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The Fediverse has a great collection of techies creating the protocols and infrastructure. What we're missing is the folks helping regular people use it.
Hopefully folks like Hannah will start creating that layer. Not just through advocacy, but by hiring staff dedicated to helping people use it.
Everyone I know IRL is "vote blue". None of them thinks doing only that is enough.
Elections are all about mass numbers of people. Crapping on "vote blue" without emphasizing that yes, you still need to do that, while you are also doing more - too many people follow that into apathy. It's a bad strategy for fighting fascism.
Excellent! Do you know how many people there are spouting off against "Vote Blue", didn't vote for Kamala Harris over Trump because "purity", and are still defending that decision? And your slamming "Vote Blue" reinforces their self-sabotaging ideas.
I agree primaries are the strongest place to get better Dems. Plus people need to keep after their elected officials during their terms. ...
@metalpoetnl @juergen_hubert @pluralistic
Fuck it, muted.
@metalpoetnl @juergen_hubert @pluralistic
Again, I am not taking about Trump's first administration.
Delay matters. People should vote blue every November. Do you dispute that?
@metalpoetnl @juergen_hubert @pluralistic
2021-2024 was not Trump's first term.
Love Europeans, but so many of them know nothing about American politics, or about how to survive with a massive population that is content with racist fascism.
#VoteBlue is what you do in November, when the choice might be down to some stale corporate Democrat versus some Republican fascist.
> Because it won't do much if those elected Democrats are not afraid of the wrath of the voters each and every time they give in to Trump and the other oligarchs.
This is utterly wrong. 2021-2024 we didn't have this shit, and a bunch of corp Dems being in control is why. That made a fucking difference.
@zombie042 @KerryMitchell @rufustheduck
I'll have to try it out if/when I switch.
And I hope most admins keep it on for the public. I can understand the security risks for those servers that aim for a bit more privacy, but for the people who say "you gotta pick a small server", I want to to at least take a peek at what the traffic there looks like before I put my account there.
@KerryMitchell @zombie042 @rufustheduck
Thank you for posting this! I've been saying that I would love to browse the feeds of other servers, but I'd never found a way to do so. Maybe it's because I'm usually on my app (Tusky)?
Do you know if this /public/local is a standard feature of server's web interfaces?
... mostly useless to me - too much, not in my languages, or not my interests. I've "groomed my feed" by finding good hashtags and accounts to follow.
- For the overall health of the ecosystem, it's better that no one server dominates. If you decide that's important to you, you could find a smaller server and switch to that, and pay a bit to its admin as support. Though small server do occasionally shut down, which can be a pain.
P.S. Such a pretty cat! 
People here loooove to criticize other people's way of using Mastodon. So the first thing to learn is to generally ignore that.
But here are two valid points:
- If you are here for some specific interest, getting on a server dedicated to that means you can view the entire server feed with hopes of seeing stuff that interests you. Me, I'm also on the huge mastodon.social server, and the server feed is ... (cont'd)
We're not doing the General Strike where I live, so to support the people of Minneapolis today I made a contribution to Mastodon-for-Minneapolis (https://www.grapevine.org/giving-circle/doWhZ3Z/Mastodon-for-Minneapolis).
If you're looking for a way to show your support today you could throw a few bucks their way.
[It's run by the same person (@heidilifeldman) who did Mastodon4Harris, so you can trust it!]
Yes!
Oh, and there's an account here that shares these great photographs of beautiful Glasgow buildings. I never knew you had so many. I'm guessing if you follow #glasgow you'll see them.
Edited to add: Found it - https://mastodon.scot/@thisismyglasgow/115888338449639759
Welcome, and that's a good start!
My recommendation is that you add about 30+ other tags to your follow list! That's how you get stuff into your timeline, because we don't have an algorithm feeding it here.
Good luck!
. But I am glad to hear people saying it.