Jessie Slater @subbasegirl@social.cleverlibre.org

You cannot run an arbitrary search on Mastodon — in plain English: you cannot search for a specific expression in toots

Why? It's because allowing it would open the gate of harassment. It's not a bug, it's a conscious design decision.

How to find content then? Use hashtags instead! Including in your own toots — to make them easily discoverable. You can also browse the local and federated timelines.

#HowToMast

Tiny Handy Newbie Mastodon Vocabulary List 🐘:

INSTANCE 🖥️​
The server/place where your account is hosted. They are independent and managed by different people. They have different rules. The name of it is what is following your handle/username here.

TOOT ​
This is just a post. Like a post on Twitter is called a tweet. On #Mastodon it is called a toot.

CW ⚠️​
Content Warning. This is an important feature here. You can get more details on it on this toot: https://infosec.exchange/@Em0nM4stodon/109282181601490676

FEDIVERSE 🌍​
This is the WHOLE UNIVERSE from which Mastodon is a small part of. Mastodon is one of the social media that connects to the Fediverse, but there are also others like Friendica and Pixelfed. It is also sometimes called simply Fedi.

You can read some great #FediTips and explanations on here 👉 https://fedi.tips/mastodon-and-the-fediverse-beginners-start-here/

Hello Mastodon,

I am an archaeologist who studies animal remains from ancient Greece. I love sharing archaeology with people. #Histodon #archaeology

If you have visual impairements, such as #keratoconus or any near sightedness conditions like me, I recomment using Whalebird as a #Mastodon desktop client

It really is personnalizable to a really deep level and I am able to make the characters reaaally big like at 19 and I was able to change the color of almost anything so I can make it to the color contrast I see the best.

I also set the font to one of my favorite, Arial.

If you're not visually impaired you will also like this app because it enables more personnalization than any other client on the market.

Other things :
It's free
It works on MacOS, WIndows and probably linux too
It is an electron app, so you should have a good ram amount.

#accessibility #a11y

#archaeology #archaeologist #science #academicchatter #phd #ecr #environment #history #anthropology

Archaeologists of Mastodon, I am creating our own little place on the Academics-on-Mastodon Listing:

https://github.com/nathanlesage/academics-on-mastodon

Here is our listing page: https://stark1tty.github.io/Mastodon-Archaeology/

If you would like added to the list, please fill out the linked google form: https://forms.gle/QdsUDAZfYZ6aTzYQ9

I spent the last two days talking to a lot of researchers like @ct_bergstrom, @markmccaughrean and @Angie_rasmussen about the #TwitterMigration and, of course, joined here myself.

The article is here and some major points to come:
https://www.science.org/content/article/musk-reshapes-twitter-academics-ponder-taking-flight

Great piece by @ct_bergstrom et al on combatting misinformation by teaching the public how the process of science works. That it’s not a set of facts, but a dynamic process that orbits the truth, getting closer and closer. Any one paper or group might be wrong, but if many people across time and institutions, consistently see the same thing, it’s probably right.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/to-fight-misinformation-we-need-to-teach-that-science-is-dynamic/