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OK, so this is the initiating stage in moving from mastodon.social to mastodon.ie as my home base.
Don't be surprised if you find you started following me with my .social address and I suddenly pop up as the .ie one. That will be due to witchcraft, run by the elephant mages who make the site work.
@gavreilly You're a national treasure Gavan, so never change. But the norm here is to hit the little content warning button for news and exciting political things and then label them 'News and politics' or the like.
Then people who want it see it, and people who don't, and are more likely to give out about them don't.
It's a bit of a change (apparently I should also put photos of food behind a clicky button too, I learned) but we can but give it a go.
@johnmoynes It's actually a clever little thingy. I quite like it. And I set the follow up bits on the thread to not show up, unless you click on the first one, so the thread is optional too.
I am trying to get used to the local customs.
Everyone else: #Mastodon is really complex and has a lot of questions around who can see your DMs and what instance should you join and how do you find people and why toot instead of tweet and how do we monetise it and...
Let's be honest. Those 250,000 new account-holders are likely some of the very heaviest tweeters in existance.
And once they're gone, the attention they used to give to Twitter isn't going to come back.
You can have accounts in more than one place. But you have a finite amount of attention.
We know you're famous, we know you're celebrities, and we know you're accustomed to being treated like the cream of the crop - but this is our network and we have an important rule of etiquette:
Please put your news under a Content Warning
If you're talking about Ukraine, use a cw "Ukraine". If it's about a school shooting, use "school shootings", or "school violence". If it's about us politics, use "US politics" or "US pol".
If you're talking about Twitter, please use "Twitter". I'm not kidding. Do you know how stressing it has been for us to deal with this whole thing? We're sick tired of hearing Twitter news. YOU ARE the twitter news. The last thing we need is to see someone boosting a distressing piece of info that isn't safely hidden under a title.
For you it may seem like it's a bureaucratic hassle, but for us it's our mental health where talking about.
There are people with PTSD in here. There are people with burnout. We value mental health and we value consent.
We don't like content being shoved down our throats.
If you want an analogy, consider your stuff Mordor News and we're hobbits from the Shire.
Just because you're big personalities doesn't give you the right to ignore our customs and do whatever the hell you want anyway.
Consider the fact that we left Twitter for a reason. It's not merely the platform, it's not merely Musk, it's not merely the corporation; it's Twitter's toxic culture that we ran away from.
This is our cozy home. We do not starve for content and we're not addicted to engagement in here. We do not like quote tweets, we do not like naked screenshots. We do not like noise.
This is NOT Twitter; Mastodon is a very different beast. This platform is already over 5 years old and its culture is entirely different from yours. We have cozy little instances where we find comfort, friends, and peace.
You arrived unannounced to our virtual piece of land, and we expect you to at least have the decency of learning our customs.
Thank you.
Mark Dennehy
Cyber Yuki