Notices by Taylor Lorenz (taylorlorenz@mastodon.social), page 2

“The problem is, there’s a certain type of pedantry that has followed the internet through its various forms, especially in more technical channels, and it often creates a negative experience because it seems to be driven by ideology or disdain for people who don’t think the same way.” https://tedium.co/2023/11/21/mastodon-reply-guy-problem/

“It is just over,” journalist @caseynewton told The Post.

“If you wouldn’t join Gab, or Parler, or Truth Social, there’s no reason you should be on X. I think it’s time for journalists and publishers, in particular, to acknowledge the new reality and to get the heck off that website.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/11/19/antisemiticism-interent-elon-musk-israwl-war/

Excellent piece on Arab Americans in tech who are being pushed out of their careers for weighing in on the situation in Gaza https://www.theinformation.com/articles/for-arabs-in-tech-a-time-of-fear-and-a-culture-of-silence

The Israeli bombing campaign in Gaza is reportedly killing children at a rate unprecedented in 21st-century conflict, according to data https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/interactive/2023/gaza-rising-death-toll-civilians/

"Our goal with Threads is to make social content as interoperable as email. We are working on the ability for Threads to integrate with ActivityPub, the open, decentralized social networking protocol. Once that happens people will be able to enjoy the best features of Threads across platforms." https://engineering.fb.com/2023/09/07/culture/threads-inside-story-metas-newest-social-app/

No matter how you feel about the war this is NARC behavior and you’re garbage if ur ratting in colleagues for porting their personal thoughts on their personal accounts. As journalists we should value FREE speech and FREE expression above all else.

We all know that bosses never care if staffers post certain political content online. We see examples of this every day.

It’s not about hiding people’s political opinions, it’s about making sure staffers only express the *right* political opinions.

“She’s talked openly about how people sent her death threats because she’s been outspoken about her support of Palestine. Now people are harassing her with AI-generated videos that literally put words in her mouth.” https://www.404media.co/deepfake-bella-hadid-israel-palestine-video/

He is absolutely so angry about his Wikipedia page

There are several Mastodon accounts with variations on my username impersonating me to run scams. Please know I will never ask you to join me on Telegram or ask for you to send me gift cards!

Right wing weirdos on here keep spamming my mentions about a time I ordered a $22 meal on Uber Eats that included avocado toast.

The toast itself was $14.50 but with tax, tip, and delivery fee the total came out to $22. The toast came with an egg and a salad. All around a good deal imo!!

But here we are 5 years later and these right wingers act like it’s some absurd luxury that I ordered a meal on Uber Eats once https://marsey.moe/objects/50646084-9687-41d5-b908-09a7c34d8c0c

People on mastodon so smug about those of us returning as soon as Twitter goes down, YES WE HAVE COME CRAWLING BACK ok u won

Reblogging is organic user behavior and Twitter built the quote tweet feature because so many people were doing it manually already. It’s a huge burden on the user not to have this simple and important feature on a social platform imo (again just my personal opinion!)

Journalists will never stick around this app long term sadly unless it adds quote posting. We desperately need it to communicate effectively, build on each others ideas, and add crucial context to posts. These are things replies simply do not accomplish. Also quote posting or reblogging does not = harassment! Tumblr, for instance, has had the feature since the beginning. We need it here now too 🙏🏻

I can’t believe Elon Musk banned for tweeting this 😵💫 #twitter #elonmusk #twittermigaration #twitterexodus #tech #technews #journalist