Ghazi @curiousmind@social.cleverlibre.org

Reminder to enable two factor authentication on your Mastodon account! You can do so by going to your preferences, clicking "Account" in the sidebar, then "Two-factor Auth" (which will show up under "Account").

You know what else is cool? RSS. What a handy-dandy thing.

Please use it.

To this extent I'm really interested to know how the age breakdown of people on the #Fediverse. On one hand it would seem to make sense to me that most people here remember the "old internet" before the centralization and they're here to rekindle that flame of independence. On the other hand the youths are generally pretty up on this whole technology thing. I grew up on the internet and since then smartphones have become even more ubiquitous.

(Please boost for reach)

lol

My quick #introduction: I'm Molly White (she/her) and I'm a software engineer who's been doing a lot more research and writing lately than software engineering.

I research and write about the cryptocurrency and blockchain industry with a critical perspective, and I run https://web3isgoinggreat.com/ (also on fedi at @web3isgreat). I also write https://newsletter.mollywhite.net/.

When I am writing software, it's mostly on that website, or various Python tools to help me with analysis of hacks/etc.

Initial impression of Mastodon…

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.

Over 320 #journalists on #Mastodon in 2 days and I know this list I'm helping with is very partial.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/13No4yxY-oFrN8PigC2jBWXreFCHWwVRTftwP6HcREtA/edit?usp=sharing

I read this elsewhere: If trusted news outlets would start offering #Mastodon instances to their staff, that would bring some sort of verification and visibility. Think social.nytimes.com, social.heise.de etc. I'd love to read more from trusted journalists on the #fediverse and this could greatly help. (Again, not my idea but couldn't find the original author.) Boosts for visibility would be great. Reminder: Favorites don't help as on this other platform.

Seeing a lot of spreadsheets going around with people to follow on #Mastodon, which is super cool, but y'all should check out and add yourselves to #Trunk, a site with a bunch of different lists which has been around on the fediverse basically forever: https://communitywiki.org/trunk 😄

#TwitterMigration #list #follow