If your first inclination upon seeing a new Mastodon user is to tell them all the ways they are Doing It Wrong, consider maybe just not doing that

[jalefkowit@vmst.io]

If your first inclination upon seeing a new Mastodon user is to tell them all the ways they are Doing It Wrong, consider maybe just not doing that

[glyph@mastodon.social]

@jalefkowit and now I will greet you with the traditional Fediverse morning salutation, “I would boost this post but you didn’t include alt text”

[jalefkowit@vmst.io]

@glyph My favorite is the ones that call it “ALT text,” therefore demonstrating that they don’t understand the name of the thing they care about so deeply is not an acronym

[jalefkowit@vmst.io]

People do stuff wrong all the time! Mostly it’s fine. The world keeps on turning, you know?

If the particular way they are doing it wrong offends you so much that you can’t do nothing, consider the massively under-appreciated alternative of leading by example

[gildilinie@beige.party]

@jalefkowit the contra reverse positive upside-down-ternet is that people also do that constantly on bluesky so

[independentpen@mas.to]

@jalefkowit I'm seeing a ton of messages about what not to say to new users, but I'm not seeing any new users. Where are they?

[franco_vazza@mastodon.social]

@jalefkowit Yess....when I fully turned to mastodon (a couple of years ago) I was baffled by the amount of "that" i got. use hashtag! put alt text! don't reply to anyone thread unless they want you to do so as you would "disrupt the bookkeeping of their mental processes" (I hope I did not just did that to you!) etc....

I mean, a hell of a lot better than getting random replies by nazi, musk-bros or aggressive "retired engineers" with a new theory of cosmology as on twitter, but still....

[skinnylatte@hachyderm.io]

@jalefkowit my first memory of this place was me saying ‘it’s not so bad here’ and lots of people saying ‘let me tell you why it’s also horrible here’

[electricmood@kinkycats.org]

@independentpen @jalefkowit

Here i am!

[richlv@mastodon.social]

@franco_vazza @jalefkowit Bookkeeping what now? :D

[franco_vazza@mastodon.social]

@richlv I cannot even fully recall...I commented on someone's public thread. I got an angry private message asking me to remove it, because that public thread was not meant to be open to discussion, but it was some sort of personal diary to book keep that person's mental processes...the person even wrote a blog post to denounce my micro aggression daring to interact with his open public thread... I was just 😱 , and that was a few weeks after joining mastodon