I've said it a few times before, but I'll say it again due to the latest influx: Mastodon is not Twitter. Don't expect it to be entirely the same. But be patient and play around a bit. The marginal differences may seem confusing at first, but it's not difficult to figure it out after spending just a little bit of time.

There is a learning curve, but it is *extremely* short, and not very steep at all.

Follow a few active accounts, and dive in...

UPDATE: Mastodon accounts: 7,133,516 (estimate)

* 5,451 in the last hour
* 238,181 in the last day
* 548,368 in the last week

After a crazy jump all day today, it looks like sign-up are finally calming down to ~5,000/hour. Which is still a stunning amount of new users.

We (the Fediverse) need lots of funding to onboard these new users so donate to the admins of your instance as well as the Mastodon project. https://www.patreon.com/mastodon

NOTE: Will be actively blocking all concern trolls who reply.