Gallows humor while I watch from afar.

JWST

He asks, in a FOSS community.

Interact with it, such as a vote. The option will then appear.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donkey_Punch_(2008_film)?wprov=sfla1

Get well soon!!

I have no idea why they are publishing pieces like this, and it’s objectively false. Mastodon had over 60,000 sign-ups in the last week, and my feed is as busy as it ever was. It went from like 4 million when I signed up less than a year ago to over twelve million now.

https://mastodon.social/@mastodonusercount

• 12,869,719 accounts
• +411 in the last hour
• +12,425 in the last day
• +69,252 in the last week

Active users have gotten over their initial spike and have now levelled out several orders of magnitude larger than it was months ago.

https://mastodon.fediverse.observer/stats

Either this author has a poor grasp on statistics or is a Twitter superfan or has monied interests.

No karma competition here. It has a bigger effect on behaviour than you’d think.

Trust is the hardest thing to reclaim once lost, and this isn’t the first break. Big social is having problems, it’s the natural course of things.