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Author Brianna West

I'll admit, I'm already more of a fan of this decentralized dwelling over the bird site. Just feels more community based, and, most importantly, people actually see my poor excuse for jokes.

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Yes that is a hospital / OT tea tray that the PC is on. 😂

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Sam Gee ✨

Hey, I'm Sam! I'm a Senior Community Manager who has been in the Games Industry since 2015!

I'm currently working with @RiyoGames on a JRPG called Threads of Time! 🎉

Portfolio:
samanthagraycroft.com

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My humble setup for training this week. It was basically designed during first lockdown 2020 and stayed that way.

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Katie Mack

🌓🌎🌞 <-- lunar eclipse

🌎🌓🌞 <-- solar eclipse

🌎🌞🌗 <-- apocalypse

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IT News

Starlink Is Getting Daytime Data Caps - "Internet provider Starlink is reviving the old concept of soft data caps with the... - tech.slashdot.org/story/22/11/ #internet

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Voline

Tip for the new folk:
Often Mastodon’s features work the way they do because it was first populated by people who had been harassed on FB and the Birdsite.

For instance (not sorry), you cannot search Masto for a simple term. Only #hashtags. Say you’re having a private conversation about iguanas. Anti-iguana trolls will not be able to search for “iguanas”, find your conversation, and drop into it to say, “Iguana luvers suck!”

But if you are wanting to connect with new iguana fanciers on Mastodon, slipping an #iguanas hashtag somewhere into your posts will allow people to search for and find them.

#TwitterMigration #Twitter

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Shaun Panda Nicolson

#mondaymotivation

I have a podcast that I’m trying to shamelessly promote right now. There’s over 130 amazing chats with interesting folk out there and a lot more to come!

linktr.ee/4saad

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Imunitas

@freemo @khird @trinsec @arteteco
Thanks! Will do! And thanks to the whole team.
I have always found when managing/coordinating/being part of teams that accomplishing an objective together feels much more rewarding and is a richer experience than if that goal had been reached alone.
Like the toots here people can boost each other ;)
So again, thanks to you and the rest of the team. You have a lot of reasons to feel good, from what I see here in qoto.org

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Sheril Kirshenbaum

#Twitter is top down. ⬇️

#Mastodon is self-organizing. ↔️

Still lots of unknowns & we’ll see how it all shakes out over time, but IMHO a decentralized network likely fosters trust & relationships in a way Twitter can’t. And that feels more sustainable over time. (FWIW I study community sustainability).

Also, so far it’s more pleasant here for women. #TwitterMigration

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Imunitas

New user here. Had been considering the change for a while, took the plunge with the rest of the refugees of the . Lurked for a few days before posting.

I mostly used the birdsite for learning, was something I think worked rather well.

That said... By comparing with my (admittedly small, but fresh) home feed here at , during these past few days I have come to realize just how much the birdsite's algorithms were keeping me within rather limited boundaries, even if my tastes and interests have always been the same. has been giving me less noise and more content.

I am hopeful that this new experience might expand my cultural horizons through all of your wonderful collective and collaborative input and feedback!

Thank you to the creators and team behind and to the maintainers of this server @freemo !

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Maxwell (it)

Picking a Mastodon instance is a lot like picking a Linux distro. It seems complicated because you get a lot more options but it doesn't really matter and you don't have to commit to one to the exclusion of others if you find that you don't like the one you picked first.

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Jerry Levine

KEEP IN MIND! #Mastodon doesn't work like #Twitter!

Have you just made the #Twexit or the #TwitterMigration?

Favorites ⭐ - they're not "likes". They don't "elevate" posts, they just the poster know you liked their post.

Boosts 🔁 - these push someone's post into your friends feeds (and help discovery).

So if you ⭐ my posts, that's great (and I love you too)!

But if you 🔁 posts, then more people see them!

OH! - #Hashtags are how you search!

#mastodon #MastodonTips

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So I’m excited for being here. But right now in Ireland there’s a also an ancient tradition we observe. It’s the first night of I’m A Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here, and watching minor celebs eat cringe making things in the jungle is as near as it gets to a family show we all watch. Laters 👋

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agatha, fangs gf 🎀

I think one thing that bothers me a lot with anything tech related is that while, yes, a lot of things can definitely have improved UX that is more user friendly, a lot of other things already have great UX that has been polished for years but gets a lot of undeserved criticism simply for being different from the status quo and/or requiring even the smallest amount of learning or effort

and I honestly entirely blame corporations that over the last 20 years have done everything to create walled gardens with the promise of "we do everything for you, if you have to think while using a computer that means it's bad"
and it's terrifying how well that worked on so so so many people

sometimes things just require you to sit down for half an hour, read something, learn something, try something you're not used to. that's normal. that is simply how anything even remotely advanced has worked for the thousands of years. you don't pick up an electric drill and throw a tantrum because it doesn't work exactly like a screwdriver. computers are a tool that let you do things, and just like any other tool, may require putting at least the smallest amount of effort into learning something

it's honestly frustrating how normalized "nuh uh i got adopted by [corporation's walled garden] and this is where i live for the rest of my life. anything even slightly different is just bad. why would I ever consider anything else, that's effort and effort is bad" has become

I understand that habits can be very strong, and I get it, adjusting to new things takes time, but it's not the end of the world. "more complex" doesn't necessarily mean "worse", it just means you would need to learn and adjust. teaching math at school doesn't stop at pre-algebra, it goes all the way to trigonometry and calculus because there's a good reason for it to be more complicated than the basics. learn something new, it's good for you.

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The seamlessness of these two parallel processes of learning and sharing that learning is what drives so many developers. Repeat. You have to be comfortable with NOT knowing. So I’m hoping to both learn and share here. 😎

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When developers are new to the industry managing expectations is just as big a part of my job as is explaining code syntax. I always say, from a colleague Greg Curtis whom I started at StayAhead by shadowing, you’ve got to be comfortable with NOT knowing stuff in this game! Anyone that says hashtag 100daysOfCode they learnt JavaScript this week hadn’t really got that. It’s all continuous learning, and that’s what attracted me to this group. We all can teach: we all can learn. ⬇️

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So I always did web sites, and design for print, to supplement my main income which was advertising photography. In 2014 I went back to college again to do a postgrad H. Dip. in Computing Science. This got me my first training job in 2015 and I have been with the same company ever since. I train Java, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, React, and a little bitty bit of Python. I really enjoy when developers’ first software course is one of mine. It’s a special privilege to inspire those new to the industry.⬇️

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One of the web sites I worked on with Clarke was the launch of schuh.co.uk - now a successful global footwear retailer. When we did their first web site you couldn’t buy a shoe on it. You had to go into the shop. Another one to put in the Wayback Machine is online-irish-art.com, the site I launched after I moved to Ireland. This time, you could buy art from local artists through a payment gateway, which was cutting edge at the time. ⬇️

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