Sundar @digital_carver@social.cleverlibre.org

@haensel
freedom.to seems like it's solving a different problem. I don't need apps blocked, just calls and other notifications completely made silent for a while.

Could you mention what app it is? I was thinking of jury-rigging something with a Tasker-like app (Easer https://me.ryey.icu/Easer/en/ or Automation https://server47.de/automation/index.php#), but if this app you mentioned is small and unobtrusive enough it could make things easier.

@Foone
Are you using botsin.space ?

@engelbart
I haven't tried it yet, what makes it unusable? I'd been looking for an Open #Goodreads replacement for a long time, came to know about #Bookwyrm a few days ago, and was hoping it would be the one.

@cavar
Took a trip with (extended) family I hadn't seen in a while, because I wanted to reconnect with them. Did my best to be socially engaged and available, even when I wanted to just sit in a corner and get lost in the Fediverse. ☺️

@wjbeaver
1. People have been creating tools and guides to help with this, it's difficult mainly because it's new, and the network effect helps a lot with this too - once people get on here, they want their friends here too and are willing to help them with their onboarding steps.
2. People have been pretty generous about donations so far (in places where the admins have asked for it), and there are an encouragingly high number of people opening up new instances too, avoiding concentrating the pressure on a few overburdened instances.
3. Unclear what complicated questions they mean here. These institutions don't have to run public instances open to everyone, just a place for their own members/employees to toot from and federate with the rest of the 'verse. Just like people have person@organization.org email IDs, let @person@organization.social become a norm too.
4. This is kind of a vague point, and a complicated topic. I'll just say I kind of agree about the echo chamber issue, and that's a big reason I'm on #Qoto which doesn't defederate on a whim.
5. This is of course to be expected when two populations collide, and such growing pains are a good sign. Generally people have been somewhat respectful and receptive of these norms, and it's likely (imo) that the people who are willing to take up these norms will be the same ones who decide to stick around long term. People who just want a place to yell at the clouds without regard to their environment are unlikely to find as much engagement as they're used to (especially without an algorithm to boost posts drama-baiting posts), and are more likely to move on elsewhere.

#TwitterMigration #TwitterReplacement #Salon #Instance #Mastodon #MastodonCulture

@rchhetri
Ah, the famous Fermi's paradox. Though perhaps you meant it as a question about the Fediverse rather than the entirety of the universe 😁

I need an Android widget where, if I click on it, it sets the phone on Do Not Disturb mode for 25 minutes, after which it returns to normal mode until the widget it pressed again.

Is there an existing app that has a feature like this? What is the easiest way to achieve this, (highly) preferably using FOSS tools?

#AppRec #Android #widget #fdroid #FOSSapps #DoNotDisturb #pomodoro

@makeitrad @ceoln
To an outsider (like me), this might as well be a /r/VXJunkies post

@garyackerman
This reminded me of a couple posts I did a long time ago as "Common phrases in Non-fiction writing, translated": https://qoto.org/@digital_carver/105351990321156921

Your post would fit in well as a third one there.

@schwa
An interesting thing is that the thread repeatedly talks about user's "happiness" without mentioning what they actually measured and how. Knowing for-profit corporates, "happiness" was most likely measured along some axis where it just so happens to coincide with "tendency to make users addicted and doomscrolling".

Sugar cubes will give me happiness and keep me coming back for more, as long as I don't notice the rot it's creating in me long term.

#doomScrolling #algorithmicFeed #chronologicalFeed

@christenesmith
The image description is missing the important fact that Gus Gus seems to be in absolute bliss and having the time of their life