🧵 Hey all! This is a new account, I'm still Zecharias Zelalem, freelance journalist and aspiring OSINTer providing news and analysis on the Horn of Africa for a variety of international media outlets. For the past year or so, I posted via @zekuzelalem, but I've transitioned away from that instance. I'll be posting from this account from now on. After recent changes on the journa dot host instance, I had no choice but to set up elsewhere. Hope to continue exchanges and friendships here.
I don’t have time to check my socials during a busy workday so I usually browse in the evenings or weekends. Oh boy. Just went through reading hundreds of comments.
Never experienced anything like this on other social media platforms before. Even on LinkedIn when my update got viral once and had like hundreds of thousands of impressions I’ve never got as much comments than on here on a regular Monday!
@rolle just to correct you, will ask a few questions:
You're stating that #Fediverse is social, but you only saying so, just because you got a huge number of followers. People from 0-35 to 100 followers don't get that much attention, unlike you. At least, that's how Mastodon's algorithm specifically works, unlike Friendica's and other networks's algorithms!
Keep in mind, that #Mastodon isn't "Fediverse". Fediverse is a huge large, as I call it, "collection" of many (as I call them) "projects" (or "networks" if you want to call it that way), that includes #Friendica , #Diaspora (many people mention that network but nobody discusses/recommends it, which is weird. Plus, Friendica is the only one Fediverse project that supports Diaspora protocol, so how on the Earth does Diaspora counts as a part of Fediverse, I gotta no clue, buddy!), #Pleroma , #BookWyrm , #Pixelfed and #Mastodon too (didn't listed them all, but you got my point, I think, right?).
:brain0: Jumping from one corporation-backed, short-lived, and centralized social media platform to another.
:brain14: Hanging out on one decentralized social network for over a decade, possibly not on the same instance the entire time.
I consider reactivating my #Friendica server. A fresh installation, no backup I could restore. Can I reuse the domain I already used years ago for Friendica or will this create a lot of confusions, inconsistency and maybe even issues. E.g. if someone want to follow me who still has a entry in their database from the old Friendica server?
Any advice or suggestions? Probably a big risk because so many different server software could be involved (#Diaspora, #Mastodon, #friendica,... )?
Hope everyone in NY stays safe. Here's a little music for your Friday. This song is Allah B2y from The Nile Project musicians. I mentioned the project before. It works with musicians from all the countries impacted by the Nile river and water shortage. They tour together to educate people on the issue of water shortage. See second post for more on the project 1/2 https://youtu.be/Slf_oo4s33c?si=KRbRjr2q-V4Vvb1A
Countries that border on the Nile or have tributaries affected by the Nile are : Egypt, Eritrea Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania, Sudan, So. Sudan Uganda, Burundi, Rwanda and the DRC. The link below is to a video of the artists discussing why there is tension around water and sovereignty and wondering whether their music can help. African music made by and for Africans! Check it out. 2/2 https://youtu.be/Wj4OqEAk7aY?si=mcGORym60wEXWXPH
Okay, #pixelfed wird wie #instagram genutzt. Man lernt nicht dazu und müllt einen Service, der prima geeignet ist, schöne Fotos der Öffentlichkeit vorzustellen, mit dem exakt selben Zeug zu, wie man ihn im Rest des #fediverse vorfindet.
I'm thinking about Mastodon in a wide view, in the world of social media, this feels a little outsider, while at the same time it also feels like it might be the future. So, let's talk about it!
What do you get out of Mastodon?
Why are you here?
How has it compared with your other social media experiences?
What do you see for the future of Mastodon?
What do you want to see?
And basically anything else about it you want to say about Mastodon.
LET'S TALK!
@RickiTarr I never had Twitter, and I deleted FB close to a decade ago. But I wouldn't say I wasn't into what we now call social media... I ran a BBS in the 1980s, participated in the forum era of web 1.0, and ran a #diaspora* pod for a couple years around 2011-12.
Diaspora*'s failure to catch on was a real disappointment. I saw then how the Network Effect was the single all-important factor necessary for the success of a social network. Everything else pales next to N.E.
So when Mastodon starting making news after EM drove Twitterers out, I immediately jumped on the bandwagon. Finally... MAYBE... there was enough popular appetite to move of corporate walled gardens. But only if we build the N.E. by actually using Mastodon.
#SouthKorea has the world’s largest #diaspora of intercountry adoptees, with more #ForeignAdoptions overall than any other nation. About 200,000 children have been sent abroad since the end of the #KoreanWar in 1953, mostly to the United States and Europe.
☝️ In summary: A Malaysian diaspora-Chinese-nationalist columnist hails the "people's republic" of china's unstoppable rise despite the American enemies 'doing everything" to fight it... 🧐
The Singaporean journalist Shibani Mahtani wrote about this theme recently for the Washington Post.
#BlackMastodon#BlackTwitter#AfricanFilm#diaspora@blackmastodon
I'm a couple of days late on this but if you are into African film, the Film Forum in NYC is doing a two week retrospective on the works of the father of African cinema: Ousmane Sembène. They are shining light on the way he highlights the strength and intelligence, and power of African women, Sept 8 -21. https://filmforum.org/series/sembene
"Choreographies of the Impossible" is political, poetic, brave, emphatic, heterogeneous, irregular, discursive but also sensual, a journey that serves as an alternate #history of the #art of the 20th & 21st centuries, paying less attention to Western hegemony & more to the #wisdom of #underappreciated traditions, such as #Indigenous cultures & #African#diaspora in #LatinAmerica, the #Arab world & #Asian continent.
