hopeward

hopeward, 7 months ago to random

There is a new feature of Mastodon that I wanted to highlight for you all.

I had no use for the Lists feature before- but as of the recent 4.2 update, you can put some people you follow into a list- and then you can check a box in that list's details to NOT SHOW their posts in your main feed.

This could totally change Mastodon for me, in the best way.

I follow some newsy-political accounts, and often rush by them in the feed if I'm not in the mood to hear (more) bad news. Now I can put them in a list and not see them at all in and among the feed of real thoughts, pictures, artwork and jokes you amazing people share.

And when I actually feel like engaging with the news/politics of the world, I can pop over to that list and see only that stuff in there.

This way you can have customized feeds of different kinds of accounts, and just see your tried and true favorite people in the main feed.

It's a multi-Mastodon-feed experience, separated by mood and preference.
Which for me is brilliant!

RickiTarr, 4 months ago to random

So, we went to visit my husband's family that are Anti-Vax Horse Medicine people, because we felt bad for avoiding them for nearly 5 years, and guess what:

WE BOTH HAVE COVID!

hopeward, 1 year ago to random

TIL there’s a name for a weird feeling that I actually enjoy having:

kenopsia

n. the eerie, forlorn atmosphere of a place that’s usually bustling with people but is now abandoned and quiet—a school hallway in the evening, an unlit office on a weekend, vacant fairgrounds—an emotional afterimage that makes it seem not just empty but hyper-empty, with a total population in the negative, who are so conspicuously absent they glow like neon signs.

#liminal #weirdo

RickiTarr, 3 months ago to random

Share your cute adorable face, or don't, just be a lurker!

This my face in the sun, and my poofy hair and my eyes looking at you

hopeward, 8 months ago to Bloomscrolling

It’s the cool, sophisticated urban sunflower…

#BloomScrolling

hopeward, 6 months ago to random

I guess this was once molten, now a stark outcrop.

#TextureTuesday with bonus #Mosstodon

hopeward, 9 months ago to random

Isn’t underwater photography kind of always through a window?

Stretching #WindowFriday #FensterFreitag a bit…

hopeward, 5 months ago to random

#SilentSunday

hopeward, 11 months ago to random

My phone decided this was an important view from inside of a pocket. You can choose if that’s true… #AccidentalArt

hopeward, 7 months ago to Bloomscrolling

Online search lookup identifies these as ‘Fall Blooming Anemones’… if they are, they’re right on time! #BloomScrolling

hopeward, 5 months ago to Bloomscrolling

Still some #BloomScrolling opportunities here in #SanFrancisco !
This was (I think) a purslane flower in the low setting sunlight in a park.

hopeward, 13 days ago to random

That one day when the clouds looked like they were trying to extend the mural on this building.
#ThrowbackThursday
#tbt #clouds

hopeward, 7 months ago to random

#SilentSunday

hopeward, 7 months ago to random

#SilentSunday

hopeward, 7 months ago to iPhone

UPDATE- I just now did more serious testing and I’m happy to say that it appears the Mastodon server software still strips private data out of the uploaded photos, REGARDLESS of the settings on the iPhone side.

Still good to check the settings (absolutely important to do so for any other social media!) but as far as I can tell- Mastodon has our BACK with privacy of uploaded images!! 🤩

Thanks, Mastodon developers!
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I just found that in iOS 17, both the Mastodon app and Ivory were uploading photos with locations included.

Looks like there’s a new setting in Settings/Privacy and Security/Photos for each app (then ‘Options’) and the new default is to have location ON.

I choose to not share my location data in pics I upload to Mastodon. If you do the same and you use iOS 17, you should check that setting and turn locations off.

#iPhone #Privacy #iOS17

RickiTarr, 1 month ago to random

Whenever I laugh at a line in a movie, hubs will look up a T-shirt with the line on Co-pilot, and send me the results. The line was:

She missed her High Colonic?!

SHE WOULD NEVER DO THAT!

Okay another Mexican guy T-shirt with this time he has a nice suit but he has finger guns instead of real ones
Another Mexican guy, this one is very tough looking, he has the fanciest suit of all, still pistols and pink roses all around and the word: HISPANTANIC, For some reason
Now It's and African guy in a fancy outfit and a great head wrap there's a city sunset in the back and a floating guy

hopeward, 5 months ago to random

When you’re seeking respite during your 18th Century pilgrimage, and you also need to charge your smartphone…
#tbt #ThrowbackThursday

hopeward, 7 months ago to random

#SilentSunday

hopeward, 4 months ago to SanFrancisco

Seems like a lot of nice flowers I find growing around #SanFrancisco turn out to be sage in some form or other. Like this bush of purple #BloomScrolling

hopeward, 4 months ago to SanFrancisco

Today in #SanFrancisco
#SanFranciscoHellscape

hopeward, 1 month ago to random

I think this is called chert. Such a crazy sedimentary rock formation!
#TextureTuesday

hopeward, 29 days ago to random

This is a strange little rock that I found in #GoldenGatePark that looks like some weird altar or ancient tool.

It will definitely fit the #Mosstodon label, as well as #TextureTuesday I think.

Maybe #parkaeology ? (Nah…)

hopeward, 9 months ago to random

This cloud appeared alone in the sky, kind of looked like a figure to me.

Some might see an angel, others a wraith…

Due to my childhood reading tendencies, I of course just see Mothman…

You see anything in it?

#clouds

hopeward, 6 months ago to random

Hi- I’ve been using Mastodon for a year, as of today.

I didn’t come from that other site, or any other site… I came from the wilderness, where I’d abandoned all social media.

Thanks for being an awesome place to rediscover this kind of connection after many years without it.

I think you’re all pretty great!

♥️❣️

hopeward, 2 days ago to random

This is a not-great picture of an amazing effect that happens on the #SanFranciscoBay in certain conditions, where the different directions (?) and/or speed of currents in the water creates two-toned colors with that sharp line dividing them.

Fascinating to me!