A fortress with a drawbridge. On the drawbridge, a gatekeeper guards the way with WhatsApp's notification that a user has been blocked for spam. In the background, through the portcullis, is a WhatsApp group chat.
  • One false positive is plausible; twice is uncanny; thrice you’d swear is intentional.
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Four time-based charts Upper blue area: Number of Mastodon users Upper cyan area: Hourly increases of number of users Lower orange area: Number of active instances Lower yellow area: Thousand toots per hour For current figures please read the text of this post (i.e. https://geekdom.social/@mastodonusercount@mastodon.social/112116814836144770)

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  • Mastodon’s userbase milestone;
  • I am once again asking you to move to Mastodon.
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  • Twitter friends: Friends, on Twitter, who I left without telling them where I was going.
  • Our social media predicament: Is it addiction, a you problem? Or does that distract us from the reality of monopolies doing a monopoly?
  • The EU will force Big Tech companies to interoperate in 2024. It’s got one chance to show the world how interop can work. I hope it does.
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