Adnan @Decad3nce@qoto.org

UPDATE: Mastodon accounts: 7,133,516 (estimate)

* 5,451 in the last hour
* 238,181 in the last day
* 548,368 in the last week

After a crazy jump all day today, it looks like sign-up are finally calming down to ~5,000/hour. Which is still a stunning amount of new users.

We (the Fediverse) need lots of funding to onboard these new users so donate to the admins of your instance as well as the Mastodon project. https://www.patreon.com/mastodon

NOTE: Will be actively blocking all concern trolls who reply.

Elon Musk is coming up with new rules for the bird app faster than the kid in class who loves cheating at Uno.
https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/elon-musk-reinstates-kathy-griffin-jordan-peterson-twitter-1234633289/

Had a lovely dinner this evening with people who, let's say... they work in and around the social media world. The general conclusion is that, even as people were skeptical that Elon would know what to do with Twitter... what has happened in the last few weeks is still beyond what anyone could have possibly imagined.

So you're just getting started in Mastodon huh?

Here's a neat thing. On the web interface you can search for a Hashtag.

Same as you can on Twitter.

Something like #Ukraine, for example

But on the search results, see that little user icon on the right? Click it and you'll follow it as if it's a user!

New posts with that tag will arrive in your home page, even if you don't follow the author yet

remember that favs have no impact on ranking here, which doesn’t exist

you gotta boost them toots

I wrote this guide to DMs on Mastodon last week (prob longer than it needed to be)

tl;dr: you should think of DMs as a courteous way of posting to other users directly b/c the convo is just of no value to anyone else & you don’t want to flood people’s feeds. It’s not a “privacy” thing. It’s a visibility thing.

https://gizmodo.com/mastodon-how-to-dm-send-messages-twitter-1849759852

@Decad3nce we have some extwitter devs on qoto. There was a discussion about it here earlier... it sounded oretty bad.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

One of the things I am really enjoying here is the ability to be quiet. I hadn't really recognized how performative Twitter had been. This is a very positive space for discussing science. I only wish I was better at finding and following the communities of interest. Is this done with hashtags?

This will be a day for the pages of history. #Twitter
High intensity drama is coming.