Wer Erfahrung mit #Diaspora hat + einen weiteren Account, der mit Lemmy föderiert, kann ja mal da antworten 👇 "Diaspora* - is it any good?"
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Hi all! I'm trying out Mastodon, having been on #Diaspora for years, but never Facebook, Twitter, etc. I guess this is my #introduction. I picked the #cupofteasocial server as I'm basically powered by #tea.
In 1975 I was born in Gosford, NSW, Australia. My father moved to follow the work. He was a surveyor. My earliest memories are of Darwin, in the Northern Territory. I was in preschool at the time. Grade 1 was in The Blue Mountains near Sydney. Central Queensland saw me doing Correspondence School in Grade 5. Outback Queensland in Grade 7 to the mining town of Blackwater. Started high school in Tropical Cairns and finished high school in the port city of Gladstone back in Central Queensland.
Since school I've worked as a computer technician, cotton chipper in Emerald, karaoke host, Harvey Norman salesman, stringer (news cameraman), voice-overs, air-conditioner installer, tradesman's assistant working on QR coal-hauling locomotives, graphic artist, and pizza delivery driver. I've been a singer/guitarist/songwriter in at least four different bands that never went anywhere. I have probably enough material I've written myself to fill an album, but at this rate I'll probably never get around to recording it. I spent a few years making wedding videos in my own business which I closed down when I got bored of making wedding videos. I worked at a printshop making all kinds of things from business cards to shopfront signage for a long time. Now I’m doing social media posts for an IT business.
I love computer games and all things tech. My first computer was a Sinclair ZX80 that I got in 1981. Second was a Commodore64 followed by a Macintosh II (I say “my” computers, but they were really my fathers, particularly the Mac which he used for CAD work.) After that I got into Windows PC's (or DOS PC's as they were back then) and all the games they offered. Windows 3.11, Windows95, 98, 2000, XP... Then Vista burned me and I now use a Mac.
I've been married since 2000 and have a little block of land with a humble little house on it. We have a cat and no kids.
I didn’t have any interest in politics most of my life. Beyond being able to name the Prime Minister and the Premier of my state, I didn't really care.
When Tony Abbott and the LNP got in, I joined a political party. 90% of my social media became political. I was talking politics with strangers online. I dove headfirst into everything politics and learned everything about how our government is supposed to work and why it didn’t seem to be working as I would have expected. After eight or nine years, I burned myself out on it.
All that time I could have been learning about robotics or playing computer games or recording music.
If politicians did their job and acted in the interests of the people they represent instead of representing the interests of lobby groups that fund their political campaigns, then a huge portion of the world could go back to doing what we do best. Creating, inventing and innovating a diverse multicultural society.
So that’s me!
Now, to become the artist that made it big on Mastodon. 😁
@dgar Your post is much much longer then 500 characters........and yes, I know, your instance is probably using glitch-soc , or your instance uses another #Fediverse project, like #Friendica , #Diaspora or #Pleroma ....at least those allows longer posts......
Anyways, thank you for your #introduction (even through it kinda weird to re-introduce yourself again since you already did so before!), was cool to see you married, even without kids, but whatever, I wish all good luck to you, my dude :-)
Its funny and weird seeing people that are on both #diaspora and #mastodon. Just skip the middle man and get a #Friendica account. You only need one account then and can see everyone from both sites.
Today, Ukraine celebrates Independence Day! In challenging military conditions, it achieves victory. And while we await it, we continue to cherish our traditions - cooking delicious Ukrainian borsch
We congratulate all Ukrainians in Ukraine and around the world on this holiday!
@feb@crossgolf_rebel@Codeschubse ja, das ist weiter aktiv. Von Mastodon aus bekommst Du davon aber nichts direkt mit.
Ich habe auch einige Kontakte mit #Diaspora .
Hier im Schaubild ist auch noch mal dargestellt, welche Softwares föderieren: media.kuketz.de/blog/empfehlun…
Die roten Linien sind die Verbindungen zu Diaspora.
Canadian friends, I applaud this push for a boycott of Facebook and Instagram August 23rd and 24th. I understand it's to encourage those companies to let Canadians share news again.
But don''t stop there. OPT OUT FOR GOOD. Canadians don't need the "social" giants--for news or anything else. We need an independent media sharing infrastructure away from those toxic tools. Get off for good, invest in independence, resilience and community connection, and don't look back.
Wisst ihr, was wirklich genial wäre. Wenn es ein Projekt geben würde, dass einen fertigen #RaspberryPi anbietet, den man nur noch anstöpseln muss, und beim ersten Start dann nur noch aussucht, welche Software man für die #Fediverse nutzen möchte. So könnte ein Großteil eine eigene Instanz (Server) betreiben.
Und nein, #Yunohost ist für die „Allgemeinheit“ immer noch zu technisch. 😉 #friendica#firefish#diaspora#peroma#pixelfed#peertube#mastodon
@mj
Ich war viele Jahre komplett ohne Social Media. Vor vielen Jahren hatte ich einen Facebook Account. Den habe ich irgendwann gelöscht weil der FB Algorithmus es schafft das schlechteste in mir zum Vorschein zu bringen. Vor einiger Zeit dann zu Twitter. Sobald klar war dass Musk übernimmt habe ich das Konto zur Löschung eingestellt. Seitdem Mastodon.