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Another quick newbie tip for Mastodon: there's a "Lock account" setting in the "Edit profile" tab. When a user sets it, their @-mention name will have a 🔒 symbol next to it on their profile and can/have to approve each follow request manually.

A big part of that: Mastodon lets you followers-lock posts, and we want to be careful about who we give permission to see them. Naturally, this means a lot of us would rather know who you are before we approve your follow request. Check their bio and pinned toots before you click the 👤➕ - we'd appreciate it.

(And if you want to be careful about who you let follow you, that's where you do it and that's what it means.)

(reposting from my old account)

okay so, in my early days on mastodon, I didn't understand why people were expected to put content warnings on politics

to me, it seemed like another example of a community trying to stay together while excusing people for views that completely exclude the members the community's most marginalized members, and an attempt to silence those members.

as I stayed on mastodon however, I realized that this, just wasnt the case

1/3

along with the exhortations to new folks to use content warnings, I would like to exhort masto veterans to be patient with new users, and to *please* include explanations of common abbreviations so the new folks can get a handle on them. examples:
pol = politics
uspol = US politics
mh = mental health
tf = transformation
+/- signs = positive or negative modifiers, so "uspol +" would refer to a story about US politics that is actually good (for a change).

feel free to reply to this with other common-ish examples if you can think of them!

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Hello, my name is Lukas and I am a brown bear. I am extremely awkward and I try to do art, but I am not as good as I'd like to be.

Hey! If the tweetdeck-style multiple columns thing is too much for you, try Pinafore! It's a twitter-feed like platform if you'd prefer Mastodon in that style

https://pinafore.social/

#introductions hi it's me.. idk what name i'm gonna stick with on here bc i don't like my old one but anyways. i use they/them & i'm big into (furry 😬 ) art and the circus aesthetic (not sure if aesthetic posts are as big on here as they are on tumblr). hoping to also find information about repair/tinkering/activism/self-sufficient farming/etc. & i'm really into computers and coding too but not to good at it lol. sorry for the long post but i hope i can enjoy my time here 🌞

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It seems we're doing an awoo this evening! That takes us back.

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Reminder to self: gotta follow lots of folks.
This ain't twitter--people don't flood your TL like they do there, so follows are cheap and good!

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I don't seem to have much to say today, so in place of anything insightful or witty, let me just say...

Hi, I'm trans and gay and become even more gay with every passing day. Hurray!

Also if there is actually an unflux of new folks today, hullo to y'all