Eric Holthaus

🍄What's happening in Project Mushroom?🍄

Hey shroomies! It’s hard to believe, but just three months ago, Project Mushroom didn’t exist. Now, Project Mushroom is the largest climate project on Mastodon and our affiliate newsletters and podcasts will begin sprouting up any day now. Starting today, we’re delivering this newsletter (the flagship Project

Our resolution for 2023: Build a safe place to change the world

Make your New Years resolution now: No more giving power to people who platform racists, white supremacists, and climate deniers. 2023 will be the year that Project Mushroom builds a critical mass of justice-focused creators across our very own collectively-led ecosystem working for the greater good. With your support, we

Your three-step plan to leave Twitter (in less than 5 min)

Project Mushroom exists to help us take back power from the billionaires — and collectively build an ecosystem of creators working together for justice. To make that dream happen, we're asking everyone reading this email to do a few steps to help accelerate Project Mushroom today: Step 1: Sign up for

We did it!!! Here's Project Mushroom's next steps. 🍄

We did it!!! Last night, Project Mushroom fully-funded our Kickstarter. With your support, we are now well on our way to building Project Mushroom into a safe place for people who want to change the world. If you didn't have a chance to contribute to the Kickstarter before it closed

LAST DAY: 24 hours to go on our Kickstarter + a brand-new onboarding tool!! 🍄

I'm going to keep this short and sweet because hopefully this is the last fundraising email I'll ever have to write: Today is the last day to support Project Mushroom's Kickstarter, and we still need all the help we can get. We still have about $15,000 left to go

Project Mushroom's newsletter service signup form is live!

Sign up as a Project Mushroom creator - and migrate your newsletter for free This morning, Twitter announced they are shutting down their newsletter service, Revue. This comes after Elon Musk — formerly the world's richest person — announced he was openly considering buying Substack. Also — today, Post News, a recent publishing

FINAL PUSH: 48 hours to go on our Kickstarter — and a $20,000 matching fund!! 🍄

48 hours left on Project Mushroom's Kickstarter! 🍄 Our Kickstarter only has 48 hours left, and we've just had a major breakthrough! An anonymous backer just pledged a $20,000 matching fund — which will double everyone's contributions over the next 48 hours and will be enough to take us all the

Your invite link for Project Mushroom expires in 24 hours! 🍄 (and an update on federation)

🍄 Support our Kickstarter! 🍄 Your Project Mushroom invitation is waiting for you, and it expires soon! Get a Project Mushroom account right now by following this link. (This link expires TOMORROW December 13th.) 🍄 Join Project Mushroom 🍄 If you join today, you'll be one of the first 10,000 to join our

How does amplifying the voices of marginalized people achieve climate justice? 🍄

There are just four days left in Project Mushroom's Kickstarter, and we have just 57 enamel pins left — donated to us by the fantastic Christine Liu of Two Photon Art. All backers at $75+ will receive one of these pins + an original piece of custom art that Christine is making

We are building Project Mushroom for creators 🍄

Huge news! As of this morning, every person on the Project Mushroom waitlist has been sent an invitation to join our platform!! 🍄🍄🍄 If you haven't received your invite yet, please send me an email: eric@currentlyhq.com Project Mushroom is a creator platform designed to change the world 🍄 The name

Welcome to Project Mushroom! It's your turn on the waitlist!! 🍄🍄🍄

You've been patiently waiting, and now the time is here! Everything you need to know to get set up in Project Mushroom is in this email — we can't wait to say hi! From the very beginning, we've promised Project Mushroom to be a safe place on the internet. We are

Revealed: Our Project Mushroom sticker contest candidates!! 🍄

Support our Kickstarter! We've done something amazing this week. I got a little worried the other day — OK, terrified — that we were Since then, y'all have truly come through. We've raised $45,000 for Project Mushroom's Kickstarter in just 48 hours — by far the most momentum since we launched. And

New merch! Project Mushroom enamel pins!! 🍄

Support our Kickstarter! The past 24 hours have been the most successful of this entire Kickstarter campaign so far, with more than $30,000 raised from 180+ backers — we'd love to keep up that pace during our entire last week! We have six days to go — about about $72,000

This is truly an all-or-nothing moment 🍄

Support our Kickstarter! I'll be honest with you: There's not a clear path forward for Project Mushroom without Kickstarter funding. If folks have friends/family that could put $75 into the Project Mushroom Kickstarter, we need 1,000 of those folks and we're there — and we'll have a collectively-run resource

Elon Musk wants eco-apartheid. Project Mushroom wants justice. 🍄

Support our Kickstarter! Project Mushroom now has 1,500 Kickstarter backers who have pledged a total of $97,000. We have just eight days left to double our total amount pledged. If we don't hit our goal of $200,000, according to Kickstarter rules, we'll get $0 — and Project Mushroom

Last chance to double your impact for Project Mushroom! 🍄

Last call! This is the final day that all pledges to Project Mushroom's Kickstarter will be doubled dollar-for-dollar. We've got a chance to unlock an additional $10,815 in matching funds that will help us build a justice-focused, explicitly anti-racist social media platform to give people a life raft from

Project Mushroom Kickstarter Matching Fund ends today! 🍄

This week, members of Project Mushroom (including me!) pooled our own money into a matching fund — totaling $10,815. Today is the final day that all pledges to Project Mushroom's Kickstarter will be doubled dollar-for-dollar: Support Project Mushroom's Kickstarter — and have your pledge matched! So far, $6,274 has been

Project Mushroom "help me leave Twitter" automated migration assistant + survey + matching pledge opportunity! 🍄

Huge news! Today we launched something we've been working on for weeks: An automated migration assistant to help you import your friends from Twitter and rebuild your social media networks on Project Mushroom. For the moment, this tool is only for Kickstarter backers and our select group of majority-BIPOC Creator

Project Mushroom waitlist onboarding has begun! 🍄

Support our Kickstarter! We've reached 1,000 backers on Kickstarter! Hurray!! 🍄🍄🍄 This weekend we began sending invite links to every Kickstarter supporter, and that process should now be complete. When you support our Kickstarter at $8 or higher, you'll now get access to a link that will let you skip

In Thanksgiving – for this moment of radical change 🍄

Hi everyone — The world is rapidly changing, and Project Mushroom is too. We're just a day or two away from launching our platform (I saw my first glimpse tonight!) with built-in support for migrating all your followers from Twitter to our community centered in justice and action. Thursday is also

Real talk on Project Mushroom — and some *great* news 🍄

Contribute to our Kickstarter! Project Mushroom is moving full-steam ahead, and we've got some super exciting news to share! 🍄🍄🍄 But first, some real talk: Since Friday, we've raised $29,102 and counting from 698+ backers in our Kickstarter. That means we've got 24 days left to raise $170,000+ and

Project Mushroom Kickstarter update! 🍄

Contribute to our Kickstarter! Hi everyone! Things are moving fast at Project Mushroom! 🍄 Over the past 36 hours, we've: • raised $17,497 and counting from 425+ backers our Kickstarter • onboarded 214 people into our Creator Council — with a collective reach of more than 3.2 million direct followers on Twitter

Our Kickstarter is live!! Now, let's make Project Mushroom 🍄

You're on our waitlist — We've built huge momentum — The Space Karen has gone full Leeroy Jenkins — Project Mushroom is ready. The Project Mushroom Kickstarter is live! Tweet your support for our Kickstarter Our Kickstarter is live, and we're already a featured project, hand-selected by the Kickstarter team for our potential

Project Mushroom is launching a Kickstarter - tonight! 🍄

We've got a very important announcement to make: Our Kickstarter launches tonight! We're launching a crowdfunding campaign on Kickstarter tonight and we’d love your help! Share our Kickstarter! There's a sense of urgency here: In just the past few hours, hundreds more people have quit Twitter after the richest

Rollout timeline for Project Mushroom 🍄

Hey everyone! The Project Mushroom closed beta is now live! 🍄🍄🍄 As of today, we have a functioning social media network — the first one in the world that I know of that's community-driven, focused on climate justice, and explicitly anti-racist. If you're new here, Project Mushroom is all about building a