Pat @Pat_H@qoto.org

I promise you that retail workers are not the source of your problems today. Don't take out your Black Friday frustration on them.

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.

🔁 Repost for everyone to know. Follow me for daily tips.

Friendly #Mastodon tip of the day:

🔃If you want people to see a post, you have to reblog it.

❤️Giving a favourite is only a personal appreciation but it is not as strong as the reblog.

💡This is a fix and major improvement to #Twitter, which uses likes as measurement to push the posts in people’s feeds.

🤝Follow me if you like these little tips. More will come.

Friendly #Mastodon tip of the Day 2

Filters are your best friend. If you don’t 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.

🔃Reblog 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 isn’t 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.

#FediTip

Another #MastodonTip I've learned is that if you're posting a long thread then make the first one public (with the 🌍Public: Post to public timelines) but make the rest of them unlisted (with the 🔓Unlisted: Do not show in public timelines) which means the replies don't appear on people's timelines but the first post does! ☺️

This would get me swarmed on Twitter but I’m just gonna say it. Democrats, can we please just stick with Joe Biden? Do you think I don’t 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!

Cortez-Mastro wins in Nevada -- Democrats will hold the Senate!!!

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.)

https://warnockforgeorgia.com/

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.

Let’s try this again. Where you at #fediverse? Boosts welcome so we can get the best sample size.

I don’t know about you, but the pushback on extremism makes me feel a bit calmer, more optimistic, even if House Republicans take power and overreach by launching a sour flood of show trials.

Just a reminder about Mastodon.

Try not to directly upload videos here.
You have to remember that these videos have to be stored on the server that you're hosted on.

This would also eat up on available bandwidth, storage and memory resources of said servers and slow them down. Which would force server hosts to upgrade at a substantial cost.

Suggested idea...

Upload to YouTube, Vimeo or other video streaming services and share the link to the video here instead.

Did you know that if you capitalize each word in a multi-word hashtag, #ScreenReaders can read them as words, but if you leave them lowercase, they can't? Well, now you know! So, for #accessibility, please capitalize words when there's more than one in a hashtag.

Looks like a lot of our fellow Americans do still care about democracy.