You guys! The Minnesota Name a Snowplow contest is back for 2023. Name submissions are open for the next 10 days! 👀

You know what to do, Minnesnowta.

Submit your #MNDOT idea here ➡️

https://www.dot.state.mn.us/nameasnowplow/

Saying not to bother with the favourite button on mastodon because it doesn't affect any algorithm is like saying not to say thank you to someone because no one else will hear.

Stop thinking in those old social media ways of engagement and visibility and algorithms and reach and audience and start thinking about being social.

And BOOST! It's how you saw this, probably!

A favourite is a nice thanks, a boost lets everyone else discover the great thing you discovered too!

Here's your irregular reminder that:

Twitter was a multi-billion dollar company with thousands of employees.

Mastodon is a niche hobbyist product run by volunteers

The fact that we're being seen as a viable alternative to them is an admission that a federated, decentralized future is not only possible, but desirable.

Mastodon is not one thing, or one place. It's a network of many things and many places. We don't have a spokesperson (I mean, there's me. I'm the official spokesperson for 💯 of the fediverse, but beyond me there is no spokesperson) we don't have consensus on moderation or blocking or tools or what is good and what is bad. Some of us are professional SREs and Sysadmins, some of us aren't. Some of our instances have been around for 5+ years, some won't be here in six months.

And that's good! All of it, every last bit of it is good.

We're wrestling power away from the billionaire class, in real time, and reclaiming it for the People.

We've been here a week, but we didn't make an #introduction to the #podcast community.

We're a #horror anthology podcast that lives or dies by the #interactivestories motto. At the end of each of our new episodes, the listeners are presented with a choice to make that greatly impacts the story. We host that poll at https://witcheverpath.com/vote. After the poll closes, that's the script we record and deliver to the people. If you want to get started on the current storyline it's called Second Course