Dean Powers @developers@mastodon.thefediverse.net

Newbies from the #TwitterMigration should know this: content discovery works different here.

1. There's no universal search
2. Popular of hashtags varies instance to instance
3. There's no secret algorithm

Stux has been posting about excessive reporting on his instance.

To those on big servers like mastodon.social, mstdn.social etc. what you need to realise is that your experience of fedi is different if you have 30 people on your instance compared to 30,000.

With 30 people you are amongst close friends, you can all draw up and curate a block list so your environment is 'just as you like it'.

The bigger instances cannot ever replicate that.

If your instance is too 'loud' seek out a small one.

I have my own (managed by masto.host) #Mastodon instance since 4 years.

On a typical day it handles 20.000 tasks (pushing new toots, synchronising, cleaning up etc).

Yesterday it went to 500.000 tasks.

And that's just one simple single-user instance. It's almost magical how the federated, distributed network of all ActivitiyPub instances managed to survive that brutal Tsunami of yesterday.

In short: We are ready for a new and better future, free from centralised gatekeepers.

#Mastodon seems to have survived another wave of #TwitterMigration. It's now over 2 million active users which is like 10x (?) more than 2-3 weeks ago. Things sometimes slow down, but the network is up and running. This community-run federated thing is quite resilient, isn't it? Kudos to instance admins! 👏

Very excited to start a new and happy life on Mastodon. Now to find some interesting people 💜

Mastodon Day

Friday November 18, 2022 - An Incredible Day In Internet History

You were here.

It started with the Twitter lockout. 10,000 new users an hour. Almost a quarter million migrated to Mastodon in one day. The servers struggled. Remarkably, admins all over the world built up capacity in real time. New users were patient. The system held.

It's running better now. There will be more hard days ahead, but people powered social media has arrived.

#twittermigration #NewUsers #Welcome

how much of the fediverse runs on #DigitalOcean? is the 1-click image good? i wish there was better sizing guidance available.

6,856,964 accounts
+1,270 in the last hour
+44,728 in the last day
+452,219 in the last week

When I first saw #ActivityPub, my first thought was, "What a bunch of bozos! Don't these people know that the server/client paradigm will just result in centralization happening all over again?"

But it turns out I was the bozo.

🤡

Last March, something visceral and traumatic happened that was so infuriating, I decided I'd do everything in my power to destroy Twitter.

Like you don't understand.

To me, Twitter was Enemy #1 -- and in my crosshairs.

So I got on the phone with a friend, and I said, "I'm going to f*cking help build this Fediverse!"

And ever since then, I've had a fire in my belly about making decentralized social media happen -- even if it's imperfect.

I’m boldly going where I haven’t gone before, which is right here at this site. Apparently this is a “toot.” I would appreciate a follow!

I love it that my home timeline is filled with boosts of posts by ordinary people, not 75% celebs, and posts that have been boosted once are equal to the ones with 100 boosts. Suck it, algorithm.

Thoughts on the #TwitterMigration to Mastodon:

1. It is firmly underway among two groups of users, heavy Twitter users (think dozens of posts per day) and more technical users (think person with a personal website/Raspberry Pi/etc). Some others follow their example.

2. Mastodon has emerged as the de facto Twitter alternative. Nothing else is in contention.

See, here's the thing.

There's no space on earth where you can walk in and say/do exactly what you want at all times.

The nature of being a social species means we all must make accommodations for others in shared space.

Twitter fooled us into believing we were each the center of the known universe, that our words and actions were harmless, and that we were entitled to an audience (which we pretended was community).

#Mastodon #MastodonSocial #TwitterMigration #DigitalCulture #DigitalCivics

Several weeks into the #TwitterMigration it seems clear to me the value of Mastodon is not that it is a Twitter replacement, but that it is a gateway technology to decentralization. Mastodon has flaws, I'm not claiming it's perfect, but many criticisms I've seen stem from expecting centralized services from a decentralized structure. It's up to us to try and explain the differences and set expectations for what alternative services can look like.

@pallenberg And gives all the #Fediadmins and #MastoAdmins a breath to build out the infrastructure and funding to be ready for the next wave of the #TwitterMigration.

If you haven't yet, give to your instance's patreon, or tip them in paypal, etc....