View from #MillMountain in Roanoke. The #StormClouds were gathering and made a phenomenal sky.
#Roanoke #SWVirginia #Clouds #InfraredPhotography #Photography

Sunrise in #Appalachia
#SWVirginia #Photography

Roanoke Star

#Roanoke
#swvirginia
#millmountain
#BigLick
#photography

@Charlobo @tjapple Thanks, I forgot to mention "pinning"! Probably should emphasize that you can use hashtags in any post about anything, which helps spread linkage around. I was surprised after a few days to have more people following me than I had followed. I suspect it is the #ukuleles and #banjos more than the #Newspapers, #OldTimeRadio and #Appalachian #swVirginia :-)

It's a little over 200 miles from where I am in #swVirginia to #Asheville, N.C., so I'm not likely to get to regular country #dances there (#ContraDance or square), but I do find it encouraging that the dance calendar is looking downright post-pandemic ...
https://oldfarmersball.com/

@shaunsindelman @davew @considerjeoffry Yep. Dogwood is part of https://couriernewsroom.com/ attempt at a progressive-on-purpose online news chain from https://goodinfo.us/info/#good
More power to them, but they don't get down to #swVirginia much, while "unchained" https://cardinalnews.org is grassroots locally staffed and funded and https://virginiamercury.com has better state government & issue coverage.

@davew It'd be economical if I lived in metro NY or northeast #Virginia where NYT & WashPost might cover my local news as well as the world. So I help support them, two online oases at the edge of my #Appalachian local-media desert -- https://cardinalnews.org and https://virginiamercury.com -- plus two chain-owned, understaffed local #swVirginia newspapers, https://roanoke.com and https://radfordnewsjournal.com
And, for its support of #folkmusic, the https://www.oldtimeherald.org
H/T @considerjeoffry

My "goodnight mastodon" sunset for Nov.25... Radford, Va.
#ColorPhotography
#PhoneCamera
#nofilters
#swVirginia
#Photography

@rik @palafo @JaneRLaForge

Theory:
To find "local" folks, newsies or others, put local search words in your profile as hashtags, write an intro post with local words, and maybe have your first post each day name a local publication, like #CardinalNews or #RoanokeTimes or
#FloydPress

I'm in #Virginia, #swVirginia #Blue Ridge #NewRiverValley
& concerned about local news coverage

My neighbors in #RadfordCity #Blacksburg and #FloydCounty use Facebook a lot. I would love to see them here

Mason Creek in infrared
#infraredphotography #swvirginia #photography #landscape

@rojitaadhikari complete your profile page and add some keywords with hashtags so that people with similar interests can find you! Then you can click on the same hashtags and find more people to follow.

In my case, mentioning #Appalachia,
#FolkMusic,
#ukulele,
#Usenet (nostalgia) #swVirginia and #Journalism found old and new friends to get me started.

@kevinmyattwx While a birdie in the sky may seem more weatherly, a Mastodon is well grounded. Welcome... First #CardinalNews person I've seen... I've just been here for a few days, experimenting with hashtags a little differently than on Fb or birdapp -- to find old #newspaper #CommSchool and #OldtimeMusic friends and #swVa #swVirginia #FloydVa #RadfordVa #NewRiverValley neighbors. Hope it'll be nice out this weekend. 🙂

@carmien I haven't tried it yet, but since hashtags are the way to find things try #hiking #AppalachianTrail #trekking #hiker #camping #hikingtrails #mountains and other specifics. Thanks for boosting my Blue Ridge Parkway autumn photo... #southwestvirginia #Swva #swvirginia