@feditips Minor correction:

Home - Posts from people you follow, or posts boosted by people you follow, plus posts featuring hashtags that you follow.

I've seen a number of guides and charts like this that leave out the role of boosts.

@Gargron It seems that on the bird site there are two main kinds of quote tweets: the equivalent of a boost but with an extra comment from the booster, and the "dunk", the "look at this idiot" quote tweet. Perhaps the software could provide the feature but moderators could rule out the second kind as abusive.

@feditips Hey @TomSullivan , can you see if you can talk Digby into doing this? Her blog is a WordPress blog. Thanks.

@Mastodon Please provide information on how to contribute, I couldn't find any in the article.

@feditips Hey @TomSullivan , can you see if you can talk Digby into doing this? Her blog is a WordPress blog. Thanks.

@feditips Please don't damage your reputation by rumor mongering. If you know something for a fact, please let us know. If you have only heard things secondhand or thirdhand, perhaps it is better not to attack the reputations of admins and spread fear without any evidence.

@dansup You can currently search #joinPixelfed on Instagram and find some hits, but it is a suspiciously low number. It says "fewer than 100" and displays a lot fewer than that. So, perhaps partial blocking?

@feditips The difficulty with having the server backfill is that now it has to store all of the old posts from an account that no one followed before, just because one user of that server wants to see them (though that might be fine for a single user instance, the cost could be high otherwise). It seems that instead, we could design apps, or the web interface, to fetch the old posts directly from the account's instance instead of requiring that they move to the server first.

@feditips I would say that elk.zone is more pleasant than just using my instance's website, though, because if I post something that catches on and has a few dozen favorites and boosts, one item shows up in notifications instead of 20+ separate copies. Hopefully some future Mastodon software update could add that obvious optimization.

@feditips That said, I would still recommend that blind people use some kind of profile picture, anything other than the default.