When I get to 100,000 followers on Mastodon I will officially bring Mastodons back from extinction.

Boost and favorite this post to help make this happen ASAP.

Today is Thanksgiving Day, and it is also the National Day of Mourning, which remembers the genocide of millions of Native Americans and their ongoing erasure today.

In giving thanks today, let us also reflect and act to stop the ongoing genocide of America's Indigenous Peoples.

Billionaires stand in the way of everything we need. Housing. A livable planet. Food and water. And now they're scapegoating everyone they can because they don't want us to realize this, and they hope we view vulnerable people as our enemies instead.

no matter how much you think you’re thriving, they’re thriving more, taking from you to do it, and pointing a finger at your neighbors when you dare complain

In 1959, police were called to a segregated library when a Black 9-year-old boy trying to check out books refused to leave, after being told the library was not for Black people.

The boy, Ronald McNair, went on to became an astronaut. The library is also now named after him

Scam Alert!

If you receive an email or response on Mastodon like the following, DO NOT click the link. It is a scam fishing for login details at the very least.

"Mastodon has detected botting malware on your PC that is congesting the Mastodon network. All affected accounts will be suspended within 24 hours unless removed. _https://REDACTEDLINK"

Hi all. Reaching out to see if anyone on the South Shore of #Massachusetts or in the #Boston area could boost this...

My coworker and friend, Mike King, has gone missing. He and I are on together every night on WBZ; him doing traffic, me doing news.
He has been missing since yesterday. He never showed up for work. We are all extremely worried about him.

If you are in #Weymouth, #Braintree, #Hingham, anywhere nearby. please keep an eye out. Thank you.

"The more we sweat in peace, the less we bleed in war."

Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit
#Quotes #EmotionalIntelligence #War #Peace

Remember everyone -

Although you may have had larger "follower" counts on the birdsite, not all of those followers will be active. In fact, a huge number won't be. They'll have just collected like dead wood over the years.

That birdsite follower count has a vanity factor to it. Ignore that - and look at your level of interactions here. That's the test of active followers and a vibrant community.

And then make sure you're chatting away with others too. It makes all the difference.

Hey all, with the continued influx of Twitter people, I'm once again seeing a drop in the number of people who add alt text/image descriptions to what they post, denying access to many disabled users here.

Exactly how you do this varies by Mastodon client app, but it is usually just below the image once you upload & before posting.

Even a short-but-useful description is better than nothing—focus on what you're trying to get others to get from the image rather than describing every detail.