Dani M. MLT(ASCP)🏳️‍🌈 🇺🇦 @War_Kittens@qoto.org

@dgrounds @rmayemsinger me too, so I don’t want to be obnoxious as a newcomer to the land of Mastodon but this brings up another issue with the hide function, when I’m clicking content warnings how do I know that I’m not gonna find something I don’t wanna see? I would think most everyone has things they don’t want to see and other things that they do want to see which other people don’t.

It’s really telling how my N95 masking guide / advisory is mostly being liked and reblogged by people with disabilities and health-focused accounts but only a few anarchists in comparison have done the same, despite having posted to kolectiva. This is a jarring disconnect that should be culturally overcome within anarchist spaces in my honest opinion. The State has left behind a vacuum where public health should be, and the lack of urgency in organizing masking / purification / firmly anti-ableist networks as essential mutual aid is really concerning. You can’t outrun a cop if you’ve developed ME/CFS!

-And I’m not crying about likes here, I know I’m a nobody and my followers are few; but I do believe that the -proportion- of engagement is revealing. There must be a greater sense of urgency to make public places safe for everyone, to fight the project of mass pediatric infection and social murder the State is carrying out as we speak.

JEB is now on mastodon! #introduction We are a peer-reviewed international #societyjournal owned by @eseb

We seek to publish articles that advance understanding of the evolutionary process and of interest to a broad #evolution readership.

We welcome submissions from across the field including evolutionary #genetics and #genomics #molecularevolution #phylogenetics #lifehistories #evolutionaryecology #evodevo #morphology #microevolution #macroevolution #empirical, #computational #theory

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

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

PC Mag - February 1999
https://books.google.com/books?id=mi_RGvUW6eQC&lpg=PP1&pg=PA88#v=twopage&q&f=false

The Steve Kornacki fan club is going to get me through this.

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'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!*

Pete says to keep calm and carry on. She also requests that you worship her whiskers.