@oatmeal The Fail Whale!! I'd totally forgotten it existed 🐳

@oatmeal Dark.

@oatmeal this is ... Frighteningly appropriate.

@oatmeal
Welcome!
As a larger creator. Verify your accounts profile links stat. Blue check... Bah we got green bars via domain authority. Only you own your website.

@oatmeal dark

@oatmeal The Fail Whale's return has been foretold by prophecy.

@oatmeal Hilarious. Glad to see you!

@oatmeal omg I’m so fn happy you’re on here!

@oatmeal Ah, Oatmeal. Haven't heard that name in years.

Glad to see you again, old buddy!

@oatmeal finally, you were one of the last accounts I still had to look at Twitter for. Welcome!

@oatmeal I'm so happy to see you here on Mastodon! I'm really enjoying my time here (I'm a newbie, too) You are one of my fave profiles! 🤗 ❤️

@oatmeal so glad you are here!!

@oatmeal welcome 😍

@oatmeal oh yay!! 🤩 Great to see you here!

@oatmeal welcome to mastodon Matthew

@oatmeal i follow you everywhere <3

@oatmeal that's low 😂

@oatmeal hey! Nice to see you!

@oatmeal Rise!

@oatmeal it would be even more inclusive if future postings contained alternative text with the image so blind people like me can enjoy them, too. It is common practice in the #fediverse to describe one‘s photos and images when posting. ☺️

@oatmeal The whale as mastodon? 🤔

@oatmeal your strangest work ever (for me!). What does it mean? Help!

@oatmeal we love you

@oatmeal Most Excellent!

@oatmeal@mastodon.social Yay! So happy to see you here. Immediate follow.

@oatmeal I am glad that you joined! I am new to this too, and maybe I am being overly-optimistic, but I think Mastodon has the potential to not do this as so many before it did. https://theoatmeal.com/comics/reaching_people_2021

@oatmeal

@oatmeal you're here! 😍

@oatmeal Nice

@oatmeal that is dark, poor fail whale

@oatmeal long has the Fail Whale waited, biding its time. It comes

@oatmeal this is excellent. Also yay! You're here!

@oatmeal Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better #Beckett

@oatmeal welcome!

@oatmeal @OCRbot

@oatmeal @OCRbot

@oatmeal love it!

@oatmeal kinda feels like it's made to fail

@oatmeal always brilliant!

@oatmeal Yay! Let the exodus commence 🥳

@oatmeal 🤣

@oatmeal

Yay! You're here! ❤️

@ryanschultz

@oatmeal I was indeed wondering if anyone remembered the failwale

@oatmeal yesssss hellooooo

@oatmeal so good.

@oatmeal glad you found the way here :)

@oatmeal I love this so much 🤣

@oatmeal
I somehow *knew* I'd find you here Matt :p

@oatmeal

Yesssss

@oatmeal I hope *he* will not create an account here :blobcatsurprised:

@oatmeal ha!

@oatmeal the master is on mastodon, hell yeah!

@oatmeal The Oatmeal is on Mastodon!!

@oatmeal |

That cartoon makes me wish that Mastodon had a Tip Jar.

@oatmeal Ah the fail whale was one of the best things about early twitter. The honestly of it was so refreshing.

@oatmeal I hadn’t heard of mastodon until I saw it in your email!

@oatmeal Yessss welcome!

@oatmeal I'm so happy to see you here! ❤️

@oatmeal you could have had such awesome alt text. Edit your toot and put it on.

@oatmeal ❤️🐳

@oatmeal Appropriate indeed! Welcome, Matthew

@oatmeal
" Joined
Aug 28, 2018".

Yet first post. Did you see this all coming?

@oatmeal Been thinking about the Fail Whale a lot lately. But now I'm thinking it should look more like this:

@oatmeal I see we're way beyond Tumbeasts.

@oatmeal Springtime for Twitler

@oatmeal
Split your lungs with blood and thunder,
When you see the white whale !

@oatmeal welcome on the fediverse Matthew! It works a bit different then the birdsite here. Search works on #hashtags and posts spread by boosting. Make an #introductions post so people can find you and pin it to your profile so that new browsers can read it. And *nope* please don't explode the servers on #caturday :bongoCat: