Satsuma @Satsuma@cat.family

@godtributes the cult of GLAM

Assorted recs for new accounts:

Bots that will interact with you:
@glitchbot — a bot that glitches photos in posts where you @ mention it

@godtributes will reply to public posts you make suggesting appropriate tributes for various niche gods

@alt_text — reminds you if you’ve forgotten to describe your images

Hashtags:
#cats (cats)
#florespondence (any flora but mostly flowers)
#sporespondence (mushrooms!)

Bots that will not interact with you:
@quasihaiku and @poem_exe — haiku bots (by oulipo's lipogrammatic constraints, quasi avoids latin’s fifth glyph)

@pomological random images from the pomological watercolor collection in the usda's national agricultural library

Find accounts by topic on the trunk: https://communitywiki.org/trunk

Fedi Guides:
Changeling’s Guide to Mastodon for screen Reader Users (what you'd expect from the title): https://www.starshipchangeling.net/mastodon/

A futuristic Mastodon introduction for 2021 (more a cultural guide than technical, decent overview of CWs & commonly used abbreviations): https://wordsmith.social/elilla/a-futuristic-mastodon-introduction-for-2021

@TheNaate re your question about CW’s — the name is a bit over serious, which I think can throw newcomers, it might help to think of it a bit more like a “subject line.” It’s fine to use the them for stuff like comedic timing (setup the joke in the CW and then hide the punchline under it!) or just to keep track of that one ongoing thread you have on [topic]

as for using them as content warnings, yes most people try to be generous with their usage out of politeness! This varies a bit from community to community but most instances have rules for things that actually require content warnings (for tenforward.social it looks like that’s anything with sexualized or violent content & animated images that are flashing or rapidly changing) so I would start there and then look around to see what other warnings are popular in your corner of the fediverse to see if you’d like to adopt using them as well. Elilla has a good list, along with definitions of common abbreviations at the bottom of this guide to mastodon: https://wordsmith.social/elilla/a-futuristic-mastodon-introduction-for-2021 I don’t CW everything they mention (eg. my CW’s for food posts are sporadic at best) but its a good starting place in terms of considering which ones you would want to use.

still thinking about these absurdly chonky croci (shoe included for scale)

@maya @godtributes 😂

@godtributes thats pretty much the premise, yeah

(Am currently at twelve unique weird cats & there's at least one more that I know I don't have so make of that what you will)

my quest to acquire every single weird cat companion in fallen london continues.....

@godtributes no one tell the tolerance god about the tolerance paradox

@godtributes @Cyannin thats generally how it works, yes

#yuletide tagset is out! https://archiveofourown.org/tag_sets/12720

we will assume the shirt generally matches your normal clothing aesthetic, excepting the fact that it is your face

okay okay okay a supernatural entity which is chaotic but not necessarily malicious gifts you a shirt with your face on it. it is impossible to get rid of the shirt. it is also impossible to disfigure in any way which obscures the fact that the central design on the shirt is your face. what do you do with it?

#Ao3TagOfTheDay I may be stretching the definition of primer, This is more primer plus the next two coats of paint

toad i saw outside the laundry room

@Cyannin no i say that too! But in my head its like, nouning a verb and not a TRUE noun I guess???

@godtributes when is find ever a noun?????