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Can you please BOOST this post and FOLLOW our account and encourage your followers to do the same? Thank you.
I just received this email in a catch-all that was addressed to a user. Mastodon does NOT such mails and this leads to a malicious login page!
Please make sure you are on the correct instance URL before logging in!
Also make sure the emails are send from the instance you are on! Often this email can be found on the /about page
#Mastodon
Don't let federation make the experience suck.
cc @blaine
http://benlog.com/2022/12/28/dont-let-federation-make-the-experience-suck/
#federation #web #mastodon
Don’t let federation make the experience suck
I’m pessimistic about federated architectures for new end-user products, like Mastodon. But, I could be wrong. In fact, I’d love to be wrong on this one. So since Blaine fairly called m…Benlog
When we quote retweet on the birdsite, it's usually about adding our own commentary:
🐦 THIS is why this is important to ME...
🐦 MY opinion is more compelling because...
🐦 THAT'S NOTHING! Listen to MY story...
When we quote retweet, we take someone else's post and make it about US. This can get problematic when the original tweet was from from a #bipoc, #indigenous, #LGBTQPlus, or other #marginalized or #vulnerable person.
When we boost a toot, we're using OUR voices and influence to amplify others'. And we're doing so on their terms, not our own. If we feel strongly about the original post, we can always add our own voices to the conversation, but without using our #privilege to talk over people who might need to be heard more than us.
We've collected 8 of our most popular articles of the year in links, and in a downloadable PDF.
Among them:
🦟 The science of mosquito magnets
🔭 The search for super-earths
🌋 Why we can't just throw all our trash into volcanoes to get rid of it
All written by experts.
https://theconversation.com/a-sampler-of-our-most-popular-articles-of-2022-195535
#Journalism #Science #SciComm #News
A sampler of our most popular articles of 2022
A selection of fact-based journalism from 2022, covering topics ranging from super-earths to mosquito magnets, and from why we need to file tax returns to why we can’t just throw all our trash into volcanoes.The Conversation
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2022/12/twitter-rival-mastodon-rejects-funding-to-preserve-nonprofit-status/
Twitter rival Mastodon rejects funding to preserve nonprofit status
Open-source microblogging site has seen surge of interest since Musk took over Twitter.Ars Technica
It's new and still incomplete, but decided to share it. HTML & open source. #MastodonList #Mastodon #OpenSource
The curated Mastodon list
This is a list of all things related to Mastodon, an open source decentralized network. The list is updated regularly.mementomori.social
https://techcrunch.com/2022/12/23/mastodon-creator-eugen-rochko-talks-funding-and-how-to-build-the-anti-twitter/?tpcc=ecfb2020
It makes it easier to read and more #accessible. Single words are OK to keep lowercase, unless they are proper nouns 😉
As an instance moderator, it makes it easier to review if you're a #MastoAdmin.
#CamelCaseAllTheHashTags
#Mastodon #HashTag #accessibilty
@jamesbritt also shared you can #Use_The_Underbar!
Please #boost this for visibility and to help improve the lives of many people.
Why a Twitter Founding Engineer Is Now All-in on Mastodon - The New Stack
Blaine Cook was there at the very beginning of Twitter; now he's focused on building fediverse infrastructure that will help Mastodon scale.Richard MacManus (The New Stack)
BTW, in #Mastodon, it sorta shows up semi randomly in the timeline, rather than at the top like it does in #TruthSocial. Is that the intended result?
"Mastodon is a social media platform/website/app."
Me:
"So, when are you gonna start writing articles about how Firefox is the internet? And Outlook is email?"
Tech writers:
"What?"
Me:
"What?
...also, IPhones are cell phone service, right?"
#mastodon
However, you may have seen posts with more than 500 characters.
This is possible because Mastodon is just one type of server on the Fediverse. Many of the accounts you interact with on here may be using different server types with different character limits.
