herid @herid@social.cleverlibre.org

A number of people have asked what I could have done better. In particular, I should have set the first post in the thread to public and the rest of the posts as unlisted.

Here's a fantastic explainer from @djnavarro via @flodebarre:
https://blog.djnavarro.net/posts/2022-11-03_what-i-know-about-mastodon/#how-can-i-make-threads

(It's worth reading the entire thing. I learned a ton.)

I think part of the appeal of the growing migration to mastodon is that we can look at Musk’s nonsense and collectively tell the richest man in the world: UNSUBSCRIBE. It’s downright empowering. (Alas not an option for Sam Alito, Trump, McConnell, Miller,, et al.)

Learning to use #Mastodon is a bit like learning to use Zoom, Teams etc in haste in March 2020. "Where's my server?" is the new, "You're on mute." It'll be fine. We'll figure it out ... Or not (and that will be fine too).

Mastodon will update to 4.0 soon! Here are the most exciting new features (in addition to fixes & changes):

- ability to follow hashtags
- ability to filter by language
- ability to translate posts
- ability to post HEIC files (i.e. your iPhone’s native photo format)
- define user roles (big deal for admins)
- define sign-up process on your Instance (admins again)

See all changes here: https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/releases/tag/v4.0.0rc1

Thanks, @Gargron and @Mastodon Team. #Mastodon4