🦕 Kimbo 🍍🍕💛 @bykimbo@social.cleverlibre.org

Some strange potential information suppression happening on Musk’s twitter. Our viral piece about Voter Suppression and Photo ID on @BylineTimes now being marked as “potentially spammy” (is that a technical term?)

https://bylinetimes.com/2022/11/07/voter-id-its-far-worse-than-any-us-state/

And here's my #LEGO shed where I do all my builds.

I stumbled upon this Armstrong & Miller sketch from 2007. Framed as a TV email segment, but it's a *perfect* preemption of the social media that was to come 😆

https://youtu.be/KUCJJZHFgrg

I'm gonna keep posting this until one of you fucking boosts it

I've found this social media site called Twitter.

It's like Mastodon but you can pay $8 to pretend you're someone of significance, everyone hates each other and you're posts are monitored by a billionaire who wants to run the whole thing by himself but doesn't have a clue how to.

It's all rather entertaining.

@RDHale it’s certainly a more pleasant experience so far. I’m looking for history, science, geopolitical types to follow if anyone has any recommendations I’d be happy to follow the suggestions and indeed the “suggestee” - if that’s a word!

I thought it was important I share this picture of a #squirrel with a #donut in its mouth to the entire #Fediverse because when I posted it to #Twitter, it got one like. And I know #Mastodon will not allow such injustice.

Just a reminder about Mastodon.

Try not to directly upload videos here.
You have to remember that these videos have to be stored on the server that you're hosted on.

This would also eat up on available bandwidth, storage and memory resources of said servers and slow them down. Which would force server hosts to upgrade at a substantial cost.

Suggested idea...

Upload to YouTube, Vimeo or other video streaming services and share the link to the video here instead.

Does anyone have any evidence or guidance around structuring long descriptions of complex images (photos not charts) for #accessibility? I'm thinking about what to include and the order to put things in, including describing the focus and the background. #a11y

Of all the rural euphemisms for gaining weight, "putting on a bit of condition" is the best because it correctly assumes I'm aiming for the approval of farmers

Just FYI, with the number of followers I have, compared with the huge influx of new users, my feed is EXTREMELY busy.

I am trying very hard to answer every single one of you who message me to chat or ask questions, and please, keep it coming because I love hearing from everyone. But with how fast my feed moves sometimes a few messages slip past me without me seeing or responding.

Please everyone, if I dont respond to you please feel free to give me a gentle reminder and I will, it isnt intention, just hard to keep track of nearly 30K followers.

My name is Fernando Salvaterra, I'm a freelance map maker and illustrator from Brazil.

I'm enjoying Mastodon a lot but I am also still on Twitter. Essentially, I am now on both the heroin AND the methadone.

"If you want people to migrate to your site you need to do x"

We don't have targets, there's no end-of-year bonus.

We just want to make something lovely and gentle where people can spend time and be themselves and learn about each other. On a website where they're not tracked and graded and machine-learned about all the time. With no compromises to commerce.

Personal note, I'm just one mod, is that this should be an act of collective self-care. Christ knows we need it.

Love to all.