@Gargron Happy Birthday! But I think you gave a bigger gift than anything you could receive!

@Gargron Pretty cool that you took Mastodon live only a year after you started.

@Gargron That is the perfect compromise!

Opting into maybe? Instead of out of? ☑️ Quote Boosting Allowed (on this post).

Possibly only allowing it at the level of the OP?

@darius

There are a handful of these big accounts that can't let go of their ego. When they are brought down a peg this is exactly the kind of response I would expect. A whine and insult rant.

Mastodon is the best "open space" social media I have encountered.

If people don't like it there's plenty of other options.

@dansup @pixelfed

I feel that! Sometimes time management is really hard in technology because the needs of technology to be made, moved, maintained or updated will frequently take precedence over our own schedule.

@dansup My campaign always starts with alcohol.

@dansup No worries. They only got a couple teraflops of data on you for the 3 seconds you were there.

@feditips #Deadit

@feditips I am very worried about this as well. Rochko's original idea of Mastodon was good, obviously, but what he's doing is making himself vulnerable to a buyout and fragmenting Mastodon's integrity. (And making only himself rich).

I do hope that accounts that have been on Mastodon Social for a while consider migrating to smaller, more personable instances.

If enough accounts migrate (as a continuous thing), it would keep the risk somewhat lower at least.

@feditips That is worrisome. It might be just a gut feeling, but I'd be much more comfortable if the highlighted server were a temporary, 3rd party instance that requires a move in say, 3 months or so.

@feditips Thanks for that info! I have to wonder why they chose 23 characters though. 😆