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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@0xabad1dea @GossiTheDog and we also need to remember that very few other social media sites have norms around alt text and many aren't that into content warnings so its going to take a while for newbies to pick up those habits here
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.
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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.
Paging @mastodonie ICYMI.
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@GossiTheDog Really can't see that happening given that thousands of British companies and organisations (including the government itself) almost exclusively use X.
@Umiamz What would the Chancellor of the Xcheckor have to say about the ban? @GossiTheDog
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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 And the first idiot with "it's not Mastodon, it's the fediverse" will appear.
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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 When you say you "have reason to believe", is that anything beyond the articles about Ofcom (e.g. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ckgjzknepvzo)? Like, do you have insider info in some way?
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@GossiTheDog and a friendly preemptive reminder to, uh, long term members of our happy mastodon community: if the first thing you say to someone who’s come is “you’re a bad person for not coming sooner!” they’re going to delete their account and tell everyone else not to bother trying
@0xabad1dea @GossiTheDog @stonebear2 It’s like training a dog. When you’re teaching a dog a trick and the dog finally does the thing, don’t punish them for not doing it sooner.
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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.
Maybe you should temper your expectations.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2026/01/09/uk-threatened-with-sanctions-if-starmer-bans-x/
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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 are your sources for this?
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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.
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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 yea, that's not gonna happen
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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 You may actually see a surge in VPN usage.
Anyway, this would be a Net Neutrality infringement.
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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 Probably not, but if it's true, than people will probably go to Bluescam
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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 Would like to see each political party setup their own instance.
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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 If you know people who might want to join Mastodon but struggle with the picking a server part this site has a curated list it can suggest from with a push of a button:
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@GossiTheDog And the first idiot with "it's not Mastodon, it's the fediverse" will appear.
@bjo @GossiTheDog It seems you are the first ; )
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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 Not doubting your reasoning, but keen to understand it more.
Would this be a "citizens of this green and pleasant land are banned from it by law" or a "department of media culture and sport don't think people should use it and are closing their account for six months"?
Not suggesting that Twitter is a good place (it's really not), but the govt. track record on matters cyber is not brilliant at times.
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@GossiTheDog You may actually see a surge in VPN usage.
Anyway, this would be a Net Neutrality infringement.
@jpages @GossiTheDog does the UK have any net neutrality guarantees?
Asking as someone who lives there and uses a VPN for Linux ISOs -
J jwcph@helvede.net shared this topic
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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 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. -
@GossiTheDog Really can't see that happening given that thousands of British companies and organisations (including the government itself) almost exclusively use X.
@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.
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Maybe you should temper your expectations.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2026/01/09/uk-threatened-with-sanctions-if-starmer-bans-x/
@bit @GossiTheDog fuck these fucking bigots
