Andrea Junker 
When people travel to the past, they worry about radically changing the present by doing something small.
Few people think that they can radically change the future by doing something small in the present.
This is the only real time travel paradox.
Alyssa Schwartz
- 56 Followers
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Vaguely exotic and totally obscure. Writer. Friends don't let friends call me A-liss-a. Twitter: alyssaschwartz She/her
Chad Loder$44B is actually a small price to pay to destroy the platform used to organize labor unions at Starbucks, Amazon, and other companies with a combined market cap over a TRILLION dollars. The timing is definitely not an accident.
Mike FraserNew Users, if you're on the official Mastodon mobile app Stop 🛑. It does not show all the views and confuses most new users. For Android I would suggest Tusky, for Apple I would suggest Metatext or Toot. #NewToMastodon
Building a following list here feels like the start of post-disaster plots where everyone is stumbling around with photos of people they knew trying to find them, but also there are all these new people who are about to become new main characters.
Roxi Horror 💀🌸Tinder but it matches people that don't know what they want for dinner with people who will decide what they get for dinner.
blaineA number of people have asked me if I think that governments should run Mastodon instances for citizens. There may be exceptions, but I don't think governments should be in this business, for a variety of reasons.
However, I do think that *Libraries* would be *amazing* hosts for public federated social media communities. Just sayin'.
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Dave Troy 
A few recommendations for life on Mastodon:
1) Follow anyone you think looks potentially interesting; you can always unfollow later, and they may lead you to new people via boosted posts.
2) Boost posts you think are worthy, so others can discover new content.
3) Don't obsess on replicating your Twitter follows on Mastodon; let it be its own experience, and grow it organically. Obvs follow anyone you miss from Twitter, but this isn't a 1:1 replacement; have fun, follow your instincts.
Taylor LambertRolling list of Canadian journalists. (DM to be removed)
See end of thread for instructions on how to follow them all at once.
Journos, A-Be:
Elamin Abdelmahmoud
@elamin
Arman Aghbali
@ArmanBaz
Michelle Allan
@michelleallan
Drew Anderson
@drewanderson
Jeremy Appel
@JeremyAppel
Stephanie Babych
@stephaniebabych
Michelle Bellefontaine
@MBellefontaine
andrea bennett
@akkabah
Eugen RochkoHaving been here since 2016, I can tell you there is definitely no such thing as a consensus on usage of content warnings on the fediverse. It's a decentralized network that doesn't belong to any one party, so by definition there is no single culture on it. Different corners have different expectations and customs.
Kit O'ConnellQuestions for journalists and others on here who regularly give interviews, do podcasts etc: Will you still be giving out your Twitter account as a way for people to find you? If not, what will you emphasize instead?
Asking because apparently NPR employees are being told to no longer give out their birdsite accounts in interviews.