Georgia: Over 1.86 million of you have already voted in the Senate runoff!๐คฏ But it's not over yet โ tomorrow's your last chance to vote!
โฐPolls will be open from 7 am - 7 pm
โ๏ธNeed help? Call the GA voter hotline: 888-730-5816
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Friendly #Mastodon Tip of the Day 5 1/2
If you want to grow your Mastodon account and avoid the old #Twitter traps, you will need to understand the audience coming to this platform.
Thanks to @MattTheQuick and@mcneely@librem.one โs posts, we have a sample of what that looks like:
1. Most audiences are from Europe and Americas.
2. With 50% averaging ages between 41-60 and about 30% between 21-40.
๐ Reblog and follow me for more daily insights.
How to follow #Mastodon Hashtags
1. Login on your Mastodon account from your PC (unlike #Twitter, Mastodon is not well optimized as an app yet)
2. Search for your desired hashtag. Example: #mastodonon
3. Click on your desired hashtag.
4. You will get the below picture at the top of your screen.
5. Click on the (person+) button - I put it in a red circle below for clarification.
๐ Repost for everyone to know. Follow me for daily tips.
Friendly #Mastodon tip of the day:
๐If you want people to see a post, you have to reblog it.
โค๏ธGiving a favourite is only a personal appreciation but it is not as strong as the reblog.
๐กThis is a fix and major improvement to #Twitter, which uses likes as measurement to push the posts in peopleโs feeds.
๐คFollow me if you like these little tips. More will come.
Friendly #Mastodon tip of the Day 2
Filters are your best friend. If you donโt want content about Elon Musk , go to Preference > Filters and make one for "Musk".
Or #Twitter. Or anything you don't want to see.
Those posts will be hidden, and filters can be time-limited. So if you just want to filter out football chat during the world cup, you can do that.
๐Reblog and follow me for more daily tips.
Today is #TransDayofRemembrance when we honor and remember trans lives taken by violence. How horrifying that a deadly attack upon the LGBTQ+ community in Colorado Springs should occur right before this solemn day.
Hate isnโt born in us. It is taught. It must end.
This starts with our political leaders, who must cease their cynical attacks against our community before another attack occurs.
Call out the hate. Remind them of its consequences. Hold them to account.
Things I've learned about Mastodon this week:
1. Photo captions are read by screenreaders for people who have impaired vision. The more descriptive you make them, the more people can appreciate your post.
2. Hashtags should be "camel style" which means you capitalize each word in the tag - this enables screen readers to identify different words in the tag,
3. Reblogging boosts posts and favourites do not.
4. Hashtags are way more important here than on the birdsite.
Another #MastodonTip I've learned is that if you're posting a long thread then make the first one public (with the ๐Public: Post to public timelines) but make the rest of them unlisted (with the ๐Unlisted: Do not show in public timelines) which means the replies don't appear on people's timelines but the first post does! โบ๏ธ
@kathygriffin thank you for saying this out loud. We need to stop getting in our own way. Heโs proven that he can get this done. Thatโs the most important thing now.
This would get me swarmed on Twitter but Iโm just gonna say it. Democrats, can we please just stick with Joe Biden? Do you think I donโt want a female president? Of course! But can we please learn from the other side for once. Stick with our guy! And unlike them, we actually do get to stick with a winner! NO DEM PREZ PRIMARY!
STUNNING. WE HOLD THE SENATE.
ON TO GEORGIA.
DECENTER MANCHINEMA. LET'S GET IT DONE.
(And PS. I think we're gonna hold the House.)
Who can see your toots? Whose toots can you see? Found this clarifying graphic at https://axbom.com/mastodon-tips/
The best way to increase everyone's feed diversity is to go follow interesting accounts on other instances :)
Little Mastodon tip if like me you find the content warning culture here overly annoying, you can just go into your settings and tell it to auto-show all posts and/or all sensitive posts. So you can effectively get rid of the content warnings for yourself but let everyone else still have them, which is cool.
Letโs try this again. Where you at #fediverse? Boosts welcome so we can get the best sample size.
@rmappleby will do, thanks
@rmappleby where is the โabout this serverโ link located? Sorry, newbi here
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