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Mignon FogartyOK, now I understand why I'm seeing all the #JohnMastodon jokes. 😂
A writer misread the Mastodon account that was banned from Twitter as "John Mastodon" instead of "Join Mastodon."
Ruthanne@grammargirl that’s a bit more than “misread!” 😆 read into, perhaps!
Condalmo.@grammargirl Love it. All hail John Mastodon. #JohnMastodon
Kaker@grammargirl I hear he's a journalist or something.
ϻค𝔬ᑭA misread maybe, but then he went out of his way to make up that there's a social network named after him 
(although it sounds logical, i can give him that) anyway, the whole thing is hilarious
Joshua A.C. NewmanMedia has no idea how to talk about community projects. They think the Internet is all about bold, brash, disruptive CEOs cashing out for billions and then turning into garden variety Nazis with plausible deniability departments.
Lizard@JoshuaACNewman @grammargirl You're correct, and the funny part is that, the internet itself -- the "network of networks" -- is a community project, as is much of the software used, such as Apache and Angular. :)
Hell, almost all worthwhile *content* on the internet... like this thread... is the result of individuals contributing, for their own reasons, to a community. The value of YouTube or Twitter or what-not isn't in the hosting software, but on what millions of people use it to host.
@LizardSF @grammargirl And that’s the thing that’s hard for them to understand. They think it’s still about the .com boom horse race winners and losers.
It’s never been about them. They’re just the ones with PR departments.
Jeremy Kahn@grammargirl thank you for your service in explaining this
Also i think this might be the first time I had to work out the origin of the punchline of a mastodon trending topic
Morgan@grammargirl I had just assumed we were doing that thing where we put "John" before the name of something to pretend that's who made it lmao
El Diablo Roboc 😈🤖@raphaelmorgan @grammargirl Maxwell Journalism who invented reporting agrees with that assertion
Сер Пітер Лорд@grammargirl 🤣🤣🤣 what a toot..! 🙃
Duende Mode
David Gerard@grammargirl my god. i knew mediaite was trash, but this is special
Desert Dweller 🌵@grammargirl This cracks me up. 😂 😆 🤣
Raygan Kelly 
errg@grammargirl named after himself! 🤣
aminco
Roh Halus 👻@grammargirl so this why I see a lot of non sense post 🤣
Jessica Kant@grammargirl that's HILARIOUS. I was literally just wondering where it came from when this toot flashed across my timeline
deilann v -0.2.1. 
@grammargirl dunno why they still haven't fixed the fact that they're deadnaming her
union whore@grammargirl I love this so much.
Carsten Thielecke@grammargirl
Now! Thank you for getting this sorted out.
I didn't have a clue who that #johnmastodon was. 😁
Now! Thank you for getting this sorted out.
I didn't have a clue who that #johnmastodon was. 😁
Daniil Baturin@grammargirl I've heard that long time ago, offline meetings of gay people were sometimes announced as "meetings of friends of Dorothy".
By analogy, Mastodon user group meetings can be announced as meetings of friends of John Mastodon,
By analogy, Mastodon user group meetings can be announced as meetings of friends of John Mastodon,
@dmbaturin I love it!
AA meetings are also sometimes called meetings of "friends of Bill." I talked about it in my episode about shibboleths last year.
Eckes 
@grammargirl Good Journalists are trained to make up stories as they go.. right?
mary angela perna✅
pearsincity@grammargirl so you are telling me there is no #JohnMastodon ?!
івась тарасик@canadianpear @grammargirl not on twitter, not anymore, he left.
tyil@grammargirl Woah, "journalists" not even being able to read their source correctly. What a world to live in.
Sam Bowne 
Christian Grobmeier@grammargirl @kiview thanks now I understand too… was confused but also to lazy to research 😂
Kevin Wittek@grobmeier Funny how viral stuff also eventually bubbles up on Mastodon ^^
John Mastodon@grammargirl no, its real. I did that. elon can suck it.