Sundar @digital_carver@social.cleverlibre.org

"After buying #Twitter, Musk tweeted "the bird is freed". Now it looks like it's Twitter's users that are flying free, and exiting the platform"

Kudos to எல்லுச்சாமி கார்த்திக் for this great line 😆 and for a well-written article 👌

(From https://www.hindutamil.in/news/technology/894209-twitter-users-are-switching-to-mastodon-what-is-reason-how-to-use-it-full-detail.html?frm=rss_more_article , translation by me.)

"Twitter users are fleeing to Mastodon | How Mastodon Works"
- an article in a local non-English newspaper! Pretty unexpected because newspapers here generally cover tech in superficial company-press-release way.

For something like this to make it in, the momentum for #TwitterMigration and #MastIndia has to be pretty big!

https://www.hindutamil.in/news/technology/894209-twitter-users-are-switching-to-mastodon-what-is-reason-how-to-use-it-full-detail.html?frm=rss_more_article (Article is in #Tamil)

@linux_mclinuxface
I love how discoverable its interface is, none of the usual "just memorize everything" or "google every other minute for how to do X". The features are either right in front of you, behind a ?, or in the config.ini file. Easy to explore and figure things out quickly.

@theautisticcoach
🐈 are cuter to look at online, but 🐶 are more fun to hang out with IRL

@ceoln
Not for favourites or boosts, as far as I can tell.
If you have the "Reflect the following status on the follow button" checked on https://qoto.org/settings/preferences/other , a green icon shows up on the right corner for Follow notifications. You can also have "Show follow button on timeline" checked on the same page, then it shows the same status icon on Reply notifications and in your other timelines as well.
I don't know of a way to show that for favs and boosts though, without going to their profile.

@ceoln
#MastoDon Vito Corleone is getting too old.
Let's welcome our new Godfather, #MastoSon Michael Corleone!

@CaptainRaj @Jehanne
Fediverse is the network of websites where if you have an account on one site, you can follow and talk to people on any of the other sites. So you're part of the #fediverse now, and you can talk to people on mastodon.social, follow folks from scicomm.xyz, etc. It's not just limited to #Mastodon either, you can also follow https://pixelfed.org/ accounts (where people post pictures, like Instagram), lemmy.ml accounts (reddit-like), etc.
Basically it's a lot of sites with different purposes, designs, goals, etc. that choose to be #open and ready to communicate with each other, instead of closing down everything like facebook or twitter.

@Shreya512
That's my favourite thing about learning about #ActuallyAutistic traits. It brings back all the little memories that taught me I was "weird" in some unaccountable way, and makes them make sense as part of a coherent whole. It also makes them feel less isolating, knowing that there were probably other kids going through similar things in Kochi and Pune and Osaka and Hamburg at the same time.

@Shreya512
One day when I was a kid, the icecream-walla was outside, and my sister asked me "what flavour of icecream do you like the most?"
The question didn't really make sense to me, so I asked her: "What does that mean?"
She just gave me a strange look, then went out to buy the icecream.
I clearly remember the feeling of being the odd one out, feeling left out and confused about this apparently very common and expected human experience of having a strong, fixed preference for one flavour of a thing over another.