mathlover2

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.

Agreed, but just to clarify: which instance did they sample?

Because if it's mastodon.social, people can and do migrate off that instance to smaller ones, and that might affect the final figure.

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.

It's such naked clickbait. Thanks for posting!

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?

Big. Freaking. Surprise. I really hope the account is able to find a home elsewhere.

EDIT: He has a Facebook page and a website. I am definitely going to be using the latter.

If that's the case, it's still pretty damning.

To be fair, I am speaking as a user of that instance