In times of tragedy, human beings come together.

Please help UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency deliver emergency supplies for those hit by the earthquakes in Türkiye and Syria: https://unh.cr/63e229e4e9

While following a lot of people can populate your Home feed significantly, sometimes people (like me) end up boosting a lot and that can unexpectedly hinder your own experience.

So if you like someone's specific posts and don't want to follow their boosts, you can go to their profile under the [...] button, and select the "Hide boosts from account" button.

There is no algorithm on Mastodon. You have ownership and control over every filtering decision instead of some robot.

#TwitterMigration

The latest Mastodon update lets you follow hashtags. When you follow, posts with a tag appear in your timeline automatically.

Try following #Gardening to make posts about gardening appear in your timeline.

This can be REALLY useful for discovering interesting accounts.

To follow a hashtag:
1. Log in through your server's website
2. Search for hashtag
3. Click it to see its results
4. Click on 👤+ icon in top right (click again to unfollow)

Posts from followed tags are visible in the apps too.

#TV #FILM

So, at T.O.P. (AKA "the old place") I did these Television Showrunner Rules, which I'm committed to turning into a book...in a moment.

In the meantime, I'll repost them here...in a thread.

There are a lot of them...like 259...so I'll do 5 a day until I get to the end.

I hope those who liked them before enjoy the rerun...and maybe some people will come to them new.

(And if you have questions, I'm happy to answer.)

So, without further ado, here they come: