Courtney Stanton @courtney@witches.town

Oh, and another thing for Masto newbies: the anime avatars are mostly artists and geeks and bohemians and LGBTQ folks and generally cool people rather than Nazis.

I know, it can be a bit of a culture shock

:bird: something is wrong and Twitter should do something to fix it

:elephant: something is wrong and oh I guess we need to work through this complex problem and come up with a solution as a community that works for us and if other people prefer something different they can do that too

I just sent out my newsletter. You can read it here:

http://us3.campaign-archive2.com/?u=5d9efd2852e2783a13b40ba1c&id=a57671caf2

I talk a little more about Mastodon and how I'm feeling about it.

Did someone call a tootcat?

https://toot.cat/media/ADVoibFxT47pEC6WVkk

Current Mastodon stats!

96,736 users across 207 instances (198 are UP)

Top 15 instances by # of users:
mastodon.social (41,703)
mastodon.cloud (6,996)
social.tchncs.de (6,057)
mastodon.xyz (5,627)
social.targaryen.house (4,211)
octodon.social (4,049)
social.lou.lt (3,110)
memetastic.space (2,003)
mastodon.cx (1,886)
hostux.social (1,611)
mastodon.network (1,577)
mastodon.technology (1,245)
masto.themimitoof.fr (1,055)
mstdn.io (973)
mastodon.gougere.fr (952)

via https://instances.mastodon.xyz

@Puck I don't think engaging with random jerks on the internet generally has good effects as far as standing up for others though. for me, it just puts more depressing content on my feed.

I think it's more important to build inclusive, welcoming spaces, and then to make sure people within those spaces are treating each other well.

Beautiful Cherry River, West Virginia

hey fellow witches if you didn't know (i didn't) @Alda is our instance admin and you can support them here https://liberapay.com/Alda/

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awoo
jinx
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by our powers combined

Friendly reminder that even if you trust your admin, direct messages can be read by them. Private communications should be done via tools designed for this.

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Friendly reminder : même si vous faites confiance a votre admin, il peut lire vos messages privés (DM). Les communications privées devraient se faire grace a des outils pensés pour ça.

Thank you @Tyrron for the great idea.

To relieve pressure from Support on various instances, use #NeedHelp and everyone that has the capabilities to can help.

In the process of getting help only tag support when the questions doesn't seem to find a solution.

Thank you in advance.

INTRO TO FEDERATION:

1. "mastodon" is a piece of software that runs on a server. There's a lot of servers that run it & u can follow ppl on other servers.

2. When u follow someone from another server, your server receives their toots.

3. The federated TL is all public toots that the server receives, ie all of the toots from everyone that ppl on your server follow.

4. ERGO: if u want to see more toots in the fed TL, follow + get other ppl on your server to follow ppl from other servers!

About risk profile:

- Mastodon is like email because you can't delete federated toots
- Mastodon is like twitter in that Google's search bots index it, unless your admins robot.txt it away
- Mastodon is like being a teenager because the people that own your instance can see all your private stuff

Have a talk with your admin about their policies.

By default, assume everyone will be able to read your toots forever.

Hello witches ! Here's my motivational witch for your afternoon <3 https://witches.town/media/85qI3oOJnimJBl5b7gw

HONEY DUCK
YOU ARE MY WINNING DEVOTION. MY PRECIOUS DEVOTION TENDERLY CLINGS TO YOUR LOVEABLE ENTHUSIASM. YOU ARE MY PASSIONATE FERVOUR, MY AMOROUS HUNGER, MY CURIOUS LOVE.
YOURS WISTFULLY,
M.U.C.

technical note about this tech as I see some confusion/misconceptions:

Admins of your instance have complete control over your account. Really, we can read all the posts (including DMs) and we can even impersonate/hack your account with ease.

Make sure you trust your admins.

Here on toot.cat we have a CoC that applies to both admins and non admins. Admins are expected to abide by the CoC and not oppress users as well.

Message to all the non-anglophones:

Please toot in your language as public as you want. Let's share culture. I want to read all your toots.

I want to read EVEEERYTHIIIING.

French users: bonjour