Alyssa Schwartz

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Vaguely exotic and totally obscure. Writer. Friends don't let friends call me A-liss-a. Twitter: alyssaschwartz She/her

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.

$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.
New 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.
@roxiqt omg, YES
Tinder but it matches people that don't know what they want for dinner with people who will decide what they get for dinner.

A 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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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.

Rolling 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

@BrentToderian so… just like the real world these days.