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#accessibility #Mastodon #redditMigration
“Hey, look, we’re not a monopoly. We’re not being anticompetitive… we’re federating using an open protocol. Here, let our friend Eugen, CEO of Mastodon, explain to you how it works in very dispassionate words…”
#eu #ec #fediverse #mastodon #antitrust #DigitalServicesAct #PR #usefulIdiots
Appears #BigJournalism does not treat non-commercial projects as legitimate.
Examples of projects which are discounted include the #Fediverse, #Wikipedia, #Wikidata, #MusicBrainz, & the #Greens.
Whereas #Facebook's #AssociationWithGenocide, Twitter allowing white supremecy, anti-vacc and Q-Anon to spread their poison, and similar on YT and TikTok etc, get treated as if that is just the acceptable cost of doing business . Cause they're "legitimate".
Not because I think it's a threat to the #fediverse, although it could potentially be.
Not because I think it will bring a huge amount of bad actors that will harass users on other instances, although that is definitely a risk.
My reason is simpler; #Facebook has done so much evil, society eroding shit, that I don't work with them on principle.
And Facebook knows that as well, which is why threads is instagram branded.
https://fossacademic.tech/2023/07/02/GradStudentsPostDocs.html
I'm interested in working with folks who want to study #AlternativeSocialMedia, including the #fediverse, from a critical perspective.
York U (in Canada) has some generous funding now, thanks to a major grant the university received (I'm affiliated with the grant).
Please do reach out if you have questions! Boosts appreciated.
Seeking Grad Students and Postdocs
This is just a short note to announce that, thanks to some generous funding at York University, I am recruiting graduate students (MA and PhD) as well as post-docs. I’d like to work with folks on alternative social media, in particular.RWG (FOSS Academic)
"Life is neither static nor unchanging. With no individuality, there can be no change, no adaptation and, in an inherently changing world, any species unable to adapt is also doomed."
Jean M. Auel
No place is perfect, adapt and enjoy with time you will establish your network.
Welcome🫶
#twitter #twitterexodus #fediverse #mastodon #life #newcomer #newhere #welcome
- Welcome to the fediverse!
- If you’ve joined mastodon.social because it was the default option in the app, please look to move to a smaller instance so mastodon.social doesn’t grow to become Twitter 2.0. (You can use https://instances.social to find a new instance or ask folks on here for suggestions.)
- Please add alternate text to your images so people who use screen readers can join in too. (https://accessibility.huit.harvard.edu/describe-content-images)
#TwitterMigration #mastodon #fediverse
Write good Alt Text to describe images
Alternative (Alt) Text is meant to convey the “why” of the image as it relates to the content of a document or webpage. It is read aloud to users by screen reader software, and it is indexed by search engines.accessibility.huit.harvard.edu
Welcome to the #Fediverse. It might take some time, but you'll get the gist of it soon enough. Remember the beginning on the other side...
#Mastodon is unsearchable* by design
If you see a post with a link or list you might want to come back to later, slap a bookmark on that puppy or you will never find it again
If you want other people to be able to find your posts, you need to #Hashtag the keywords
Today's #FediTip brought to you by the letters A, C, and C and the emoji
https://calckey.org/join/
Calckey is a newer FOSS microblogging portal into the Fediverse. 100% interoperable with Mastodon, but with features Twitter users probably want:
* QTs (called "Quote Renotes")
* Support for
markdown in notes which is bold* Gallery for images* "Antennas" to help discovery and "Channels" to help organize
Mastodonauts can also migrate to Calckey just as they would another Mastodon instance (that's what I did).
Just saying... the Fediverse doesn't revolve around Mastodon. This is open source social media. Don't stop migrating!
Some good info on the #fediverse
- Fediverse.Party - explore federated networks
Let's make social media free, federated and fun! Fediverse.Party is your guide into the world of decentralized, autonomous networks running on free open software on a myriad of servers across the world. No ads and no algorithms.fediverse.party
Acho que fariam melhor se investissem esse tempo e energia a convidar os amigos para cá, em vez de falarem desses negócios disfarçados de redes sociais!
Good morning to all people of goodwill on the Fediverse! Have a great weekend!
#Fediverse
If we ever aspire to become a serious alternative to corporate platforms we can't continue with this behavior. Let me explain.
Two days ago someone created a "The_Donald" community of a well-known #Lemmy instance. Immediately there were cries for defederation, blocking, and suspicion about the admin letting racists run rampant on his instance.
Ultimately when the admin logged in they removed that community. But before they even had time to realize what was happening they were already being accused of stuff and if any instance heeded the call to block, it would have caused damage to the users who would have their subscriptions / follows severed.
Some users who've just arrived from Reddit and bring a fresh perspective are already wary of the shit show this can become.
That instance resisted massive blocks because it was large enough. But what if it was smaller? >>
#Mastodon #Kbin #Project92 #MastoAdmin
From this post by Not Just Bikes:
I’ve been on Bluesky for less than 48 hours and my feed is already way more useful than on Mastodon, despite following only a couple of people.I really don’t understand Mastodon’s aversion to discovery algorithms. Algorithms aren’t inherently evil, and I would argue that they’re necessary for social media to function.
The odds of me staying here are pretty slim when it’s almost impossible for people to find my stuff, and for me to discover new people, without doing a bunch of manual work.
I have to do a quote share because I can’t grab the original post here.
