a demented rapist took control of the country and everyone fucking peaced out for a few days.

The MAU counter at mastodon.social reset. It happened at about the same time they had an issue and had to recover data so I think it was related to that.

I joined

Lunar New Year started on January 29.

Stuff like that is usually some change made to catch bots.

Eine Katze broke in and ate the Maus

tiktok was not banned maybe