Open request to the users of Mastodon: if you use an acronym, please spell it out the first time you use it in each post. You know what the acronym means, but Mastodon is huge and there are people all over the world who may be reading your post. Telling us that some alphabet soup did something means nothing if it just comes out as alphabet soup!

It's standard practice in journalism and writing to fully write out the words of an acronym the first time it's used. Please think of your readers.

Thanks!

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