#twittermigration

By the way, I'm now actively blocking anyone coming here to argue about the merits of donating to the NON-PROFIT that builds Mastodon. It's absolute dirtbag behaviour when Mastodon struggles so much under a #TwitterMigration of millions of users. Now lets put things into perspective. Last month, Twitter was employing 6,500 people. Mastodon employs 1 person who's working 14 hour days -- and only compensates himself €36,000 a year. How is one guy supposed to take build the app that replaces Twitter when Twitter pays hundreds of engineers well over $100,000 to do a fraction of the work? Yeah, other people deserve donations too -- so donate! Be a hero to the person who's running your instance, as well as the person who builds whatever app your instance is running. And lest you think that I don't bang the drums on donations for other devs, this is not the case. Last week, I told everyone to donate to @dansup. A couple of days ago, I told everyone to donate to @Are0h@ubiqueros.com who, by the way, is making another app that builds safety features for marginalized communities. And I'm banging the drum all the time on @thatonecalculator@stop.voring.me and his work with Calckey. But right now, I'm urging people to help out with Mastodon! So if you have it in your heart to donate to a very good cause -- the continued development and existence of Mastodon -- contribute to Mastodon's Patreon. https://www.patreon.com/mastodon

If you want to know how big the current #TwitterMigration is to Mastodon, look at this current chart. I have never seen anything this massive.

The silver lining to the #TwitterMigration: maybe this will result in more funding, more people willing to develop the Fediverse to its full potential. As I keep telling you, there's more to this endeavour than being a Twitter replacement! We have the chance to entirely re-make the Internet!