Maricela Potoc @maricela@social.cleverlibre.org

Amazing chart on the growth of Mastodon.

Graphic by @estebanmoro

In recent years, we became too comfortable letting #Twitter define journalism & media. Algorithms often dictated the narratives we collectively paid attention to.

Absurd trends were covered by news outlets & ballooned into major stories while we missed so much real substance. And the quick takes of uninformed politicians & bad actors were forced upon anyone participating in the network.

It was bad for democracy. The #Mastodon model makes me hopeful we can do better. #twittermigration

See what I've done on my Twitter profile? I share my Mastodon account name.

If you want your old Twitter connections to know who you are on Mastodon, you should do the same.

Tools like https://fedifinder.glitch.me connect Mastodon users to their Twitter pals' new accounts on Mastodon by using this info

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Man goes to doctor. Says he's depressed. Says life seems harsh and cruel. Says he feels all alone in a threatening world where what lies ahead is vague and uncertain. Doctor says, 'Treatment is simple. Go on twitter, great clown Elon Musk is destroying his reputation and all three of his businesses with increasing erratic behaviour and incompetence, the schadenfreude will cheer you up!’

‘But, Doctor…” says the man…

@kathygriffin To the oft heard "Give 'em hell Harry" Truman said: "I never did give them hell. I just told the truth and they thought it was hell"

Crazy to see mastodon everywhere now

I wrote something about #Mastodon over the weekend. https://blogsofwar.com/the-twittermigration-is-real-and-viable-thanks-to-mastodon/

Hello! Well, I’m getting lots of calls from media outlets around the world re #TwitterMigration. Elon’s very upset with me because he thinks I stole his identity on Twitter but my handle always said @kathygriffin. I changed my nickname to Elon musk, and I changed my profile picture to his profile picture. I wasn’t the first or last to do it, but account was the one he saw.
Lots of Musk cult bros are lashing out! Snowflakes! 😂

I’m seeing tons of awesome stuff that’s outside of my usual security firehose on other sites

There’s never not a good time to post this timeless classic. ✨

#Fediverse #socialmedia #gaming #twittermigration #equality #democracy

Good morning #Fediverse - meet Fiona

#socialmedia #twittermigration #dogs

Are you new to Mastodon?

Do you need some help? A simple guide to how Mastodon works?

Check out my website, it answers lots and lots of questions you might have:

➡️ https://fedi.tips

It's written in non-technical language, and aimed at a general audience. If you're new here and feeling a bit lost, this is the site for you!

(There are also tips for advanced users in a separate section of the site.)

If you can't find the answers you want from the site, @ or message me 🙂

#qotojournal
I'm a PhD student obsessed with bio-based nanoparticles, so I'm trying my hand at 3D printing seaweed using at-home supplies. The troubleshooting is intense. Creating an at-home lab without funding is VERY HARD. Mashed seaweed was OK to print (with cellulose nanocrystals), but optimization? Yikes. Would love any tips !

20,804 accounts
+984 in the last day
+2,953 in the last week

Funny :) If you want to "verify" your account on Mastodon, type : verified : (without the spaces) after typing your display name when editing your profile. You will then be :verified: 👌😂

Hey, so, we've hit 1,028,362 monthly active users across the network today. 1,124 new Mastodon servers since Oct 27, and 489,003 new users. That's pretty cool.

Één van de mooiste waarnemingen die ik vast kon leggen, een porseleinzwam met druppels ... guttatie of toch nog een overblijfsel van regen? Ik weet het niet zeker maar het is een sprookjesachtige verschijning.

#sporespondence #mushroom #mushtodon

Our world is connected. We see evidence of that from seeing social media updates from people around the world or news broadcasts that cover events happening from anywhere. But have you considered the physical infrastructure of the internet? Of course there are datacenters, giant buildings with loud computers buzzing away. But those buildings need to be connected to each other, to your modem at home, to mobile cell towers that are sprinkled all over the place, and connected "to the internet". But what does that mean? Contrary to popular belief, satellites are NOT how most information travels the world. Indeed, we have physical cables all over... but instead of sending electrical signals those cables carry light generated by lasers.

These cables not only exist alongside roads and hung on power lines. They're also running along the bottom of the world's oceans. The image attached below is an inventory of each of these underwater internet cables. What I find interesting is how many there are! It seems like a lot. But then when I think more about it I am also amazed at how few there are. If you pay attention you will see news articles describing occasional sabotage of these cables, here's one recently published by Wired: https://www.wired.com/story/submarine-internet-cables-egypt/. This is actually very important to the future and security of the global internet.

#internet #fiberoptic #infrastructure #submarinecable #lasers #packets

https://sudorandom.dev/portfolio/submarine-cable-map/

The data for generating this map is based on: https://www.submarinecablemap.com/

Song Recommendation: https://open.spotify.com/track/3lOjtlf1fMZYOOyyPojfzG?si=63a74cbbd06547f1

It's comforting knowing that nobody here is paying to get in front of my eyeballs, and there's no way to earn cred except to post interesting stuff, converse, engage, and be kind.

#mastodon #SocialMedia #AdFree