@PaulaToThePeople

In case it's helpful to folk, this was my recent DM to a friend who had just joined Mastodon:

1. Check out https://fedi.tips/

2. Follow liberally! See something post something cool? Follow 'em!

3. Starter packs to fill your feed, courtesy of @mastodonmigration

https://mastodonmigration.wordpress.com/2024/11/20/mastodon-follow-pack-directory-nov-20-2024/

4. Once you've followed a bunch of accounts, you can discover "What are the cool accounts that my followers following, that I may be missing out on" with this tool

Followgraph for Mastodon

Find people to follow on Mastodon by expanding your follow graph.

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I hope you have a nice experience on Mastodon!

#feditips

Hiya @PaulaToThePeople !

Thanks so much for your kind offer of support!

If anyone is looking for a more "read the docs" sort of approach as a place to start, bop over to https://fedi.tips/

(with gratitude to the incredible @FediTips )

#AskFedi

Hi!

What do you share with friends who just joined Mastodon?

This was my latest:

1. Check out @FediTips

2. Follow liberally! See something cool? Follow 'em!

3. Starter packs to fill your feed, courtesy of @mastodonmigration

https://mastodonmigration.wordpress.com/2024/11/20/mastodon-follow-pack-directory-nov-20-2024/

4. Once you've followed a bunch of accounts, you can discover "What are the cool accounts that my followers following, that I may be missing out on" with this tool

Followgraph for Mastodon

Find people to follow on Mastodon by expanding your follow graph.

(followgraph.vercel.app)

I hope you have a nice experience on Mastodon!

@wdlindsy

Subscribed! Great article, thanks for the recommendation!

@kissane

> If you don't study the super boring parts of historical episodes of fascism, maybe it's easy to miss how central industry is to its narratives and ghastly achievements.

I think about this Benito Mussolini quote often:

“Fascism should more appropriately be called Corporatism because it is a merger of state and corporate power.”

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From one of Zuck's Threads posts today:

zuck 6/ Work with President Trump to push back against foreign governments going after American companies to censor more. The US has the strongest constitutional protections for free expression in the world and the best way to defend against the trend of government overreach on censorship is with the support of the US government.

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*TRUMP RING KISSING INTENSIFIES*

#USPol #Meta #Trump

@robey

i like big butts and i cannot lie.
my brother likes small butts
and cannot tell the truth.

each of us guards a door.
one leads to an anaconda that is sprung,
the other to certain death

Stolen from @[email protected]

#humor