ABrockwell @aebrockwell@social.cleverlibre.org

I'll be posting a series of posts showing the lifecycle of different berries.

Today, I'm starting with the blackberry. I hope you enjoy it!

#nature #life #photography #amazing #blackberry #fruits #berries #photo #photos #beautiful

@dotsonapage
@freemo
I'm delighted by all the goodies and benefits I happened into on mine here at qoto. The starting text block is at 64K, which is huge in comparison to most, for example. The description page at https://qoto.org/about/more will give you a rundown, and I think you'll be pleased and surprised by the list of features.

Despite the recent enormous surge in activity and memberships, the server is still speedy (as is the administration). I've had zero trouble with any unpleasant characters lurking about. The management is pro-active in handling issues quickly. The underlying reason for its existence is as a science and science education instance, so there are many intelligent and well-spoken folks about.

Even though there are now over 25,000 users, the admin is reachable and responsive.

Hope you check us out!

The Washington Post (my former employer that I am still fond of) has now had two reporters suspended from #Twitter for transparent BS. If the paper's leaders were wise they'd completely leave the site. Otherwise they're ceding editorial control to Elon Musk. #journalism

The group of people who are trying to divide the fediverse seem to have reached a new low.. They have a tool that lists how many instances block a particular instance, but it is highly manipulative.

For starters it is hand curated.. so they exclude blocks against their own instances and only includes instances they actually dislike.

Worse yet they curate a list ordered by "most blocked".. problem is they use the number of instances that block. They game the system by having large number of single-user instances. So instances in the top 50 may only be blocked by a few hundred people but still appear as if the blocks are significant....

This is why we need transparency, its why we need the https://UFoI.org

#mastoadmin #fediblock @ufoi #UFoI

An interaction with #ChatGPT showing that even the best AI program depends on the information given it, and can be very very wrong about things. (Though I appreciate the happy ending.)

Image from @edaross
https://newsie.social/@edaross@neurodifferent.me/109532286048979649

For those who don't know, #JohnMastodon was accidentally created when someone at a news org mistook the hashtag #JoinMastodon (which Twitter banned) for the name "John Mastodon." It has now become a running joke.

Amazing how one little mistake can propagate.

#BlackFriday. Happy Black Friday from an old Freedom Rider.

@maxeddy @MattBinder

Leaving #twitter is now a necessity, and here are four reasons why:

https://robertsonp.substack.com/p/in-defense-of-the-twitter-quitter

This is significant ...

The German office for data protection and freedom of information hosts the official #Mastodon server for government departments

They are now calling for all ministries on the server to put their focus on Mastodon

They are also asking ministries which are not yet on Mastodon to join as soon as possible

I didn't leave #twitter because it got ugly or unpleasant for me, whenever I check it mostly seems fine, with people I followed just going along like nothing happened. I left because it got shitty for other people.
I left because it was bought by a Nazi to promote Nazi ideas and I don't want to support Nazis.

Hi there! This is ACM, the world's largest computing society. As you might have noticed, we have opened not only our official #Mastodon account but also our own #instance!

Please consider joining @mastodon.acm.org, a community for #computing researchers & practitioners to connect & exchange ideas with each other, whether you are an ACM member or not.

You can use this link to join: https://mastodon.acm.org/invite/FbXaxAHg

Spread the word with your friends and colleagues! Happy tooting!

Mmm, shiny new things! ✧・ﾟ: *✧ Our community is crafting LibreOffice 7.5, due for release in early February. And the first Beta is now available – so please help us to test it! https://qa.blog.documentfoundation.org/2022/12/15/libreoffice-7-5-beta1-is-available-for-testing/

Welcome to the #Promptodon #WritingPrompt

Today's Prompt (12/14):

#Loquacious

New Prompts Daily! Write us some fiction using the Word, or the Image of the day (or get tricky and use both!)

For people to find your writing:
1. Use the Hashtags
2. Or respond to this post

Please Boost so we can find more participants!! (thank you!)

#writingCommunity #WritingPrompt #FlashFiction #MicroFiction #sff #fantasy #SciFi #Promptodon #horrorPrompt
Non-Attribution Image from pixelbay

Dear white people:

Whenever you see someone who is #BIPOC speak up about the lack of #diversity on Mastodon... You don't need to give your opinion, you don't need to correct them about their own experience, you don't need to highlight the wonders of the fediverse. Just don't.

Instead, please listen to what they say, and remember that reach here is mediated by boosts, so instead of telling them to invite more people over—or to become Mastodon leaders of their community...

... Just boost them

Make a conscious effort to follow people who are #BIPOC and boost their posts.

Boost posts by non-white marginalized communities so you can help their voices reach farther.

#TwitterMigration

I would love to see tv and film that explores what Native life was like here *before* white people arrived

This quote by Carl Sagan hangs in my office. #science

@freemo @Gaythia @ufoi Hi, welcome to Qoto! Happy to see a fellow chemist! 👩‍🔬I’m fairly new here as well and I came in without much Mastodon background, but Qoto has been really nice so far.