🎊🎉 It happened! 🎉🎊
8,001,321 accounts on Mastodon!
We went over 8 million within the last hour!
Break out the champagne 🍾🥂
This is a big milestone!🏅
And believe me, millions more will join soon!
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Chris Trottier
@atomicpoet@mastodon.social
mastodon 4.8.0-nightly.2026-10-06815 Followers
417 Following
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Joined August 17, 2018
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UPDATE: Here's the latest chart.
We're now at 14,000 new users joining per hour.
By the end of the night, we might have 7 million Mastodon users.
A few days ago, I asked a self-identified leftist why they're still on Twitter.
Their response: "I shouldn't have to leave Twitter, Elon Musk should!"
🙄
That's not how it works.
Elon Musk literally owns Twitter now. It's completely in his private hands. Twitter isn't even trading on the stock market anymore.
Twitter's data centers hosting all your tweets? Elon Musk physically owns them now.
Everything you put on Twitter now -- Elon Musk owns it!
1/ Someone asked, "How can basic HTML pages be social media -- and create something resembling the public square?" So here's a thread 🧵
If you were not around to witness the early web, let me explain what it was like.
During the 90s, most websites just used HTML. CSS and JavaScript existed in the latter part of the decade, but they were entirely optional.
The appeal of the web wasn't "rich media". Again, that came later.
What made the web exciting is what also made it social: hyperlinking
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When you boost, it’s for others.
But when you like, it’s for yourself.
All right! I'm creating some community moderation feature requests on #Mastodon, and I'm going to drop links in this thread each time they're created.
The feature requests are:
1. Turn off comments
2. Lock comments
3. Approve comments
4. Flair profiles
5. Adjust crowd control
Will add updates!
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The admin of mastodon.lol is @nathan@mastodon.lol
He's having a meltdown right now.
Whatever the hell is going on -- and I don't know exactly what's going on -- this isn't a worthwhile response to anything.
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Hey instance admins, now is the time to tell people that your community is open for migration!
Please give mastodon.lol users a new home!
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So @nathan@mastodon.lol's decision to shut down mastodon.lol stems from an argument in this thread.
Things escalated.
And now 18K Mastodon users will need to migrate their accounts.
This isn't fun -- but at least you can migrate 😒
https://mastodon.lol/@nathan/109836160938512009
Meta just laid off 10,000 people.
This follows 11,000 job cuts back in November—now totalling 21,000 people within a year.
Additionally, 5,000 jobs will now go unfilled.
While I heavily dislike Meta and everything it stands for, it gives me no pleasure when people lose their livelihoods.
While Twitter's difficulties gets more press, Meta's disarray is worth paying attention to—especially since they hope to eventually join the Fediverse.
https://apnews.com/article/meta-facebook-job-cuts-f193ca0e67078c04a8433f6c74a83187
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At least $44B bought us some truly great memes.
😂
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By the way, will everyone stop using Twitter immediately? No way!
Over the next year, Twitter will be the platform of choice for crypto enthusiasts, cam girls, and SEO specialists.
Educational institutions might have to start adopting the Fediverse.
Especially now that Twitter's API is no longer free.
Which means an entire generation of students will be learning about ActivityPub and Mastodon's API.
The people have spoken, and I will abide by the results of the poll.
I'm migrating this account to https://calckey.social
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"Daddy, where were you when Twitter died?"
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Whatever happens, I still plan on running a Mastodon server that's open to the public.
That was always the plan anyway.
Can't believe this news escaped me...
Google has an "official" account on the Fediverse.
I say "official" because there's no green check.
Their last update was two days ago.
FYI, I've seen a few Google engineers on the Fediverse. I even got into a disagreement with one Google engineer about self-hosting -- he didn't like it one bit! https://9to5google.com/2022/11/21/google-social-account-mastodon/
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@pjfasano@nova.community @nathan@mastodon.lol No one ever claimed that the Fediverse is free of drama.
This is not a social media utopia, just a better way of doing social media.
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@Tinu@mastodon.social Hey @Gargron@mastodon.social please don't automatically censor an image that says #BlackLivesMatter. I sincerely hope this is a bug—and will be fixed!
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@jonoabroad@mastodon.nz He doesn't like people learning and playing with the tech. He compared it to someone teaching themselves electricity, and then trying to re-wire the electricity in their house.
I told him, "That's a terrible analogy because doing that can kill you."
And he literally said to me, "It's not that dangerous but close!"
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@mlncn Nope! I told them to add identi.ca support 12 years ago. And I told them about ActivityPub 5 years ago.
Now Hootsuite better hope Meta doesn't die too.
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@riley I've written several threads on this. Here's two:
https://mastodon.social/@atomicpoet/110330138893896925
https://mastodon.social/@atomicpoet/110317691654195327
Of course, you should try yourself and see what makes it different 😊
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@mastodonmigration I mean, I already use Calckey more often than Mastodon. I just don't post from there as often.
@ArtBear@mastodonapp.uk It’s better to air on the side of caution. And we’re already having conversations with @wild1145@mastodonapp.uk about re-federating.
@ethanOS@infosec.town There's benefits and drawbacks to both platforms. For example, I like that Mastodon allows you to embed posts onto a website.
However, Calckey gives you a drive, a gallery, and webpages.
@rymecity@mas.to Sure, you have to download an archive of your posts and then upload them.
@ArtBear@mastodonapp.uk I spoke with @wild1145@mastodonapp.uk yesterday. I also let him know @kainoa@calckey.social will be in touch.
I’m keen for a resolution, but it’s important they have a dialogue before a decision is made.
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@luckysitsinback You'll still see me on Mastodon. Because both Mastodon and Calckey use ActivityPub, the two software talk to each other. That means, you will receive all of my posts from Calckey should I migrate there.
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@jimbreeds @binarytango@mstdn.binarytango.com Nothing is "wrong" with my .social account.
#Calckey is not "better", but it's very different.
I've written many threads on what makes Calckey unique. Here's two of them:
https://mastodon.social/@atomicpoet/110330138893896925
https://mastodon.social/@atomicpoet/110317691654195327
If you want to see what's different, I suggest trying out Calckey for yourself!
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@bainstor I also have an account there (@atomicpoet@calckey.social).
However, rightly or wrongly, most people perceive this one (@atomicpoet) as the *main* account.
@rymecity@mas.to To Calckey? Yes.
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@the_roamer @ArtBear@mastodonapp.uk @wild1145 @kainoa Here’s the other thing. Nobody could have predicted what happened with calckey.social. It went from being my side project to being a major concern very, very quickly. So no, there was no big conversations with other server admins because it wasn’t even a blip on the radar until recently.
Now that things are what they are, we adjust.