I remember last November when Mastodon breaking 1000 new users/day was a big deal. Now seeing monthly active users growing by 20,000/day.

I think a lot more people are aware that the fediverse is something very different than "just another social media property".

https://botsin.space/@mastodon_daily_active_users/110780273398961425

Via ACLU:

BREAKING: With more than 700,000 signatures submitted, the #Ohio Secretary of State announced that a constitutional amendment to protect reproductive freedom has enough valid signatures to qualify for the ballot this fall.

We have a right to #abortion care and we will vote for it.

OH HELL NO!

In the Florida Keys, record ocean temps spark scramble to save dying corals

Scientists are evacuating hundreds of corals from the unprecedented ocean heat in a last-ditch effort to curb a mass die-off.
#News #GlobalWarming #climatechange #weather #Florida #oceanography #AureFreePress

https://www.tampabay.com/news/environment/2023/07/25/coral-florida-keys-water-temperature-manatee-bay/

X marks the rot.

#Twitter #TwitteRx

via @scalzi:

“Twitter was a place, with people…Musk took a city with thriving neighborhoods and decided to run a fucking interstate through the most interesting parts of it, and the interstate doesn’t actually go anywhere good; it just runs from Bitcoin Town to Fascistburg”

https://whatever.scalzi.com/2023/07/24/preparing-my-x-it/