🎊🎉 It happened! 🎉🎊

8,001,321 accounts on Mastodon!

We went over 8 million within the last hour!

Break out the champagne 🍾🥂

This is a big milestone!🏅

And believe me, millions more will join soon!

The Holocaust did not begin with killing; it began with words.

Genocides do not start with mass murder. That's where they end up.

Genocides & other mass atrocity crimes begin with words - specifically, with powerful people dehumanizing a minority.

Once they are seen as less than human, anything is possible, even mass murder.

👉 You can speak out loudly today for the rights of others, or you can stay silent & wait for tomorrow, when your rights will be taken away too.

I got a beta invite to #Post, and had to at least see what it's like in there, and, well, it just feels stark and dystopian, like crypto and twitter had a love child.

The whole thing seems to be designed around building an economy for information, not a public square. Gave me the heebie-jeebies

Reboosting for #NewHere

TIP OF THE DAY

Use and Follow #hashtags !!!

Mastodon has #NoAds, #500Chars, #5Pins, and #PostEdits, but the best thing is #NoAlgorithm. On the #BirdSite you are force-fed by an #algorithm. A mishmash of your history, likes, follows and whatever Twitter wants to cram into you. With #NoAlgorithm, you are in control. Your feeds are just who and what you follow, and you can follow #hashtags .

Include #hashtags liberally so others can follow your ideas.

#twittermigration