ML2 @mathlover@social.cleverlibre.org

This is #mastodon, don't forget to report bad actors so they can be dealt with. Your admins will enforce the rules.

Just found out that the EU has an official Mastodon server it operates: https://social.network.europa.eu/about

#politics #eu #europe #mastodon #server

follow me at @paulopinto

Goodbye Twitter!

I'm not even entirely up-to-date on what's happening with Twitter, but I can't understand why anyone would want to buy it, nor can I see a way for it to actually become worse. I think the best thing it can do is most likely die to make room for something else to hopefully not be a cesspit.

@louisrcouture Yeah, but the point is that I want to store it in my email inbox. And I also want to reshare to basically anyone if need be.

Hold up, Mastodon has custom emojis???

Mastodon > Bird app, confirmed.

when you buy a social network and everyone leaves

forever elon

As an alternative to FediTips, you might want to also check out @noelle's "Increasingly Less-Brief Guide to Mastodon":

https://github.com/joyeusenoelle/GuideToMastodon

It's got slightly different takes on many issues, but hopefully seeing a different perspective will give you a fuller understanding of how Mastodon works.

#MastoTips #Mastodon #FediTips #Fediverse

A report by the Canadian research centre the Citizen Lab reveals a list of 65 people linked to the Catalan independence movement, who were spied on through the state-of-the-art spyware program Pegasus, and a second system called Candiru. These are programs that only governments have access to, as they are designed to fight organized crime and terrorism, and there is "strong circumstantial evidence" that the Spanish authorities were responsible for this espionage.
https://www.elnacional.cat/en/politics/catalangate-spain-pegasus-spyware-operation-catalans-citizen-lab_743604_102.html

Me, seeing a lot of people I follow on Birdsite creating accounts on Mastodon:

The most daunting thing for me about joining Mastodon/Fediverse was picking an instance.

Having joined one, a RL metaphor emerges for me: "it's like picking an apartment building."

You need to evaluate the management. Do they respect tenant rights? Is the desk clerk skeevy?

Do you want to live in a big impersonal complex? Or a little boarding house, where people share a lot and have house parties? You can even be a "home owner" and run your own instance (pay the bills, fix the plumbing).