did I ruin Mastodon
@sarahjeong nope! Eugen wisely froze signups. BTW, if Mirriam-Webster was right this minute dragging a Trump on Twitter, would you want to know about it? No reason just asking >.<
@sarahjeong you may have saved it
@sarahjeong Nice job breaking it, hero
@sarahjeong I don't think that's knowable at this point
@sarahjeong time to pack it up and leave /s
@sarahjeong Nah, clickbait French bloggers did
@sarahjeong I don't think so ^_^
@sarahjeong yes but also thank you
@sarahjeong I don't think so. It's been a few hour since that article now, and I'm still like.
@sarahjeong it was already pretty well on fire before the article hit
@KitRedgrave @sarahjeong there was verge article and /i think/ a french tech site doing an article on it too?
@colon_three @KitRedgrave @sarahjeong yeah, Le Monde (France's biggest newspaper) did a feature on it, and they also made a sorta-official account? (i.e. maintained by the editors)
@sarahjeong Yes you did, but we can blame @caseynewton instead
@sarahjeong Nah, but the French presidential elections might very well! We're kind of ruining the public timelines for everyone else, tonight... :'<
@sarahjeong No you don't :wink:
@sarahjeong darn journalists coming in here and telling everybody about the party =P
@sarahjeong nah, you got scooped, right?
@jsbw salt in the wound T__T
@sarahjeong Well, you indirectly prompted me to sign up, so ... probably
@sarahjeong I think I signed up after a friend posted your article, which (skipping some steps in the argument) ruined Mastodon. So yes?
@sarahjeong [record scratch]
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@sarahjeong no, I think the insane sign up volume reflects people's utter dissatisfaction with the bird
@sarahjeong You had me at "without nazis", so... hopefully not?
@sarahjeong biased, since I found it via you and Justin Ling, but no.
@sarahjeong a classic social network question. How can you ruin that which was never good, Sarah.
@sarahjeong mastodontthinkso but I'm new here so who knows if I have the lay of the land down yet
@sarahjeong someone always ruins nice things by saying aloud "hey, i found this nice thing over here"
@sarahjeong I do feel a bit guilty towards those who were using this as a quiet space all this while.
@sarahjeong you : Mastodon :: Robert Scoble : Google Glass
@ckolderup not sure who that's a bigger burn on, me or mastodon
@ckolderup @sarahjeong only if she takes a shower while using it
@sarahjeong Mastadon doesn't have polls yet so it's nearly impossible to know.
And yet since Mastadon doesn't have polls yet it's (likely) not quite ruined by feature creep.
@sarahjeong mastodon ruined you
@sarahjeong ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
@sarahjeong I literally hang out with people from the FSF and your article was the first time I heard of mastadon, so yea I think you might have given it some legs
@sarahjeong you may have heheh
@sarahjeong Every youth must face a coming of age trial.