@atomicpoet @liztai lucky! I bet she's a great person to meet in real life.

@atomicpoet I really feel like you could've found someone with a Fediverse account who was a tch closer than Malaysia, but whatever works! 😂

@atomicpoet @liztai Enjoy the warm weather and the delicious laksa

@atomicpoet Me too and I keep getting “first name bunch of numbers” vibes. Hope I’m wrong.

@atomicpoet You probably are getting suggested to these new account holders as an interesting person to follow.

@atomicpoet are you getting the random ‘hey how goes it?’ messages from brand new profiles? Some of this activity looks pretty sketch.

@atomicpoet @mastodonusercount Sleeper accounts. They’ll be idle, or perhaps tooting random, inconsequential GPT generated drivel until they’re needed as part of some sock puppet troll army. If they’ve been embedded for months they’re harder to spot as being bots.
Why? Because someone, somewhere is probably prepared to pay for it. Astroturf as a service.

@atomicpoet
Why is Pixelfed better than Mastodon, tho?
@pixelfed

@atomicpoet @pixelfed I guess as more people use fediverse platforms, more dev will develop app for them. More app, more choices. Eventually better UX for the general public.

@atomicpoet @pixelfed @liztai I just started using it in the past few weeks and love it.

@atomicpoet same!
I actually have positive social experiences on Mastodon!

@atomicpoet I'm pretty happily surprised by the amount of comments on that article from people who have quit twitter and have no intentions of going back. I expected it to be comments supporting the article.

@atomicpoet Odd how I have no trouble staying away from it.

Maybe Huffpost just loves garbage fires?

@atomicpoet the probability that this was an accident and not done deliberately for likes and shares is zero

@atomicpoet "therapist Zach" obviously. ;)

@atomicpoet The first thing that I've read is Therapist Zach. I wonder if doing a CamelCase would help his case.

@atomicpoet the media sucks and I hope they have a great day

@atomicpoet if the tree falls in the woods with no one around to hear it? Lol if the readers are gone and they say the readers are gone , who hears it? Why say it? Baha toot toot

@atomicpoet

It is also an indication #CorporateMedia is run by pathologically vain people that cannot and will not be made to look wrong.

Keep up the good fight ✊🏼 :mstdneh: :cangoose:

@atomicpoet @fediversenews question: since every hour spent here is lost ad revenue on the birdsite, is it possible to tell how much that is in USD?

@atomicpoet

Is it like a party? They were waiting til it warmed up a bit 😅

@fediversenews

@atomicpoet and I have 10 of them - and installed 10 apps - 9 for following local server timelines and 1 main account for my timeline

@atomicpoet Whatsapp is everywhere and inescable in Malaysia 😑

@atomicpoet I wish I can avoid using WhatsApp too but it’s so deeply entrenched here, not having a WhatsApp account is like telling my manager that I’m not able to work anymore.

@atomicpoet
Honestly only North Americans are out of the WhatsApp bubble, amongst the western language* speakers - i can't work without it since I work a lot with Europeans and Africans.

*Eastern Asian markets have their own heavyweights but they do still have some WhatsApp usage depending on diasporic pattern

@atomicpoet And all the times the kissing person thought “that frog looks a bit dangerous, but I am going to be open minded”, and then the frog turned into a stalking murderous lion and ate the kissing person.

@atomicpoet I forgot to kiss any frogs I saw yesterday. Though this one looked quite attractive!

@atomicpoet — OMG, this is a big thing in Germany. At the start of the pandemic, I rented a furnished apartment from a friend, and there were several frog prince figures in it. Now, a neighbor down the street has *so many* frog princes in front of her house. What are they revealing?

@atomicpoet @steveumstead And they worship him for it because of the buzz it creates for them.

And….this is why we can’t have nice things.

@atomicpoet Appropriate. He sure has enshitified that platform.

@atomicpoet The guy does control several major corporations that do newsworthy things. It's not really the role of the press to decide not to report on events that are news just because the person influencing or directly controlling those events is somebody who sucks.
Or did you mean all the reporting about things he does that are not newsworthy and it's basically just breathless celebrity gossip about a troll? Oh, yeah they could stop THAT reporting...

@atomicpoet @therealjimlove @fediversenews Interesting is to see that the growth over the last week has been faster without there being a specific Elon thing behind it. Hmm. Perhaps success is finally breeding success.

@atomicpoet@mastodon.socialt be fair. Many people created Mastodon accounts, hoping to get the Twitter experience without Musk. Having realized it was something different, they left. So many Mastodon accounts which have been created recently are inactive and basically abandoned. Let’s look at the MAU instead

@atomicpoet It looks like a compact film camera suitable for casual everyday photography. I also like compact film cameras, and my favorite is the Lomo Lc-a:)

@atomicpoet can't wait to see you post results.

@atomicpoet

Do you develop the film yourself in a dark room, or are you using a service?

@atomicpoet
That's more real users than the bird-site probably has...and no advertising!

@atomicpoet ebin prööööhhhhhh ::DDDDDDD DDD

@atomicpoet Here are just 6.8 millions measured.
I wonder what the difference in collecting the metrics data and creating the dashboards is.

https://mastodon.fediverse.observer/stats

A year ago, at around this time, Mastodon had ~5 million registered accounts.

@atomicpoet I've been watching and commenting the approaching mark in this thread
https://sociale.network/@oblomov/110041777306046273
I'm convinced that beyond the symbolism of the 10M threshold, some more attention should probably be given to retention.

@atomicpoet I think daily active are more interesting. Many have multiple accounts after all.

@atomicpoet Hi! I am, but I do not presently reside in Malaysia

@atomicpoet that would be me

@atomicpoet
Holaaaa

@atomicpoet
If there's a public-ish meetup in KL or thereabouts, do let me know, would love to say hi! :)

@atomicpoet Which part of Malaysia are you in/traveling to? I’m sure lots of us here are eager to help with your itinerary haha

@atomicpoet At the risk of sounding stalkerish - wheeeere

@atomicpoet only members (paid) can have access!

@atomicpoet @fediversenews I got a kind of similar email from micro.blog this morning.

@atomicpoet @fediversenews

Will you be signing up? Are you a paid #Medium member? Would just like to know whether the will have features that make it worthwhile for Medium users specific to their app or instance.

@atomicpoet I feel somewhat skeptical of this bot. Is there anywhere else reporting similar numbers?

It just doesn't make sense to me how we went from 2 digit hourly signups go 4 digits in the same week and it pretty often has failures without reporting any hourly signups

@atomicpoet Thanks, for sharing the #goodnews . I’m campaigning on #twitter for the #Fediverse to anyone who’ll listen 👂

@atomicpoet
Honestly, I just see the same stuff here day after day. Maybe it’s user error, but it’s really not worth the effort to figure it out.