2026-02-20 00:30:00
Hannah Aubry writes on the Mastodon blog about community initiatives including experiments to change how new users sign up:
At first, we’re planning to recommend the closest geographic server in the correct language based on data surfaced by the app store, so it will only be available initially on the Android and iOS apps. We may also experiment with other logic for recommending a server, including random distribution.
I don’t believe this will help. In fact, it might make users more confused. My proposal remains to move away from email-like user handles.
2026-02-20 00:09:42
Hearing from multiple people now (including my son!) who have gone back to buying music. Spotify burnout. I still have a huge collection of iTunes purchases and ripped CDs, just sitting there.
2026-02-19 23:51:32
When I found out Current was going to ship this week, I postponed making a video preview of my own RSS reader because it would feel like I was interfering with Current’s release. Now the tables have turned. Current is so popular that I just need to stay out of its way or I’ll get overshadowed. 🤪
2026-02-19 23:17:40
Last year I was often expecting unexpected calls, from doctors and nurses, so I turned off “silence unknown callers”. I’ve now officially had enough of the spam interruptions. Enabled it again. ☎️
2026-02-19 03:46:59
Bono on today’s release of Songs of Ash:
The songs on Days of Ash are very different in mood and theme to the ones we’re going to put on our album later in the year. These EP tracks couldn’t wait; these songs were impatient to be out in the world. They are songs of defiance and dismay…
Always happy for new U2 songs. Listening now. 🎶
