Anila reminder: just as you don’t have to amplify facsists or give them your time, energy and attention on Twitter, you sure as fuck don’t have to bring it over here.
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PwnallthethingsAlso a reminder that crossposting back to bird site makes it easier for people to stay there and hides how folks are leaving.
Whether you continue to do that is up to you, of course, and will be dependent on how much your circles of friends have already jumped ship.
But if lots already have, consider not doing that to encourage friends to leave the main character battle arena site and join better alternatives.
jamKeeping my tradition of painting octopuses on the bottoms of tables in hotel rooms alive 😀
Dov"to his dying day, he bore the heavy accent of an immigrant from Twitter, constitutionally unable to refer to the act of posting as 'tooting.'"
-My obit
Jeff JarvisI am immensely grateful to @Gargron for creating Mastodon, for his careful stewardship and leadership, and for keeping this server going. The least I could do is contribute to the Mastodon Patreon as a member. You can/should, too: https://www.patreon.com/mastodon
Sherrilyn IfillNEW posting on my newsletter “Is This America?” As Twitter enters its death spiral, I wanted to bring our attention back to why the sale of the platform to Musk never should have happened. https://sherrilyn.substack.com/p/on-twitters-end?utm_campaign=post
TamDid you know that if you capitalize each word in a multi-word hashtag, #ScreenReaders can read them as words, but if you leave them lowercase, they can't? Well, now you know! So, for #accessibility, please capitalize words when there's more than one in a hashtag.
zhiviIf you need it and want to join, here is the BlackTwitter instance https://blacktwitter.io/about
#BlackMastodon
#BlackTwitter
#BlackFediverse
#BlackFedi
#BlackAcademics
#BlackDiaspora
#BIPoc
#black
#diversity
#DiversityEquityInclusion
Jenni Said ThatSure, they can be used to prevent people from having accidental PTSD attacks due to your content, and that's important.
They can ALSO be used to keep timelines clean and non-fussy and to give choice back to the end user as to what to read.
Think of them more like a break in a blog post that serves to keep the front page readable.
It's a simple thing to do to keep the community valuable for EVERYONE.