For example, there are modified "forked" versions of Mastodon such as Glitch (https://glitch-soc.github.io/docs/) and Hometown (https://github.com/hometown-fork/hometown) which allow server admins to easily change the character limits.
There are also completely different kinds of servers such as Friendica (https://friendi.ca) which have much larger default limits.
Because the Fediverse uses a common technical standard for communication, different kinds of servers talk to each other seamlessly, and you won't necessarily notice which server types people use. (I'm on a server running Glitch Mastodon, which is how this post can be so long.)
#Mastodon #Fediverse #CharacterLimit #CharacterLimits
GitHub - hometown-fork/hometown: A supported fork of Mastodon that provides local posting and a wider range of content types.
A supported fork of Mastodon that provides local posting and a wider range of content types. - GitHub - hometown-fork/hometown: A supported fork of Mastodon that provides local posting and a wider ...GitHub
Download: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/share-to-mastodon/bibnjflclpdmbbcncejifemmbggkcjde
Source code: https://github.com/corbindavenport/share-to-mastodon
Boosts appreciated! #Mastodon #Chrome
Seriously, geniuses. No one is holding a gun to your head and forcing you to use the entire character limit. You wanna cut your thought off at 140, 280, or 500 characters? Great! Get to it! Stop using that as a nonsense argument to force OTHERS to truncate their thoughts to match your limited attention span. 🙃
#twittermigration #twitterinvasion
We're just starting out, but applications are open for artists and creators, come see us at https://artistalley.space/about
#introduction
Artist Alley
ArtistAlley.space is a place for professional and amateur artists and creators to share their work and build an audience on Mastodon and the Fediverse.Mastodon hosted on artistalley.space
"Awards of up to EUR 5000 are available for finding security vulnerabilities in LibreOffice, LEOS, Mastodon, Odoo and CryptPad, open source solutions used by public services across the European Union. There is a 20% bonus for providing a code fix for the bugs they discover."
https://commission.europa.eu/news/european-commissions-open-source-programme-office-starts-bug-bounties-2022-01-19_en
#EU #OpenCollaboration
European Commission's Open Source Programme Office starts bug bounties
Ethical hackers wanted, for fixing bugs in LibreOffice, LEOS, Mastodon, Odoo and CryptPad.European Commission
#journalism #twittermigration #journalists #mastodon #fediverse #STEM
#Twitter suspends #Mastodon account, prevents sharing links: Our statement
https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2022/12/twitter-suspends-mastodon-account-prevents-sharing-links/
Mastodon (@Mastodon@mastodon.social)
223 Posts, 10 Following, 720K Followers · Official account of the Mastodon project. News, releases, announcements. All in micro-blog form! Toot toot!Mastodon
https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2022/12/twitter-suspends-mastodon-account-prevents-sharing-links/
Twitter suspends Mastodon account, prevents sharing links
On Dec 16, Twitter suspended our @joinmastodon account after we shared a link to the newly registered Mastodon account of @ElonJet, an account that broadcasts public flight path data of Elon Musk’s private jet, which was previously suspended from Twi…Official Mastodon Blog
Who do you think funds and benefits from the Twitters and Facebooks of the world?
We can’t stop these folks from setting up their own servers but please don’t feel a need to federate with them or subsidise their existence on servers you pay for and maintain.
And remain vigilant against embrace, extend, and extinguish.
#billionaires #vc #SiliconValley #mastodon #capitalism
#TwitterMigration #Twitter #Mastodon
I'm researching ways to implement these features into #gaming. For example #Mastodon and #PixelFed know how to communicate with each other. What if a Minecraft server knew how to talk to a Rust (the game) server?
There's a possibility for games to utilize ActivityPub/Stream and that's been a major focus of mine as of late.
I'm Minnesotan.
I write a newsletter on Substack called "The Garden of Forking Paths."
I also wrote the first book on Trump's authoritarianism. My most recent book is "Corruptible: Who Gets Power and How It Changes Us."
And yes, that is a lemur on my shoulder. #Politics #Introduction #WelcomeToMastodon #Mastodon