mcneely @mcneely@librem.one

I plunged in here & just realized that I need to introduce myself. So:

Greetings!

I'm a political historian whose work centers on the American founding, political culture, & political violence. My last book--The Field of Blood: Violence in Congress & the Road to Civil War--is FAR too topical these days. Joy.

I'll be tooting (tooting? really?) re: the culture of politics, the makings of democracy, US history, & occasionally, about my History Bird, @historynewbie

#histodons #introduction

suggestion: hashtags are important here. please use “Camel Case” so screen readers understand what the words are and can pronounce them properly. example:

#DogsOfMastodon not #dogsofmastodon

make sense??

looking for silver linings in *waves vaguely at everything* — it sure would be nice if the end result of all of this was a resurgence of indieweb / personal sites and blogs

anyways: RSS is working on my site 👀
https://jason.af/feed.xml

I’m really excited about the idea of someone deploying encrypted DMs on this thing. Need a good plan for key distribution and identity binding (makes me sad Keybase got eaten by Zoom, oops) and then the rest is just Signal protocol?

I never did an #introduction so here we go!

My name is Danielle (she/her) and I’m a designer and #opensource software developer by trade. I started @elementary in about 2007.

Some of my passions are #InclusiveDesign, #EthicalBusiness, #Cooking, #Anime, #Socialism, #EnvironmentalJustice, and #LGBTQ Rights.

I’m also on https://pixelfed.social/danirabbit

Hey everyone, I'm building a list of congressional offices on Mastodon -- members of the House and Senate, committees, leadership offices, and non-partisan offices.

If you know of a member of congress that is on mastodon, please add them to the list, here: bit.ly/CongMastoForm

If you want to see who we have found so far, check out bit.ly/CongMasto

Thank you! Please help amplify to crowdsource the list.

Just found out about https://twitodon.com and that’s pretty neat. Makes getting started quite a bit easier

A week ago, I thought it would be quite some time before I'd spend more time in mastodon than twitter. And yet... I'm pretty sure I have today and that may continue.

Crazy.

I do think @cfiesler's is the best analogy for Mastodon and the #fediverse. It's like when student clubs have stalls set up all around a gymnasium: everyone's still in the same school and interact with anyone, but they also hang out in interest-based groups. If you joined one club and want to leave to join another, go for it. You'll lose the work you did (ie, your posts) in the first club, but you can retain all your friends (followers). #TwitterMigration

Having a “curb cuts” mentality about a11y features is so important. We found at @elementary that people will complain that an existing feature is missing without even looking in a11y options because they don’t consider themselves disabled, but if you put that feature right alongside your other features suddenly it adds tons of value. A11y is a core part of your product’s usefulness. It is not an optional bolt-on

https://twitter.com/mekkaokereke/status/1589086982529232896