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I’ve been watching with sickened fascination as Twitter has been ripped apart by a filthy rich individual who decided to buy it on a whim (which he tried to take back, but couldn’t) and on day one began “improving” it — mostly by firing people. A few weeks in, the place is a dumpster fire with only a third of its former workforce on the job and knowledgeable engineers predicting that once the technical failures begin, there will be no one to address them. A cascading series of disasters seems likely to bring the whole thing down in a matter of months, if not weeks or days.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

All of which is prelude to saying that I’ve finally wrapped my mind around what Mastodon is, and set myself up with an account. My new handle is @therem@zirk.us<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Some tools I found helpful during this process were:<\/p>\n\n\n\n