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First time experiencing major world event watching mastodon stream… following #worldcup hashtag 👀⚽️

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It's the weekend, and we're taking some downtime, but we wanted to get this instance going before the World Cup (just in case!)

We're exploring the best way to use Mastodon as a publication, including setting a policy for the use of CW and photos. We'll always use ALT text.

This instance is administrated by @oconnell, feel free to reach out to them (or toot @kitoconnell for faster response).

Thanks for the warm welcome, y'all. You'll hear more from us next week. 🤠 #Introduction

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Mastodon has changed how I think. Twitter now seems like a server that doesn't want to federate with anyone else, and that everyone else has blacklisted. I'm in awe of how much sense that makes.

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I can't help but notice many toots from helpful newbies encouraging you to support the Mastodon Patreon.

It's fine to do that but understand it goes to just two big instances and the official Mastodon dev team.

It does NOT trickle down to YOUR instance. If you want to support your server, donate to it directly. Nearly all the costs of the explosive growth of the past few weeks is borne by local instances.

Mastodon is decentralized. There is no Mastodon Inc. This is not Twitter.

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Self explanatory statements below. I have a theory on this.
Please boost if you take part
Thanks
#poll #extrovert #introvert #mastodon

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So it seems joinmastodon removed QOTO from their directory without cause, without contacting us, and without any discussion or due diligence.

Since this is the only way to actually find QOTO for new users if it isnt reversed soon it could mean the end for our wonderful community.

If you care about this place remaining fair, respectful, and inclusive environment I highly suggest everyone reach out to them annd voice your objecttion and your disapointment and having no procedure to keep this fair and inclusive.

If you want to see QOTO stick around you can email your objecttion here:

hello@joinmastodon.org

Feel free to CC me here: jeffrey.freeman@qoto.org

Please be respectful, we want to show them we are the good guys and not give them any reason to object.

@Gargron @trinsec @khird

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Para los nuevos, dos notas culturales principales:
1. aquí se recomienda encarecidamente el texto alternativo para las imágenes.
2. CW (el escudo con un punto de exclamación) es tanto "Envoltorio de contenido" como "Advertencia de contenido"; contenido muy largo, que tiene una audiencia muy limitada o puede molestar a alguien es un fuerte candidato para un CW.

De @LeviKornelsen (original en 🇬🇧)

#TwitterMigration

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Did you find some great accounts here on #mastodon that are more visual in nature, such as #photography or #art, and you'd like a more #instagram like experience? No problem, the #fediverse can do that. Just use #pixelfed

1 - Find an instance at pixelfed.org then register an account

2 - login, copy and paste the fedi address from mastodon into the search bar of #pixelfed

3 - Follow

That's it!

*Please boost if you find this useful for anyone else:)

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GmsCompatConfig version 16 is now in the stable channel of our app repository. It resolves the Play Store trying to update itself and Play services to unsupported versions. It's now back to requesting user install an update which only adds split packages.

github.com/GrapheneOS/platform

We're not planning on addressing this for the legacy 3rd generation Pixels which are completely insecure at this point due to lack of full security updates. You can keep sandboxed Google Play working there by rejecting requests by the Play Store to update it, or reinstalling it.

If you accepted these self-update requests from the Play Store on legacy 3rd generation Pixels, you need to uninstall both Play Store and Play services followed by reinstalling them from our app repository. Don't uninstall/reinstall GSF or you'll also need to uninstall/reinstall every other app depending on GSF directly.

Accepting those update requests is fine with GmsCompatConfig v16 again.

We do it this way is so that we're responsible for testing and approving each Play services and Play Store update through our app repository while still supporting installing additional split packages for these apps with extra locales, etc. via the Play Store. Works well again.

#grapheneos #gmscompat

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Hi everyone--I'm Ami and I'm part of the #TwitterMigration. Still figuring this place out but it seems friendly, which is both delightful and disconcerting. I post about books, politics, repro rights, witches, Jewish stuff, and my dog. I'll try not to knock things over but I can't promise anything. #Introduction

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“Iceberg? What iceberg?” Don’t bother the Captain of the Tweetanic now, he has deck chairs to rearrange

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I'm truly pained for the countless small businesses, authors/speakers, & free lancers who rely on Twitter to market their products or service. Twitter's death will devastate incomes for too many people to count.

All for the whims of a maniacal elitist. smh terrible.
#RipTwitter

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El fediverso es como la primera vez que te metes al mar, primero con miedo y luego poco a poquito más lejos de tu orilla. 🌊

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Here for #MastodonFC action. We have a whole World Cup to do together 🤝

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The same crowd who think a 10-year-old girl is mature enough to carry a baby to term are now saying a 20-year-old isn’t mature enough to vote.

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“I alone can fix it” didn’t work in the White House, and it didn’t work at #Twitter.

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