Notices by Mastodon Migration (mastodonmigration@mastodon.online)

Hiya, Bluesky Users... 🙋♂️

On picking a server.

Seriously, it's no big deal. Lots of good servers, but maybe you don't want to choose. If you don't want to join 'the mothership' Mastodon GmbH mastodon.social and want a strong recommendation right now, you can't go wrong with mstdn.social.

@stux is a great admin from the Netherlands with a proven commitment to standing up for his users. Servers are in the EU. By all reports the users are very pleased.

Join here >>> https://mstdn.social/about

To Bluesky Users 🙋♂️

We are not just passengers. By using a platform you are contributing to that platform's power and influence. At this point there is real reason to question to what purpose corporate Bluesky's influence will be channeled. Will your voices be marginalized? Will your work be censored? Conversely, if you move here, you'll be contributing to building a powerful truly decentralized public social media. You will be part of the counterweight to corporate media.

#FollowMeToMastodon

For Newcomers To Mastodon - You Don't Need An App

One of the really great things about Mastodon is it runs perfectly well in a web browser both on a computer and mobile device.

That's right! No need to download any app. No Play Store or Apple Store.

Just go to https://joinmastodon.org/, pick a server and get going.

Some people like the apps, and there are plenty of good apps, but many users, maybe most, simply use a web browser. Highly recommend Firefox, DDG, or Vivaldi.

#FollowMeToMastodon

Hey, Bluesky Users...

Follow me to Mastodon

#FollowMeToMastodon #BlueskyMigration

Wow. It sure doesn't seem like the Bluesky PBC CEO likes her current users very much. This is pretty incredible. Feel like we've seen this movie before.

h/t @stefan https://stefanbohacek.online/@stefan/115311658328349605

#Bluesky

Disney capitulated. Sinclair caved.

What have we learned?

cc: @renewedresistance
#WeThePeople

Have posted this #Bluesky meme/joke/critique a few times this year, but today seems like a really good day to repost it.

Folks, come on over to public social media: https://joinmastodon.org/

Guidance for Bluesky users migrating to Mastodon.

It's super easy to get up and running.

Since we're really decentralized you will need to pick a server. Choose the 'mother ship' https://mastodon.social/ or any other quality instance like https://mstdn.social/ or https://hachyderm.io/ You really can't go wrong, and you can change later. More here:

https://joinmastodon.org/

A really great resource for newcomers is @FediTips

https://fedi.tips/

You can do this!

#FollowMeToMastodon

@tchambers

Unfortunately, hope to be wrong, but feel like the lesson from Twitter is that no matter what deprivations are meted out by the new TikTok algorithm, the majority of users will not move no matter what options become available. Social media 'stickiness' is super sticky.

Video Clip: Governor JB Pritzker (IL) | Call It What It Is: Authoritarianism | 1:27

"In any other country, if federal agents fired upon journalists and protesters when unprovoked, what would we call it? If federal agents marched down busy streets harassing civilians and demanding their papers, what would we say? I don't think we'd have trouble calling it what it is: authoritarianism."

h/t Aaron Rupar on Threads

@indivisibleteam

Add Live Music To No Kings Protests

Would like to make a pitch to the organizers to integrate musical performances into these protests. Whether they are local groups playing the old standbys or popular artists lending their voices, protest music has always been a big part of successful grass roots movements.

#ProtestMusic

TV in the United States

In the last few days we have learned a lot about how traditional TV in the US works. Let's summarize.

There are major "networks" (CBS, NBC, ABC). They produce "network programming", shows and national news and sports, and distribute it through local stations called "network affiliates" owned by companies like Sinclair and Nexstar. Local affiliates pay the networks for the programming and also make money inserting local ads. Networks make money running network ads.

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Been thinking about how people in Sinclair markets can maybe watch ABC live without supporting Sinclair...

1. Sign up for Sling Select for 29.99/mo

2. Use your new Sling account to enable Live TV on abc.com

3. Cancel your cable. Tell them it's because they carry Sinclair affiliates

This should give you live access to ABC7 (LA) and some other local ABC markets, as well as streaming access to FX and National Geographic.

If anyone tries this from an embargoed market, let us know how it works

So, some will declare the Kimmel reinstatement a victory, others will say, not so fast. Both are right. Something good happened today. A relatively minor, but strategic, skirmish was won. Get some sleep. Rest up. It's going to be a long war.

On the autism Tylenol BS...

Just so we realize, they do this so we then respond that, "No Tylenol does not... and here's this study, blah blah blah." So, they have set up a two sides to the issue thing, and their idiot supports are like, "Well, the eggheads disagree. I'm a gonna do my own research..." on X. 🤦♂️

RE: https://mastodon.social/@heidilifeldman/115248870643353309

Superb @heidilifeldman thread detailing many of the shocking ongoing DHS abuses... 👇

"Most people who come in here and go down that road never get to come back out.”’

News: With China no longer buying, U.S. soybean farmers face tough choices

https://www.marketplace.org/story/2025/09/16/soybean-farmers-face-a-hard-choice-without-their-top-buyer

"For those producers that are in a really tight cash position... it could be quite dire... American farmers have been here before. Just like during President Donald Trump’s last trade war, some farmers are expecting the USDA to step in and make them whole... I don’t think they’re gonna have a lot of choice.. I suspect this could get ugly,”

If you have a few minutes this Sunday check out this video about some guy who follows Bernie Sanders around deep red West Virginia.

https://youtu.be/RP8Oxe6OxJc?si=pxfepGpaUf8GVVXz

You don't have to be a Bernie fan to connect with the basic thesis that these desperately poor rural areas are being sold a bill of goods by MAGA, and are natural prospects for progressive people focused anti-corporate policies.

Now, if only Dems could break free of their current corporate centrism we might get somewhere.

#WeThePeople

In the piece he quotes Chuck Shumer's infamous centrist shifting strategy from 2016:

https://youtu.be/ClytGvP_Qe4?feature=shared&t=43

"That for every, this is the second point, for every blue-collar Democrat we will lose in Western PA, we will pick up two three uh moderate Republicans in the suburbs of Philadelphia, and you can repeat that in Ohio and Illinois and Wisconsin"

Shumer is wrong. This strategy has got to change. Democrats can not be Republican lights. They need to be Democrats.

@blogdiva

+5 points for: "groomed into the school of Pelosi #machiavelism Jeffries"

...so tired of all this double back flip tricky nonsense.