Adam @adam@librem.one

Twitter users are all like “I don’t know if I can trust a bunch of career sysadmins and network engineers to run their own Mastodon instances” — meanwhile Elon is just running around the Twitter data center going “what’s this button do?”

A JPG file dissection (new version)
https://github.com/corkami/pics

I don't want to just be posting about numbers like a clock, but the 2 million mark of monthly active users across the network is a pretty big deal. This is going big numbers! Shout out to all the server operators who are absorbing this wave.

Better sharing of #WordPress posts to #Mastodon

https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2022/11/better-sharing-of-wordpress-posts-to-mastodon/

Exactly ten years ago today I wrote this blogpost, in which I advocated for making federated blogs:
https://rys.io/en/92.html

The only way to do that at the time was to use #Friendica or #Diaspora.

This was *before* the Fediverse, *before* Mastodon. Before ActivityPub.

Today, there are ActivityPub plugins for major CMSes; websites are starting to federate.

Both Diaspora and Friendica are still around; the latter is now part of the Fediverse, too.

Ideas behind fedi have been around for ages.

I don’t understand why people think Mastodon is difficult. It seems pretty straightforward, and the separate servers are no biggie. I’m enjoying this fresh start here, like moving to a new apartment!

What are people seeing as approximate server costs for Mastodon instances? Helping some folks think about starting org instances. Let's say a closed instance with around 100 users, with 1000 followers each? #mastodon #meta #fediverse

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.