Weekend tally: The number of active users across Mastodon rose by 294K, and posting activity roughly tripled. Lots of new sign-ups, but also many returning users.

Cheeky little line in the latest #Mastodon app release notes.

I don’t tweet so much these days (mostly on Mastodon) but this deserves it: this Saturday I will be leading the first ever practise of Venusian #Aikido ever to have been held on Earth (it’s the art the Doc from #DrWho does). At Finncon in Tampere. 2023.finncon.org

Twitter/X is now mostly bots, ads, trolls etc. including the owner of the platform. Mastodon is where you should be if wanting to be a part of inclusive social fabric of humans. Join now and follow me there!

The Twitter/X Mac app is still hitting rate limits, to this day, many weeks after the supposed temporary limit. With almost no activity.

16 years ago, I created @music and have been running it ever since. Just now, Twitter / X just ripped it away. Super pissed

The Japanese earthquake warning service ⁦特務機関NERV⁩, with millions of followers, is shutting down Twitter / X operations. Will focus on #Mastodon in the future. unseen-japan.com/nerv-app-x-twi…

X-Twitter throttles links to Threads, Blue Sky and New York Times. Difficult to see what would be behind this other than sheer pettiness. washingtonpost.com/technology/202…

#WordPress joins the fediverse, allowing e.g. #Mastodon users to follow blogs. techcrunch.com/2023/09/14/wor…

Elon Musk says X will charge users 'a small monthly payment' to use its service tcrn.ch/3ZlmJty by Sarah Perez

“Shieeeett man, get the stalks back…” Bjørn Nyland

Helene Auramo Kristoffer Lawson @[email protected] in the background also of this gringe ahead-of-it- time video from 15 years ago :D

Eurovision Song Contest you already know who we're rooting for

Eurovision Song Contest our winner!!