Notices by Daniel Lowe (dl@cantos.social)

@feditips @gbhnews @mastodonusercount I think @crschmidt is right and they were thinking of a figure predating Musk's Twitter takeover.

@feditips @gbhnews @mastodonusercount They didn't. They specifically mentioned that active users would be lower.

@gbhnews A case to make for the business types, too - for an organization, having an instance with a domain name is the blue check of the Fediverse. Since you're on mastodon.social, you could be faking. Probably not, but you could be.

In addition, you would have the sweet traffic metrics, directly, that your bean counters so earnestly desire. Having accounts per-show would segment your metrics appropriately. There's really all kinds of wins to be had here.

@gbhnews I'll follow you but it'd be 100x more awesome to follow multiple accounts on a GBH instance.

All of this has happened before, and it will all happen again.

Back in The Day, there was only one Internet Relay Chat (IRC) network. We referred to it as "IRC" because beyond a few small independent servers there was only one network, run by volunteers. Wikipedia says it was called Anarchy Net by some people. To join a server to the IRC network, one convinced the admin of an existing server to allow connection.