Dani M. MLT(ASCP)🏳️🌈 🇺🇦 @War_Kittens@qoto.org
Clinical Lab Medicine / Med Scientist • SciComm • Ex-IT • Queer Non-binary She/Her • Gen X • Old enough to be your mom because I was online in the 80s.
#MedSci #Science #Vaccines
#Metadiscussion #Gaming #Cooking #Film #SFF
#Geopolitcs #Nonproliferation #Nuclear
#MCU #Inception #Fandom
Joined Aug 2018
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This list of #journalists on Mastodon has absolutely taken on a life of its own. 🔥
It's now grown to over 540 journalists and shows no signs of stopping. I do quality control and check it every day to clean up.
Journalitsts on Mastodon Form to Sign Up:
https://forms.gle/dw5gzkA11uxXiGTy5
Current full list:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/13No4yxY-oFrN8PigC2jBWXreFCHWwVRTftwP6HcREtA/edit?resourcekey=undefined#gid=1320898902
Los Angeles County sheriff's race, how I love you.
This is an absolute ass beating in Los Angeles County. Check out these numbers. 
@lucifargundam @artcollisions Oh absolutely, but there's SO MANY restrictions on many of the instances that make it difficult for them to do business. Or at least terms make it seem like it's an issue. That's the feedback I'm hearing.
Look at this baby face! Congratulations to Florida district 10 and to Maxwell! This is amazing.
Dani M. MLT(ASCP)🏳️🌈 🇺🇦
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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 
@lucifargundam @geantonicelli @trinsec @freemo Dude, a matrix room sounds so cyberpunk.
@Nonya_Bidniss I'm super hoping a lot of those will move. Like man, Pulp Librarian is just stellar content and I will miss them if Twitter really blows up.
Dani M. MLT(ASCP)🏳️🌈 🇺🇦
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Dani M. MLT(ASCP)🏳️🌈 🇺🇦
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Election humor / Kornacki
The Steve Kornacki fan club is going to get me through this.
Dani M. MLT(ASCP)🏳️🌈 🇺🇦
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It's 02:30 at night again and it's been a long day, time for some sleep! 
Everything works again so sleeping will be a lot easier 
Good night my dear friends! 
❤️
I follow a lot of sex workers on the birb and it really is just evident to me that Mastodon can't take the place of it for them. It SHOULD be a less judgmental place but it really doesn't feel like it on many instances.
Hey Qoto.org folks, who do I ask about the extra features we have? Like how they're supposed to work.
@andraste Tusky doesn't seem to be able to. Shell out for Fedilab. It's good.
@tilton Now THIS is great advice.
@angel_ponders @mikrolet I come across really masc and I dunno, just a certain way that people don't generally fuck with me so it's just weird to see it. I would share all my don't fuck with me energy if I could!
@andraste Let's put it this way, it works in my apps, but it doesn't exactly work on this server. Let me check to see it works on the big server. One sec.
@pburka If you switch instances you can take all your followers, but none of your posts come with you.
@andraste @slasherfun Wait, like you want to see mastodon.social? Yeah you can.
Dani M. MLT(ASCP)🏳️🌈 🇺🇦
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I'm really not worried about Mastodon scaling issues at all.
When I left Twitter in 2008, we had roughly twice as many users as the current combined Mastodon network, all running on one MySQL server that had the same specs as a high-end 2013 MacBook Pro, plus roughly 10 web servers and 5 queue servers.
To be fair, growth wasn't as rapid, and we had local-infra advantages over federated systems, but these problems are solvable and I have no doubt will be fixed soon.
*Hugops to all admins!*
Clinical Lab Medicine / Med Scientist • SciComm • Ex-IT • Queer Non-binary She/Her • Gen X • Old enough to be your mom because I was online in the 80s.
#MedSci #Science #Vaccines
#Metadiscussion #Gaming #Cooking #Film #SFF
#Geopolitcs #Nonproliferation #Nuclear
#MCU #Inception #Fandom
Joined Aug 2018
