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It just occurred to me why Mastodon works so well for social media in the public square.

It's nothing technical. It's moderation. And the incentives of the moderators.

Community moderators keep out the kinds of people that their communities don't want around.

Professional moderators keep out the kinds of people their employers (usually advertisers) don't want around.

That difference is ✨Enormous✨ !

So everyone go hug your instance moderators today. 🤗

Hi! I've been here for a while, but things really took off last few days Time for my #introduction.

I'm Ellen, 35 years, and i spend most of my available time either making NES displayable graphics, music & games, or the tools to make them in, or socializing in communities dedicated to the same things.

One game that's out is called Project Blue. It's a neat flick-screen platformer. Two more are actively in development.

#PixelArt #NES #NESdev #8bit #IndieDev #RetroGaming

Hi y'all! I'm gonna try to post one or two of my art pieces here once in a while. :)
Here's the cover for Celeste! 🍓

masto meta 

kinda sad to hear such resistance to the idea of using CWs liberally and considerately.

I hope our fedi communities continue to encourage ourselves to have a different culture from Big Corporate Social Media, where we actually act like communities of people who take care of each other as human beings, rather than resources to vomit your opinions at for fame.

The migration from Twitter to Mastodon is a blueprint for what I hope to see in regards to parallel institutions.

Namely, capitalist structures & billionaire overlords over-colonize so much that they cannibalize themselves & the things they own, compelling people to look for alternatives.

But alternatives like this were here, ready to catch people as they happens.

Same can be true for mutual aid systems, tool libraries, community distribution networks etc, as dominant systems further crumble.

Forgive the overdue #introduction, but howdy! I'm Dominic Armato, and two things are kind of my jam.

The first is that I've done #voiceover since I was a kid, and I'm the voice of Guybrush Threepwood in the #MonkeyIsland games.

The second is that I'm way more into #food and #restaurants than anybody probably should be, and I was the dining critic for The Arizona Republic for five years. (Woo #journalism)

I balied on FB, I want to bail on Twitter, and I'm hoping this is where I belong. TBD.

caps, sorry to tusky users 

OH GOD I BOOSTED THE MASTODON POST FROM THE REALLY FUCKED UP TIMESTAMP I'M SORRY IT WORKS FINE ON THE WEB VIEW LMAO

I like plant magic. Dryads and vegetable lambs and flower fairies and whatnot.
💚 🍀 💚
(this IS an invitation to point me to your art or stories of these themes if you have any)

fact: you can put ikea legs on anything you want and the cops can't stop you

I usually (loudly, annoyingly) loathe any Christmas decorations before December 1, but we had to communicate to the neighborhood that we didn’t leave Shelly the Skelly up by accident.

Here’s hoping our HOA has a sense of humor.

Hey! I've received a steady uptick the last day, probably following the migration.

Most of you probably know me from twitter, then, but in case not:

Hi, i'm Ellen. I design NES displayable graphics and games, and a tool to make them in.

These here are stage embryos for a particular game, codnamed "borscht" until inspiration strikes me with something better.

Ohh, if you're new, you might appreciate this:

You can trebuchet TERFs as much as you like here.

We even have custom emotes for it!

:trebuchet_trans: :trebuchet:

New to Mastodon? A few tricks: 

1) Do not eat any food offered to you. Should a single grape or morsel pass your lips, you may find the path behind you has vanished and around your throat, a collar of servitude, to be worked off over thousands of years in the Dream Mines.

2) Do not give your true name. A name has power. Only use your true name in a DM to me, the only one who can cast the wards required to protect you in this realm. Be sure to attach a lock of your hair, electronically.

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