Sundar @digital_carver@social.cleverlibre.org

@florahui@mastodon.online
Fedifinder https://glitch.com/~fedifinder and Twitodon
https://twitodon.com/ are tools that try to find them for you.

@theonetotheleft @trinsec

It's true that it can be confusing and a bit more complicated to new people here. But it's also what makes this actually different, something that can be a long term solution. Without the decentralization and federation, this would be just yet another social platform for people to jump on to and see it slowly decay (however well intentioned the creators originally are) and then have to jump ship again. Federation opens up many ways to avoid that, and the complexity is (unfortunately) a necessary price to pay for that.

@urusan
What does it mean to "know" a programming language? Not a philosophical or gotcha question, I really don't know how to evaluate it.
I haven't written C or Perl in maybe a decade, but used to teach them - do I count those?
I've reluctantly written some Javascript when necessary, by googling every step along the way, and imbibed something about it even if I wasn't trying to.
I "know" Common Lisp in that I can understand its syntax, but know none of its libraries, and wouldn't know what its development workflow looks like.

Question for #AIArt (and maybe #AIEthics) folks:

Is there an AI art generator out there that's been trained only on images where the artist consented for it to be used for AI training?

#NovelAI famously did not do that, it's not clear what #MidJourney used, and I don't know what other options exist.

@Tigerburn
Just as a different perspective, I used #Mastodon before I actively used #Twitter, and found Twitter pretty confusing and unintuitive when I finally started to actively use it.
I've also found far more interesting people and posts here than on Twitter, mainly bcos the search and the timelines don't try to funnel me into the hype cycle or towards the "most popular". As @ambihelical says, #hashtags - use 'em, a lot! In your profile, in an introductions post, and to search for people. Helps a lot.

@radehi @ner
But my understanding is that the latest version of Mastodon has actual editing of posts (with the history being visible so situations like what @radehi describes can be caught). But #Qoto doesn't run that version yet, nor do most other Mastodon servers.

That's probably why you're seeing conflicting info: a few instances do have an actual Edit, but most of the #Mastoverse is still on "delete and redraft", and will be for some time.

@keyosuke
Maybe you can find new people here with similar interests to you that you can get to know now! You can search for the hashtags of things you're interested in, and find people that way.

Making a post with the hashtag "introductions", with some info on your interests and background, helps as well.

@szhang_ds
Thengai sadham is my favourite! That combination looks super yummy 😋

@Caroline_Bartma Clicking on their name or profile picture works for me, on the website, but I guess you're asking about the #iOS app. Maybe there's a long-press menu that has that as an option?