Musk seems to think that he can solve the problems and conflicts of a forum that serves hundreds of millions of people from every corner of humanity by:

- cutting staff down to a lean team of more "hardcore" engineers

- firing everyone responsible for dealing with social, policy, and legal issues

- chasing away recognized experts and celebrities who've been providing free content

- making the place more welcoming to nazis

Sounds like a plan.

We have decided to create an account at Mastodon. We need time to learn how this platform works but also how to synchronize our work here with the Twitter account.

Thank you all for joining us here. No matter where we are, the mission stays the same. We are in social media to commemorate the victims of Auschwitz and educate the world about the tragic story of the camp.

There seems to be a lot of misconceptions about how to set up Mastodon.

1. You do not have to sacrifice a duck. Any waterfowl will do.
2. The bit about dancing around naked in a forest glade? While dancing is fun, you may just walk.
3. When the demon appears, you needn’t chant in Latin. It is fluent in all languages.

The rest of the guide is correct.

An Incredible Day In Internet History

It started with the Twitter lockout. 10,000 new users per hour. A QUARTER MILLION people 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

#introduction

I’m pretty new to Mastodon, so mostly checking things out. For my day job, I’m senior principal engineer at F5 in Seattle, working on a multi-cloud/hybrid-cloud distributed control plane. I love #rust, #haskell (or FP in general), #emacs, #nix.

Grateful to the talented @nova for the hard work maintaining this instance!