Nick @internic@social.cleverlibre.org

here's the thing: you might not like #threads, but it still could go a long way to wean people off of #twitter permanently in a way that #mastodon unfortunately doesn't / didn't (and, vicariously, pulling 'em into the greater #fediverse). #socialmedia #community

I cannot see the launch of Instagram’s Threads as anything but a huge win for ActivityPub and the Fediverse. Millions of people now have an easy way to join and skip the headaches of server choice etc. This is GREAT, and furthermore, does not diminish what makes Mastodon great. More of my friends will be here soon. The insular “do not play nice” mentality of hardcore Fediverse advocates just does not appeal to me at all.

#threads #fediverse #instagram #mastodon

Uh, I'm thinking I won't try #Threads. 😵‍💫

Threads, Meta's Twitter clone, starts countdown, plus new details

https://9to5google.com/2023/07/03/threads-instagram-app-countdown-plus-details/

#Threads

I have a recommendation. First, make sure you are following your server's Admin. Then, I recommend that you follow some of the admins of servers other than your own, especially the larger ones. Set them on notifications. This will keep you in the loop on what is happening across the Fediverse.
#Fediverse #Mastodon #TwitterMigration

Introduction? Sure, #introduction I guess

I'm jules and this is my professional account. I'm a mathematician and computer scientist based in Glasgow 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿. I'm an applied category theorist, which means I study compositionality, especially in microeconomics and machine learning

I'm affiliated with the Mathematically Structured Programming group, I'm a co-founder of the startup 20squares, and I'm in the process of co-founding a nonprofit research organisation called the Institute for Categorical Cybernetics

My #introduction! I’m looking for a good home in the fediverse. Have been on social media of some sort since the MUDs and Usenet of the 90s, and a participant in intentional communities on and offline, including #cohousing. I am interested in science and education topics as well as some light computer geekery, sustainability and organic ag, reskilling, and parenting. Currently parenting teens in #westernmass with my husband.

1. I’m Jennie Kelly. I am entering my 20th year teaching. I teach PAP Algebra 2 and AP Computer Science Principles in Pearland, TX.

2. Cakes > Donuts > Pies

3. I enjoy playing the flute and playing with my dachshund puppy.

#Prompt1 #ClassroomMath and #Introduction.

Hoping to see some new #science folks exploring Mastodon so figured it’s time for another #introduction - I’m Mya, a professor at the University of South Florida College of Marine Science. Our lab studies #microbes (bacteria, viruses, protists) in the oceans and other environments and also works on #fish egg identification. I also post about my cute dog and cat a lot! #USFCMS #ocean #marine #oceanography #microbiology #virology #research #seagrass #urchin #academia

Amazing thunderstorm photos captured at 37,000 feet by airline pilot Santiago Borja.

Web: https://www.santiagoborja.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/santiagoborja/

RT @Streetsblog Transportation officials across the US like to pretend that "induced demand" doesn't exist—but Americans know better, and they want better transportation options for their communities, a new study finds.

https://usa.streetsblog.org/2023/06/29/study-two-thirds-of-americans-know-highway-expansions-dont-cure-traffic

It’s happened. Our department has lost a young faculty member to a better offer in a safer state.

Texas’s extremist government will end up wrecking the universities here. Given a choice, people don’t want to subject themselves to fascism.

#Texas #GOPextremism #UTAustin

People in tech will constantly interrogate social science methods and then cite a dusty blogpost from the 1980s like it's the ten commandments

Well that explains so much: Ex-Twitter leader Jack Dorsey endorses RFK Jr. for president

https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4034584-ex-twitter-leader-jack-dorsey-endorses-rfk-jr-for-president/

I'll be on @msnbc @mitchellreports tomorrow during the 1pm ET hour to talk about heat, wildfires & the #climatecrisis: https://www.msnbc.com/andrea-mitchell

via ExtremeTemps: The high altitude heat in #Iran is something never seen in climatic history
Nights >35C (95F) near 1000m above sea level, 30C (86F) at 1500m with daytime temp near 50C (122F) at 1000m and 43C (109F) at 1500m

Today 44.6C (112.3F) at Nehbandan at 1211m above sea level.
Zabol again with 49.4C (120.9F).
Bam (920M) Tmins 35.2C (95.4F)

Yesterday extreme temperatures:

48.6C (119.5F) Bam (920m) all time record destroyed
49.8C (121.6F) Zabol
43.8C (110.8F) Zehedan (1370m)

Reddit has now sufficiently broken their own site that moderators of the blind community's subreddit who are themselves blind can no longer access the moderator tools.

This statement by the mod team is worth a read to understand the full extent of the failure.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Blind/comments/14nzwkm/they_finally_did_it_reddit_made_it_impossible_for/

Edit: it's also worth noting that this community now has a dedicated Lemmy instance. https://RBlind.com

#blind #accessibility #reddit

2006 - 2022: Corporate content hosts are so cheap and easy that no one has an incentive to learn to self-host content, and people who were previously self-hosting content move over to big "social" platforms

2022 - … : Platforms close off in every imaginable way and start taking every opportunity to extract rents from users, benefits that originally got people to move over now gone, but the network effects are such you can no longer switch to open alternatives or convince other people to do so

The FCC is accepting applications for new, low-power, community radio stations the first week of November.

This is huge, you guys, this window rarely opens (the last time was 2013), and as you know, KUZU shows one way LPFM can be a foundation to build valuable community information resources.

The Grassroots Radio folks are holding a conference in West Virginia to help folks out with this.

Please boost and share.

#radio
#community
#local
#journalism

https://www.fcc.gov/media/radio/lpfm

@godlessmom Lists are powerful. They are the only way to ensure you don’t miss posts from the people or hashtags that interest you. If you use the web interface in ‘advanced’ mode (which I wholeheartedly recommend for tablets, laptops and desktop PCs) you can ‘pin’ lists, too.