Alex Early @aeflash

Made of JavaScript. Former developer/SRE Wombat at @npmjs, now frontend at @reddit. he/him You can also find me on Mastodon at @[email protected] aeflash.com SF, CA Joined March 2010

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Alex Early @aeflash

4 years ago

@elizposadas 😮 congrats!

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Alex Early @aeflash

4 years ago

You're telling me the South African emerald heir is tweeting out nazi dogwhistles? It's going to be mask-off within two weeks.

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Laurie Voss @seldo

4 years ago

My relay from Mastodon has broken and Musk has released every awful person from their ban, so: I'm gone, and there will be no more cross posting. Find me on @[email protected] .

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Marco Rogers @polotek

4 years ago

Okay. I put a page up on my website where you can give me your email. I will only ever use this mailing list to invite you to wherever I might land on social media. marcorogers.com/where-to-find-…

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Alex Early @aeflash

4 years ago

Just a reminder that I'm also @[email protected] . The quality/quantity of my posts/boosts is much higher there than here.

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wint @dril

14 years ago

IF THE ZOO BANS ME FOR HOLLERING AT THE ANIMALS I WILL FACE GOD AND WALK BACKWARDS INTO HELL

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Alex Early @aeflash

4 years ago

@seldo object permanence of a baby

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wint @dril

9 years ago

i truly believe that i will usher in a new era of peace and prosperity when i get every single post on hthis fucking website deleted by 2022

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Reddit, Inc. @Reddit

4 years ago

Need a place to go? Reddit is a community of communities. Whether you come for the cats or the conversation, we're sure you'll find your people.

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Rafael Shimunov @rafaelshimunov

4 years ago

We regret to inform you that we will not be giving away insulin, a publicly funded invention that was given away by its creator to be given away to people so they don’t die. x.com/LillyPad/statu…

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Also, some of you don't want to admit that you won't leave twitter because you're afraid of only getting a handful of interactions per post vs. dozens. I guarantee the quality of your interactions will be higher quality on Mastodon.

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Alex Early @aeflash

4 years ago

Just a reminder that I'm [email protected] . I'm going to be more intentional about posting tech stuff there, moreso than I ever was here.

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Rob DenBleyker @RobDenBleyker

4 years ago

day 1: take over company day 2: fire everyone whose job is to point out when ideas are bad day 3-6: put out as many bad ideas as possible, like a bad idea machine gun day 7: oh no where did the money go

Elon Musk @elonmusk

4 years ago

Twitter has had a massive drop in revenue, due to activist groups pressuring advertisers, even though nothing has changed with content moderation and we did everything we could to appease the activists. Extremely messed up! They’re trying to destroy free speech in America.

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Senior Oops Engineer @ReinH

4 years ago

So, code freezes are not strictly risk mitigation: they are a _sacrifice decision_. They trade (ie, sacrifice) increased risk at a less important time for reduced risk at a more important time.

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Mastodon (@[email protected]) @joinmastodon

4 years ago

So why is Mastodon not a single website: Because if it was, it would be doomed to recreate all that you hate about the social media platforms you're trying to leave. Decentralizing the platform, building it on top of a protocol, is how it breaks the cycle.

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Mastodon (@[email protected]) @joinmastodon

4 years ago

A single website has your data locked in, and if successful, has such strong network effects that it can get away with making the service so much worse without having to fear anyone leaving. And if it shuts down, it's game over. Your posts and connections gone.

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Mastodon (@[email protected]) @joinmastodon

4 years ago

Monetization usually means ads, changing the website to have people see more ads, invading people's privacy to make sure they've seen ads... A single website also means one organization is in complete control. If they do what you don't want them to do, you're out of luck.

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Mastodon (@[email protected]) @joinmastodon

4 years ago

Some people ask us why Mastodon isn't a single website. A single website that can serve the whole world requires so much computing power, infrastructure, and engineering, that it is practically impossible to do without big capital and monetization.