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@ruth
I'm still waiting for Halloween.Town so we can stop Kalabar from taking over

@ruth And if you really don't like the letter 'e', there's oulipo.social :D

"HAPPY TRANS AWARENESS WEEK," I yell over the fireworks I'm lighting in the shopping mall food court. The police sirens outside are drowned out as an errant Roman candle smashes into the Panda Express. I refuse to stop until everyone is aware of me

this is something that happens when we have huge influxes like this, because we want new users to feel comfortable and have all the information about how to use the site

there's normally more interesting content! it's just getting swallowed up in the intros/how-to's because of the sheer number of people joining right now

stick around and/or come back in a few days and the timelines will look very different, i promise

replace all instances of the word 'post' in your life with 'toot'. for example. tootpunk. tootmodern. lamptoot. washington toot. first past the toot. la toote. deutsche toot. united states tootal service.

@ruth I feel uniquely blessed that I literally just had to break down Twitter for like three different people over the past few months so the transition is intimately familiar

*waves madly at all the new folks*

🍍 🍍 🍍 🍍 🍍 🍍 🍍 🍍

(yes, the whole federated thing gets less confusing)

New users! Be encouraged not to think of these as "trigger warnings" -- although they can serve that function -- the more general point is to give the person reading their TL power over what pops up in it. People also frequently tag politics, the news, low-level lewdness....etc. So I urge you to think of it as metadata and feel free to use it for whatever you like.

MASTODON BEGINNER USER GUIDE:

write things and toot them

Please direct your friends to joinmastodon.org or another instance of your choice like octodon.social, toot.cat or toot.cafe, etc. mastodon.social is "default" choice for a lot of people and it's getting kinda hammered right now.

Hey fediverse got any good examples of early and gorgeous computer graphic interface designs?

Tired: social media dogpiling

Wired: social media snuggle piling

The way he hugs the pillow ❤ https://witches.town/media/trggVQPsIyl3hBNYZ7g

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