Vincent Cloutier @vincent@librem.one

Right now, someone at Google is looking at Mastodon, thinking, "mmm, this could be a chat app...".

A Shrek salad #stablediffusion

also the admins of birdsite and zucksite could read your DMs too so why is this even an issue you care about now

This seems like an appropriate first comic for mastodon.

What's missing from these pictures?

No on-street parking makes all the difference in the cities of #Japan. The 1962 "proof-of-parking" law means you buy a car, you've got to show you've got a place—off public streets—to warehouse it.

Matthew Inman is awesome. (I don't think he's on the Fediverse, but https://theoatmeal.com if by some weird fluke you're not familiar with his work.)

So this is happening

lmao people are tweeting out entire movies because the Genius CEO’s microservice purge took out the copyright monitoring service https://twitter.com/AsleepMods/status/1594108188915372034

Believe me, as the Fediverse's network effect grows, it will be seen as a go-to alternative whenever Big Social screws over their userbase.

This wasn't a concern for them one month ago, but it's a concern now.

Today, 2022-11-18, we are seeing a sustained 10,000 new accounts *per hour* across almost 1,700 active #Mastodon instances. That’s 5 times more per hour than in the week before. More than 7,000,000 accounts in total on active instances. These are truly fascinating numbers.