Good morning The Forkiverse!!

[casey@theforkiverse.com]

Good morning The Forkiverse!! Another 200 people or so joined us overnight. And now the fire marshal is here. He's doing ... a sexy little dance. Wait a minute does this guy even work at the fire department

[ottonorse@theforkiverse.com]

@Casey Is there a fire pole involved 8-/

[blort@social.tchncs.de]

@Casey
20 bucks in my gstring and you'll find out, honey.

*gyrates seductively*

[arc_of_the_fork@theforkiverse.com]

@Casey This is what happens when you let podcasters have social media infrastructure 😆

Also the Mastodon the fire marshal communicates exclusively through interpretive dance 🤪

[spoon@theforkiverse.com]

@OttoNorse @Casey or maybe calendar handouts?

[evdelen@mstdn.ca]

@Casey
Based on some of what I've been seeing with the new users from the theforkiverse.com instance (and even from some of the other more established instances) it might be useful to write or record a small primer about the idiosyncrasies of Mastodon.

Specifically:
- How to follow people on other instances. If asked, you don't need to sign up on other instances, just copy and paste the URL into the Mastodon search bar.
- How to migrate your account onto another instance. Looks like you guys are getting quite the number of user sign-ups, and unless you want to become sysadmins by upping the user limit above 2,000, you might want to encourage people to move to other instances once they have gotten their feet wet.
- Maybe a bot to explain all of this to new users, sort of like how My Space made every new user a friend with "Tom", then "Tom" could send a couple of DM's to them.

Good luck with all of this, I'm excited to see you succeed!

[embers_tide@theforkiverse.com]

@Casey ask him to recite the lyrics to St Elmo’s Fire. It’s a Turing Test for FD trade.

[hanten@theforkiverse.com]

@Casey is it time for server upgrades? What’s the next tier get us?