Miguel Guhlin 🦉 🇵🇦 🇺🇲 @mguhlin@social.cleverlibre.org

If you’re new to Mastodon, you may at some point find that you’re being pressured to put your posts behind a content warning (CW). Although CWs make sense for things like images of violence or nudity, some people are bullying others to put CWs on discussions of politics, racism, etc.
Please know that you should not feel pressured to obey these individuals. They do not speak for all. If someone does not want to be exposed to these topics, Mastodon gives them all the tools they need to avoid them, such as keyword filters and the ability to block or mute people who are posting things they don’t like.

According to https://fediverse.observer/stats we are currently at ~6.4M-7M users.

So, if Matt Mulenwig does actually get his engineers to add #ActivityPub support to #Tumblr, the whole #FediVerse and #Mastodon could be in for a massive culture shock.... The best stats I can find (https://financesonline.com/number-of-tumblr-blogs/) Suggest there were 29.4M users of Tumblr in 2020 with ~%8 annual growth rate, or nearly 35M users in 2022.

That would make the Fediverse jump to ~42M users.

GULP.

We need writers! And we need them to.. (can you guess?) write articles! The North West is a large area where a lot happens, we need people to write about that and let us publish their articles.
Just put pen to paper, let the words flow. Our editors can do the rest.

“For whoever habitually suppresses the truth in the interests of tact will produce a deformity from the womb of his thought.”
― Basil Henry Liddell Hart, Strategy #LessonsInStrategy

A guide to some common #ContentWarnings (CWs), including abbreviations...

Please don't use "NSFW" to describe sexually explicit content—be specific! #mastotip

- alc: alcohol
- body horror: gross body stuff
- ed: eating disorder
- ec: eye contact (for images)
- food: self explanatory
- genitals, nudity: self explanatory
- lewd: sexual/lewd content
- mh: mental health
- ph: physical health
- uspol, canpoli, etc.: US, Canadian, etc. politics
- (+/-/~): the post is positive/negative/so-so

@auschwitzmuseum Mostly, your toots don’t need to be behind a content warning. People still have the mute option available if they wants to opt out for a while. #contentwarnings

There is no actual CW police on #Mastodon. You can do what you want. But, don’t be surprised if people mute/block/don’t boost you. #ContentWarnings

The first black child ever allowed to attend a white school is only 68 years old now.
White parents pulled their children from school. White teachers refused to teach her.
Ruby Bridges now works as an activist & public speaker
This wasn’t a million years ago. /1

Today's #APOD #picture is NOT from #JWST, but from the #Hubble #space #telescope (#HST / #NASA / #ESA). This #photography of the planetary #nebula NGC6302 looks like a #butterfly. This is actually why it is called the Butterfly nebula. Although it looks like the young protostar L1527 recently observed by #JWST, NGC6302 is dead #star. The central white dwarf is actually one of the hottest known: 200,000 K !

read more: https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap221121.html

Credit: NASA, ESA, Hubble
Processing: William Ostling

High school #teachers: the XQInstitute has a newsletter that comes out twice a month. It’s full of great tips to #rethinkhighschool with examples like this one on #placebasedlearning Enjoy and subscribe! #edutoot #edutooters #edutooter #education #highschool https://xqsuperschool.org/rethinktogether/beyond-field-trips-bringing-place-based-learning-to-the-classroom/?utm_campaign=Give%20Me%20Five%20Newsletter&utm_medium=email&_hsmi=234651707&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-_bWeyvzaleTilG7Xn3oSUSvWJf0IjHxchBw9TXWZLv0__28zad4lv2R7dmsSF_sTNb83CIutDoD0pKS99Vid5r_72KUA&utm_content=234412476&utm_source=hs_email

This cat is a photogenic cat

#Cats #CatsOfMastodon

@maxplanckgesellschaft
✅ All links on Mastodon count as 23 characters, no matter how long they really are

URLs can be as long as you want, they will never exceed 23 characters of your limit.

There is no need to use a link shortener!

#FediTips #MastoTips #LinkShortener #LinkShorteners #URLShortener #URLShorteners #CharacterLimits #Mastodon