Ach Mist, das war's dann wohl mit meinen Statistiken zu #Mastodon als Trafficquelle für @heiseonline:
Hab gerade bemerkt, dass die schönen neuen Vorschaukarten den URL-Parameter abschneiden, über den wir überhaupt erfahren, dass Besuche von hier kommen. Je mehr Instanzen diese neue Vorschau nun anzeigen, desto mehr Einstiege werden darüber kommen und für uns nicht mehr erkennbar.
Weiß nicht, ob wir das überhaupt beheben können/wollen.
And also in English: The nice new preview cards (no irony, I really like them) seem to cut off URL-Parameter. That means that we see less and less traffic coming from #Mastodon on @heiseonline. Because more and more #instances get the update, and more people click on the preview and not the URL.
That means that my little summaries are getting quite worthless: I don't know if we could/or would want to add the URL-Parameter to the previews.
Does anyone know of any Masto #instances that are music-focused? I already follow the requisite hashtags but I would also like to follow more local feeds specific to #music, #musicians, #indiemusic, etc.
Now with more and more #instances upgraded to version 4.2.0 of #Mastodon, you can compare full text #search on different ones: Having multiple accounts, I did – and yes, the differences are rather big.
Once again it seems clear, the bigger your instance the better for finding content in the #fediverse. Especially for journalists, this also implies, that an instance by your organization might not be the best idea. Something like journa.host could make more sense.
For sharing it with someone specific? Just about anywhere you want. Most commonly Google Drive. I like Send as an alternative for file sharing. catbox.moe is popular on lemmy.
@heyminto
A search on your #instance goes only through accounts, "your instance knows".
That's more than the sum of all accounts in the #fediverse, that are followed by someone on your instance, but less than all the accounts on all #instances with accounts, that someone on your instance follows.
See: https://oisaur.com/@renchap/111138309970407933
It's release day! #Mastodon 4.2 will drop later today. I'm very excited for all the improvements we've been working on since January to become available to all server operators and their users.
@Gargron Hello Eugen & team; congratulations on this v4.2 Stable milestone. 🎉
Rather than users needing to petition individual Instance Admins & Mods for this, would it be possible pls for you to add these into the default Masto s/w config, so that it automatically becomes available fediverse-wide? 🤷♀️
Expand the #emojis available in the compose-toots emoji-picker tool, by adding these commonplace #FOSS#Linux ones which are available in at least some [#Instances ]:
:linux:
:kde:
:plasma:
:xfce:
:openSUSE:
:fedora:
:debian:
:gnome:
:firefox:
:firefox_nightly:
:vivaldi_browser:
:vivaldi_snapshot:
:thunderbird:
Note that my current Instance already has :archlinux: , but IMO that should also be added to the preceding fediverse-wide list to cover individual Instances not already having it.
Is #SocialMedia enabling the death of nuance? Or nuanced thinking
It's usually the case for polarised subjects.
It's not so much a case of three strikes when it comes to how someone is perceived, but a case of one strike, and everything else they've ever said and believed does not count, just this one post they made, at this moment, right now.
Points should be argued, people should be called out, but what we have is a tendency to judge and label without looking past that one post.
This can be a problem with blocking #instances - as I've seen with some instances being blocked without there being evidence of bad conduct.
But there's also the assumption a particular opinion is automatically a bad one, therefore should not be considered.
I wonder if social media encourages this, since you go online and find all sorts of opinions. It's easy to get annoyed at someone's take, but can anyone be bothered to go through that person's timeline to see if that take was a one off?
Given my ethos is #Greens, i tend to recycle & minimise waste. Thus this stale reheated blowie-bloated Intro is lazily rehashed, with only minimal tweaks, from the plethora of other #Mastodon, #Firefish & #Friendica fediverse #Instances whose various doorsteps i've darkened since Nov 2012.
Today, after weeks & months of indecisively weighing Pros & Cons, i've finally, formally, perpetrated my latest #FediHop. Sorry about that; i'll try not to wee on the carpet.
I wonder if a new introduction is really needed? I mean, i'm still me, for worse or worserer 😜 My original intro afaik remains at https://fosstodon.org/@dropbear42/109318341169759339, with subsequent variants scattered all over the fediverse now. Sorry about that.
I suppose that hypothetically, if i were to do another Intro, i might mention that typically i'll mumble, grumble & mutter about various topics including #FOSS, #Linux in all her glory & fun, #politics, #RWNJ ghastliness, #environment, our self-induced #ClimateCrisis, random whimsical thoughts, #LGBTQI & particularly #Trans stuff.
Sooner or later, my view will pop up here & there that #religion, #capitalism & #patriotism are historically + currently at the heart of most human misery & devastation. I also probably won't be able to resist frequent quips about & allusions to fabbo #MontyPython & #HHGTTG stuff. Did i mention #DoctorWho?
No, on second-thought, i really think another Intro is unnecessary, redundant, tautologous, unwarranted & superfluous, not to mention shamefully gratuitous, so i certainly shan't bother doing one. Silly idea altogether. Sorry about that.
Mastodon was my first introduction to the fediverse, so I just went with the starter instance. Now that it's been a few weeks and I'm becoming accustomed to how things work, I'm wondering if it's time for me to seek out something more specific. Any thoughts, #fediverse? Should I migrate?
I see a lot of people talk about creating a second or third or fourth account to follow different #instances. Why not just create a list for different local instances/timelines, like this? #fediverse
I got an email warning from this server - after posting in Irish a number of times over the lifetime of my account here and other folks telling me that it is welcome - that my posts in Irish are NOT welcome on Fosstodon.
Irish is a minority language not heard often, it is extremely important to me, and so this decision means this server is not a place for me. Sadly, despite my long career in FOSS.
I might abandon this account and use mastodon.ie. TBD
To give them the benefit of the doubt, many #instances have English-only (or other single-language-only) #rules because they fear #legal#liability because of their inability to effectively #moderate or respond to complaints about #content posted in a language they cannot understand.
So anyone: if you moved #instances and therefore fell off my #lists that I manually check to see what's going on with people, I did not mute you!
I just happen to follow a Niagara Fall's worth of accounts (over 5K) and haven't seen you whizzing past. LMK you are still there if I haven't seen you in a while!
I would like to suggest that developers consider as much flexibility when trying to interact with links/handles from off-instance and off-kbin (e.g. lemmy) as possible. I would like for it to work on lemmy in a similar fashion....
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Instances-instances? Danish
So, I've just set up my own peertube instance over at tube.puggaard-nyborg.dk, and that was surprising simple....
make URLs for communities, users etc as flexible as possible
I would like to suggest that developers consider as much flexibility when trying to interact with links/handles from off-instance and off-kbin (e.g. lemmy) as possible. I would like for it to work on lemmy in a similar fashion....
[recommendation] Instance Assistant - Browser extension to help make Lemmy & Kbin easier to use (lemmy.ca)
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