Arindam Basu @arinbasu@social.cleverlibre.org
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Professor, Epidemiologist. Doctor (ENT specialist). Professor of Epidemiology and Environmental Health at the University of Canterbury in New Zealand.
Interests: lego MOCs, wood carving, mountain biking, tramping.
Joined Apr 2022
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Several years ago, I wrote this piece titled, "A complete Sloth’s Guide to Mastodon, Part I: get your feet wet"
https://medium.com/@arinbasu/a-complete-sloths-guide-to-mastodon-9cda44e1f288
Mastodon has advanced a lot since then, but the basic principles are still pretty much the same.
You may find it useful.
(This was the old Mastodon, :-) )
Arindam Basu
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KEEP IN MIND! #Mastodon doesn't work like #Twitter!
Have you just made the #Twexit or the #TwitterMigration?
Favorites ⭐ - they're not "likes". They don't "elevate" posts, they just the poster know you liked their post.
Boosts 🔁 - these push someone's post into your friends feeds (and help discovery).
So if you ⭐ my posts, that's great (and I love you too)!
But if you 🔁 posts, then more people see them!
OH! - #Hashtags are how you search!
@eloquence
Then there is Funkwhale, the federated podcasting app that you can use the protocol
Arindam Basu
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Hey all,
First time finding out about the fediverse and the multitude of associated spaces! Thanks for having me, looking forward to finding out how to use this properly, and then hopefully convince others to leave the antisocial networks when I've got a better grasp on it!
#introduction
First time finding out about the fediverse and the multitude of associated spaces! Thanks for having me, looking forward to finding out how to use this properly, and then hopefully convince others to leave the antisocial networks when I've got a better grasp on it!
#introduction
@ConradBarwa
Interesting perspective. Here the bubbles are more complex. Think of twitter as one 'instance' in this universe, only 'disconnected' or rather quasi -federated as of now (not quite, because with its API it is possible to set up bridges).
@aotearoa_ben
When is it coming out?
Arindam Basu
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I'm writing an article about this glorious, weird weekend on Mastodon during the nascent Twitter exodus.
My theory is that Mastodon's shortcomings are the very reason it's working. We're having to help each other find our way. No one is boss, and the kinda crappy experience brings us all to the same level as co-newbies (not to belittle those who have been on Mastodon for years).
Are you feeling the same? I'd love to hear your opinions. #NZTwits #twittermigration #introduction #mastodon
@aotearoa_ben
Great to see you here! May we have a dedicated spinoff instance?
@aotearoa_ben
Mastodon is ONE app in an ecosystem, there are others in the #federared decentralised web. What exactly are the shortcomings? Do you mean Mastodon's or that of the fediverse in general?
Excellent summary from @jeffjarvis
https://buzzmachine.com/2022/11/05/hope-for-a-post-musk-net/
A good summary focused mostly on #mastodon. Good to see popular academics and thought leaders across the #fediverse. Post-twitter world.
@NicoleCRust
Do you study microstates?
#TIL, For those in #stem or #research or #academia, https://qoto.org is the best option for finding an anchor in the #fediverse; @freemo has created an ecosystem where one can maintain codes, talk about work and life, and discuss -- a library and a water cooler all in one place.
Just amazing.
And instead of 500 characters, you can post stuff over 65K characters, plus add images and in markdown.
This is good, crazy good if you ask me!
Yes, exactly. A lot of us grew up in the days when they used to say that the web was not 'meant 'to be monetised.
@freemo
I mean, a code editor, say federated Octave/Jupyter Notebook if ever there was one ...
@freemo
To that end, have to say that you have created a near perfect ecosystem. The only bit that can stretch it a little more (I can imagine you are possibly working on it, :-)) is something of a federated editor, 🙂
@freemo
This is amazing. You seem to have taken the idea of fediverse and how it can scale up to its limits, 🙂
65K character count hits it out of the ballpark, then all these integrations!
What is your vision?
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@arinbasu yes exactly and that is what the intent was, to create an ecosystem of free, opensource (and ideally federated) apps that can work together to enable STEM professionals to collaborate on open projects.
gitlab acts as a source repository
funkwhale acts as a way to do podcasts
peertube is a replacement for youtube for posting videos and media
discourse acts as mailing lists for projects (I can setup sub forums for any specialized projects)
Stuff like that. Where possible i tried to use projects based on ActivityPub so they are on the fediverse. For example you can follow a peertube account from your main QOTO account here. That way when someone posts a video on the peertube account it will show as a post here in your home timeline. So everything (where possible) all talks to eachother.
@freemo
Yes, I can see this, and this is fascinating. Perhaps, in future, there can be something like link and citation sharing federated tools such as lemmy.ml and bookwyrm (where books can be catalogued) be there as well. A lab can have an entire portfolio on qoto.org, starting with a webpage hosted in gitlab and then discussions around here ... Wow!
@freemo
Sorry, free and open source apps, I did not necessarily meant free of costs.
@freemo
Endless appreciations!
This is marvellous! So qoto.org is an entire ecosystem of free apps and mastodon and peertube etc tie into it! This could be excellent for building serious scholarly discussions on the top of #fediverse, and #qotojournal for example builds a knowledge base.
- Orcid Profile
- https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2326-2292
- Images (pixelfed)
- https://pixelfed.social/i/web/profile/424715601356972526
- Join me in Matrix Chat
- https://matrix.to/#/@arinbasu:qoto.org
Professor, Epidemiologist. Doctor (ENT specialist). Professor of Epidemiology and Environmental Health at the University of Canterbury in New Zealand.
Interests: lego MOCs, wood carving, mountain biking, tramping.
Joined Apr 2022
