*banned 4 MarkDown love* @design_RG@social.cleverlibre.org

"Companies like Facebook and Twitter are poorly policing automated bots and other methods for manipulating social media...

For €300, the researchers bought over 3,500 comments, 25,000 likes, 20,000 views and 5,000 followers...

After four weeks, about 80% of the fake clicks remained. And virtually all of the accounts remained active three weeks after researchers reported them"

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/06/technology/fake-social-media-manipulation.html

Re-Toot with Comment is Possible.

Nolan's thoughts are interesting.

About Media articles frequently quote, mentioning and including snapshots of random twitter posts.

OP at https://toot.cafe/@nolan/103270233532909125

* Resized from OP at https://twitter.com/23057/status/1201854145101062146

#travel #slowly enjoy the journey.

In response by a post by Dr. DeJahang, posting it on the Local feed directly as it is of general interest.

"Hi Moderators/experts, Admin team at QOTO we have all at more button and only edit is missing" by @drdej555

Yes, and that's by design. The developers of Mastodon created it so; in that sense it is similar to Twitter. No editing there either.

Here we do have a quick work around, if you notice a glitch or typo soon after sending in a post.

you can click the Dots menu at the post's bottom right edge, and select Delete / Redraft from there.

This will delete the post (which is already sent out to other instances, but will be recall/deleted there too), and better yet -- it copies the FULL current post content to the Toot Editor window.

You can make any changes desired and Toot it again.

Any replies, favourites or boosts received by the post will be orphaned, lost -- so this is best done very quickly after posting, not later or a day after.

Another possibility is to use a different platform which is also Federated - I am thinking of Friendica, where I have a test account, and which is more like Facebook in looks and functionality..Friendica allows :

* post editing, anytime you want.
* text formatting.
* sorting feeds by time, or by personal mentions, etc.

It does allow following mastodon accounts, replying and fully interacting with them.

I made a thread of my testing and observations about Friendica here : https://qoto.org/@design_RG/103178433671988813

Main Friendica site: https://friendi.ca/

me at Friendica : @rgx@nerdica.net

I have just made a new Discourse Forum post here at Qoto.org, reproducing the full text of the "New Users Suggestions and Guidelines" as prepared by Rheal, the administrator at Mastodon.art.

The page is located here: https://discourse.qoto.org/t/suggestions-and-guidelines-for-new-users-written-by-mastodon-art-administrator/119

And I hope it will be used to all of our new users here at QOTO, as well as anyone interested.

Thank you to @Curator for the nice work and for running what seems a happy and prosperous instance! 🌇

Rheal's Original post is : https://mastodon.art/@Curator/102567092349817529

In that same thread, I came across a post by a user, saying they have made a Guide for Mastodon new users in Spanish.

Rare to have resources in languages other than English, so this is a useful resource too.

Written and published by sisyphus, @numen@weirder.earth

https://weirder.earth/@numen/102554696593029111

#mastotips #espanol #spanish #newusers #helpwanted

A post I just found, by the administrator of the Mastodon.art instance - @Curator

Keeping a pointer here to help, I am thinking of collecting these in a Discourse Forum post here at QOTO, with attribution and credit to the author.

Reason? Easier to read, in one page, than a sequence of toots.

There are some good suggestions from their users below. 👍

https://mastodon.art/@Curator/102567092349817529

7 Signs someone is a Witch.

5 out of 7, here. 😝

Retoot with comment, with thanks to @pwrmnstr

Long Hair, Short Hair, take your pick. Both very pretty and well cared for. Thanks @Johannab

#xp #mastocats #CatsofTwitter #meow
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RT @johannabee
A Fluffy Beastie, A Fuzzy Beastie. #mastocats
https://twitter.com/johannabee/status/1079751108812259330

Types of Cats.

OT : https://radical.town/@pwrmnstr/103037685954284304

#cats #mastocats #meow #felines

There are a number of Bot picking up posts from popular, important or not so quite from the birdsite and bridging over to the Fediverse. I do follow the awesome Cat bot, @catpostingbot of course, made my day when first found it.

There a large list of Bot put together by Commandlinekid. - commandlinekid@noagendasocial.com

The updated list is kept on this blog - newest additions are at *the bottom*.

A number of right wing pols, but also Hindu media and figures, some major international media as well.

https://mastlist.blogspot.com/

Cat Disapproves of You.