Gregory's ServerSo, weekend tally: The number of active users across Mastodon rose by 294K, and posting activity roughly tripled. Lots of new sign-ups, but also many returning users. Fun times!
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 @meetpateltech @Gargron it's a bit more than the ui! Which is pretty similar to twitter btw, or not different enough to be a prime feature. The foundations of these infrastructure are the thing that count. No corporate ownership of your data. Interoperability with several other systems, like peertube, kbin and lemmy (reddit replacements), and calckey (another microblogging). Etc etc. But whatever. You are welcome here and we hope you enjoy the place. Just remember it's not a twitter clone. @meetpateltech @Gargron for information, the UI you see can vary a bit according to the client apo. There is an official mastodon , tusky on android, but also ivory on ios and several alternatives. You are by no means forced to use an official client like discord or twitter. @obscuretenet @Gargron @metacurity how big can a cockload be? Surely no more than a level teaspoon. @Confuzzled @Gargron @metacurity A cockload is a non-SI unit roughly equivalent to 72.235 fucktons. @obscuretenet @Confuzzled @Gargron @metacurity Cockload specialist here: I can confirm that this does indeed translate to 72.235 fucktons, or for Europeans that would be 9 gargles. @nop @obscuretenet @Confuzzled @Gargron @metacurity @Sector9 @nop @Confuzzled @Gargron @metacurity Depends on the size of the stone really. It's a LOT of pebbles, but not many boulders. @bruce yes, thank you, they’re kind of random though. I have the various hashtags as a list. I’m trying to piece together more of a community. #newyork #newyorker #nyc   @Gargron celabrate with :croqueta: emoji in mastodon.social https://paquita.masto.host/@aenea/110646620648636047   @edsuom I believe @Gargron has stated that is planned. Also many app clients (like @IceCubesApp) already provide mechanisms to do that.  @tiamat271 @Setok @edsuom @Gargron @IceCubesApp @MonaApp Basically the *only* app for iOS AFAIC.  @edsuom Is that "boosting with a comment" / e-mail's "forwarding inline with a comment at the top"? There are some things I wish I could do on Mastodon (or perhaps the limitation is in the web ui?) but I keep fearing that, if I tried to write down a list of these features, I'd end up with MIME... reminds me of Greenspun's tenth rule, although I guess jwz's law might be a bigger concern :-P (Jokes aside, MIME allows me to interleave images with plain text, for example. Can that be done here?)     @Gargron returning user here. I never used Twitter, but with Reddit dead I find Lemmy and Mastodon together fill the gap well. Surprisingly active!  @CozartMonopoly Do you know about the particular role hashtags play in Masto?  Mastodon increasing its active users population by the size of Belfast every week? This can only be a good thing.  @Gargron I am taking Mastodon more seriously since the bird site has become full of sludge and its leader is showing support of white supremacists. @Gargron Tradıng hasn't been easy due to the fluntuatıon of the sıgnals lately and wıthout an expert or professıonal who's understand or have an experıence on tradıng۔ You eventually encounter losses whıle tradıng۔ Wıth the help of Nelly James fx on Instagram l could secure my trade and earn more profıt۔Am forever grateful to you for your guidance. @Gargron btw new 2.0 client looks and feels very good, well done! Considering even swapping from Fedilab now  @Gargron Makes me wonder how evenly they have spread around or if some servers are getting hammered.    
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I dont have numbers, but I am seeing a massive overnight uptake on reddit for links especially in Worldnews' Ukraine Threads. With many downvoring Twitter links and upvoting Mstdn. Heres an interesting article for The Verge about our Interesting digital times: https://www.theverge.com/2023/7/3/23782607/social-web-public-apps-end-reddit-twitter-mastodon #Mastodon is still quite rough around the edges, but that's okay: so were #Twitter, #Facebook, #MySpace, and all the others during their early stages of mass adoption. People just don't remember, either because it's been so long or because they only joined when those platforms had already become popular, and as a result, polished. @ridp remember the first RT version where every RT was just a tweet that started as “RT:(at)username: blah blah…?” @Gargron Once Meta releases Threads, the fediverse will grow more and more! Fuck all of those who say defederate, they are all conspiracy theorists @Gargron new @IceCubesApp user here. Great app, love the icon, the UI. Almost perfect. But loads threads (and replies particularly) with a certain delay, like 7 seconds every single time. iPhone XR iOS 16.5.1 user here. Is there anything I should try? Maybe its because I’m in Brazil? I’m new to fediverse, not sure if federated servers may cause this because of long distances.  @soundwarriorBR I might assume that due to influx of users there might be performance issues on mastodon.social. You can wait until it's fixed or you can try migrating to a different server that's hopefully less loaded, you will *not* lose your ability to communicate with anyone else on the network! Check out this guide by @feditips for more info:  Yeah, mastodon.social is far too overcrowded. Try moving to a different server, you can find good ones at https://joinmastodon.org/servers or https://fedi.garden @Gargron yes, am one of the new users, helo owo It's kinda funny, though, how I've never used and were hardly ever interested in Twitter, yet all the bullshit that happened over there resulted in me being aware of Mastodon and, well, here I am now, lol    @Gargron And without search and better discovery, many will move on to whatever comes next. A lot of very serious and influential people had a terrible experience here, and unless we fix those problems that drove them off, they will just urge others to follow them somewhere else that promises them what they had before. @shoq@mastodon.social Unironically good. They should go to Meta's Threads or whatever. @Gargron@mastodon.social @Gargron But if it's gonna stay forever? Well, as a new user such as myself gonna try to stay here as much long as possible🤭 @Gargron so happy to be here 😉 hopefully my YouTube channel can grow with you guys & gals 👌 @Gargron I know I had a brief attempt at familiarizing myself with the Fediverse that I just dropped without meaning to in the grind of day to day life, this recent fuckery on the heels of having Tucker Carlson shoved in my face and Reddit bleeding itself at the same time has been something of a second round wakeup call. Sometimes you just hit snooze once or twice, you still get up to go to work. |
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