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Have you been on Mastodon for a few weeks and still have zero followers? Or two followers, three, four? Left alone in the dark after everyone saying “Join Mastodon it’s great here.”
Well reply here and I will follow you back. And please people, follow them. I’m struggling with follow backs for sure. But you can see I’m getting there steadily.
Reply here. Boost them. #followback
Things just seem so crazy today.
I mean, can you imagine say in the 1930s if the richest automobile executive in America was also a media owner who used his platform to encourage anti-Semitism and allied himself with a foreign dictator waging a territory-expansion war in Europe?

With each new surge of Mastodon users, I feel the need to point out:

1. Welcome!

2. There is a learning curve here, but most people find it short and not very steep. Play around, explore. You'll get it.

3. Lots of people are willing to help.

4. Yes, it's different than Twitter. Sometimes in good ways, sometimes not. But you'll figure it out.

5. With surges especially, things sometimes get slow/glitchy, but they usually get fixed pretty quick.

Be patient.

#twittermigration
#ElonHypocrite
#GOPIsDone
#TwitterUnderMusk
Just joined after the recent banning of the accounts of journalists …
So much for Elon’s desire for free speech 🙄
Twitter has become ( again), a cesspool of right wing, fascist misinformation,
divisiveness, and hate.
If you agree, follow me, I’ll follow back 👊✌️

Many of the journalists Elon suspended today on Twitter are here on #Mastodon. Please follow and boost:

Drew Harwell, Washington Post
@drewharwell

Donie O’Sullivan, CNN
@donieosullivan

Steve Herman, VOA
@w7voa

Micah Lee, Intercept
@micahflee

Tony Webster
@tony

Matt Binder, Mashable
@MattBinder

#freepress #journalism #journalists #news