Joshua Casey 😷 @JoshuaACasey@social.cleverlibre.org

I gotta admit, this one stings!

Privacy is not a privilege.

That sense of exhilaration when you see a Twitter friend join Mastodon and you're like HI OMG, MAYBE IT'S HAPPENING

So Elon Musk’s birdsite officially has the most restrictive speech policies that the bird site has ever had in its entire history https://www.mediaite.com/tech/twitter-blocks-mediaite-post-critical-of-elon-musk/

Some things I learned about #accessibility and Mastodon this week.

• Lower case hashtags like #this are fine when the hashtag is one word.

• Mastodon encourages use of the superbly named #CamelCase for hashtags of two words or more. Named because of its capital letter humps! 🐫

• This helps screen readers announce the words correctly. Screen readers are used by blind and visually impaired people, and those who find it easier having information read out.

• Remember alt text for images too!

If you're looking for an awesome alternative for #Instagram be sure to checkout #Pixelfed!

This is like Mastodon, also self-hosted and does 'federate' with the #Fediverse.

You can join our on https://pixey.org or https://catgram.co

and follow from Mastodon on @stux@pixey.org and @George & @Washy

If you want to setup your own checkout https://pixelfed.org

I was hoping to release the new https://pixelfed.org a few days ago

The problem was the new server directory, it's really complex!

I wanted to make this super simple for server admins to submit & update their listings which meant I had to build a submission queue that is integrated into the Pixelfed admin dashboard and also caches (avatar, header, post) images on S3 on our side.

Anyways, it's almost ready and I can't wait 😁

If you enjoy #mastodon you should know you can do the same with your chats. You don't need Google or Facebook.
Check @matrix for the details on federated chat!

Over on the birdsite — do i have this lingo right? 😏 — a sex worker friend brings up a good question: what are the most SW friendly Mastodon instances? Anyone know?

Decentralisation means you stay connected.

OK since people are nice & 🍑 is apparently welcome, here’s an intro: Hi! I’m a platform governance researcher specialising on censorship of nudity, shadowbanning, flagging & online abuse. Here you’ll find me talking about this from an academic perspective & as a #poledance instructor and censored content creator with 7+ yrs’ experience in social media strategy + PR. Read my paper, 1 of the 1st studies on shadowbanning, here: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14680777.2021.1928259

Having been here since 2016, I can tell you there is definitely no such thing as a consensus on usage of content warnings on the fediverse. It's a decentralized network that doesn't belong to any one party, so by definition there is no single culture on it. Different corners have different expectations and customs.

Tiny Mastodon newbie tip 🐘:

If there are some topics you would rather not see in your timelines anymore, for example a certain Birdsite, you can use Filters! ​

HOW TO ❓

1. On desktop, go to Preferences > Filters.

2. Click the “Add new filter" button on the upper right.

3. Then you can add things like “twitter.com/” or “Twitter” or “Birdsite” or something else or all of the above!

4. You can even set an expiration date if you think you'll want to hear about it again later on.

5. You will see these posts hidden as for Content Warnings and you will be able to click on “Show More” to see them OR you can enable “Drop instead of hide” or “Hide completely” in the options to not see anything at all in your timelines.

6. Enjoy! 😌

Really interesting to read about the history of switter.ai, a sex work-friendly Mastodon instance that closed in March of this year.

See here:
https://switter.at/about

At time of closure, Switter was the 3rd biggest Mastodon instance in the fediverse with 435,490 users.

#sexwork #mastodon #FarewellSwitter