Adam @adam@librem.one

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

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.

Anti-mastodon user:
“NO ONE USES MASTODON”

Anti-mastodon user:
“MASTODON CANNOT SCALE AND HAS TOO MUCH TRAFFIC IT CANNOT HANDLE”

starting to get it now. twitter is kinda like Fox news while mastodon is more like pbs, paid for by tooters like you 🫵

Musk

6,904,906 accounts
+9,571 in the last hour
+51,991 in the last day
+412,473 in the last week

@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!