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.

PLEASE BOOST: Right now Mastodon is only receiving appr. $21,000/month through Patreon.

This is not enough to handle the 1 million new accounts that will be made this week.

Currently, only 4,720 patrons are donating to Mastodon.

However, if everyone chips in $2/month, this will ensure the continued survival of Mastodon!

Be a hero! Donate now! https://www.patreon.com/mastodon

One thing that's getting a little lost in this mix, is that some of the people desperately holding on at Twitter are because they are trapped by either healthcare or visas.

That there are systemic traps that trap worker in America so they feel unable to move freely to new employers who want them and would have better pay or conditions is *nuts* and deserves a lot more attention than it gets.

http://lettuce.wtf doesn't look super healthy right now, but I think it's probably still a good bet at this point

Why is it called "crossposting" and not "tootpaste"?

Yay, @rakulang now lives on #fosstodon!

Over the last few years, I've gotten really obsessed with #rakulang – I really believe it's just about the best language out there for writing #foss (and just an expressive and fun language in general).

So I'm really happy that Raku now has a home on the fediverse right here on our very own #fosstodon :)

I hope you'll join me in giving them a warm welcome!