I decided to start using Metatext (the mastodon app) for my on the go use. Haven’t used it for posting yet so here it is the first text post for my phone :3
#Ivory is still my favorite and go-to #Mastodon client, though I have several others on my phone I use for different reasons. (As Scott pointed out, Ivory does require a paid sub)
#Feditext is awesome, but is in TestFlight beta rn
#Mammoth: Is a great looking, free app with some cool features like "Smart Lists”. Some mild bugginess here and there though
#IceCubes is awesome and open source but struggles with some timeline mgmt stuff
Is it possible to add a live feed of another instance somewhere? - Works great for the home instance, but it seems like a pain to surf or keep up with other instances.
Ok now I’m a little sad. I just recently found the Artifact app, and now it’s shutting down. What app do you all use to read various types of news on all kinds of topics?
#Mastodon is slightly better since I get boosts in my timeline which with enough followed accounts turns into a kinda less-toxic “For You” algorithm
I use #feedly as my RSS platform and they suggest other blogs to sub to that are similar to ones that I already sub to
I’m also active on infosec-related #Lemmy / #Kbin servers which feed me new stuff sometimes (though still not as effective as Reddit is/was when I was using it)
There’s some attempts at building algo’s on top of Mastodon as well as folks building curated lists (#Mammoth being an example of the latter) that you could also look into.
Anyone who has done a fair amount of digging almost certainly has excavated discoveries (bottles, bricks, old pipes) that fall short of spectacular. That wasn’t the case last May when a shovel operator working the overnight shift at a North Dakota coal mine spotted a glint of white that turned out to be a mammoth tusk estimated to be thousands of years old. Phys.org has more: https://flip.it/SKXdt9 #Science#Mammoth#Discoveries#Animals
I’m client hopping... #Ivory seems to be falling behind in features and it’s not cheap to boot
#mammoth has some interesting features like their lists and threading mode but their custom UI design with tiny navigational buttons is awful and implicit IMHO
#IceCubes seems fairly on par with Ivory, but it doesn’t have an inline emoji selector (neither does Mammoth actually)
Out of these only Mammoth plays animated avatars and emoji...
January: Microraptor and the Flowers. I started this year out making paleoart watercolours and never really stopped. This one is about a Microraptor investigating the first flowers she’s ever seen. The flowers are Lingyuananthus, a lovely little fossil flower described in an even lovelier paper that was not behind a paywall for once.
August: Spring on the mammoth steppe. When the time came to do some art set in the Quaternary, I decided to depict a real life location and how it would have changed in the past few hundred thousand years. This spot is just west of Baden-Baden (which is in the glacier valley to the upper left), on the edge of the Schwartzwald. I also enjoyed depicting an ice age spring. It wasn’t always snow and ice.
@mammoth@kylewritescode I’ve been trying to discover new and interesting #infosec accounts and have wanted to get some use out of the /cybersecurity curated list on #mammoth but in its current state I don’t find it very useful or high-signal. The feed is dominated (at times) by some AI cyber bot thing “cyberfeed” and “Beyond Machines” and some other high-volume posters who only post about infosec a small percentage of the time. It’s also littered with reply posts that are not useful in isolation (even if the parent post is relevant to infosec). How often is this list updated? I’d be happy to help with curation. My timeline is very high-signal on all things infosec & cybersecurity fwiw.
I love the idea of the curated lists and appreciate all the time that’s gone into working on it so far though!!
@kylewritescode@mammoth Hey! Circling back on this note. I’ve created a list of pure infosec accounts that I wanted to share (available here as a .csv https://github.com/shellsharks/assorted/blob/master/resources/IndieSec.csv). If interested, I’d love to collab on a *new #mammoth Smart List dedicated to #infosec / #cybersecurity content/accounts. There are nearly 500 accounts that I’ve hand-picked within that list that are all pretty high signal in terms of posting about infosec-related content. Let me know what you think. Cheers!
Anyone know of a #mastodon app that has some sort of “for you”-style algorithmic timeline feature? I’d be interested in perusing something like that from time to time to surface #infosec content / accounts that are buried in the fediverse. I’m familiar with #mammoth curated feeds and some other clients have a “popular” function but need something more specific to my interests. Thanks!
I want to thank the @mammoth team for allowing me to work closing with them to bring the #Mammoth community the new /cybersecurity Smart list. It was a blast and I hope everyone enjoys and finds it resourceful.
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