Erika @ErikaDesign@qoto.org

One of my favorite #artists to order from, Lianne Pflug, has a new shop update. I adore her art for being both stylized and accurate at the same time. She's not on Mastadon I don't think, but you can find her shop here!

https://www.liannepflug.com/shop

#art #BotanicalArt

Are we alarmed enough? Really?

#ClimateJustice #ClimateChangeIsReal

Just saying hi and introducing myself to see how this works, so hi .

I'm a needle felter (among other things), which is best described as sculpting and painting with wool, and will usually post in dutch (I think, not sure yet).

Below are a couple of things I made, if anyone would like to see, and for me to see how posting here works . Enjoy your day!

#needlefelting #introduction

Eerst even man en paard benoemen.

De vliegtuigen van de KLM stoten méér broeikasgassen uit dan Tata Steel, alom gezien als de grootste klimaatvervuiler van Nederland.

Waarom u dat niet weet? Omdat de luchtvaart buiten de nationale CO2-boekhouding blijft.

To help make connections: name 5-7 things that interest you but aren't in your profile, as tags so they are searchable. Then boost this post and repeat its instructions so others know to do the same.

#Choir
#Crochet
#History
#Languages
#Nature
#Science

Via @MsAlliance

there’ll be a long drawn out process, there’ll be loads of rows, there’ll be a behind the scenes deal and compromise will be hammered out and everyone will go home and forget about it

Nothing will change and I just fear we as humans - and I include myself in this - are just too selfish to make the kind of changes to save the planet. Selfish”

https://www.newstalk.com/news/cop27-humanity-is-too-selfish-to-stop-climate-change-shane-coleman-1399774

#ClimateEmergency #pollution #ecology #environment #ClimateCrisis #ClimateCatastrophe
#ClimateChange #climate #Ireland #COP27

Okay this might be a long post

One thing that I realised is making #twittermigration harder for people to switch is because the whole concept can feel daunting & overwhelming for non-tech savvy people.

With Twitter to them it was straight forward and easy to find topics they enjoy but with mastodon its a bit different.
So if you're new to mastodon or you want to introduce someone to mastodon here are some tips, useful sites & tools:
### Tips:
- Choosing a home instance isn't as importance as it seems, don't overthink it. Yes moderation rules & policies may differ but they all have one thing in common: Be a decent human. You **always** have the option to migrate your account to a new instance.
- Toots (or posts if you think toots are cringe ) are what we call micro-blogging instead of tweets
- You’re supposed to "boost" AKA "reblog" toots that you like.Since Mastodon does not have an algorithm that surfaces toots that have been liked a lot, boosting is the best way to help spread stuff that you like, and to show appreciation. (credit to @orsvarn for this comment)
- Another way to fill your timeline with content you enjoy is to: Find other people with similar interests, follow them, favourite their posts, boost their posts, use hashtags. rinse, repeat. (credit to @garry)
- If you ever feel yourself getting sucked into arguments on the #Fediverse, you might want to take advantage of the instance mute/block feature!
Instances tend to foster a culture, so if you find people from a specific site tend to be bothering you, muting/blocking that instance will keep other members of that community from bothering you as well.
- Finally do not share private/sensitive information via DMs on Mastodon. Direct Messages are not E2E. **Keep it in mind**

### Useful tools & resources:
[Twitodon](https://twitodon.com/) - Find your Twitter friends on Mastodon
[FediFinder](https://fedifinder.glitch.me/)- Similar to Twitodon
[Fedi Tips](https://fedi.tips/) - an informal, unofficial guide for non-technical people who want to use Mastodon and the wider Fediverse
[Fedi Directory](https://fedi.directory) - A human-curated small selection of accounts to spice up your timeline.
[Trunk](https://communitywiki.org/trunk) -Trunk allows you to mass-follow a bunch of people in order to get started with Mastodon or any other platform on the Fediverse
[Fediverse.info](https://fediverse.info/explore/people) -growing list of people and topics can help you discover mutual interests with people around the world
**Mobile Apps:**
[Metatext for iOS ](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/metatext/id1523996615)
[Tusky for Android ](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.keylesspalace.tusky&hl=en&gl=USt)

Lastly if you are interested in setting up your own instance you can learn via https://learnfoss.org/ its completely free and its made by the wonderful @stux

I apologize for the long post lol, just hope this helps anyones transition over

XKCD nails it again ... *so* good:

https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/pathogen_resistance.png

Hmmm something odd is going on with my following thingy (science lingo;-))
In either direction it just blinks and goes back to whatever it was. Maybe there is a maximum times you can do it? I got confused (sleepy/meds) with the icon and unfollowed a few people I wanted to follow but actually already did, and now it won’t change it back (even after 24 hours) ...

@OCRbot eng