Coralie @globcoco@social.cleverlibre.org

Having mostly lurked for a few days, it seemed like it's time to make a quick #introduction. In real life I'm a sysadmin by day, UK based and working in the criminal justice sector. I enjoy tinkering with tech in whatever spare time I have, and Fosstodon looked like a perfect match. Starting to find my way in the Fediverse and beyond open-source I'm also hoping to explore my other interests around photography, sourdough, running, hiking, swimming, contemplating why I have no spare time, etc! 🤣

One of the great things about being a member of a team where everyone works part-time is that you get to find out about the awesome work colleagues are doing in other projects.

For example, as well as #MoodleNet, @bernini is working on the REFLOW project around economic networks. Check out this post: https://reflowproject.eu/blog/dev-diary-our-journey-towards-the-reflowos/

@freemo @hansw @penny

There was a time when a police officer carried respect, gave you a clip round the ear and took you home to face the wrath of parents when they found out what you had been doing.

Something has gone wrong with how we deal with people.

@hansw @freemo @penny

This is why i get irritated with schemes to help young people only , why are there not similar schemes to help others

code club is for 9 - 13 year olds, so I run this at my local library but the age is more 7+ now

However we have some lego WeDo kits which I am suggested we use with kids kids but also give other groups e.g an adult stroke group a chance to use too.

There is very little interest from one age group, take the resources and find a group who are, at least then we use the kit, for me it is about inclusion.

@globcoco

Thank you. I will take some pictures once the little plants take in, they were all perky yesterday, but today is hot and they felt it.

Got 3 eggplant ones. No Swiss chard, and I went to various places.

@Sphinx @zleap @freemo

Howdy there. I don't have much to say, except I'm really looking forward to Mastodon and mainstream alternatives to centralized, closed source stuff I guess

I am proud to announce that @Sphinx is now officially the latest new member of the #QOTO moderation team.

Everyone please extend a warm welcome to sphinx, we are very happy to have him on the team!

#mastoadmin #fediadmin #fediverse

@Sphinx

Thanks, Sphinx, I am only buying and planting veggies. And just returned, very low stock in the nurseries -- a lady told me they are sold out, many more people than usual came buying veggies this year.

More time to care for a garden, probably, and it's a good mental hygiene too.

@globcoco @zleap @freemo

Back to topic, my complete feature wishes on Mastodon:

1) Preview Post: I am a writer so this is a must.

2) Find Own Posts: I toot a lot my toots reached 2000 in a short period of time. Finding a certain toot became difficult.

3) Show Original Posts Exclusively: I want timeline to show only my original toots, not my boosts, not my replies, anytime I want.

4) Hover Cards: It saves my time & computer resources to follow/unfollow.

5) Numbers: Visible number of replies, shares, likes in toots.

@zleap @design_RG @globcoco @freemo

QOTO differs from vanilla Mastodon in its post length limit. While we enjoy 64kchar of space, users on the flagship instance get only five hundred. So to post a longer message, a vanilla user will break it into chunks ≤500 characters each and post each chunk as a reply to the previous one. That "show thread" link pops up to make it clear the post is possibly dependent on another for context.

If you reply to a message from someone else, your reply isn't published to the local timeline (although it may show up in your followers' home timelines). Self-replies, however, do show up in the local timeline unless prevented by privacy settings. So the need to warn about hidden context is much less for cross-replies than for self-replies).

https://github.com/tootsuite/mastodon/pull/9228

Hello fosstodon world!

@ademalsasa @globcoco

Cool, I got it now, thanks, we should make the video widely available as part of a sort of mastodon training suite.