Twitter gets aquired from a tech-bro and Mastodon as a solution

Musk’s takeover — which was finalized Thursday night, a source familiar with the matter told CNN — not only has the potential to create upheaval for Twitter (TWTR) employees but also for the hundreds of millions of people around the world who use the platform daily. It could also impact the upcoming US midterm elections, if Musk makes good on his promise to restore the accounts of users who were previously banned from the platform, most notably former US President Donald Trump, and limit the company’s content restrictions.
Link to the article: Elon Musk now owns Twitter. Here's what he could change | CNN Business

The solution?
Mastodon is free and open-source software for running self-hosted social networking services. It has microblogging features similar to the Twitter service, which are offered by a large number of independently run Mastodon nodes (technically known as instances), each with its own code of conduct, terms of service, privacy options, and moderation policies.
Each user is a member of a specific Mastodon instance (also called a server), which can interoperate as a federated social network, allowing users on different nodes to interact with each other. This is intended to give users the flexibility to select a server whose policies they prefer, but keep access to a larger social network. Mastodon is also part of the Fediverse ensemble of server platforms, which use shared protocols allowing users to also interact with users on other compatible platforms, such as PeerTube and Friendica. Mastodon (software) - Wikipedia

Here is a video that explains it all: What is Mastodon? - YouTube

Are you on Mastodon? Share your profile (if you feel comfortable with it obviously) and let’s connect there as well.

R.S

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I already had a Mastodon account for some years, but today I found out this node will cease to exists soon. So I created a new account on another node. Feel free to connect: https://mastodon.nl/@marcel73nl

Are there any plans to provide a mastodon instance for Albanian users?
You can count on me if you need some technical help with this.

:elephant: According to an article in Wired:

This [Mastdon] isn’t another startup. It’s not a company at all. It’s a community. There are no ads, no tracking, and no monetization whatsoever. This is a place shaped—at the cultural, design, and code level—by members of marginalized communities who wanted to escape the rage-driven onslaught of trolls and doomscrolling that define social media. A place built around connection and conversation instead of engagement.

:warning: Important stuff: easily you can migrate from a Mastodon server to another one.

:checkered_flag: Some servers, to begin with Mastodon: Servers - Mastodon

:world_map: Visualizing the World’s Top Social Media and Messaging Apps for 2022 counts 655k Mastodon users.

:people_hugging: Also, you can read How to Find Your Twitter Friends on Mastodon.

:cup_with_straw: Here is my Mastodon account: @kristicunga@freeradical.zone. Feel free to share yours and let’s mingle on Mastodon.

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I think hosting one in OLH infra makes sense, I guess it just depends on how much interest there is for it, so maybe that’s something in the future?

One thing that would need consideration is moderation, which is usually the challenge in running a public mastodon instance

We (infra guys) can solve the technical part, installing and hosting it, and let the other guys decide whether they can manage it.

For example, would the Tirana Municipality, innovative and trendy as it is, be willing to manage a Mastodon service? I believe that they have the necessary legal expertise to solve any issues that may arise by using it. But I don’t have any contacts with them, to ask and find out.

I forgot to mention that EU is officially running a mastodon instance: https://social.network.europa.eu/
This could be a good example for any other institutions.

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This is my mastodon profile: Dashamir Hoxha (@dashohoxha@fs.al) - Trumpeta (@dashohoxha@fs.al)

If you don’t have yet a mastodon account, feel free to create one in my server. I am a better dictator than Elon Musk. You can trust me.

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That’s not an achievement @dashohoxha :slight_smile: It is easy being better than E.M.

R.S

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It is not so easy to make more money than him, though :grinning:

It is. Have a rich a rich parent from South Africa, a country devastated by aparteid and white priviledge. Move easily to places with more connections in your field (let’s say California) - you can do this because you are rich, remember? You can do as many business projects as you like because these are not failures, these are experiences. Only promote the projects that work.
See, easy.

R.S

You can invent PayPal at a time that the concept of online payment does not even exit, you can make it successful, sell it for a good price, and move on to other (crazy) projects. It is easy. Some people are just lucky.

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You can’t invent it if you don’t have business partners that have studied to some of the most expensive universities with good connections. Luck happens when you dad is rich and when you don’t live in a country with corrupted politians, by western countries.
Luck happens when you don’t work and study at the same time, which makes it hard for you to get good grades and have progress in life. It happens when you are not forced to migrate or work twice as hard as locals. Luck happens when you live in a place with meritocracy. Luck does not happen, some people can have it based on their inherited wealth and work to keep it on the shoulders of the majority of us.
Just my two cents.

R.S

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