A number of Mastodon operators have started to report the impact of the #TwitterMigration on their instances. I started gathering these because I was curious about what it takes to run a public or semi-public Mastodon instance. These reports are full of those kinds of details, but they also describe …

Well, this newsletter was off the air longer than I anticipated. A lot has happened since issue 90 in late March: cryptocurrency value falling, Twitter spiraling (maybe a death-spiral...can't be too sure), and (in the U.S.) a whopper of a mid-term election season. All is well here in …

Much has been made about the differences between Twitter and Mastodon: the challenge of finding a home for your account (and the corresponding differences between your “local” timeline and your “global” timeline), the intentional …