Who’d have guessed Elon Musk would pay $44 billion to promote Mastodon.
@gcluley Miracles do happen I suppose! Waiting to hear your thoughts about it this week on Smashing Security.

@aditya12anand we talk about Twitter’s turmoil on our latest podcast episode (and yes, we give Mastodon a mention!)

https://www.smashingsecurity.com/296-twitter-turmoil-ai-animal-chatters-and-metaverse-at-work/

@gcluley @aditya12anand Made my morning! Had a good laugh :))
@nrg @aditya12anand That's marvellous. Glad you enjoyed the podcast!
@gcluley He is so inspiring. He works so tirelessly for the open source community.
@gcluley he's a true believer of not for profits. 
@gcluley Do you think it’s all part of some massive Elon-esque prank?
@gcluley has someone put together a list of most followers people or something like that. I am new here and trying to figure out how to get my feed more interesting
@dmb677 @gcluley start searching hashtags of things you are interested in, and you'll find people across servers that post about things you are interested in.
@dmb677 @gcluley additionally fill in your bio of what you are interested in to make it more likely people interested in the same things will follow you

@dmb677 if you're ex-Twitter you might want to try using the fedifinder tool by @Luca

https://fedifinder.glitch.me/

It will help get you started by helping you link to folks you used to follow on the bird site.

@gcluley Should get a plebiscite award for the best marketer of the year 😂
@gcluley a lot of people jumping ship on the Twitannic.
@gcluley #ElonMusk is an idiot-savant. He needs a keeper for people skills. There is NO WAY he should be running a social media company. He has ZERO social skills.
@gcluley perhaps his firing workers (paying severance) and the rehiring (paying signing bonus) is his way of pushing up worker pay?
@gcluley
I’m new here.
Just trying to find my way around
I wanted to try and post. I hope you don’t mind.
Thank you
@gcluley
He saw it coming ....only choose to play daft about the out comes ..
Let him brace himself for losses!
@gcluley lol. I’m liking this platform more than twitter so far
@gcluley That's certainly how I ended up here!
@gcluley That's how I got here too 🤣
@gcluley Network effects tipping point - that snowball just needed the right push. 😝 Will be interesting to see how the 2 communities compare in a year.
@gcluley 🤣👏👏👏…yep…absolutely..!!
@gcluley because Elon musk wanted to spend more money to buy a giant play toy. Then he did wanting to solve #WorldHunger.
@gcluley This made me laugh 😆😄
@gcluley Mastodon basically got all of this for nuthin'
@gcluley I’m happy that there’s an alternative to Musk’s Twitter
@gcluley this will end up as a woke dumpster fire echo chamber so good luck
@gcluley they say opprtunity comes one day in unexpected ways :) now mastadon needs to grab on
@gcluley And learn how Twitter even works!

@gcluley

MBA case study at every Business school in the world for the next 50 years or more!

@gcluley cheap at half the price.
@gcluley in dome cases, when things are about to work for you, they look like a disaster.
@gcluley money well spent, apparently! Thanks Elon 😂
@gcluley hi here from Twitter lol
@gcluley hahaha Exactly. He immediately sent a huge population to Mastodon
@gcluley first time I have heard of this app. So far it’s been loads of fun figuring it all out.
@gcluley maybe he is looking to write it off as a charitable donation.
@gcluley Haha, exactly! That's a good time. I tried to convince twitter friends for months to join on #Mastodon, and now almost everyone is here ! #welcome #Fellas
@gcluley 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
@gcluley And the most delicious part? He has no idea whatsoever.
@gcluley boosting with cw: pretty funny joke about Twitter