YouTube is putting out a whole new set of rules for videos. The new rules have to do with making YouTube kid-friendly. If you have a channel, do watch this. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-JzXiSkoFKw

Started an alternate invite-only instance for people who want to disconnect from the town hall fediverse. If you're longing for the days when we had conversations to unwind from "real life", hit me up in DM.

If you promise to not bring in politics, causes, agendas, hate speech, homophobia, transphobia, mysogyny, talking down to others, casteism or racism, I promise I won't kick you out 🙃

Treat it like you are at a private gathering and the host has very low tolerance for any of the above. Cool?

New to the fediverse?

- Get a mobile app if you prefer. Tusky on Android and Toot on iOS seem good.
- The instances are run and moderated by people who most likely have other jobs, entitlement won't get you far.
- Each instance has its rules, make sure you read and abide by them, unlike  the suspensions here are often quick.
- Mastodon is just one of the server implementations of ActivityPub, the protocol that lets many servers talk to each other to federate the posts.

A nice primer for folks wondering how federation works, from the point-of-view of someone running a single-user instance.

https://blog.soykaf.com/post/how-federation-works/

Now that I'm legally a human, I want to file an affidavit declaring myself an atheist.

Hello, Mastodon! I am Vitasta, a podcaster and writer, and I am here to see what the hype is about! Love the idea of starting fresh and creating a new community here. Birdsite has become a bit boring and tedious now. Gimme a follow/shout if and I would love to interact! #introduction