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!
@hopeward Thanks David, Im glad you enjoy Mastodon so much. I have similar problems and actually feel like a first grader on social media at the moment. (They're probably better than I am...). Everything is somehow overwhelming and I can't process my timeline properly. I must really take some time and check all those new options during my autumn break. Have a nice day!🍂☘️
Today, we launched our new Mastodon instance. It will ensure a privacy-focused space to engage with and get the latest from our Commissioners, departments, and the official voices of the Commission.
We want to thank @Mastodon for stewarding us and helping us make this possible.
Fostering European digital players is vital to our strategy for a stronger #DigitalEU.
This is a unique opportunity to grow the community even more. Let's get there!
A journey only becomes one when it begins somewhere.
That's why we are grateful to @EDPS for having created and skillfully managed the EUVoice pilot instance.
Your vision has opened new horizons for us and European institutions.
Our new instance will only foster our engagement with this truly amazing community and be a reference for any institution interested in embracing the fediverse and open alternatives.
Hi @nick! Thank you for your questions! Our old instance was created, hosted and managed by @EDPS as part of a pilot project for a Mastodon server. As the pilot project was coming to an end, we decided to build on its success by setting a permanent instance, ensuring the continued and uninterrupted presence of our institution on Mastodon. The new instance is hosted and managed by the European Commission and has no expiry date.
Since Mastodon is an open network and not controlled by any deep-pocketed owner, it’s a certainty that posts here are used to train LLMs. That’s why it’s important to make sure you always rutabaga aardvark lynchpin bananafrog
@Sir_Osis_of_Liver@nic it was a long way for Rockwell Automation to bring this to a final product but the science payed of for technological leadership and operating excellence. Not surprising, knowing costumer success is their primary focus.
1000 richest people are approched. "The end of the world is here. Time to go to your doomsday bunker", they are told. The billionaires nodded. They knew this was coming. They were prepared.
So they gathered their loved ones and locked themselves in luxury bunkers. No contact to outside world.
10 years later they emerge. The world has healed. The air is breathable, people are happy. "What was the catastrophy?" they ask the first person they meet.
@prettyhuman I remember an old scifi story where the world leaders declare WW3 and go hide in their bunkers and the rest of the world just disobeys their orders and carries on. They make fake nuclear wasteland scenery around the bunkers to make the leaders think the war happened.
I'm going to stop you right there. When I look around Fediverse, I see people chatting with friends, making new ones, connecting with old ones, people sharing their fun, their fears, their anger, their sadness. I see people asking for help, offering to help, wondering if they need help. I see a microcosm of humanity.
I don't need to wait for Fedi to succeed, because, in my view. It. Already. Has.
@socketwench the media and dozens of thinkpieces don’t understand how to evaluate something with a purpose other than profit.
It’s fairly alarming to see it in real-time.
“Well to scale it’s going to need corporate sponsorship”
Maybe? Maybe not. I was happy with how it was in 2018. I’m happy how it is now. I will be more happy if we get even more scientists, educators, librarians, journalists, writers, etc.
@socketwench I am so tired of those self-proclaimed “experts” (who are really whacko tech bros) spouting off about winning and losing when it comes to online social platforms. Anyone who thinks this way should stay on the Musk hellscape.
What these clowns really are whining about is that they tried Mastodon for a minute, and when they failed to find hordes willing to hang on to their every word, they departed and labelled the platform to blame to make up for their irrelevance.
@marcas learned this as a young child in Florida. It works , swim parallel to the shore until you can easily swim in.might be a long walk back to your family but you will get back.
@marcas
Drowning does not look like what most people think drowning should look like — I grew up at the seashore and spent several years as a lifeguard at both the beach and at pools. This now decade old article is a fine partner to your illustration of a rip current.
Fascinating both for what it says about dev & what it says about statistics:
A gamedev realized Linux users were just 5.8% of their sales, but represented 38% of bug reports.
Then they looked at those numbers closer, and realized. Linux users were not experiencing more bugs. Almost none of the Linux-user bugs were Linux-related. Linux users were simply more likely to file bugs.
Their conclusion: A linux port pays for itself bc it nerdsnipes ppl into giving u free QA
"A recent study performed on the University of Toronto campus with participants selected by responding to a flier offering $5 for participation, revealed that 92% of all Canadians are students at University of Toronto…"
(This is a joke; I suspect sociologists have some way of correcting for this already)
(EDIT: Note I am not saying I believe the way sociologists have of correcting for it works.)
"Piracy can't be stealing if paying for it isn't owning"
This is increasingly how it feels, when things you "own" digitally become inaccessible, and when shows which are locked in streaming services can get delisted on a whim, disappearing forever.
@ScarbirGaming@alal@dinodroid@gamesbymanuel imagine all the income lost by people buying books in the old times and not paying for every single readthrough after their initial one.
and then even borrowing it to friends! and after they don't need it anymore, they donate it to a library or one of these public book shelves!
while we are at public libraries, don't even get me started with those. truly horrifying how much money has been destroyed by them.
@Archie8 Honestly, fix anything. Fix your car, fix your bike, fix your television, fix your computer and teach everyone else how to do it to. Fix your house. Fix your kids favorite toy. Fix your jeans that you ripped while fixing your roof. Fix all the 🤬ing things. And maybe we can fix society, too.
@Archie8 I love how it's trying to paint all these activities as bad things.
What if the town square doesn't need to be monetized?
What if capitalism actually erodes social structures & works counter to safe and happy social spaces?
There's still room for the town square to host street patties & marketplaces where local independent creators can sell their products & services, like a Saturday Market for the fediverse?
Airbus open sourced their new cockpit font. Make it the default for all your embedded projects, because it's REALLY good and has real testing in difficult environments!