EDIT: DO NOT BOOST!

This post is nearly a year old, and boosting will simply spread misinformation. Mastodon now has substantially more funding, and has enough scale to handle its many users.

I would delete this post but my server is not letting me so I'm editing this to reflect that I wish for you to NOT BOOST!

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Right now Mastodon is only receiving appr. $21,000/month through Patreon.

This is not enough to handle the 1 million new accounts that will be made this week.

Currently, only 4,720 patrons are donating to Mastodon.

However, if everyone chips in $2/month, this will ensure the continued survival of Mastodon!

Be a hero! Donate now! https://www.patreon.com/mastodon

So many things going on in the world. But i fear a Disney+ promotional photoshop has given Chris Hemsworth just a hint of James Corden

FIRST POST! A goniasterid sea star from New Caledonia! Akelbaster novaecaledoniae! #echinoday A genus and species I described in 2007

The UK Govt wants to "sunset" laws that derive from EU legislation. Top of their hit list in Employment Law seems to be the Working Time Regulations 1998. You probably won't have heard them referred to in that way. The Govt prefers the "Working Time Directive" which is the piece of EU legislation that the Regulations implement. That is not accidental. They would rather you thought we were "ridding ourselves" of EU law than that they were considering removing UK employment rights. 1/n

You have 500 characters here. 160 toots is a novel. Wield this power wisely.

If the revealed behaviours of the Twitter-Mastodon migration are any indication, being subject to arbitrary algorithmic moneyball does profound damage the human psyche. Algorithmic transparency is a mental health issue and nobody realizes it.

If my boss ever sent me an email containing the phrase “extremely hardcore” I would resign on the spot.