Please consider the report button to mean "this person may need to be removed". When you press the button, mods have to stop making the dinner until they know what's happening and that nobody feels unsafe.

If someone needs guidance rather than removal, (CW, global vs unlisted, etc) maybe you can do it?

If you'd like to try, be friendly, be conversational, start by saying "Hello, how are you finding all this?" Let people know you have their back before making them self-conscious or defensive.

Coffee drinkers! Listen! Starbucks workers nationwide are starting a 3-day strike today (Friday 12/16) as part of their effort to unionize.

How can you help? Don't cross the picket line. Get your coffee elsewhere. (Preferably at independent coffee shops. Long live small biz).

And spread the word! Make this message viral. Let's hold billionaire corps accountable because worker's rights are human rights. Let's go.

#TwitterMigration

Mastodon is easy.

Search and follow hashtags you like.

Follow a bunch of people to fill your timeline (prune back later)

If you want people to follow you:
- interact (add hashtags to your toots to get interactions)
- add a profile picture
- add a pinned #introduction toot and hashtag the crap out of it with all your interests

Boost toots you like to spread them around the Fediverse

Add alt text to images

And above all...
Be excellent to each other !!!
😉 🤟🤟🤟

Tips & Tricks for New Members of the #Fediverse (mastodon)
#TwitterMigration

1. #hashtags are key. Search and follow hashtags to find your interests. Also, capitalizing the first letter of each word in the hashtag helps for screen readers.

2. Boost! Favourites are nice but there's no algorithm. If you like it boost it.

3. AltText matters. Please add AltText to all images for visually impaired members.

4. Interact! Follow, #hashtags , boost, comment. It's what makes this work!

Twitter was transformed into a vital tool the Black community used to amplify its collective voice to protest injustice, organize, commiserate, and spread its unique brand of tastemaking cool, humor and wit. In 2019, I wrote about how for Black people, quitting Twitter was never an easy cut-and-dry proposition as it is for those far more privileged. Revisiting this piece now is very bittersweet. #BlackMastodon #BlackTwitter

https://medium.com/free-thinkr/why-quitting-twitter-is-not-so-clear-cut-for-african-americans-and-other-marginalized-groups-b794d2746f1a

Starting today, over 1,000 Starbucks baristas are walking out on a THREE DAY STRIKE, making this the longest collective action of our campaign yet. #DoubleDownStrike

Strike locations map here:
https://sbworkersunited.org/strike-map?fbclid=PAAaZMjnB1_0CYV5e0KC3vBqWjUv9xNOuhGW_EyOsuavUgxY7jhimFbFhVrh0