Will @wspurgin@octodon.social

and a dark theme and code of conduct classification. We really need that.

@wspurgin yep, negative infinity to positive infinity minus five

If someone doesn't write a client for #Mastodon called #Pineapple, the efforts behind this memetic grassroots marketing campaign for fruit will be, well, fruitless. :pineapple:

Looking at you, @acw , we've come this far in such a short amount of . time.

About risk profile:

- Mastodon is like email because you can't delete federated toots
- Mastodon is like twitter in that Google's search bots index it, unless your admins robot.txt it away
- Mastodon is like being a teenager because the people that own your instance can see all your private stuff

Have a talk with your admin about their policies.

By default, assume everyone will be able to read your toots forever.

So THIS is an octodon

#damncute

https://octodon.social/media/Izz4sB5jpO3PA5IlxX8

Moon through this 76mm f4 telescope. And the same picture with a little processing. https://octodon.social/media/FFtnrqlb-x7ysxzxxCE https://octodon.social/media/8UavP6DPFkhUVAwBiwc https://octodon.social/media/03W9ttm9JsWfmkKgOso

#Cubs hold on to their 1 to nothing lead over the #Brewers going into the top of the 3rd #LetsGo #Cubs #TryNotToSuck #CubsTalk

Mastodon: *paints beautiful wall mural*

Twitter: Who's gonna buy that? You can't even transport it?

Mastodon: *does an elaborate interpretive dance in front of the mural*

Twitter: Wait, is that part of the art?

Mastodon: *group meditation chanting "awooo"*

Twitter: Ok but how do you monetize?

Mastodon: *stretch*

Twitter: ...?

Mastodon: *a thousand voices sing a hymn to diversity as a million weirdos dance*

Twitter: We're, uh... we're going home now...

Mastodon: *builds space ship*

Current Mastodon stats!

113,743 users across 288 instances (274 are UP)

Top 15 instances by # of users:
mastodon.social (41,702)
mastodon.cloud (11,441)
social.tchncs.de (6,057)
mastodon.xyz (5,627)
octodon.social (4,936)
social.targaryen.house (4,490)
social.lou.lt (3,655)
memetastic.space (2,485)
mastodon.network (2,473)
mastodon.cx (2,264)
hex.bz (1,778)
mstdn.io (1,760)
mastodon.technology (1,720)
hostux.social (1,611)
masto.themimitoof.fr (1,410)

via https://instances.mastodon.xyz

What do you call an optometrist that lives on an island in the Bering Sea?

An optical aleutian.

It sucks not being able to read everything in my feed, but it's also a valuable, humbling experience as a (currently) monolingual American.