Light Pollution Is Dimming Our View of the Sky, and It's Getting Worse. By Phil Plait - Scientific American https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/light-pollution-is-dimming-our-view-of-the-sky-and-its-getting-worse/
«Citizen scientists and researchers found that we are losing our view of the sky at an astonishing rate of almost 10 percent each year».
Friends, the mastodon community is fascinating and growing quickly. If you can, support your local admin to keep it going.
The instance I use, for example, is mastodon.social and donor support goes here: https://www.patreon.com/mastodon
Think of it as pledge week for NPR.
It’s also easy to account spoof: I’m @PeteStrzok, but that doesn’t prevent someone from creating (on existing or new severs they make) @[email protected], @[email protected], etc.
Make sure you verify the account you’re following is in fact the person you think it is. An old article (would welcome an updated version):
https://www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/2017/04/mastodon-risks/amp
None of this is meant to disparage Mastodon - just noting things to keep in mind.