Dr. Guillermo Power @gpowerf@social.cleverlibre.org

The posts you make here have a language attribute. And it matters!

In the preferences you can actually select which languages you understand, and any post in any another language will be invisible to you. 😮

But the language of a post is not automatically detected. 🤦‍♂️
It defaults to the language of your interface.
So even if you post in English, if it's marked as German a lot of people won't see it.

You can configure the default languages in Settings » Preferences » Other

Long hair and drains comic

#longhair #longhairproblems #comicstrip #comicdiary #MastoArt

Any tips for recovering from vertigo imbalance? I've been suffering some inner ear thing for the last three days. Any head movement faster than a snail's pace results in a trippy experience, and I'm walking a bit like I'm drunk without the fun aspect of the alcohol.

Another design consideration re: Mastodon is that it works well for ephemeral asynchronous communications, but for many reasons should not be counted on as an archival resource. Media attachments are periodically purged and may not be available after a week, or a month, etc. While some servers may try to preserve content forever, this may be costly and unsustainable. Creators, researchers should treat this as an ephemeral resource and make provisions for self-archiving anything important.

Going back to work after a week off.

@billbennett
Anyone who wants to listen to @aurynn talking to RNZ about Mastodon can find it here:

https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/ninetonoon/audio/2018866818/twitter-users-seek-alternative-to-musk-run-platform.nz

#RNZ #NineToNoon #interviews

BBC BASIC

Amiga Friends,

Does anyone know if there is still a place in 2022 to order 68882 PLCC to PGA adapters ?

The thing about Twitter is that it really lacks a lot of the features you'd expect from a true Mastodon replacement.

For example, there's no way to edit your toots (which they, confusingly call "tweets"—let's face it, it's a bit of a silly name that's difficult to take seriously).

"Tweets" can't be covered by a content warning. There's no way to let the poster know you like their tweet without also sharing it, and no bookmark feature.

There's no way to set up your own instance, and you're basically stuck on a single instance of Twitter. That means there's no community moderators you can reach out to to quickly resolve issues. Also, you can't de-federate instances with a lot of problematic content.

It also doesn't Integrate with other fediverse platforms, and I couldn't find the option to turn the ads off.

Really, Twitter has made a good start, but it will need to add a lot of additional features before it gets to the point where it becomes a true Mastodon replacement for most users.

#twitter #mastodon #twittermigration

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This is a very good point. Large/notable organizations should definitely run their own instances, and the instance being literally hosted on their domain is better than any blue check ever will be.

https://social.treehouse.systems/@megmac/109300227145784543