A few small notes on CWs and images marked sensitive:

1) Make sure when you CW/mark sensitive, you also describe *why* you're CWing it. People need to know what's under the cut/image blur so they can make an informed decision about viewing it.

2) When deciding whether to mark something as sensitive, try to think: If I viewed this image at work would I get in trouble? Even if your explicitly sexy/lewd artwork has the naughty bits censored, it's still kind to CW/mark it as sensitive.

I'm for bed, my lovely :mastoart:•ARTists!

But first, one little thing:

While we love seeing your art, don't forget, we're interested in YOU, too!

If you feel up to it, we'd be happy to hear your thoughts, happenings, and everyday ramblings. Connecting and communicating with each other is the best part of :mastodon:.

Remember: you're ✨more✨ than just your art! :da_cuddle:

(Though your art is pretty great, too! 😉 )

Good night, and keep being awesome, y'all! :bowie_stardust:

Two more :

Ever make a post, then notice immediately that there's a typo in it, or you forgot to CW something, or or or…? That's what the "Delete & Redraft" function is for!

Click on the menu link in the toot (it looks like an elipses: "…") and select "Delete & Redraft" to edit it in the toot compose box. This deletes the toot so you'll lose any favs/boosts, but if you act quick enough it's an easy way to fix mistakes!

If anyone else has any good that I've missed, feel free to post about them using that hashtag, and/or respond to this thread. I'll boost them for our new users! :louis_toots_too:

I'm going to start a thread of quick for new users. Apologies for any hiccoughs, these toots aren't planned, so they may seem a little haphazard. :da_sweat:

First of all: Welcome to Mastodon! If you're coming from Twitter you'll find some things very similar. Mastodon is a microblogging platform for sharing thoughts, photos, music, video, etc.

Posts on Mastodon are affectionately called "toots". You can laugh, it's OK. We found it funny too when we first joined. :dali_persistance:

Hello my lovely :mastoart:•ARTists!

When you post your art, photos, animated .gifs, or any other images, try to take some time to fill in the image description! You can find it when you mouse over the image thumbnail.

Giving your images short descriptions goes a long way to making our community more accessible to folks who use screen readers. You don't have to be super verbose, just get the idea across. Give it a shot!

Mastodon.ART

Mastodon.ART — Your friendly creative home on the Fediverse! Interact with friends and discover new ones, all on a platform that is community-owned and ad-free. Admin: @Curator. Moderators: @EmergencyBattle, @ScribbleAddict, @TapiocaPearl, @Otherbuttons, @katwylder
https://mastodon.art/@Curator/tagged/mastotips
mastodon.art
crawl=CC-MAIN-2020-05
75450
application/http; msgtype=response
sha1:DHQUBZGHSXJWQQCMWFVY7V3P6CUQNS7O
<urn:uuid:a399bd6d-193c-466a-b69c-95c5a5e08de4>
2020-01-26T12:05:44Z
176.31.213.231
text/html
sha1:MT5VMBEMGLQ2EATUMW7UNKQGMEBZMGWH
<urn:uuid:3a8f8f60-0492-409b-973b-65a221d68231>
https://mastodon.art/@Curator/tagged/mastotips
response
<urn:uuid:7f58fad9-7d5e-4bd8-93ee-9f7a9602d07c>
isPartOf: CC-MAIN-2020-05
publisher: Common Crawl
description: Wide crawl of the web for January 2020
operator: Common Crawl Admin (info@commoncrawl.org)
hostname: ip-10-67-67-129.ec2.internal
software: Apache Nutch 1.16 (modified, https://github.com/commoncrawl/nutch/)
robots: checked via crawler-commons 1.1-SNAPSHOT (https://github.com/crawler-commons/crawler-commons)
format: WARC File Format 1.1
conformsTo: http://iipc.github.io/warc-specifications/specifications/warc-format/warc-1.1/