One for #mastoadmin - I have reason to believe the UK government may ban Twitter within a week or two, so you may see an influx of users.
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@bit @implementcontrols @GossiTheDog but mY fReE sPeAcH
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@jpages @GossiTheDog does the UK have any net neutrality guarantees?
Asking as someone who lives there and uses a VPN for Linux ISOs@davey_cakes @jpages @GossiTheDog yeah, basically inherited the same rules as the EU after Brexit.
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One for #mastoadmin - I have reason to believe the UK government may ban Twitter within a week or two, so you may see an influx of users.
Be prepared to close registrations early in order to prevent server instability, it will automatically direct users to other servers for sign up.
@GossiTheDog What about age verification? Isn't that required now? I thought Mastodon either couldn't or wouldn't age verify.
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Ditto not self-censoring in order to not make "the algorithm" downrank their posts.
There are many aspects of the Fedi culture that I really like (and some about how some people behave that rubs me rather the wrong way), and/but many of those are also exactly ones that people have been trained for decades by commercial asocial media to *not* do. Unlearning those habits isn't something that just happens.
@mkj @joannaholman @0xabad1dea @GossiTheDog learning how to absorb inflex of people from decaying corporate nonsense is something we're going to have to get good at, and it has both Technical and social aspects
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@Umiamz @GossiTheDog There is a lot of discontent among Labour MPs about this, many of them have been quietly pushing to leave Twitter for a while (a year+). If that happens, it's likely that the ball will start rolling pretty quickly and I wouldn't be surprised if the site ends up banned under the OSA soon afterwards.
@jsbarretto @Umiamz @GossiTheDog if they don't, it will completely destroy m the Online safety act, which would be a good thing under any other circumstance but mixed in this case. The worst case is that the rich and Powerful are allowed to do whatever whereas People Like Us would be aggressively hunted under the law so we have to avoid that outcome
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@GossiTheDog I wonder if it would also help to spread the load of these current-events driven big migrations into other parts of Fediverse? Help people discover some of the other options they might like that have room on their instances too, like piefed or gotosocial etc. We have to kinda decide if the goal is fame & cash for our own project, or a healthier social web in society by successfully finding new digital homes for folks in times of strife.
@growfediverse @fluffykittycat @GossiTheDog honestly, the thing I've seen he most is decision paralysis
if we can get someone on Fedi anywhere, that's 90% of the battle and they can slowly learn from there at their own pace 
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@GossiTheDog HCaptcha is Mastodon's only CAPTCHA option, and that poses accessibility concerns. You may be inadvertently preventing users with some disabilities from signing up on your instance before they reach the pending approval stage.
Some starter reading: https://fireborn.mataroa.blog/blog/hellcaptcha-accessibility-theater-at-its-worst/
@quanin I know.
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@jsbarretto @Umiamz @GossiTheDog if they don't, it will completely destroy m the Online safety act, which would be a good thing under any other circumstance but mixed in this case. The worst case is that the rich and Powerful are allowed to do whatever whereas People Like Us would be aggressively hunted under the law so we have to avoid that outcome
@fluffykittycat @Umiamz @GossiTheDog Yeah. If you're gonna pass such a rubbish piece of legislation, at least make use of it, right?
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@growfediverse @fluffykittycat @GossiTheDog honestly, the thing I've seen he most is decision paralysis
if we can get someone on Fedi anywhere, that's 90% of the battle and they can slowly learn from there at their own pace @OctaviaConAmore @growfediverse @GossiTheDog we should recommend people specific communities, strong enough to stand on their own, with federation as an additional benefit
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@fluffykittycat @Umiamz @GossiTheDog Yeah. If you're gonna pass such a rubbish piece of legislation, at least make use of it, right?
@jsbarretto @Umiamz @GossiTheDog because it was never about protecting children. It never is. It's a homophobic pro genocide law and if X isn't delt with we will know that beyond a shadow of a doubt
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@OctaviaConAmore @growfediverse @GossiTheDog we should recommend people specific communities, strong enough to stand on their own, with federation as an additional benefit
@fluffykittycat @growfediverse @GossiTheDog ideally, yes, but a lot of people nowadays want to be where everyone is, so the direction sorry of end up flipped from what you described: of we can get them to try fedi, they may find a community they feel comfortable in which they can eventually move closer to
I wish it wasn't that way, but I think we have to meet people where they are in a lot of ways
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One for #mastoadmin - I have reason to believe the UK government may ban Twitter within a week or two, so you may see an influx of users.
Be prepared to close registrations early in order to prevent server instability, it will automatically direct users to other servers for sign up.
The boomers used the "Ban hammer" hard on Gen-X fun, do we not remember how that turned out?
Instead of banning stuff, why don't they just remove the Anti circumvention law that the US shoved down the throats of all its trading partners under threat of tariffs in order to keep US big tech monopoly? I mean, we already got the tariffs
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One for #mastoadmin - I have reason to believe the UK government may ban Twitter within a week or two, so you may see an influx of users.
Be prepared to close registrations early in order to prevent server instability, it will automatically direct users to other servers for sign up.
@GossiTheDog can all European countries block Xitter please???
Looong overdue!
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@fluffykittycat @growfediverse @GossiTheDog ideally, yes, but a lot of people nowadays want to be where everyone is, so the direction sorry of end up flipped from what you described: of we can get them to try fedi, they may find a community they feel comfortable in which they can eventually move closer to
I wish it wasn't that way, but I think we have to meet people where they are in a lot of ways
@OctaviaConAmore @growfediverse @GossiTheDog I think that as things grow general awareness of how things work will go up. People are going to outgrow the corporate slop model
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@OctaviaConAmore @growfediverse @GossiTheDog I think that as things grow general awareness of how things work will go up. People are going to outgrow the corporate slop model
@fluffykittycat @growfediverse @GossiTheDog I desperately hope so
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One for #mastoadmin - I have reason to believe the UK government may ban Twitter within a week or two, so you may see an influx of users.
Be prepared to close registrations early in order to prevent server instability, it will automatically direct users to other servers for sign up.
@GossiTheDog France could follow suit. The SREN law is more surgical, and they are already investigating X for a number of other issues.
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@fluffykittycat @growfediverse @GossiTheDog I desperately hope so
sometimes, it feels like an unmovable boulder@OctaviaConAmore @growfediverse @GossiTheDog a lot of the energy is getting sucked up by bluesky at the moment, but they too will disappoint sooner or later
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One for #mastoadmin - I have reason to believe the UK government may ban Twitter within a week or two, so you may see an influx of users.
Be prepared to close registrations early in order to prevent server instability, it will automatically direct users to other servers for sign up.
@GossiTheDog They’ll migrate to the polished Xshitter , bluesky.
That blue abomination looks now like Twitter a few weeks before turning into X -
Maybe you should temper your expectations.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2026/01/09/uk-threatened-with-sanctions-if-starmer-bans-x/
@bit
Judging by the comments on there Trumpers are quite into their kiddie porn and are outraged someone would try to stop it..
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