“#Mastodon’s appeal has even attracted a few unlikely visitors: Twitter co-founders Ev Williams and Biz Stone both created accounts on Mastodon in recent weeks. 'I’m kinda tinkering with it,' Stone says. 'I don’t know if I’m doing something wrong or what, but my #Twitter experience isn’t as great [recently]. I don’t know if it’s the people that I follow aren’t tweeting anymore or what’s happening.'

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2023-01-12/elon-musk-s-twitter-drives-even-its-early-employees-to-mastodon

Please ignore these silly articles appearing about how "Mastodon signups are slowing down and many are leaving." I remember a big story in like Wired, or Infoworld, or something similar back in 2009 telling me that "Only 15% of Twitter users are active. Is the honeymoon over?'"

If the tech press were a bit more like @mmasnick, @jeffjarvis, and @zephoria, and a bit less like Bari Weiss, Tom Friedman, and Maggie Haberman, the Fediverse and society at large would be much better off.

OK, but what if I told you that anyone claiming that the #TwitterMigration was a fluke, and that #Mastodon is losing daily active users is just lying because they assume that the data to disprove their bullshit doesn't exist? I ask because the data does exists, and it's right here in this post.

The upshot of this dataviz is that, after a brief holiday break, the vast majority (>80%) of large and/or notable Mastodon accounts remain *very* active. A plurality have posted within the last 24 hrs.

👋 Hi, this is the official Medium account on our new instance! This is our home on @me.dm, where we’ll be boosting writers and publications, sharing stories, and trying to deepen our understanding of Mastodon and the fediverse.

To get started, we thought we’d share this list of resources about getting up and running if you, like us, are new here: https://scottlamb.blog/list/f4843d1cc80f

#medium, #introduction, #MediumWriters, #NewHere

Bloomberg talked to two of the Twitter founders about Medium and why they believe in the future of Mastodon.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2023-01-12/elon-musk-s-twitter-drives-even-its-early-employees-to-mastodon?cmpid=BBD011223_TECH&utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&utm_term=230112&utm_campaign=tech

@ronbronson I’m here for the ones who do.

I think my favorite use of emoji responses on Slack/Discord/etc is when someone just latches onto a particular word in a message and attaches its emoji, with no semantic content intended. E.g. someone'll say "Sorry, the bus is running late" and someone else will just slap a 🚌 on there to confirm that they did indeed notice and recognize the word "bus"

@Quinnypig they missed a chance at greatness

Anyhoo https://variety.com/2013/biz/news/epic-fail-the-rise-and-fall-of-demand-media-1200914646/amp/

@mmasnick oh COME ON

I wonder if anybody at CNET remembers Demand Media and the peak splog/content farm era. https://gizmodo.com/cnet-chatgpt-ai-articles-publish-for-months-1849976921

I’m still laughing about the latest 30 Under 30 scammer actually paying off an academic to do her dirty work. https://www.forbes.com/sites/alexandralevine/2023/01/11/jp-morgan-fake-customers-frank-charlie-javice/ Must be a true scholar because this motherfucker charged *way* too little for this level of crime.

@menalazar lol it got sold to some crypto scammers.

The Clarence Avant of the internet.

@coachtony no I don’t believe so.

@ramsey @rose none of them are very motivated by money. Both the good and the bad are motivated by true belief.

@tyler boooo/yesss

@simrob that’s how we learned!

@stannenb yes! It both makes perfect sense and is terrifying.

@virtuous_sloth well for one thing, they are overwhelmingly used in a medium that didn’t even exist when they were invented, for a use case the creators couldn’t have conceived of.