Tobasco da Gama @tobascodagama@witches.town

as a friendly reminder, we love CWs! use them generously! they're fun for jokes... and they keep people safe. keeping people safe is awesome.

some things that CWs love to tag: words or images that contain politics, violence, religion, lewd stuff, weapons, food, mental and physical health, weight loss/body size talk, storms, drugs, bigory, and hilarious (or not hilarious) jokes.

there's no quiz later. it's just about doing what you can to minimize harm & be welcoming to everyone. 🏴 @ghost.

3yo: The ghostis.
Me: What about ghosts?
3yo: They're not here tonight.

So don't even worry about ghosts, rn, y'all. They're on vacation or whatever.

Devs and admins are people too! Let them hear your thoughts, but be kind!

I guess the thing that worries me here is that as consumers we're used to complaining to management as our only way of getting things fixed.

But mastodon is a community effort, built and administered by people who care, so just criticizing stuff in a huffy mood just makes you seem entitled and unwilling to help.

Seeing a couple popular twitter users join up here and say things like "Hopefully Mastodon is noticing these comments" and while they're helpful critiques, I wonder if they missed the memo that Mastodon is not a monolithic entity with a big switchboard.

finally, a website where I am free to express my truest, most authentic self
https://mastodon.social/media/jTpKi3pgzyNhVA5DHXE

first the Muppets take Manhattan

then they take Berlin

PSA for fellow Mastodon instance administrators:

I have found an account tenforward.social scraping accounts. The account is now suspended.

Account details:
Username - mastodonanalysis

E-mail - mastodonanalysis@gmail.com

Excerpt from my nginx access logs - http://sprunge.us/acBj

Current source IP:
2602:306:3085:4390:ac00:9159:4fe8:494b

I recommend keeping an eye on your nginx logs and new account creations for such behaviour.

cybre.space registrations are open for the weekend!

Remember to tip your instance admins. Moderating online communities is a full time job that not everyone can get right.

Most times, donations barely cover server costs.

And, if you see another instance's admin who does a great job, tip them, too.

3.5 people without homes vs 18.9 million vacant homes. One of these numbers is smaller than the other. #housing #latestagecapitalism

Some folks on birdsite are tagging our project account in tweets like "hey jack twitter should copy this thing mastodon does". The idea that this is merely about features is short-sighted. Twitter will never, ever, ever be your friend. They are the shareholders' friend, not yours. No feature will let you see what their engineers are working on, what's under the hood. No feature will fix their headquarters in the US following and enforcing US laws and customs worldwide.

*** AN IMPORTANT THREAD *** re: electrical safety, forwarded by yr friendly local electickle engiqueer

cw: text descriptions of electrical injuries (OP is uninjured)

https://twitter.com/PLT_cheater/status/928208138611953664