The Washington Post is the newspaper most likely to try stuff and I'm delighted that @jeremybowers says they're spinning up a Mastodon instance as we speak. Bravo.

Parents, if you bought a video game system for your kids as a holiday gift, be sure to crack it open, run all the system updates and get any games installed so it's ready to plug-and-play as soon as they open it.
This message brought to you by (admittedly fond) memories of watching my dad make DOS boot disks all afternoon on Christmas.

Everyone is asking "What's the next Twitter going to be" and bemoaning the fact that the userbase is splintering. But splintering is a GOOD thing. The internet would be a lot healthier, more diverse, in instead of 3 or 4 dominant platforms, we had dozens or even hundreds of upstarts. Yes, centralization is convenient, but as we're seeing, it's also dangerous. If the result of the Twitter turmoil is to drive people to a more diverse, less convenient, less centralized web, I say AWESOME.

Really interesting to see the Cambrian explosion of UI ideas that seems to be happening with Mastodon clients right now.

Is there...like... somewhere we can chip in for all the servers Mastodon is having to add to keep up with new account formation rn

Elliott Downing has the solution