@beardedtechguy and myself are looking for someone that is willing, able and has time to help us with infrastructure related things.
We are looking to fully self host our instance so that we have full control over everything related to the instance. This means we need/want someone that has experience running a self hosted instance and has the time to help Kyle with things when he's not around to do various things. (cont...)
The three things that have helped me find a safe, happy social home on a larger instance are carefully curating who I follow, the hashtags I follow and keyword muting. This is my own self generated algorithm.
Still getting my bearings about how to make a smaller instance just as vibrant. Relays? Being more lax about who I follow? Maybe some of the newer fedi platforms like @newsmast and @Flipboard can help. I know @mammoth has hand curated topic feeds as well.
Friendly reminder, #Mastodon instances are run by volunteers shelling out their own money for hosting. While it's free for us to use, it's not free for them to run.
@beardedtechguy and myself are looking for someone to help us grow #AllThingsTech in every way possible. This includes our blog, our instance, our wiki, our Discord and our community in general.
We're looking for someone that is super active here on Mastodon and will continue to do so going forward.
We're looking for someone that is willing to talk about the instance, advertise the instance and recruit for the instance if possible. (cont...)
We want someone with ideas, thoughts, suggestions and everything similar! We want you to be a part of something awesome and to help make it amazing!
If you feel you are this person and have the time to do things like this, we'd certainly love to have a chat with you. Reach out to myself or @beardedtechguy and let's have a chat!
#feditips pour #Tusky :
L'œil permet de flouter la photo
La bulle permet de mettre un avertissement (content warning) et floute de fait la photo (en plus de cacher le texte).
Il faut cliquer sur le A de la photo et sur le premier choix (légende) pour décrire l'image
(oui j'en profite pour le rappel, parce que j'ai au moins 2 personnes avec un handicap visuel dans ma TL et que j'aime booster vos photos)
#TIL: Do not use your root domain name to test federated software, once you federate your domain is registered across multiple instances and relays, there is no way to rollback, you can't reuse that same domain with a different implemention, and even reinstalling the same service might break if you change the keys.
Mastodon is built differently. Just like the birdsite, you won't see every toot in existence but the 'why' is different. On birdsite, an #algorithm decided. Here, it's your #social connections that truly, organically determine what you see.
It works because it gives you control over who you interact with, and the people you interact with shape the timelines of you and all your neighbors.
@tooters Hi! I'm hoping to migrate this week and am not sure, do I need to set up another account first?
I've done this before, so I'm sure I can do it again, I just get anxious and forget all of the particulars!
If you want to search for posts you’ve made previously, the criteria “from:me” can be used.
E.g. If you wanted to search for all your posts related to the influential Belgian musical artist Technotronic, you would search “from:me technotronic”.
Wow #mastodon !
Silk browser in Amazon tablet:
Just for fun I tested Mastodon on Silk browser and boy was I impressed. #fediverse #mastotips #feditips
Customize the feed using the "unpin" arrows ?This feature is brilliant!
Now I can view TWO FEEDS LIVE.
Antennas.
Antennas are effectively custom timelines. They work approximately like watching hashtags, but they can look for normal text as well. You can add as many phrases as you like and the results can be filtered with an ignore list.
You can make an antenna that just shows posts from specific users and notifies you when they post something new, you can make an antenna that collects posts containing or excluding certain key words, or you can make an antenna that collects only posts with files attached. You can even make an antenna consisting of “Posts from specific users” with “Show replies” checked.
Setting up
You can set up antenna by going to the More! section on your sidebar, and selecting Antennas. Press Add + to create your first. This is where you can also manage & edit previously created antennas.
Images:
Where to find More! on the sidebar (highlighted)
Where to find Antennas in the More! menu (highlighted)
My antennas page showing Add + button and my previously created antennas.
4 & 5) When you click Add + you get this page to set up your antenna. I've set one up as my Calckey antenna and another to alert me when PastaThief posts. There's a lot to go through here. Expect a separate post sometime soon.
6 & 7) What those antenna feeds look like.
On our progressive web app you can access your antennas by selecting the UFO in the top right corner.
Clicking on the UFO button brings up all my antennas and the link to manage/edit them
The #Explore -> People list on my current #Mastodon instance has recommended the same accounts for the past 1.5 years without rotation even when they've stopped posting on the account.
If I haven't followed them by now, and they don't post...why does this list exist?
Finding new accounts with hashtags is very easy and rewarding, but the admin account discovery tools built into the servers are stagnant.
If you're posting a video clip or an audio clip attached to a post, remember to include a text description which describes the sound. This is important so that the video or audio is accessible to deaf people.
Also, if it's a video, it's important to describe both the sound and the visuals so that it's accessible to everyone.
Text descriptions for audio and video are added just like text descriptions for images (exact steps vary depending on which app you use).
Of course, if I were to describe a video, I'd have to go as much into details. However, there'd be a whole lot more to describe.
The video would constantly change. It would show much much more than a still image. There'd be audio that'd require detailed description instead of just name-dropping. All of it. Yes, including panning position. Movements of my avatar would have to be described. Movements of the camera around my avatar as well as independently from my avatar would have to be described. All movements would of course require distances, angles, speeds and changes of speed
The description would require a time code: Everything that happens would have to be mentioned including when exactly it happens, and since things might happen quickly or in quick succession, I'm talking about at least tenths of seconds.
Ten minutes of in-world video would take me weeks to describe, and the description would be the length of a novel and take a whole day to read.
Mastodon users would never see the post with the video because, as far as I know, Mastodon automatically rejects all external posts that exceed 100,000 characters, and I'm talking about millions of characters here. I don't even know if Hubzilla would let me post that much, and Hubzilla doesn't have any character limits except for what the Web server can handle.
Nobody would ever read this, so the whole effort would be in vain. But anything less than this would be critically lacking.
If you're posting a video clip or an audio clip attached to a post, remember to include a text description which describes the sound. This is important so that the video or audio is accessible to deaf people.
Also, if it's a video, it's important to describe both the sound and the visuals so that it's accessible to everyone.
Text descriptions for audio and video are added just like text descriptions for images (exact steps vary depending on which app you use).
In case you don't know what this is: It's a quote-post of another Mastodon post. There's a link to the original and a link to @Fedi.Tips who posted it. Check both out.
If you're just joining fediverse welcome to Mastodon. Cat is not happy about all this work even on caturday. Why?
I had to mute over 200 posts in the last 30 minutes or so. Cleaning up the feeds so you can get to a few good posts will take lots of effort because there's no algorithm
You'll notice many posts come from sources like dlvr ... review them and use filter/block
I just in the past few minutes stumbled upon https://fediwall.social , a configurable social media wall that lets you configure and display selected public content in a rotating panel based on server, accounts, or hashtags.
You can do this on the fly, or customize and save a link, or install and run your own, by the look of it.
#feditips if you want to delete media without search.
Tap media tab on your profile.
Scroll through media thumbnails and click image.
At bottom of displayed image find and tap an icon that looks like an expand button. In the tangerine skin, it looks like a box with an arrow to the upper right.
Edit the post with the media, then delete it or whatev. OR...
If media isn't shown, it may be further down in an associated thread. Scroll until you find it.
Happy time deleting images and video that prevent you from downloading an ActivityPub archive. Beats using has:media search term!