Eubie Drew (QOTO 🦣) @EubieDrew@qoto.org

I do like it here on Mastodon, but the huge influx of people from Twitter means there are far fewer image descriptions than from even a couple of weeks ago. I’d love to tell every one of them about this, but quite frankly there are so many I don’t have the patience. I’d dearly love it if apps could block posts unless an image description was added to every photo, but I suppose that’s too much to hope for. I’m feeling really excluded from so many conversations. It’s getting as bad as Twitter.

@freemo regarding the character limit on #qoto I think it must be WAY MUCH lower. May I ask about his decision of yours? I believe if someone is willing to publish a useful and/or interesting post which is more than 2-3 paragraphs, it must be in a blog and not here. You can host a separate Writefreely instance for that purpose. For myself, if something is useful and long enough, I would write a blog post where it's very easy to find for myself and the others. Also Writefreely does the SEO very good so people could find my useful content easily using search engines.

#mastodon_character_limit

One thing I’m learning is that community leadership (aka good moderation) is so rare, when I talk about it, some people literally have no idea what I’m talking about because they’ve never experienced it. And that’s pretty sad.

Amazing how one dedicated schmuck can ruin your experience of an entire social network.

Which is why “you can just block people” is not sufficient. It’s like trying to be a gardener with only pesticides.

I really need to take the time to write more about this. The rise and fall of blogging as a lot to teach the fediverse, and I was deeply involved with that (I worked for Blogger and Technorati). I sincerely want to see the fediverse succeed, because we’ve tried the alternative and we all know it sucks.

Black twitter right now reminds me of just how deeply contingent black communities — digital and physical — are upon the whims of white people.

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If I followed you back today can you just reply and boost this toot. I am trying to follow back as many people as I can before I get restricted.
I was accused of NEVER following back yesterday. 🖖🖖🖖🖖

I’m a well-known white guy with a pretty deep technical background. If people are saying “shut up, newbie” when I comment on things I find confusing or difficult here, imagine what they’re saying to members of marginalized communities.

Crimethinc has been suspended from Twitter 🫡

@chadloder at least they're still here @CrimethInc