rastinza @rastinza@social.cleverlibre.org

@aral I don't feel the fediverse is structured for private communication and I don't think it should.
If you wish to discuss something privately don't do it on a social network, as simple as that.

@josemanuel @davoloid This solves only part of the problem, the part which is: the timeline moves so quick I cannot read.
It's a good setting to enable by all means; but it does not address the huge amount of things that come out there.
I believe there is no way to actually follow the federated timeline of a large instance, that would mean spending a very large amount of time each day reading a lot of useless stuff.

On the other hand it is nice every now and then to take a look and pick some interesting people to explore further.

@DavidBrueckner No, choosing a server is quite important to start.
Not in the way it's advertised though; you should not spend several days just finding the perfect instance, that is useless since you're due to change instance quickly.
There is quite a big difference between Mastodon and Twitter which is the local timeline and the system through which toots propagate in the fediverse.

I am going to write a guide on how to socialize on Mastodon and choosing an appropriate starting instance, without wasting too much time, is quite important.
I believe that a good place to start shouldn't have a very high insularity in order to allow you to discover other instances, on the other hand it shouldn't be a place which is hyperconnected (such as qoto) because that will make you feel that the local timeline and in general the local community is useless; which it isn't in a lot of smaller instances.

@vanhilla_chrisis From the MOPAC manual: you should have a folder structure in which you have a directory for results and one for calculations.
Each calculation is assigned a separate subdirectory in the calculations folder.
If a calculation doesn't work, you take note of why it didn't work; delete the directory and create a new one with the appropriate corrections.
If a calculation is successful you copy all relevant files in the results folder and delete everything else.

In this way you don't have these kinds of problems and you don't have a bunch of useless stuff on your filesystem.

@davoloid I'll be frank, I also feel it is quite useless.
Though you have to consider that we are on qoto, which is a large instance which does not block a lot of content.

I know some people use it a lot and this survey is done exactly to find good uses for it.
Surely in small and insular instances the federated timeline is a nice feature.

How often do you use the federated timeline?
Please, add a comment explaining why you do or do not use it; what's cool about it and what are the problems.
#mastodon

@DavidBrueckner In this case then just #Science should work.

@aleff@mastodon.cisti.org Chiedi agli admin per spiegazioni migliori.
Mi pare sia per non incitare la competizione a chi ha più followers.

@aleff@mastodon.cisti.org è una cosa di cisti. Il numero dei seguaci non viene mostrato oltre un certo limite.

@DavidBrueckner Hello, I'm unfamiliar with the hashtag since I have not been an assiduous user of Twitter.
What was its purpose on twitter?
Is it to let others know about a published paper, to discuss a paper, to discuss problems in science, to tell cool things that happen?

@gubi Ci vorrebbe un resoconto che listi tutte le occasioni in cui ha portato sfiga.
Se davvero continua così magari tenerlo in parlamento diventa una buona opzione.

@holon
Abbiamo trovato un candidato migliore per la posizione di admin di mastodon.uno
Sarebbe il primo prete admin di una istanza Italiana!
Se va bene magari è pure donna...
@Ilportapizzadicathy

Hey @kristinHenry your website is very cool and I'd like to stay updated with new things.
I do see some of your stuff here but I often miss a lot of it.
Is there an RSS feed?

@kristinHenry
Cool!
I guess the left is the "inside" of the membrane.
Being used to read left to right that left me wondering for a while.
Time has come to address my biases.