Ash Furrow @ashfurrow@mastodon.technology

that's it buddy your getting BOTH barrels!!!

https://mastodon.social/media/d8awxw6JdslY6ioXQKw

A postmortem of today's downtime can be found here: https://gist.github.com/ashfurrow/c0f3f13da10c6609c3e3cf20b319dd3e

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Boost this if you have no idea what you're doing.

the existence of mastodon implies the existence of an equal-and-opposite, wastodon

Lots of questions about abuse/moderation on Mastodon and how it’s different from Twitter.

This article goes into detail and explains a lot of how it works here.

Some things seem different (e.g. no global search, no ‘retweet’ with comments). But once you read the rationale behind it it makes sense.

*definitely* worth reading if you’re planning on sitting around here for a while.

https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2018/07/cage-the-mastodon/

Here's a blog post from last year from Nolan Lawson, developer of Pinafore. In it, he succinctly explains what Mastodon is, how "instances" work, the Fediverse, and why Mastodon philosophically is not, and will never be, the birdsite.

It's an enthusiastic but ultimately realistic overview, and I think it's a great starting point for recent arrivals who are still trying to make sense of it all. https://nolanlawson.com/2017/10/23/what-is-mastodon-and-why-is-it-better-than-twitter/

Seriously. Sign up here:

https://www.patreon.com/mastodon/overview

Not only does your $ fund one of the largest instances and the default port of entry for refugees from the bad place - your money also funds development. So even if your instance is elsewhere - it is worth funding

At the moment it’s gettign < $50K per year funding. That’s peanuts.