Mastodon went from 1.2M active users last week to 1.8M active users this week. That's not 70M users overnight, but it's something! 🙂

What is this #thread you speak of?

This morning I walked in the Valley of Mastodon and wrote this haiku:

A warm anecdote
Trying to be a cistern
Next to the painting

I am #JohnMastodon, your sage advisor.

@fuzzychef Wow, they even say the quiet part out loud at the bottom: in the face of all these layoffs, "competition for talent in the technology industry has fallen significantly".

So exactly what we all assumed was true: the layoffs were meant as a comp reset and a power play, not because they had any basis in financial reality.

Folks are treating the recent tech layoffs as something spontaneous. They were not. Apparently the current layoffs were orchestrated by hedge funds.

This hedge fund demanded that the big tech companies lay people off because they were being paid too much. Let that one sink in: a hedge fund manager saying that you're being paid too much.

Note that TCI is demanding that Google lay off more people.

@MPgh @Alan @TomWellborn :blobcatheart:

One thing I really like about Mastodon, is how eager others are to lift you up by their own boost straps.

Your feelings about Musk aside, this isn't something to celebrate. Our focus should be on fixing an economic system that allows one person to gain such massive wealth.

Despite losing more than the rest of us can even imagine, Musk is still the second richest person in the world.

RT @business@twitter.com

Elon Musk's wealth wipeout hit a new milestone: he became the first person ever to lose $200 billion https://trib.al/EaJ0Vtz

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/business/status/1610033456930512902

@lime_juice_cube @dogcanyon @emptywheel
Authoritarianism is a false hope for stability, for it always leads to instability.

Accurate! 😂

@sebastianhahn @mrvapor all I need is two sticks to start a heat wave

You’re not supposed to put a Qtip all the way into your ear because that’s where the reset button is

@glyph what password service do you recommend for the good people of #mastodon ?

Johnny Cash's real surname is Mastodon #JohnMastodon

@Blogfeedser @JohnMastodon@brands.town one being many servers :mastodonworld:

@strght @atomicpoet :blobcatfingerguns:

Elon Musk is trying to walk back the banning of @.joinmastodon and likewise links to Mastodon instances.

He called it a "mistake".

In his words, "Yeah f***ing post Mastodon all goddamn day long, I don’t care."

I think he cares 🤣

What Elon Musk *actually* regrets is that the Mastodon ban helped grow the Fediverse.

https://uk.finance.yahoo.com/news/elon-musk-says-taking-down-071215977.html

Mastodon Is Hurtling Toward a Tipping Point

https://www.wired.com/story/mastodon-legal-issues-tipping-point/ #mastodon #johnmastodon #cspanwj