@EllenInEdmonton

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🌈 #ESL teacher, grandma, mom, #YegBike, #paddler, hiker, #reader, traveller, genealogist, #sewist, plant mom, she/her

I don't stay in one lane on here

Hello, lovelies!

I'm really enjoying @Mastodon and I really feel that I should join my sisterhood at @mstdn.ca
Please accept new follow requests when I make the switch! Thanks.

Elon has (at least) 9 living children. So where are all the articles about "How does he do it all?" Like work 24x7 at Twitter and his other companies AND take care of the children. He's a man, so it's a topic totally ignored.
mstdn.ca has doubled in the span of 18 hours. 🀯

"Your focus determines your reality."

This #FollowFriday tip is a chance to reset. It's long been known that a follow-for-follow strategy is ill-conceived, so don't do it. Follow who you feel would enrich your experience (on ANY platform). Adding people willy-nilly doesn't work for anybody. Inflating numbers might impress marketers, but not your peers. That's as arbitrary a value as a so-called paid bluecheck. Someone with 10 followers could benefit you more than someone with 10,000. #Mastodon

Mastodon is different. It's polite and friendly. There's a different code of conduct (please look up some of the basics), a slower pace. It's not a sprawling, hectic shopping centre in a grim industrial park on the city rim; it's a pleasant village street with artisanal shops and cafes. Take your time. Be nice.
I see Mastodon is straining under the load of new arrivals today. I would encourage those folks to be patient. It will get better. This is a decentralized network run by volunteers and not a $44 billion dollar corporation (on the verge of imploding).
As I get deeper into Mastodon, I'm torn about whether and how much I actually want to recreate the "other place" experience here. There are some people I followed avidly on the bird site, that I'm not entirely sure I want to follow here, for example. And I'm not sure how much I want to use this space to be political. I want to engage here. I want to have conversations with people about everything from Senate reform to the future of agriculture. But....
mastodon performance is going to be very bad today. for everyone, on every instance. please do not bother your admins about this. thank you, we love you, maybe take a nice lil walk outside in the crisp late autumn morning (or spring evening, whatever hemisphere) while you wait for your picture of your cat to upload. cheers.
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#introduction I came on here in order to be a new and better person to the one I was on Twitter, more open and respectful, less preening and rude. Lol, no, I came on mastodon bc I was doing a feature for the Guardian on mastodon, but in the course of it I realised I could stand to be less preening and rude. Hi everyone. I'm nice now.