Why are you citing a Saudi finance account as a source?
Also what the crap is going on today with Twitter and misinformation about this event, because for some reason it's trending again as of this writing and most of what is being posted now is unsourced and/or false.
I did a similar thing with my server, akkoma.sandhill.social.
It's going to cost me about $5 per month (I am using a different cloud server to host it) but together with the $100 credit I got through a promotion I won't have to pay that for some time.
> In more recent decades, being a session musician for regional or mid-tier bands has stopped providing a living, following the huge consolidation in radio and music publishing in the 90s and 00s.
How is this a problem of recorded music being a thing rather than of mindless consolidation that has affected many, many industries since that time? This is like blaming recent consolidation among publishers on the invention of the printing press.
I honestly don't know how well (or not well) this article has aged. My impression is that 2022 might have brought some new developments (specifically the tech downturn and Musk's Twitter debacle) but I would like to hear what other people here think.
One issue with this article is that there is nothing preventing a person from having multiple accounts on different servers. I have three I still use because I was uncertain which community to join in 2019. There are many apps for Fediverse that allow one to use multiple accounts on different instances and flip between them as easily as flipping between Discord servers or alt accounts is in the Discord app.
I also agree with madrox's comment that having specific instances with peculiar rules according to taste is a feature, not a bug.
Heck, I agree with everyone calling out this article here, because it's just a bad take.
Yep.
Twitter and Musk are screwed. The question now is how fast Musk will bring about Twitter's demise, how painful it will be, and where that pain will fall.
This aged like milk before it was even published...
Like seriously, between the legal and financial issues Twitter is facing from fleeing advertisers and stiffed vendors and renters preparing to sue over unpaid bills and the recent disasters Twitter has had with Elon's approach to running the site, one has to wonder if this was written by an AI.
Have you considered that many people here actually work in companies and know how they work, meaning they don't need a media source to know that the Twitter files are bogus? In fact, most people here have brains and can think for themselves, and we actually don't rely on a media outlet for all our takes.
Have you also considered that there is a huge difference between Khamenei and PMs saber rattling online against other countries (which was actually consistent with Twitter's then current policy of treating world leaders, Trump included, with a lenient hand) vs. a president not condemning and (very likely encouraging) an attempt by his own supporters seeking to overturn an election as said attempt was going on?
First, Wallace-Wells has written much since this, and his latest stuff is considerably less grim. Not sunshine and rainbows or even pleasant, mind you, but less grim nonetheless.
Second, here's the best summary of Wallace-Well's piece I have seen over the years:
The instance is moderated quite effectively. Freeman is upset because of Rochko giving into a smear campaign by a Nazi who has long been banned from qoto and is spiteful about that fact.
Why is it that every time I read an article about modern British politics and culture, I walk away almost feeling happier about the state of the US?
It's almost like God, while planning the course of current events, looked at the inhabitants of the US recovering from 4 years of Trumpian misrule and decided to console them by having the original English-speaking developed country end up even worse off than they were.
(I'm kidding, of course. God doesn't actually exist, and I know there's a lot of places way worse off than the US or the UK. I'm also not actually this American-centric in my views. My point is that the UK somehow seems worse off these days than the US is, and that's a sentence I never thought I'd ever be saying 10 years ago.)
Also what the crap is going on today with Twitter and misinformation about this event, because for some reason it's trending again as of this writing and most of what is being posted now is unsourced and/or false.