Adam @adam@librem.one
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Designer & web developer since the mid 1990's starting on the DEC intranet. User experience consultant since 1998. Photographer since 1995. Tech journalist since 2002.
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Joined Apr 2019
@yestergearpc Also, where did you get a $30/yr VPS? I've seen like $4/mo, but that sounds really good.
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Looks like today (Friday the 18th of November) is likely Mastodon's biggest growth day ever. Closing in on 200K new users today. https://mastodon.social/@mastodonusercount@bitcoinhackers.org/109366346410120493
@kathygriffin Haha! Yeah, the Fediverse here is so much better, right?
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Wow, I hadn't refreshed the instances page at https://mastodon.help in a couple of days. I should have grabbed the "before" picture because it was at 3,600! It more than doubled when I reloaded the page.
@taylorlorenz Haha!
"I’m a tech reporter, I generally understand how to use things on a computer.
Wrong."
@RobynCaplan Why can't you?
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Anti-mastodon user:
“NO ONE USES MASTODON”
Anti-mastodon user:
“MASTODON CANNOT SCALE AND HAS TOO MUCH TRAFFIC IT CANNOT HANDLE”
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starting to get it now. twitter is kinda like Fox news while mastodon is more like pbs, paid for by tooters like you 🫵
@yestergearpc Totally! I've been meaning to build my own upgraded home server for like 2 years now, but still haven't got around to it. Was thinking about this since it also has Jitsi & DeltaChat: https://selfprivacy.org/en/
@yestergearpc Did you make your own instance?! Hell Yeah!
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6,904,906 accounts
+9,571 in the last hour
+51,991 in the last day
+412,473 in the last week
@xboxp3 You should have made a social.xbox.com instance.
@tchambers @atomicpoet @mastodonmigration What if Spotify federated with ActivityPub? :)
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@atomicpoet That is very true. Mastodon is gaining popularity throughout Asia & Africa inside many “closed” nations & it might be far larger than what we expected.
I would not be surprised if there are 50 million accounts due to people using Mastodon in China 🇨🇳, Iran 🇮🇷, Afghanistan 🇦🇫, Myanmar 🇲🇲, Sudan 🇸🇸, Mali 🇲🇱, Burkina Faso 🇧🇫, etcetera, anonymously (also potentially defederated) to avoid the watchful eyes of their restrictive governments.
Social networking should be owned by society and that's what the Fediverse is!
@jeffjarvis I've been trying since early 2019:
https://pocketnow.com/understanding-mastodon-the-fediverse-and-why-you-should-migrate-from-twitter/
https://pocketnow.com/librem-one-first-look
https://pocketnow.com/curious-about-trumps-truth-social-network-make-your-own-instead
https://pocketnow.com/trump-truth-social-network-removes-most-freedom-friendly-features-fediverse
https://pocketnow.com/facebooks-empire-shows-australia-whos-boss-why-you-need-the-freedom-friendly-fediverse
https://pocketnow.com/facebook-should-be-broken-up-and-federated
@whitep4nth3r@indieweb.social @mortendk Nested FONT tags still work, I believe.
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Designer & web developer since the mid 1990's starting on the DEC intranet. User experience consultant since 1998. Photographer since 1995. Tech journalist since 2002.
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Joined Apr 2019
