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To all mastodon admins:

Hi! I’m Evan Phoenix, the primary author of puma, the ruby webserver that powers mastodon!

Please reply or DM me if you need tuning help! I’ve got no officiation with the mastodon, just want to see you succeed!

(Quick Tip: set WEB_CONCURRENCY to core count * 1.5 and then tune MAX_THREADS. High thread values will see diminishing returns!)

—@evanphx

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Hi, I’m Ryan. I helped start wordpress.org, wordpress.com, wordcamp.org, and automattic.com. #introduction

My current thing is @stimpunks.

Stimpunks.org is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit. We serve fellow neurodivergent & disabled people so we can keep on living through the onslaught.

#CripTheVote #Neurodiversity #Disability #DisabilityJustice #DisabilityRights #A11y #ADHD #Autistic #ActuallyAutistic #Neurodivergent #Dyspraxia #Dyslexia #Dysgraphia #Apraxia #NonSpeaking

—@ryanboren

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I’m feeling concerned that many of us have recently joined #Mastodon and that the long term visually impaired community are now inundated with beautiful photos with no #alttext to describe the photo. Only about 1 in 5 Toots describe photos on my timeline. We all need to curb our enthusiasm to share undescribed photos and embrace our descriptive writing. I’m not on my high horse just concerned that we’ve arrived en masse and need to do our very best to embrace #MastodonCulture.

—@miripiri

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Catnip. Kitten.

Shenanigans are happening, mostly down to high as a kite Pixie trying to figure out why a wall won’t open instead of a door. It is hilarious to listen to her getting more and more annoyed, and then storm off and go through the open door. I swear she just gave a surprised mrow?! at the fact the door was in fact, open all along.

I’m half tempted to keep the catnip given how many cats use the yard as a way through the area. Best one was this cat that shot up a tree to chase a bird, while high (spoiler alert it was a squirrel), critter went from tree 1 to tree 2

Cat forgot how to jump, and landed on the roof of a car.

I overheard the call with the insurance, the pause then laughter from the other end when the insurance agent heard ‘a stoned cat fell out of a tree and landed on my car’ is amazing.

The better part was that the agent followed that up with by protocol ma’am, we have to interview all involved parties. Yes. They have to, as policy is written, interview the cat.

Good luck on that one, insurance agents. I’m not telling the people three or four doors down their cat is neded for an insurance claim. I’m just not!

—@celtichawk

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Gentle reminder: when mentioning users on Mastodon, make sure to include the whole address. Doing this makes it easier to find people regardess of instance. Even if you are local to the person or even if the person is on your instance, getting into the practice or writing the whole address may help to understand Mastodon better, and help otehrs find the person you are mentioning should they need to interact with them.

—@ner

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I've got one of my Twitter archives and am waiting for the other. I've deleted both Twitter sessions from my client because I just don't have the desire to look at it at this point. And, I'm not a Taylor Swift fan really, but it looks like a millennial is going to kill Ticketmaster and honestly that's probably a good thing.

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If you’re an admin/mod and you’ve got a patreon running for your instance, respond to this with a link and maybe a little about your server/whether you’re open.

I’ve seen lots of people looking to support admins financially, whether their own or just in service of the fedi, but not always knowing where to go except the main dev patreon.

—@doot

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General warning to all new users: most mastodon servers are going to perform poorly as they take on a lot of new users. Most servers are small affairs run by a single person. Things are going to be slow, and things are going to break.

Be patient, be respectful, and tip your admin.

It’s going to be a rough ride in the fediverse for a while. These are strange times and no one was prepared.

Mastodon is strange and new, and it’s uncomfortable here right now. Be patient, it’s worth it.

—@rolenthedeep

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We need to urge corporations like VWGroup@mastodon.social to donate big time to the instances they join. Especially if they join an already big instance like mastodon.social.

And long term, they should be running their own instances and employing a social media manager to run them.

If these corporate users from the #TwitterMigration don’t do their part, they will have a hand in killing Mastodon before it really gets started — and everyone who’s made Mastodon their social media home will be incredibly upset!

—@atomicpoet