Public Service Warning

Mastodon has a very big surge of new users right now. There's no way to tell if it will be sustained, but at this early point it looks similar to Nov 18 when Musk pulled the employee purge.

It is very challenging for system administration to accommodate so many new users. If your server starts to struggle, it is not broken and will get sorted out.

We're all in this together. It's our social network. Be patient. What we are building is amazing.

#twittermigration

For all you lovely people who liked and boosted my fountain picture, here's another shot of it with added location.

#edinburgh #scotland #winter

Inspired by a reply toot from @wordsmith I happened across via the #Cycling hashtag, I've just emailed #CyclingUK suggesting that they run their own #Mastodon server / #instance

If, like me, you think it's a grand idea why don't you email them yourself? Come on all you #BikeTooters! Contact page...

https://www.cyclinguk.org/contact

I wrote this three years ago:

“One day, Twitter and other publishing platforms like Facebook, Instagram, or Medium will indeed die, like so many sites before them. And every time this happens, we lose most of the content we created and with it a fair amount of our collective cultural history.”

Own your content.

Publish on your own site.

https://matthiasott.com/articles/into-the-personal-website-verse

Hope everyone is managing to keep warm today!

#frostodon #winter #december #frost #ColdSnap