I hear new people noting how chill, tolerant, and pleasant Mastodon is.

Mastodon isn’t chill or tolerant or pleasant. It’s a tool… a foundation on which to create and maintain a culture.

It’s those who’ve been on Mastodon, run servers, and served as admins who did the hard work and created the culture you now enjoy.

Now, it’s your turn. The only way it stays tolerant and chill is by us doing the work to keep it that way.

A good example of, “Be the change you wish to see in the world.”

Reposting this here!

The genders.

I'll explain this quickly because I've been asked about it a couple of times today:

Mastodon has no ads. Its only source of funding is donations.

You could donate to the open source project itself – a fine thing to do. But at the moment, with the huge influx of new users, the funding is better off going to the instance you are using.

Each instance usually publishes a donate/patreon/crowdfunder/etc link. If you go to
[your instance url]/about
you should find information about it.

I counted chickens before they hatched.

I'd hear hens brooding, and a number would pop to mind. I was never wrong.

"Thirteen," I informed my friend.

My friend blinked, "But there's only twelve eggs!"

I sighed, accepting my abilities had left me.

A week later, my friend came running to my door.

"You weren't exactly wrong!"

In their cupped hands was a chick, more scales than fluff.

My first of what would eventually be many cockatrices.

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