Mastodon was UNDER a million members when Elron the lumpy bought twitter.

Last week it reached 10 million.

Today it is Eleven Million.

Mastodon is growing faster than a million and a half a month at the moment. Should pass twitter before fall.

Edited to fix my math.

#newusers #noobs #twitter #MASTODON

For all those joining today, Welcome Aboard! #Noobs #changeisgood #youarethefediverse

Today's #MastoTips for #Noobs is emojis.

Did you know there are emojis for things like #VoteBlue :voteblue:

Emojis can be different on every server and your server admin can add new ones, kinda like Slack. You can search or scroll emojis when you publish a post. Or you can wrap the emoji name with colon characters like this (with no spaces)

: mastodon : gives you :mastodon:

Mastodon will show #Emoji options when you start typing, just like #Hashtags

☝️ My #MastoTips for #Noobs today is cross posting. Posting videos directly in #mastodon can bog down your server and make the experience worse for frens.

Twitter has a popular "embed tweet" option where can share other user's videos without the entire tweet. You grab the link to the video out of the embed code, which stays on Twitter and saves server work on Mastodon. This is what it looks like.

#FediTips #TwitterMigration #Crosspost