Jon Leibowitz @[email protected]

@tyr

so, how long has .social been down?

@cwebber Friendly FYI, the HTTP certificate on https://activitypub.rocks/ expired yesterday

another day another garbage Fediverse thread filling up with uninformed hot takes on news dot ycombinator dot com

Update: Marqueece Harris-Dawson's Twitter account is still suspended. Yes, Twitter has suspended the account of a sitting city council member.

https://knx1070.radio.com/articles/la-city-councilman-marqueece-harris-dawson-twitter-account

https://twitter.com/ReporterClaudia/status/1296857853601275905

https://twitter.com/sahrasulaiman/status/1296847224148615168

A sitting city council member of Los Angeles was suspended from Twitter today, in case anyone needed any more proof of the decline that service is in. This kinda should be an alarm bell.

Not that I think this would be necessary; there is no one in the administration with the competency and the sophistication to adopt this space as an option.

Can we start a preemptive *isolate whitehouse.gov from the Fediverse* yet?

@Gargron At least with a trademark you could have a bit more control over that.

@Gargron unsolicited advice but I think that you should have trademarked "Mastodon" much earlier in the game. Now you have sites using different top-level domains that all purport to be "Mastodon" and it's a huge source of confusion.

Just a non-specific reminder to periodically review third-party app access to your Twitter accounts:

https://help.twitter.com/en/managing-your-account/connect-or-revoke-access-to-third-party-apps

@christa if you're looking for alternatives and decide down the road to resume a presence in this space, something a bit simpler could be to use the ActivityPub plugin within WordPress. Other things to look at could potentially be Write.as/WriteFreely. At least you're not throwing any more money at Bezos though.

Sorry about any 502s, I reserve the right to upgrade my instance without prior warning.

@christa @christa What's your spend on AWS? Have you looked elsewhere for affordable infrastructure, or for managed hosting such as @mastohost? I don't know if they support Hometown though.

@mastodonusercount Looks like someone's spinning up a big instance right now.