Nordstahl @Nordstahl@social.cleverlibre.org

If you're asking people to boost your post "so people can find you"...
That's not gonna work well because of how M is set up:
if your post is just part of the firehose, very limited people will see it and there's no search for unhashtagged stuff.

Consider using hashtags instead and trying to find your mutuals via a tool like the ones mentioned in the article below:

https://www.wired.com/story/how-to-find-twitter-friends-on-mastodon/

Here we go. #Introduction (#intro) time!

I’m Michelle (she/they). Among many other things, I’m a gamer! In general, I love RPGs and simulation games, but I like to dabble in a little bit of everything.

Favorites, in no particular order:
#DragonAge
#MassEffect
#TheSims
#ForzaHorizon
#StarTrekOnline

I was also a #Twitch #streamer once upon a time. If I ever do it again, the link is in my profile.

Thanks again to @britt for the invite! Looking forward to meeting y’all.

Bonus #StarTrek pic!

Also, a friendly reminder to try to add ALT text to the images you post on Mastodon. I've also seen it referred to here as "captions."

The goal is to describe the image as completely as possible. If you're simply posting a screenshot of a block of text, that's very easy. Just copy and paste all the text into the "caption" or "ALT text" field.

That's a big help to folks who are blind or visually impaired, but it gets used in lots of other good ways too. It's easy once you get used to it.

If Musk "steps down" as Twitter CEO, per his latest bogus "poll", some things to remember:

1) He'll still be the owner, and the owner makes the rules the CEO carries out.

2) He lies incessantly. Nothing he says can be trusted, ever.

3) Big Journalism will breathlessly cover the charade as if it meant something, and will continue to support a man who loathes honest reporting and has contempt for genuine freedom of expression.

Tonight I saw an article that said Twitter accounts are being suspended if they include social media user names for other platforms. I guess my account will get suspended. Whatever. Suspend everyone. Great idea.

#SuperAnnoyed
#Twitter
#TwitterMigration
#WritersOfMastodon
#WritingCommunity

@atomicpoet True. Let's not forget about the other billionaire weirdo who controls access to information.

I'm personally hoping for a breakdance fight.

Holy hell, Elon has made himself theTwitter authoritarian despot. The new rule his royal highness just issued:

TWITTER WILL NOW BAN LINKS TO OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORMS, AND SUSPEND ACCOUNTS THAT TRY TO DIRECT TWITTER USERS TO ALTERNATE PLATFORMS.

You can't even include a link to an article on another social media platform.

Links to content on Facebook, Instagram, Mastodon and Post are prohibited. The rule includes Truth Social, too.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.cnn.com/cnn/2022/12/18/tech/twitter-ban-social-media-links/index.html

Server load is high folks, the fediverse if really busy. Seems queues are being slow to clear. Thrown as much at it as I can, but most seems to come from external pressures as far as I can tell (that being the distribution and receipt of outgoing posts to all servers, and receipt of those coming in)

Sorry for the lag

More art. #Art #illustration #mastoart #fantasy #photoshop #animals

@janie I added this filter 1 day after I joined masto 😂
(I wasn't sure if capitalization mattered so I did both just to be safe)

The grand design spiral galaxy M100 (also known as NGC 4321) features bright blue star clusters and intricate winding dust lanes. #space #astronomy

@bcreality @50sFarmGirl Oh yeah, apparently being constantly ill is the 'normal' everyone was looking forward to returning to.

Happy #silentsunday. Today I went for a walk in the rainy #pnw and enjoyed the tiny, quiet things.
I don’t have a good ID on this little one. Seen today out on a Nature Trail in #olympiawa. #insects #entomology #bugs #nature #naturephotography #macro

Women skiing in Chamonix, France. Photographed in 1900.

Looks like lots of new people!
HELLO!!!! 👋👋
Come in, make your self at home.
Follow people, boost stuff you like... but mainly have fun.
💜
Ps. This is not Twitter. Embrace the change.

"If you hate watching a billionaire destroy the place you live online, wait till you hear what they’re up to with planet earth."
- Meghna Jayanth

I exude self confidence also I’m not sure what exude means.

I left Twitter partly because I had no intention of sending a right wing billionaire $8 a month for the privilege of doing something I'd done for seven years for free. I just sent Universeodon.com $20. It turns out I don't mind helping pay for something I value.

Whilst there seems to be new policy that even affects direct messages I want to remind everyone of Wire. It’s not social media but it is secure private messaging. As many new platforms don’t have the DM/ chat rooms we needed somewhere secure away from the prying paranoid peepers of the Twitter pettifogger.

“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”

Oscar Wilde
#Quotes #EmotionalIntelligence