rastinza @rastinza@social.cleverlibre.org

@EveryWhereChem @nmayhall Moreover, why would I have to insult someone unrelated whenever I talk about chemistry?
Your personal grudges with Elon Musk are not everyone problem over here and someone who wishes to talk about chemistry might as well like the guy.
I know that was probably a joke, but keep this place serious, calm and respectful for everyone.

@Yaku Tipo? Che mi son perso? Sto più che altro vedendo gente spaesata che cerca di trovare profili interessanti da "seguire"
Sicuramente devono ancora capire un po' come funziona qui
Si ritroveranno con un #GustavinoRatio altissimo

@reallybreen Hello there! Nice to see you!
I hope you'll have a good time!
What kind of music you like?

@xtaldave I see, that's a cool idea then.
However I would advise trying a smaller instance and possibly not too insular; I believe that's the best introduction to Mastodon and its users.
You may use something like this website to quickly survey some instances.
https://fediverse.space/instances

@reallybreen @xtaldave
No, a lot of people already did the job exceptionally.
You can search on the internet and you'll find a lot of well written articles about it.
I suggest you do read a little bit about it if you use Mastodon, no need to get too much in detail though.

@xtaldave Oh damn, I see now!
If you're new I'd advise you create a secondary account on another instance and try using mastodon like that; you can always redirect everything to this account.

@xtaldave BTW, I'll take down some notes here since I'm on the way: I have not used Twitter extensively, I had an account and maybe used it a couple of weeks so I don't know very well how that works.
What I've noticed in these two twitter migrations is that people using Twitter behave very differently from Mastodon users.
First of all it's very common for past twitter users to use their own full name and to have a picture of themselves; this is extremely rare on Mastodon and it's generally done by artists trying to sponsor their works and such things.
Moreover, twitter users use a huge amount of hashtags within their text, I had already written about this in the past; older Mastodon users generally add at most a couple hashtags at the beginning or at the end of the toot and very rarely mixed within the text.

What I've noticed from the first Twitter migration is that these behaviors disappeared after a while, not sure if that's because Twitter users integrated in the Mastodon culture or just stopped using it altogether.

@xtaldave It's generally accepted to write an #introduction post and pin it on top of the profile.
Then again, if you look at a lot of users that have been here for a long time that is not really the case.
If you look at my profile you have a brief introduction and one in Spanish because I wished to enter the circle of people from over there.

I also started my experience on Mastodon trying to find interesting people to follow.
I discourage you from doing that.
Try to rely more on the local timeline to find interesting people and expand from there.

I'm currently writing down several notes on my experience on Mastodon and I wish to transform those into a guide to socializing on the Fediverse.
Unfortunately, there are a lot of guides which explain the technical aspects of the fediverse but no real how to use and what to do guide for new people...

@volephd @ecologies
just mention a username in the domain @a.gup.pe and a user with that name will be created, then you follow it.
that user will boost each message it's tagged in

@goabiaryan Well,

I'd love Julia to be viable in my field...
Anyway; Fortran of course

I mean, to provide the data used in the ML models

@inkican Dante's Inferno.

@inexcode Wow, that's cool. Is there some documentation on how to use this api?

@entreprecariat @raphv@social.apreslanu.it For myself I do like the zettelkasten; but surely it's not something you can use for everything. Definitely these kinds of retrospectives on your thoughts might get lost in the way.
However, sometimes the important is the final decision and not really the path you took to get there.

@inexcode Alright, thank you very much for the great work you did with that service!

@davoloid @inexcode
How isolated an instance is from the others. Which means how much the people from one instance stay together.
It's the amount of mentions of users from other instances divided by the total amount of mentions.

This provides no information regarding how wide the network of the instance is, since you might have a very low insularity with just one federated instance. This might be the case of a small instance in a very specific field which often addresses users from the same field in a larger instance.

@lucifargundam @inexcode @users
Thanks! I'm not too interested in just how many users subscribed though; I'm searching something a little bit more specific.

@inexcode I'm not sure, insularity does show up and it is what I'm interested in.
Since everything appears to be a bit broken though I do not trust it as a reliable measurement.
If you tell me that's still working then it's great!

Once upon a time fediverse.social allowed to check the insularity of an instance.
Unfortunately the website is broken and the software is now unmaintained.
Do you know any other service providing statistics about mastodon instances?

@inexcode #mastodon