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We are excited to welcome new members to our working groups!🎉 🥳
@lina has joined our technical working group!! She's a senior full-stack developer extraordinaire who helps us fight git, patiently teaches us #DevOps concepts, and is one of the #MastoDev who contributed to the #ExclusiveLists feature that got merged upstream to base #mastodon 🙌
@elduvelle has joined our social working group!! She's a postdoctoral #neuroscience researcher in the field of (rodent) spatial cognition, is always ready to help new members feel at home here, and has played an instrumental role in the organization of #Maystodon#JoinMastodonDay and #NeuroParty 🙌
We thank you both for your outstanding contributions to our community at neuromatch.social and #fediverse ❤️🙏 @gratitude
#Mastodon provides an API which third party apps can let users authenticate to with OAuth and then perform actions on their account like posting new statuses, favoriting, etc.
Why do people keep building entire new #ActivityPub implementations instead of just letting you login with the #fediverse account you have and then posting the activities you generate in that app on your account?
Instead each new site is a new @username you have to get people to follow.
the default media sizes on #mastodon are incredibly frustrating. for some reason a 1 megabyte webm file is deemed TOO LARGE by default? man i don't want to have to fuck with my configuration files to to shitpost my #overwatch highlights...
I haven’t checked the official Mastodon app since I moved here last November, but it has undergone a lot of improvement! I’m glad they’ve added the Local timeline in (dubbed “Community”), and the “News” tab is interesting. Federated timeline would be nice, but I honestly don’t use that much so it’s not really a dealbreaker for me. What apps do you prefer?
On CNN, NBC News and NY Times websites front pages: either small blurbs mentioning “woman in Alabama…” near the bottom of their homepages or mentioning her name along with other “trending” subjects across the top. CBS News Radio hasn’t mentioned Carlee Russell at all in their news bulletins so far. #CarleeRussell#FindCarleeRussell#BlackMastodon#Mastodon
If someone follows you or you spot someone with a "large number" in followers/follows and almost no posts that doesn't mean it's a bot account but rather the person is just auto-deleting their posts!
This is a feature in #Mastodon you can find under settings 😉
The most important ones:
Make an #introduction post littered with hashtags that are relevant to your interests. People with those interests are likely to follow or boost your introduction for more visibility.
Follow Follow Follow! Follow people that seem interesting to you. It's the basis of "federation" across the fediverse and helps your toot travel to other instances.
A note: I'm covering #MNUFC for the Pioneer Press tonight. Will try to post a few updates here as well, but I suspect I'll mostly be on the bird site (same username), so please follow along there.
Where oh where, in the goodness gracious mother of FUCK, is the U.S. corporate news media national coverage of Carlee Russell gone missing in the USA? Your asses covered rich wankers in a minisub off Newfoundland, Canada but you fucks are SILENCIO on a BLACK woman. #CarleeRussell#BlackMastodon#Mastodon
IMPORTANT: WE MUST FIND CARLEE RUSSELL. 🙏🏿 Another Black woman gone missing in America. Please spread the word on your social media by posting or reposting this or the image you see here. Spread the word on your podcast, too. Thank you.
Please call 205-401-3365 to provide police with any information on her whereabouts.
I'll readily admit I'm no bug lover, but I do make an exception for the Praying Mantis. I find everything about them fascinating. Happy to report that two juveniles have finally showed up on the rose bushes outside my kitchen window. Available as a PNG file on my Pixels site, so you can change the background color.
#Mastodon, #Fediverse, #Tech lovelies: can I be real? Non-tech people have no idea what you’re talking about ½ the time you are explaining how this works. Like none.
1st identify what isn't behind CloudFlare, for example, your email services, and relocate them either to another server or use a service (MailChimp for example).
You don't want anything that cries out "over here."
2nd buy a new IP and log into CloudFlare, assign that IP to your domain records, as if it was already active
3rd remove the old IP and now apply the new IP to your server
I made this post last night about a (really badly designed, neoliberal) survey on #ClimateChange from the Irish government on both twitter and #Mastodon at the same time.
Both have the same number of RTs/Boosts as of now. I wonder if Mastodaoine, #IrishMastodon is getting enough mass to make it a good place to share and discuss for #IrishPolitics. #irlpol
Y’all. I keep my (private) instagram account open because I follow lots of amazing artists who don’t publish elsewhere.
The other day I commented on a post. Something I don’t ever do. This triggered a sea of hateful and venomous replies. I didn’t even say anything offensive.
I am now reminded of why I love Mastodon. So much.
Mastodon absolutely needs more journalists. We should not have millions of people boosting one another’s ideas without a solid contingent of people in here professionally trained to vet stories, check facts, and use best practices for sharing news. It is, imo, an urgent issue & critical for the ongoing success of the fediverse #Press
@seachanger@maria This whole thread has been so important. I was a reporter for a decade so I know it's flaws... but ethical and transparent #journalism remains so crucial to a free and safe society.
#Mastodon is only starting to make sense to me. It's a steep learning curve but when you get it, wow you GET it.
I really want the fediverse to thrive and survive-- and that means a greater variety of voices.