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"The #TwitterMeltdown made me realize something important: I’m a seriously prolific content creator. And I’ve been giving away all that content free to a platform that not only profits from it but treats me like garbage/unfairly…
When I downloaded my #TwitterArchive, it hit me like a ton of bricks that most of that content was not sitting in my website, so they could just disappear if a billionaire decides to cut me off from the platform." #POSSE
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Elizabeth Tai · POSSE and PESOS: Better ways to publish content
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As a middle-aged woman, when I first heard he was trying to recapture a time from his younger days, my first thought was: "How old is #ElonMusk?"

Not remotely surprising to me, Google says he is 52 years old. 🙄

#Elon is having a #MidLifeCrisis, if you ask me, and he's dragging everyone else down in the process.

Some guys buy classic cars or RVs, some guys have affairs with their secretaries. Musk tries to fix a previous business failure of his younger days, but ends up empowering Nazis and destroying a $44B investment instead.

Thank God my husband only tried rebuilding a classic car.

A big shout out to those arriving or coming back in the current wave of #TwitterMigration thanks to the latest #TwitterMeltdown . Things will feel similar but different. Feel free to ask questions of us #fediverse old hats. We have some tools you didn't see on other places, like Spoiler/Content Warning titles so you can do things like talk about the latest episode of a TV show without worrying about people being pissed since they didn't see it yet. We make it easy to add ALT text to photos for people who need it. It takes a bit more work to get your stream started, by doing things like searching on and following hashtags and then following accounts you see using them. Once you do you are guaranteed to never have some black box algorithm shoveling crap posts at you for extra clicks. You have total control over your experience here because this isn't about milking you and your content dry for dollars. It's a network built and run for the users by the users not some VC investors and their techbro operators with delusions of grandeur.

For those of you fresh here from the #twittermeltdown, here are a couple of tips.

Find like minded people and follow them. Include FediTips - @feditips

Hashtags mean more here than on Twitter. Search for hashtags on your favourite subjects and follow them for a useful timeline.

Writing an Introduction about yourself and pinning it to your profile. Include hashtags of the subjects that interest you so like minded people can find and follow you.

Enjoy the lack of throttling.

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Whoops, looks like I spoke too soon and didn't have the whole story.

Apparently *even if you have paid* $8/mo for what Elon laughably calls "verified" status, you still only get to see 6000 tweets a day!

Granted, that's probably enough to satisfy most people. My back-of-envelope math figures that's about 5 solid hours of looking at tweets (3 seconds per tweet). But still, some die-hards will go past that!