Journalists are realising Mastodon and the Fediverse is not so complicated to use after all
As Notopoulos writes, the Fediverse is a better, more user-centric social media concept than the one we currently have, where you amass followers on a single platform then lose them if that platform dies or becomes bad and you decide to quit. Federated social ...continues
How can the one we have be better than the one we have?
Perhaps it would have been clearer if the latter was presented in past tense - the one we had?
#Mastodon_social does not, however, qualify, since it is itself the deprecated model, considering it's just another monolithic silo itself in most respects.
Journalists are also realizing stock Mastodon isn't acceptable either due to a paltry 500 char limit; #Friendica, #Mitra, #Pleroma, #Firefish - much better!
Let's not forget (shameless plug coming) your excellent #PeerTube 'walk-through tutorials' for #Fediverse and other #FOSS technologies that folks should be aware of.
I know I send folks links to those on a regular basis and they really help people understand how the Fediverse, and to a more general degree, #DeSoc and #Smolweb empowers them via your explanations and guided tours.
Your commitment is truly an asset to the community at large 👍
I hate when people put meetings at lunch time. Is it hard to find space in the calendar? Do it in advance, or early (I never have meetings from 8 to 10, why is that?).
Is not hard to realise that there's free time at lunch time because... that's when people have lunch!
They learn real quick, when you just take your hour long lunch immediately after their lunch-time meetings (where they often even try to feed you processed crap).
That boi is his own person.
The other thing that I found amusing was when the entire dev team told me that we had a #basketball_lunch on Wednesdays.
"Yah lemme know how that goes kiddos - I work to live. I don't live to work."
The times they are a changin' - it's quite the popular topic in #Fediverse_City and closely followed by many....
But, how 'bout you enlighten many with a few #dark_theme pics? It's very pretty - and more importantly, intuitively operable by the average user due to the simplified UX it exposes :)
Thank you for your envisage of what social communications can be today, right now, without waiting!
A great adaptation and reinterpretation of “Beauty and the Beast” as a Japanese anime set in modern times.
I love how they used Virtual Reality as a plot device only; and avoiding the pitfall of explaining things that are not needed to be explained.
I now understand why this received a 14-minute standing ovation at Cannes (the 7th longest at the festival). It truly deserves it. A Masterpiece. I've never seen this level of reinterpretation of the classic “Beauty and the Beast”.
Finally, someone understands the value of requiring someone to pay "SOMETHING", in order to alleviate #Spam and hold people posting their thoughts accountable as the individuals that have done so.
It's a proven concept by the #Stellar Foundation that has proven that even some pittance of monetary consideration breaks Spam because Spammers follow the path of least resistance (zero cost).
I searched online for " Bruno Gerussi" and " Celebrity Cooks", a daytime cooking show he hosted when not filming "The Beachcombers" . I found compilations including clips from a Bob Crane episode, taped days before Bob Crane's murder in June 1978, and this blog post: https://vote4bobcrane.blogspot.com/2015/10/celebrity-cooksthe-real-story-behind.html
That’s the common refrain. If you only want to server smaller communities and never have an impact on the mainstream, that’s a choice that can be made. But journalists aren’t the only people who want QPs, I assure you. They are just the people we need to popularize decentralized networking as something that can replace the big silos for serious news producers and analysts.
It's not a refrain.For observant, privacy conscious folks, it's not even a random thought - it is what it is - We Own our stuffs and We are Happy!👯 🕺 💃 🎵
What journalists are doing is stupid - creating accounts on silos that only support a paltry 500 characters per post, like #mastodon_social.
And the deprecated monolithic silos have been obviated.
I don't really give a shit what the subjugated chattel do.
There's a new kid on the block - and there's no punches being pulled here either - I would love if some of the folks could weigh in here with their thoughts about the developer's observations...
Oh great. After the rodents and the locusts, here we go again. Summer is always bad around here for flies, but apparently this year is a record breaker. Yesterday I had to put on the head net while working in the paddocks because they kept trying to fly up my nose.
(Fediverse survey post, asking people to click on a web link to a Mastodon post and say what their app does with it.)
UPDATE: Aaaarrgghhhhhhh! 😱 I had a number of people asking me for clarification of the poll, so I edited option wording, but this caused it to reset the responses to zero. I am so sorry! 🥴
The latest figures before I messed this up were this:
About 75% of people clicking on a link to a Mastodon post saw it displayed a normal post, 25% saw it displayed in a browser window.
It actually stands to reason; people often find after they publish a poll that they could have worded a question or option better, then try, then discover that the meaning of the question or option now takes on a new defining intent - that's unacceptable manipulation, whether intentional or not.
When you start a DM, #Mitra won't let you add/remove addressees; last time I checked, mastodon will - it shouldn't that's a potential breech of privacy & security.
You're invited and welcome to join the discussion anytime you like :)
In a nutshell, it looks good but appears as if they rushed to meet the deadline to present at DefCon before they have the rest ready - many folks are poo-pooing them, as you might expect, for having a non-FOSS based support chan at Discord; was also informed that someone did release a Python chat client
Just today I learned who is currently my province's Premier. Five months after one retired from politics. That's how little attention I pay to politics and news now, and how great my Mastodon timeline is at sheltering me. I should ask the local paper for a RSS feed. Who has links to tutorials for setting these up?
I used to be more attentive, but that was another nation ago that left me with residual outrage burnout.
Well my friend that's a great question! I'm happy to help out too :)
First, one must decide on a particular #Reader, and there are many to choose from, but here's one that really looks nice and is #SuperDuperEasyPeasy to use...
I hope you find it worthwhile, but be really careful - people who are new to reading their news via #RSS, #Atom, etc., are often overwhelmed with the addiction - it can be more compelling than that #tictak thang.
I've seen this on four social networks in the #Fediverse now in just over a week - #ActivityPub, #ZOT, #nostr, and #Movim/XMPP. These memes are going around, but what about those privacy disrespecting, deprecated legacy silos like #Faceplant, #Twitter, and #InstaSPAM or #Reddit - Why is it that we're preaching to the choir instead of to the sinners of the #SunnyVale_Syndrome?
Go forth, save those poor souls over on the silos, Tell them that they're pork bellies. Muahahaha!