The midterms are only a few days away. As you discuss the choices with your friends & family, you can use this series of articles from #DemCast to make sure they know how much the Biden – Harris administration has accomplished so far.

demcastusa.com/2022/11/05/wha… via @DemCastUSA

So it seems that trolls of the Trumpist frozen peach variety, mostly those who set up their own Pleroma instances when Parler got taken down, are undertaking a semi-coordinated effort to target journalists who sign up on Mastodon for a couple of reasons...

* Trump has taught them that professional journalism and critical thinking are elitist and bad so lets harass them until they go away

* they are trying to prove some sort of point that this place can be just as toxic as their beloved Frozen Peach in Chief's microblogging site

If you are a journo and you get dogpiled by trolls DO NOT ENGAGE with them at all! Immediately:

1. REPORT them to your instance mods, THEN
2. Block them

Step 1 is very important! This isn't twitter or facebook...mods will take swift action, and if they don't you can migrate instances to better moderated ones...

I'm just thinking back on the Sunlight Foundation's campaign to let Congress tweet. lol.

https://sunlightfoundation.com/2008/07/10/let-our-congress-tweet/