If you see someone on mastodon.social using a cross-poster from Twitter and never actually posting/responding here, please report them. I think that can be reasonably considered spam.

2meirl4meirl

When you're explaining decentralization

For anyone who is uncomfortable with the multi-column layout of default Mastodon, check out the webapp https://pinafore.social - it's single-column with tabs.

The feature requests are getting more sophisticated

Good morning! Deactivated my personal Twitter account yesterday. And deleted the Mastodon fan page on Facebook, along with the temporary account I had created for it ☺️

@aral @trwnh @KevinMarks Each instance re-verifies locally. You could fake on your public profile, but local view on e.g. my instance would show the correct result.

@ekaitz_zarraga Yeah! Except mastodon.art isn't hardcoded, it's a mosaic grid instead of square thumbnails, and it uses React instead of Clojure

Selfie ? https://mastodon.social/media/-zohGk9rgnq9LeHBF0A

Mastodon 2.6 released: Highlights from the changelog

https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2018/10/mastodon-2.6-released/

If anyone out there with a Mastodon instance below 2.0.0 needs help upgrading, I'll do it

I got a business e-mail where someone thinks my name is actually Eugenio so I think I'll need to drop that joke soon

Mastodon's 2 Year Anniversary: A retrospective

https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2018/10/mastodons-2-year-anniversary/

So uh, Mastodon has been around for 2 years now. Wow

Since there's a lot of new people, here's a primer:

This is mastodon.social, hosted by me. We have a code of conduct:

https://mastodon.social/about/more

mastodon.social isn't the only Mastodon server. There are interest and region-specific servers with varying rules. Browse all servers:

https://joinmastodon.org/#getting-started

To learn more about how that works:

https://docs.joinmastodon.org/usage/decentralization/

First steps with Mastodon:

https://docs.joinmastodon.org/usage/basics/

Mastodon is written in Ruby. The creator of Ruby, @matz is on Mastodon (albeit inactive). Mastodon uses Sidekiq for background processing. The creator of Sidekiq, @mperham is on Mastodon. It's kind of a bizarre feeling.

Please don't demand content warnings from strangers. Content warnings are a sort of social contract between an author and their followers; if you are not happy with how someone chooses to use them, do not follow that person or outright mute them, or mute words.

One of the most alienating experiences on Mastodon I've observed is when someone posts about something they're passionate about or is part of their identity and the first response is "please cw that" from a complete stranger.

Thanks

Most Mastodon servers are operated by people like you, out of their pocket. Check if your server has a Patreon! It's usually on the "About this instance" link, where the rules are. Support your admins, especially if they're not me!

We now have a custom emoji for the superiour siege weapon: :trebuchet:

So... There seems to be a common misconception where people assume all of Mastodon has 180,000 users because mastodon.social says it's home to that number of users.

The real number is closer to 1,5 million. Those 180k are only mastodon.social users and there are like... 3,000 other servers?

I wonder what I should do. ?