Ian Kenway @iankenway@social.cleverlibre.org

Are you new to Mastodon?

Do you need some help? A simple guide to how Mastodon works?

Check out my website, it answers lots and lots of questions you might have:

➡️ https://fedi.tips

It's written in non-technical language, and aimed at a general audience. If you're new here and feeling a bit lost, this is the site for you!

(There are also tips for advanced users in a separate section of the site.)

If you can't find the answers you want from the site, @ or message me 🙂

Woke up to find the twitter exodus **Still** accelerating. The last 24 hours has been the biggest influx yet, up over 20% from yesterday. We are seeing 1000 new users a day now!

Who’d have guessed Elon Musk would pay $44 billion to promote Mastodon.

Cool to have a social media that is open source and has a good dev community.

See ya Elon.

I can see that as part of the migration it seems the done thing to do an #introduction.

I am here in a personal capacity.

In both a personal and professional capacity, people seem to like listening to me talk about sustainability policy, which I find truly baffling as it usually ends up in me getting agitated about carbon pricing.

I also spend my time getting agitated about biodiversity and football.

Other keen interests include jazz, brutalist architecture, and futurism, and abstract expressionism in art.

#Cop27 #wifi in #Egypt blocks #HumanRights and key news #websites | Cop27 | The Guardian

What’s the point of holding a global conference in a place which openly #censors the #Internet and doesn’t even pretend to care about all its citizens? You might as well hold a world sports tournament in such a regime too.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/nov/07/cop27-wifi-egypt-blocks-human-rights-key-news-websites

A reminder for anyone new to mastodon who might not be happy with some of the racist and bad actors out there on other servers... Just import the fediblock list to your personal blocks and you will be safe from the vast majority of bad actors.

#Mastodon is making it into The Guardian, CNN and The Conversation
With Twitter in chaos, Mastodon is on fire
https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/05/tech/mastodon
Mass migration from Twitter is likely to be an uphill battle – just ask ex-Tumblr users
https://theconversation.com/mass-migration-from-twitter-is-likely-to-be-an-uphill-battle-just-ask-ex-tumblr-users-193677
Mastodon gained 70,000 users after Musk’s Twitter takeover. I joined them
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2022/nov/01/mastodon-twitter-elon-musk-takeover

Some really good features on the next #mastodon release includes multilingual posts, that is, one post:

• has one or more translations
• displays in your order of language preference
• replies are ordered by your lang preference

This is great feature for Welsh, EU, or other multilingual working organisations, as well as those of us mixing in multiple linguistic communities.

Kind of thing that is simply absent from #birdsite's agenda.

Via various incl @simon
https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/releases/tag/v4.0.0rc1

Westminster Voting Intention:

LAB: 46% (+2)
CON: 28% (=)
LDM: 8% (-2)
GRN: 6% (+1)
SNP: 4% (=)

Via @OpiniumResearch 2-4 Nov.
Changes w/ 26-28 Oct.

Hello! My name is Jonathan Joseph. I am an Electrical Engineering undergraduate at Michigan Technological University. My main interests are optics, photonics and computer simulation.

#introduction I'm a behavioral #neuroscientist working in #marketresearch. I use a combination of psychological, neuroscientific, and traditional market #research tools to better understand #consumer behavior. Board member for #actiondesignnetwork and #SSP (#societyforsensoryprofessionals), I'm busy trying to make sure the science is right in industry research.

We had #Austerity under #DavidCameron and #GeorgeOsborne, followed by some political chaos under #TheresaMay and the egregious #BorisJohnson and it’s about to get much much worse. I know that the #government is not immune to and, on the contrary, is rather prone to international conditions but I’m pretty sure the public have had enough. We must have a #GeneralElectionNow even if any incoming party will face the same problems. The #Tories have surely blown their cover as being fiscally competent.

#SteveBell on the #Conservatives and #ClimatePolicy – #cartoon | Opinion | The Guardian

Marking as #NSFW on grounds of taste.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/picture/2022/nov/07/steve-bell-on-the-conservatives-and-climate-policy-cartoon

#UK #Politics #Satire #RishiSunak #BorisJohnson #JeremyHunt #GavinWilliamson #SuellaBraverman

I've found that the android mastodon app isn't that great and the whole experience is much better when logging in via a Web browser.

What is #Mastodon, the #SocialNetwork users are leaving #Twitter for? Everything you need to know | Twitter | The Guardian

More coverage of the #Fediverse.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/nov/08/mastodon-what-is-it-how-do-i-join-use-find-best-server-list-change-elon-musk-twitter-leaving-social-network-alternative

The UK's poppy fetish would be hilarious if it weren't so threatening. Giant poppies on the grills of buses, looking like bloodied noses... Frightened celebrities cowering behind their brooches and old paper numbers they've had for years... Football hooligans festooning themselves with poppies... Even the Cookie Monster had to wear one! #Fascism, of course, is absurdity with menaces, but there shouldn't be a need for any charity if the #UK government genuinely cared about ex-forces personnel.

@anniemo71 i love bookshops, especially secondhand bookshops. There’s a brilliant one in Llangollen, above a bistro, on the first floor. Go up the stairs, and it opens out into a huge space. But if I see a bookshop, I almost always go in. Also like libraries (one is 5 minutes walk from where I live). Don’t buy books from Amazon, but bought many from Apple books (including audiobooks). Sometimes go to a Welsh bookshop not far from me too.

Croeso to #BylinesCymru! We‘re seeking citizen journalists – including cartoonists, editors, illustrators, proofreaders, social media aces, tech/IT gurus, photographers, translators, and writers – to help raise Welsh voices to the rafters. Email editor@bylines.cymru if you’re up for it. Diolch!

#GavinWilliamson #resigns after #ChiefWhip messages scandal | Gavin Williamson | The Guardian

And another one bites the dust.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/nov/08/gavin-williamson-chief-whip-messages-scandal

#UK #Politics #Tories