(After teaching the first parrot to talk)
"My God, imagine the possibilities! All talking-based work will surely now be replaced by the parrot. From the telephone operator to the talk-show host, all their jobs can be done far cheaper by this miraculous bird!"
#JohnMastodon is proof that things *CAN* go viral here on Mastodon, but the key is that *YOU* are the algorithm. The reason that the John Mastodon meme showed up on other people's timelines is because so many users boosted the posts.
The lesson here is: please don't just favourite something if you really enjoyed it; BOOST it so that other people can enjoy it, too! This is the only reason why I bother to create as large a social graph as I can on Mastodon—to act as an amplifier. You can, too!❤️😉