J. Nathan Matias @natematias@octodon.social

Having moderated a large online community for about a decade now, I'm finding the collective arguing about CW protocol and kindness vs. freedom interesting and familiar and tiring and valuable all in a mix.

Community self-identification is a weird process, and I think I am mostly glad that mastodon doesn't by its very structure require the answer to be monolithic and universal.

But I will tip my hand a little and say that erring on the side of kindness is pretty much always defensible.

A couple of PSAs that new users may find useful:

- Faving toots does nothing, your followers (and local timeline) will only see things you boost
- Following people from other instances ensures you can see their toots in the future and that they'll show up on your instance's federated timeline

There you go, a explicit list of topics requiring a CW in public timelines. https://octodon.social/about/more

Simple: put a CW on NSFW or violence in any way or you get silenced/banned.
Use more of them in an opportunistic way, for anything negative or depressing.

I subscribed to that mastodon admins mailing list ( https://mstdn.fr/users/taziden/updates/338 ), and I have released a tagged release of #Mastodon v1.1, so that people have something recent to pin their version to instead of pulling from master. (Also working on making master more stable through a PR-based process)

To make a statement on the current debate, I think a list of mandatory CW would be a good start on the instance level.
You can't enforce a rule if there's no explicit rule; you can't expect someone to CW everything you think deserve one without making it explicit.

So what would you want on that list?

If you report someone, please add context.Tweets and/or comments, the more the better.

If I can't find an obvious reason I'll just waste a minute reading someone shitpost and not take any action.

Now I'm desperately searching for a way to run multiple sidekiq instances from the same systemd unit (and no @..). I would really like to keep my very nice ansible stuff

Hey, server hosts/admins. I'm probably going to make a #patreon roundup post with a server list / similar to the list in this post http://kinkymal.se/2017/04/mastodon-new-twitter-101/

The aim is to help you pay for your servers and spread the love. 🎺 me your info (patreon + instance domain) please!

#fediverse #mastodon

(I'll accept non Mastodon servers too ofc <3)

Both Mastodon and Identi.ca started as decentralized systems, yet it feels like Mastodon is actually being used in a more decentralized way.

also helpful: any good write-ups you feel have done masto justice

"no, pls don't write that" also extremely valid

since i work in social media research (and i'm pretty well-connected to the tech and social media marketing worlds, by misfortune of my prior career), i'm thinking about writing a blog post to clear up some of the nonsense information being shared about mastodon in pop press this week. what should i be sure to include?

right now i'm thinking: federation/instances, admins and independence, privacy expectations, social norms, usernames/profiles, harassment/abuse, and content warnings/NSFWs.

Hi! Anna here. I am: a woman, trans, a scholar, and I have closed all the rings on my Apple Watch for three days in a row.

:bird: something is wrong and Twitter should do something to fix it

:elephant: something is wrong and oh I guess we need to work through this complex problem and come up with a solution as a community that works for us and if other people prefer something different they can do that too

Folks in academia in particular - please #standwithCEU, a Hungarian/American university in danger of being shut down by Hungary's right-wing government: https://www.ceu.edu/category/istandwithceu