Half of web users are running ad blockers.

With your support and help, we can get that number higher.

When the Vivaldi team meets up in Iceland, we tend to go on a weekend trip. This time we went to Þórsmörk. This picture has Eyjafjallajökull in the background.

As a distributed team, with most of the team in Norway and Iceland, but others spread around a bit, having quality time together is very important.

All,

I am sorry I have not been active on this account. Have been VERY busy setting up the disabled.social instance.

The server grew much faster than anticipated, and so we have been hard at work trying to manage the server aspects and such.

We already need to scale it up, which will be happening tomorrow at 7 AM EST. The disabled.social instance will be unavailable at that time.

Thought I would also make the announcement here, since a lot of you follow me on this instance.

To all mastodon admins:

Hi! I’m Evan Phoenix, the primary author of puma, the ruby webserver that powers mastodon!

Please reply or DM me if you need tuning help! I’ve got no officiation with the mastodon, just want to see you succeed!

(Quick Tip: set WEB_CONCURRENCY to core count * 1.5 and then tune MAX_THREADS. High thread values will see diminishing returns!)

#Welcome everyone! A few tips:

- Yes, servers can be temporarily slow when lots of people join at once. Be kind to your admins, they're working hard and it's worth the wait.

- Fill in your bio!

- Hashtags are your friends. Use them to give more visibility to your posts and to find new people to follow. You can even follow hashtags.

- Boost, boost, boost! There's no algorithm here deciding who sees what.

I've decided to use different hashtags here at our blissful elephant sanctuary. With Friday Favorites, I'll introduce you to artists, historians, journalists, and scientists who are building a community here on Mastodon that gives me great hope for the future.

Trust me on this. Give these folks a follow:

@nickkristof
@jbf1755
@rachelshelden
@kawulf
@_jonathansjones
@laurenfturek
@jackiantonovich
@konrad, @konrad
@heidilifeldman
@evameitner

#FridayFavorites