Paul Sutton @zleap@social.cleverlibre.org

"Your organization should run its own Mastodon server"

https://martinfowler.com/articles/your-org-run-mastodon.html

This is also a reminder that free and open source software doesn't mean "free help".

In fact, it means the opposite.

Free and open source software is free of warranties and you use it at your own risk.

Talked to someone two days ago about #Mastodon and they thought it sounded a bit strange.

Today they are asking me what server they should join. Change happens quicker than you think.

Thanks to @davidoclubb for promoting the protocol and @jaz for running this instance.

Ever wish you had an easy-to-follow checklist when designing learning for students? I know I have…often. Some of my colleagues effortlessly design amazing lessons, but I have to plod through each point. But lesson design is something that is critical to ultimate success in the classroom for each student. That’s why I’d like to take a moment to share my latest version of the outline I use. https://blog.tcea.org/meet-aldo-amazing-lesson-design-outline/ #EduTooter #Educaton #EvidenceBasedTeaching #TCEA @edutooters

How to Safely Share Your #Email Address on a #Website

https://css-tricks.com/how-to-safely-share-your-email-address-on-a-website/

@zleap @aurynn anyone who behaves like that is *very* quickly yeeted from much of the Fediverse - unless they set up their own instance with their own resources (and even then, they are liable to be pushed to the corners by limited federation if they don't behave decently)

@zleap @sean @sj_zero @gretathunberg I totally agree, and would go so far as to say that battling to have our voices heard by the corps is a distraction and a waste of time.

What we should be doing is building the solutions we need ourselves.

Let's face it, they're not interested

The FAW official video for the World Cup includes a monster truck load of Welsh politics. A not exhaustive list of what it shows:

Treweryn
Gwynfor Evans
The Miners' Strike
The Betty Campbell statue
Protests over monolingual English only signs
and the '97 referendum result

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=43Fag8ZQcz4

@zleap @piggo @liaizon i do hope that we all collectively go back to the internet of the 90's, especially for those who never got to experience it the first time round

Advice for new users, sometimes we tag CWs as "Meta," meaning content about the current controversy of the day on masto.

You may be wondering how you can tell the difference between meta commentary and meta the company, here is a handy way to tell the difference:
No one talks about the company.

Want to get into the mood for the World Cup, check out this cracking song which S4C have made their official song for the tournament. https://youtu.be/ADt8hn45vj8

For everyone here: I read there is a shortage of instances run by women admins. I know a few already, but I love to know more. I am one for one, but
https://vis.social/about/more and I thought https://mastodon.art/about/more is one too.
Mine i https://socialserver.science/about/more and is mainly aimed at scientists and scientific visualizers.
Please boost!

https://www.cardiffdevils.com/news/continental-cup-tickets-sale-wednesday/

If you're curious about #IceHockey then this could be a good place to start.

European hockey comes to Cardiff Bay 18 to 20 November 2022 as #CardiffDevils host the third round of the IIHF Continental Cup.

Day passes give you two matches for £20. Bargain!

So if any server admin types are interested, it should be pretty easy* to run an instance of my RSS to ActivityPub converter as a nice bonus for your users. It lets people with a login on your Mastodon or Hometown server create ActivityPub accounts that are mirrors of RSS feeds (process pictured in attachments). ONLY people with a login to your server can use it, because you don't want to moderate this service for randos

https://github.com/dariusk/rss-to-activitypub

*easy for linux server administration, huge lmao

Scratch - Change Language https://diode.zone/videos/watch/4f89c555-1c42-40e2-bccd-a68c38821679

How to draw a square in Scratch 3 https://diode.zone/videos/watch/1c2fa1ff-e7a2-4298-a4b9-b16a5f8d3008

How to Draw a spiral in Scratch 3 https://diode.zone/videos/watch/6131bc43-f202-48e9-9bb3-acf18fa25459