Peter GleickA turning point. Mastodon is a far better source of information on the Russian situation now than Twitter. Follow the Russia and Ukraine hashtags.
Neo-Athenian Empire@petergleick Who are you following? I have been struggling to rebuild my Twitter information source.
Joseph Nobles@athenian_empire @petergleick You can follow the Russia and Ukraine hashtags and see the toots of people using them. From that, add to your follows. :)
@BoloBoffin @petergleick That only works if your instance knows about those posts. Mine is smaller and does not, I need credible people to follow.
Sibshops@athenian_empire @BoloBoffin @petergleick Unfortunately you may have to get an account on more than one instance.
@Sibshops Do you know of any Apps that handle that and suppress the redundancy? I don't like reading the same posts hours apart. It confuses my mental timeline.
@athenian_empire For me, the one account filters out the hashtags that the other account follows.
indri@athenian_empire @BoloBoffin @petergleick It's a bit more work but you can start by searching for a hashtag on mastodon.social to find accounts to follow.
Solarbird 
@athenian_empire @BoloBoffin @petergleick Your instance needs to start using the hashtag relays. Can you talk to your admin about it?
they can add:
relay.fedi.buzz/tag/[TagNameHere]
…to their relays list (one for each tag) and it’ll start slurping them up.
trendlessindividual accounts can also follow @tag-[TagNameHere]@relay.fedi.buzz themselves
@trendless @athenian_empire I learned something today!
AskASwiss@athenian_empire @petergleick same here. I don’t feel like the news quality as from some trusted Twitter sources (journalists, activists etc) is really on the same level yet on here. For some topics yes, such as the Greek boat incident. Mastodon was much more reliable and faster, due to the many reliable refugee activists here. But this is on par with activists generally choosing open source alternative solutions. But with Russia I’m not seeing it yet, missing some journalists here…