Ag Terrane @agterrane@social.cleverlibre.org

Roadblock in The Ngorongo Crater, Tanzania..

🎥 IG: visit__tanzania

Just a reminder about Mastodon.

Try not to directly upload videos here.
You have to remember that these videos have to be stored on the server that you're hosted on.

This would also eat up on available bandwidth, storage and memory resources of said servers and slow them down. Which would force server hosts to upgrade at a substantial cost.

Suggested idea...

Upload to YouTube, Vimeo or other video streaming services and share the link to the video here instead.

Magnitude 5.6 #earthquake in #Nepal 30 minutes ago (2022-11-08Z20:27) Signal (Pn, Sn, Lg) at station KN.KKN (Kakani, Nepal, at a distance of about 400 km) Data obtained free and in near real-time from IRIS.
https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us7000incn/executive

Early reports from multiple agencies indicate a shallow #earthquake occurred in #Italy, M5.5-6.0, widely felt. Approximate location is shown on a #tectonic map from Trippetta et al. 2019 with a yellow blob.

How badly is Twitter's codebase failing?

When Mar Hicks ( who is a great follow and is here at @histoftech ) tweeted behind a locked account about how badly twitter's code base was failing, twitter's code base failed and when another user shared the URL it was visible to the world—a huge security failure. Moreover their account shows up as private or public depending on the app you use to view the account.

(Link to the article that they were sharing: https://www.technologyreview.com/2022/11/08/1062886/heres-how-a-twitter-engineer-says-it-will-break-in-the-coming-weeks/ )

#EarthquakeReport for the M 7.6 (likely) subduction zone #Earthquake in #Mexico on 19 Sept 2022 #TootToot #toot

catching up on reports that happened after my website went down

generated 0.6-1.7m wave height #Tsunami
probably triggered landslides/induced liquefaction

report (and higher resolution figures) here:
https://earthjay.com/?p=10472

#EarthquakeReport for M 6.9 #Earthquake in Taiwan on 18 September 2022

there was lots of damage and some casualties :-(

landslides and liquefaction models show that there was a high likelihood for these.

https://earthjay.com/?p=10450

damage information
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_Taitung_earthquakes

i am filling in some #EarthquakeReport #Toots as I just got my website back up and running after almost two months of arduous work (steep learning curve getting web services set up on a robust server)

Whether you’re waiting in line to vote or waiting online for the results…

It’s a good time for a #thread about the #Archaeology of Athenian Democracy
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I've turned this thread about the #Archaeology of Ancient Athenian Democracy into an essay for those who might want to share off of Mastodon

https://medium.com/@FlintDibble/the-archaeology-of-athenian-democracy-5567a6e574be

This week on the Serious Trouble podcast: Donald Trump has a bad day in New York, files a dumb lawsuit against the better judgment of his few capable lawyers, Dave Portnoy finds out what actual malice isn’t, Elon Musk doesn’t know what tortious interference is.

https://www.serioustrouble.show/p/taint-tortious-interference-taint

Every September, we gather to determine the very best mineral during #MinCup.

#MinCup2017: #Olivine
#MinCup2018: #Garnet
#MinCup2019 #IceMin (ice)
#MinCup2020 #Magnetite
#MinCup2021 #Quetzalcoatlite
#MinCup2022 #Fluorite

Hello! As an #introduction to me, I am a #geologist who studies #topography and how it reflects active #tectonics with a special focus on bedrock #rivers.

I am passionate about #openaccess publishing and #opensource software development for geoscientists. I'm looking to connect with other twitter refugees and new folks as well!

🌓🌎🌞 <-- lunar eclipse

🌎🌓🌞 <-- solar eclipse

🌎🌞🌗 <-- apocalypse

Are we doing pet pictures here yet? Raven says hello.

Okay this might be a long post

One thing that I realised is making #twittermigration harder for people to switch is because the whole concept can feel daunting & overwhelming for non-tech savvy people.

With Twitter to them it was straight forward and easy to find topics they enjoy but with mastodon its a bit different.
So if you're new to mastodon or you want to introduce someone to mastodon here are some tips, useful sites & tools:
### Tips:
- Choosing a home instance isn't as importance as it seems, don't overthink it. Yes moderation rules & policies may differ but they all have one thing in common: Be a decent human. You **always** have the option to migrate your account to a new instance.
- Toots (or posts if you think toots are cringe ) are what we call micro-blogging instead of tweets
- You’re supposed to "boost" AKA "reblog" toots that you like.Since Mastodon does not have an algorithm that surfaces toots that have been liked a lot, boosting is the best way to help spread stuff that you like, and to show appreciation. (credit to @orsvarn for this comment)
- Another way to fill your timeline with content you enjoy is to: Find other people with similar interests, follow them, favourite their posts, boost their posts, use hashtags. rinse, repeat. (credit to @garry)
- If you ever feel yourself getting sucked into arguments on the #Fediverse, you might want to take advantage of the instance mute/block feature!
Instances tend to foster a culture, so if you find people from a specific site tend to be bothering you, muting/blocking that instance will keep other members of that community from bothering you as well.
- Finally do not share private/sensitive information via DMs on Mastodon. Direct Messages are not E2E. **Keep it in mind**

### Useful tools & resources:
[Twitodon](https://twitodon.com/) - Find your Twitter friends on Mastodon
[FediFinder](https://fedifinder.glitch.me/)- Similar to Twitodon
[Fedi Tips](https://fedi.tips/) - an informal, unofficial guide for non-technical people who want to use Mastodon and the wider Fediverse
[Fedi Directory](https://fedi.directory) - A human-curated small selection of accounts to spice up your timeline.
[Trunk](https://communitywiki.org/trunk) -Trunk allows you to mass-follow a bunch of people in order to get started with Mastodon or any other platform on the Fediverse
[Fediverse.info](https://fediverse.info/explore/people) -growing list of people and topics can help you discover mutual interests with people around the world
**Mobile Apps:**
[Metatext for iOS ](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/metatext/id1523996615)
[Tusky for Android ](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.keylesspalace.tusky&hl=en&gl=USt)

Lastly if you are interested in setting up your own instance you can learn via https://learnfoss.org/ its completely free and its made by the wonderful @stux

I apologize for the long post lol, just hope this helps anyones transition over

I'm new here and found this explanation useful: