Paul Sutton @zleap@social.cleverlibre.org
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Interested in Technology, Science, Chemistry, Education, Fediverse, GNU/Linux and free software.
Joined Mar 2020
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Hi everybody! New here at #stereophonic, tried #mastodon and #misskey, now I'm very keen in learning about the #pleroma part of the #fediverse.
Not just other computers, but those computers in other countries, so for example a server outside the EU GDPR jurisdiction isn'tt going to have to respect your data in the same way.
I think countries such as Canada& New Zealand have data laws similar to the GDPR and California copied a law on protecting children on line from the UK.
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If you're going to post about sensitive subjects please use a CW (Content warning) feature. So people have the choice of seeing it.
Additionally, please do not use an asterisk (*) in words to censor them to evade text search. Mastodon doesn't have a search for text in toots and it messes with filters people have in place.
Thank you!
I would recommend BBB too, one nice thing is once a room is set up the URL stays as it is, so you can set up a teaching room, post the link to all your class, and it is the same each lesson
But it has lots of great features and is designed by teachers for teaching.
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There are about a dozen really bad actors, once you block those servers you cover the bulk of the content. Works well. The main reason we **dont** block servers was at the LGBTQ's communities request. At the time Milo was on Gab and they used accounts here to follow him so they could see when he doxxed someone and use it to warnt he community (as was the norm at the time and a big deal). In fact its why we added the subscribe feature, specifically so they could follow people without being identifiable as doing so.
Its one reason we dont block, its like putting blocks in a web browser, it hurts the victims too.
Ok cool thanks, maybe we can work together and see if we can find some online courses / how to_s that will help us build the skills base up.
Paul Sutton
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It's comforting knowing that nobody here is paying to get in front of my eyeballs, and there's no way to earn cred except to post interesting stuff, converse, engage, and be kind.
Paul Sutton
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Hello, all! Seems like a moment for an #introduction….
I’m a freelance journalist who mostly writes about #nature, #animals, and our #environment through the lens of #science and #ideas. (I am also on Team Oxford Comma.)
At the moment I’m in the home stretch of Meet the Neighbors, my book for W. W. Norton about what animal personhood — understanding them as fellow thinking, feeling beings — means for nature.
I would blame those tasked with teaching others 'basic' computer skills
we now use the term #zoom' or 'teams' for video conferencing, as if there are not other solutions.
Same for social media it's Facerbook fore xample or Office Applications "MS Word, Excel" a presentation is "powerpoint"
so we are kinda brainwashed in to these are the tools to use.
They could teach there are free and open source tools, but don't seem to want to.
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the fact that "websites are hosted by other computers called servers on the internet and are not a magical thing that exists" is not common knowledge anymore and is something that you have /convince/ people about just shows how bad it has gotten
Other than the command like course I posted about what other skills are needed for this.
It would be good to be able to signpost people to related courses for example,
Paul Sutton
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If anyone is interested or has questions about hosting their own #Mastodon instance, feel free to @ me with any questions.
I probably won't have all the answers but will try to at least point you in the right direction.
@stux
I think given the abuse people such as footballers face (e,.g racism) perhhaps teir own instance would be a good thing it would allow hat instance to have better control over who can send messages to people.
So We could say have a instance for Man Utd, and on there could be marcus rashford, then have one for Man u Fans and as they are paid up members of a supporters club (the club know who they are) they would be able to communicate with the players in some way.
But other celebs get trolled and it is really affecting their own health and mental health, so I think it is a good idea in principle.
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Someone just came to me with an idea and I kinda like it and are willing to do it but I want your opinion first! 
Many people are following the 'famous' from Twitter to Mastodon but are having a hard time finding them..
I just bought the domain 'officials.social' and I could setup and invite only instance for more 'high profile' people so to say so everyone can more easily find them?
Before I proceed I like your input❤️
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Look, does anyone remember Usenet?
You could run your own group. You could join any groups. It was up to your local Usenet admin which groups were carried at your site (usually a university or government domain) and how widely your local groups got promoted.
It was also up to you/your admin what you DIDN'T see in your usenet feed. Lots of sites didn't carry alt.sex.*, for example.
If your're old enough, "the fediverse" is kinda familiar.
Paul Sutton
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Hey everyone, since almost the entire TwitterSphere waited until the last moment to prepare for the rightwing takeover there are going to be some severe growing pains for a while imho.
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Interested in Technology, Science, Chemistry, Education, Fediverse, GNU/Linux and free software.
Joined Mar 2020
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