Welcome to our new arrivals - we hope you will enjoy your stay.

Note that our rules and Code of Conduct apply to all our users. This means that some of you may need to get used to a slightly different culture than what you were used to on Twitter and other Mastodon instances which operate differently from us.

We would like to remind everyone of our CW (Content Warning/"Content Wrapper") requirements - here is part of the text from https://aus.social/about
___
ℹ️ Expected CWs and Hashtags

Everybody on Aus.Social must use Content Warnings (CWs) and hashtags for the following topics:

- Politics, including party politics, electoral politics, geopolitic, elections and general governmental drama: Please use a AusPol CW and/or #AusPol Hashtag. Same with #USPol/#UKPol/#GeoPol etc
- Adult Content including Nudes / Lewds / NSFW posts: Please use a CW (and any suitable hashtags)
- Advertising of products/brands (CW): Please use a CW (and any suitable hashtags)
- Depictions of violence and gore (CW): Please use a CW (and any suitable hashtags)

ℹ️ Admin Note: CWs are not expected on posts made by historically and/or socially marginalised people about their own lived-experiences, though people may choose to do so.
___

If you have questions, chat to us. We look forward to your contribution to aus.social culture.

- the aus.social mods

UPDATE: Mastodon.au has appointed a caretaker, so instead of shutting down it will be maintained, but registrations remain closed. More details to come:
https://mastodon.au/@help/109874284860001911

____
Mastodon.au has announced its shutdown in 3 months.

Aus.social is open for registrations. If you wish to migrate your account over here from mastodon.au or any other server, we recommend that you read our rules and Code of Conduct carefully, and ask your friends from our server about their experience, so that you can decide whether we are a good fit for you.

https://aus.social/about

Here is one of many guides that exist for migrating your Mastodon account: https://mstdn.social/@feditips/107939441820299376

More Australian servers on the Fediverse are listed at https://thefediverse.au

#FindAServer
#Migration

The sleuthing today about this story is very funny.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-02-06/baby-boomers-generation-x-millennials-housing-interest-rate-rise/101929468

Turns out it's the same Kerrie Boylett who's GM of the Merivale group of pubs, accused of stealing $126 million in wages from her staff.

ABC probably should have disclosed something about that in the article huh.

Ah, so now he wants you to produce free content for his dying, unstable platform, after threatening you, on a whim, to shut off your free access. I see.

https://techcrunch.com/2023/02/04/elon-musk-says-twitter-will-provide-a-free-write-only-api-to-bots-providing-good-content/

In response, I will be discontinuing all my projects that rely on Twitter's API, and I advise you all to do the same, rather than let him decide their fate.

#twitter #TwitterAPI #TwitterBots