I'm trying to hard not to crosspost... but I can't resist this one. It makes me giggle.

When they write books about the rise and fall of Twitter they absolutely have to include this epic exchange. Two privileged nepo babies with a performative statement of their shitty politics with a staggering misread of a piece of art being told to fuck off by the art’s creator.

#JohnMastodon is proof that things *CAN* go viral here on Mastodon, but the key is that *YOU* are the algorithm. The reason that the John Mastodon meme showed up on other people's timelines is because so many users boosted the posts.

The lesson here is: please don't just favourite something if you really enjoyed it; BOOST it so that other people can enjoy it, too! This is the only reason why I bother to create as large a social graph as I can on Mastodon—to act as an amplifier. You can, too!❤️😉