Mastodon.lol is expensive to operate -- we've got servers, outbound email, translation, media storage, backup storage, monitoring. We're entirely community funded so if you're in a position to financially support the site please consider it!

We don't have ads, we don't track you or sell your data, we don't charge for features, and we don't even get paid to run it. All Patreon donations go towards operational costs, nothing more.

Elon Musk can get fucked  

https://www.patreon.com/mastodondotlol

HEY HEY FRENZ on mastodon.social! You may want to MOVE to a new instance, very soon.

Why?  

Mastodon is a bunch of islands that can talk to each other. The smaller and more spread out we are, the easier things are to moderate. Horizontal scaling FTW!

All of you who fled that one site 🐤 ended up at mastodon.social for likely a few reasons. It was obvious, it was big, and it's where you saw a bunch of folks going.

But it has a long history of being poorly moderated, which means a LOT of instances are silencing or blocking it. Which means you're on the big island that SEEMS like it's "where everyone is", but in fact, it's a giant island unto itself (momentarily trending toward turning into a post-bird-site echo chamber), and huge swaths of the Fediverse don't talk to it, or even see it.

If you want the quality of interaction (and moderation!) Mastodon is known for, move thy funky buns to a smaller instance of cool folks you enjoy. 

#feditips #fediverse

UPDATE: no need for further boosting. Thank you everyone!

My boss, Matt Mullenweg, the boss of Automattic, owner of Tumblr, is looking for ex-Twitter employees for Tumblr, saying,

"we're putting on a fast track to see how they can help super-charge Tumblr. We can't absorb thousands of people, but I'd be open to hiring entire teams if they already work great together."

https://twitter.com/photomatt/status/1593726621340426241

Our "work with us" page: https://automattic.com/work-with-us/

#Twitter #JobFairy #Automattic #Tumblr