DaveWhen I recognize somebody from Twitter who just joined Mastodon…
@Evakatrina
- 5 Followers
- 63 Following
- 48 Posts
News and stuff. @Evakatrina from Twitter since 2009.
Adam DallianceHere's a #feditip for those on smaller community instances and a reason why those are so much better:
If nobody on your community follows any hateful trolls then the posts from the hateful trolls won't make it to your server.
You can build your community in peace.
So remember when you follow someone that you're asking the federation to bring their onto your server.
Do you want them in your community? Are they compassionate to others?
If nobody follows them then your server won't pick up any of their hateful trolling.
Follow kind and compassionate people liberally! Help the federation get their voice into your community's server. You can use lists if it gets too loud for you.
But be weary of bringing in hate or anger to your crew.
Guillem LeonI have encountered more image descriptions on Mastodon in 24 hours than I have in Twitter in a couple of years. Seriously. I'm not exaggerating.
As a blind person, this means a lot to me. If you read this and you describe your images, thank you so, so, so much on behalf of all of us. If you don't, now you know you'll be helping random Internet strangers make sense of your posts by typing in a few more words than usual.
As a blind person, this means a lot to me. If you read this and you describe your images, thank you so, so, so much on behalf of all of us. If you don't, now you know you'll be helping random Internet strangers make sense of your posts by typing in a few more words than usual.
It's cold and dark and miserable where I am now, so instead here's a giraffe I met four years ago in Kenya. Giraffes are good guys.
Caffe NekoDear Twitter ex-pats. When we all flounced out of Twitter loudly proclaiming we were going to Mastodon this sent a message to trolls, nazis that they could set up servers & come here.
If anyone gets harrassed with hatespeech pls note that that is not the culture of Mastodon. Please report & block those users. If you notice a pattern from the same weird domain, block that domain, write a post of the server name w/ a hashtag fediblock so your server admin can follow up & block it for everyone.
#Coffee appreciation:
1. Iced coffee that saved my life, Souq Waqif, Doha, Qatar
2. Pera Palace, Istanbul, Türkiye
3. Al Jazeera Media Café, Doha
4. Mari Vanna, Baku, Azerbaijan
These coffees were all good guys. I was fortunate to have known them. 10/10.
Apologies if this comes off as a flex. I don't have much stuff but I travel alone to interesting places when I can.
Remembrance Day in Canada.
My grandfather was in WWI, a sapper in the trenches. He got gassed and swore it gave his descendants allergies.
He kept a diary and wrote things like "Very lively today" if there was a lot of shooting and death around him.
He didn't want to talk about it after. Felt like cannon fodder.
He was a good man. For me, that's what this day is about; to respect those who went through what no person should have to endure, and often got little reward.
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