An Incredible Day In Internet History
It started with the Twitter lockout. 10,000 new users per hour. A QUARTER MILLION people migrated to Mastodon in one day. The servers struggled. Remarkably, admins all over the world built up capacity in real time. New users were patient. The system held.
It's running better now. There will be more hard days ahead, but people powered social media has arrived.
For everyone who has recently joined Mastodon
An Unofficial Guide to Mastodon
https://fedi.tips
How to Mastodon - The New Social Media
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mrsiej2dpBY
10 Quick Mastodon Tips
https://axbom.com/mastodon-tips/
A futuristic guide to Mastodon for 2021
https://wordsmith.social/elilla/a-futuristic-mastodon-introduction-for-2021
An Increasingly Less Brief Guide to Mastodon
https://github.com/joyeusenoelle/GuideToMastodon
You can also find some other good guides on YouTube.
Thinking that the Fediverse should consider rebranding likes from “Favoriting” (I like your toots, folks, but not sure they are my FAVORITE) to something else.
Trumpeting?
Echoing?
Nodding?
Clearly I’m not in marketing. But the point remains!
So far I still can’t get over the lack of #NBA (especially #Celtics) accounts here. @nbamemes is a good one I follow on Facebook and #Twitter but the guy last touched the account here years ago?
I also don’t see how Mastodon “succeeds” (depending on your goal.. maybe most don’t want it to become Twitter!) if brands can’t own their accounts here… i.e. @celtics being a dude named Charlie.
… also I appreciate that this is a worldwide app but I don’t want to see toots in languages I don’t know
Why can some people have multiple returns in their toots?
You know what I mean?
Oh. The (a?) trick is to add a period, return, and then delete the period. #toothelp #hax #gamingTheSystem #protoots