Katie Didn’t[back at work after being a stay-at-home parent for many years]
Me: alright, before this meeting starts, I want everyone to go pee. I don’t care if you don’t feel it, you need to try.
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Jeremy Hutchinson
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Jeff Haluska
HollieHEY 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. 
I once worked at a place that was bought out and the new owners made some early moves that lost the trust of the employees. Some left as soon as they could, others hung in there a bit longer, but everyone was looking for the exits.
The turnover happened so fast that a few months after I left they were contacting me to find out how to do a deployment.
irwinIf some rich dude can buy the public square, then it wasn't the public square.
jacquelines 🌟for security and privacy purposes, please ensure that you do not use a computer
Paul Bassett DaviesNobody gazes long into the abyss any more. They take a photo of the abyss on their phone, intending to gaze into it later, but they never do. Nietzsche would be so disappointed.
I sometimes think about when I should give up this streak. Seems a shame to not get to 2000 days from here
Della ✔️I keep seeing lots of long-time #fediverse users saying 'don't favourite posts it does nothing' but actually when you favourite my posts it makes me smile and I'm sure I'm not the only one.
Now at @The thing about Twitter is that it really lacks a lot of the features you'd expect from a true Mastodon replacement.
For example, there's no way to edit your toots (which they, confusingly call "tweets"—let's face it, it's a bit of a silly name that's difficult to take seriously).
"Tweets" can't be covered by a content warning. There's no way to let the poster know you like their tweet without also sharing it, and no bookmark feature.
There's no way to set up your own instance, and you're basically stuck on a single instance of Twitter. That means there's no community moderators you can reach out to to quickly resolve issues. Also, you can't de-federate instances with a lot of problematic content.
It also doesn't Integrate with other fediverse platforms, and I couldn't find the option to turn the ads off.
Really, Twitter has made a good start, but it will need to add a lot of additional features before it gets to the point where it becomes a true Mastodon replacement for most users.