Stuart Celarier

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#CloudSolutionsArchitect at #Xpirit. Former #MicrosoftMVP and #MicrosoftRegionalDirector. #Juggling, #Mandolin, #Rhododendrons. Known to take an occasional sip of sherry.
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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

Matt Mullenweg on Twitter

“@levelsio @automattic In particular I'd say people leaving @twitter 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.”

Twitter
People grumbling that #Mastodon is slow at the moment... You just turned up with 1 million people in a tiny, rural village and you're complaining there's a queue to get into the only tearoom, which is run by gay pensioners Babs & Maureen as a retirement hobby on Mons-Weds. Relax!
#TwitterMigration
And that's why purple is king.
https://youtu.be/oYKUnQ0gMFI
Purple by Ken Nordine

YouTube
@gratefuldead
Take up your china doll
it's only fractured -
and just a little nervous
from the fall.
So Elon's burning Twitter to the ground so that it can't be used to defeat Trump? Is that it?
Sad news from UNC Chapel Hill Computer Science — Fred P. Brooks, the founder and long-time chair of the department (and a major influence on my professional outlook) passed away a few hours ago.

attention new peeps

welcome to mastodon, which is part of the wider fediverse

this place was built by marginalized communities coming together and deciding they were done with the bullshit on twitter

and trying to forge a more comfy space free from corporate influence

queers, furries, neurodivergent peeps, etc. built this place

we generally don't like cops, corps, landlords, and the like

i hope if it isn't immediately clear why, it becomes more so over time

and we hope you enjoy yourself!

The key problem with The Emperor's New Clothes tale is that the kid who called out that the king was naked should not have done so publicly, instead he should have gone through private channels. I agree with Elno that the kid must be flogged and turned out to the dogs.

#sarcasm #TwitterShade

Folks, let's please try to #RespectMastodon while we flood their party. These kind people have been here for years. Don't try to rename their platform or tell them how to be more like the birdy app that flew.

Learn their ways with an open and accepting mind. Be a grateful guest, happy to have another party to go to. Offer to lend a hand in the kitchen.

I am new here myself and very much still learning the ways of the Mastodon community. Forgive me my trespasses. 2/2