a link to your #mastodon profile on #twitter you can use the https://spacekaren.sucks/ url redirector.
For example, https://spacekaren.sucks/dougholton redirects to my profile page.
#TwitterMigration #RIPTwitter

So due to all the new registrations and busy chatter of all you folks 😉 we saw the queues of all tasks go over 800k. Mastodon.world couldn't keep up.
I did some tweaking to get the queues going down. Most important stuff is done now, last 200k jobs need to go through.

All this has caused some unavailability and slowness. Sorry about that.

Tomorrow we'll look into structural changes to prevent this in the future.

For now, registrations are closed until all is stable.

Jewish Festival Of Lights Begins In Ukraine As Battles Rage - Jews in Ukraine lit a giant menorah to start the eight-day Hanukkah holiday as tens of thousands remained without electricity. #Ukraine #huffpost

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/russia-ukraine-war-hanukkah_n_639f94bee4b0a13a9507f2f4

“Violent language never stops at violent language,” says Rabbi Jill Jacobs of the rise in antisemitism. It's often the precursor to physical violence. “This rhetoric has to be countered, has to be denounced wherever it emerges,” says Rabbi Michael Knopf. #velshi http://ow.ly/PLbQ50M6Bjj

French official fires warning shot at Elon Musk that new Twitter policy could open up 'criminal liability'. https://www.rawstory.com/elon-musk-twitter-2658980534/

Dude just stubbled upon “fuck ‘round, find out” ~ the French digital minister 😂🤣😂

Real talk for my fellow #birdsite friends. If I see [RT] at the start of your toot, I swipe right on by to the next post.

My tool for making a simple, searchable, themeable archive of your public tweets and threads is now live:

https://tinysubversions.com/twitter-archive/make-your-own/

The tool runs entirely on your computer, in your browser. None of your data is uploaded anywhere in the process. The output is a zip file of a basic HTML website that you can upload to a web host if you choose.

The site also answers most of the common questions I get. Please read it first before asking me questions here!

Also, if you haven’t watched Spirited on Apple TV+ yet, you should! I really enjoyed that movie.

The cover of the Polish weekly Wprost.

If you want to grab your Twitter follows/followers before it's too late:

As of right now, #debirdify is still working. https://debirdify.pruvisto.org/

I am not Musk's lackey.

I will not change the way I tweet every day in order to comply with rules he makes up in the morning.

Make whatever rules you want.

Ban me if you want.

I will not comply.

So, with the #purge at #twitter I'm seeing a LOT more "follower begging" here today.

This. Is. Not. #Twitter.

Begging for #followers will get you #muted on my TL - and I'm sure many others.

STOP the vicious circle. Do not try to make "boost and follow so we can fight" happen here. It won't. All it will do is get you muted or blocked. Leave that behavior on twitter!

One’s educational trajectory and one’s vocational or occupational trajectory need not intersect, despite the myths to the contrary. If they do, as in my case, they should be celebrated. Learning for the sake of learning is a worthy endeavor and we must mainstream that notion.

Think of all the companies that have deep roots on the birdsite, and are there for customer support.

Guess they will have to flock here to catch the departed, or just choose to ignore them.

Radical weaponized religion has been a scourge on mankind since man invented religion. That's exactly why the framers warned against it. Separation of Church and State is essential to the survival of Democracy and the avoidance of oppression and mass-tragedy.