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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.

@jonyoder CSS and HTML. Screw the "frameworks".

Just noticed that there's a petition for UK Parliament to get its own Mastodon server. https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/627914 I wonder what the HoC Library/PDS folks think of that.

English translation from #Aurebesh for those that were wondering what was on Cassian Andor's/Keith Seymour's Imperial sentencing slip from Episode 8 of #StarWars #Andor: (from to to bottom)
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NAME:
KEITH SEYMOUR

CRIME:
SUSPECTED FORCE
SENSITIVITY

ASSAULTING AN
IMPERIAL OFFICER

SENTENCE:
TWENTY FIVE
YEARS

People ask, "What can other Fediverse apps do that Mastodon can not?"

A lot!

Here's an example. Let's look at some screenshots of Pixelfed:

1. Photo filters
2. Aspect ratio cropping
3. Options to select your creative license
4. Geo-location tagging

I'd show you more but Mastodon only lets me upload 4 photos to a post while Pixelfed allows for more 😉

Here's why I think the fediverse is important for the climate emergency.

First, because disinformation thrives on big social networks. The fediverse seems more responsive to bad ideas spreading.

Second, because federation is more friendly to cross-border collaboration. Nation-states are very suspicious of media headquartered in a superpower like the US or China, but will probably be more relaxed about federated systems.

Automattic is one of the most important companies on the Internet.

They make Tumblr, WooCommerce, Amismet, LongReads, WordPress—among others.

WordPress alone powers ~44% of the world's websites.

More interesting: despite being such a large, dominant company, few people hate Automattic.

Why is this? 🧵

We've been telling you.

Here's a neat #Mastodon trick I just discovered:

You can access an RSS feed of any user's posts simply by adding .rss onto the end of their profile URL — so, for instance:

https://twit.social/@jr.rss

You can then use that link to follow all of that person's posts in Feedly, Feedbin, or any other RSS reading service.

Heck, you can even do it directly in #Chrome, if you want!

@darius In addition to the concept being a hack the admin of #fedified seems to lack appreciation for data privacy law, especially in the EU. The "ask forgiveness after instead of permission before" attitude to privacy and consent I have seen so far raises red flags for me. I also dislike the use of CloudFlare services in hosting this directory of information.

I would suggest to recent Twitter migrants to avoid participation in fedifed in any capacity. There are better ways to find and verify people than this...thing.

Haha ex-Twitter employees have created their own Mastodon instance 😅

"This server is intended for current and previous twitter employees and their friends/family. We filter signups to try keep the server focused for community reasons." - https://macaw.social/about/more

Welcome to the Fediverse! :)

#Mastodon

Hey journalists! Mastodon is not a “platform”. Platforms were invented in the wake of the last financial crisis to consolidate power among specific companies by mining people of of their personal data for profit online. Mastodon does not consolidate, only connects. It does not amplify algorithmically, or mine people. Any “learning curve” should include reflection on why you ever accepted “services” aimed at data extraction as “natural” or even “social” to begin with. #twittermigration