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Reader, dancer, gardener, parenter.

#ActuallyAutistic #Bloomscrolling #Bookstodon

My background is a screen shot from the game #JustDance.

My avatar is fan art of Garnet and Stevonnie from #StevenUniverse playing #DDR together. If you know the artist, please let me know so I can credit them!

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@FediTips@social.growyourown.services avatar FediTips , (edited ) to random

There are two ways that servers on here can accept new members:

-Sign-ups where you join instantly

-Sign-ups where the server moderator has to manually approve your membership

Approval sign-ups make moderation much more effective, but some people seem to find them more difficult.

If you are someone who finds approval sign-ups more difficult, could you explain the main thing putting you off?

(By the way, this isn't meant to be judgmental, just want to find out what the main barriers are! 🙂 )

wil ,
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@lucyruthe Does this happen often? I've never yet run into a mastodon instance that I couldn't explore.

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wil ,
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@lucyruthe Absolutely. When I go to a instance's website, I can see their feed as well as read their various policies.

This is what I see when I go to your instance, and then what I see if I click on "live feeds." And I can scroll down and see more.

I'm a mod at another instance and I often go look at instances when there's been a report, to see if the place overall is shady.

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@lucyruthe Ah, I see. That is definitely an onboarding issue that needs to be addressed.

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@wil@beige.party avatar wil , to random

The Grapes of Wrath and OMFG. It's all there in these classic books, everything we need to know, and yet we keep doing the same things decade after decade...

"We're sorry. It's not us. It's the monster. The bank isn't like a man.

Yes, but the bank is only made of men.

No, you're wrong there--quite wrong there. The bank is something else than men. It hapens that every man in a bank hates what the bank does, and yet the bank does it."


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@Daojoan@mastodon.social avatar Daojoan , to random

your 20s are for making mistakes your 30s are for learning from them your 40s are for?

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@Daojoan hurting from them.