Erika @ErikaDesign@qoto.org

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#Choir
#Crochet
#History
#Languages
#Nature
#Science

Via @MsAlliance

there’ll be a long drawn out process, there’ll be loads of rows, there’ll be a behind the scenes deal and compromise will be hammered out and everyone will go home and forget about it

Nothing will change and I just fear we as humans - and I include myself in this - are just too selfish to make the kind of changes to save the planet. Selfish”

https://www.newstalk.com/news/cop27-humanity-is-too-selfish-to-stop-climate-change-shane-coleman-1399774

#ClimateEmergency #pollution #ecology #environment #ClimateCrisis #ClimateCatastrophe
#ClimateChange #climate #Ireland #COP27

Okay this might be a long post

One thing that I realised is making #twittermigration harder for people to switch is because the whole concept can feel daunting & overwhelming for non-tech savvy people.

With Twitter to them it was straight forward and easy to find topics they enjoy but with mastodon its a bit different.
So if you’re new to mastodon or you want to introduce someone to mastodon here are some tips, useful sites & tools:

Tips:

• Choosing a home instance isn’t as importance as it seems, don’t overthink it. Yes moderation rules & policies may differ but they all have one thing in common: Be a decent human. You always have the option to migrate your account to a new instance.
• Toots (or posts if you think toots are cringe ) are what we call micro-blogging instead of tweets
• You’re supposed to “boost” AKA “reblog” toots that you like.Since Mastodon does not have an algorithm that surfaces toots that have been liked a lot, boosting is the best way to help spread stuff that you like, and to show appreciation. (credit to @orsvarn for this comment)
• Another way to fill your timeline with content you enjoy is to: Find other people with similar interests, follow them, favourite their posts, boost their posts, use hashtags. rinse, repeat. (credit to @garry)
• If you ever feel yourself getting sucked into arguments on the #Fediverse, you might want to take advantage of the instance mute/block feature!
  Instances tend to foster a culture, so if you find people from a specific site tend to be bothering you, muting/blocking that instance will keep other members of that community from bothering you as well.
• Finally do not share private/sensitive information via DMs on Mastodon. Direct Messages are not E2E. Keep it in mind

Useful tools & resources:

Twitodon - Find your Twitter friends on Mastodon
FediFinder- Similar to Twitodon
Fedi Tips - an informal, unofficial guide for non-technical people who want to use Mastodon and the wider Fediverse
Fedi Directory - A human-curated small selection of accounts to spice up your timeline.
Trunk -Trunk allows you to mass-follow a bunch of people in order to get started with Mastodon or any other platform on the Fediverse
Fediverse.info -growing list of people and topics can help you discover mutual interests with people around the world
Mobile Apps:
Metatext for iOS
Tusky for Android

Lastly if you are interested in setting up your own instance you can learn via https://learnfoss.org/ its completely free and its made by the wonderful @stux

I apologize for the long post lol, just hope this helps anyones transition over

XKCD nails it again ... *so* good:

https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/pathogen_resistance.png

Hmmm something odd is going on with my following thingy (science lingo;-))
In either direction it just blinks and goes back to whatever it was. Maybe there is a maximum times you can do it? I got confused (sleepy/meds) with the icon and unfollowed a few people I wanted to follow but actually already did, and now it won’t change it back (even after 24 hours) ...🧐

@OCRbot eng

HPV vaccination programmes around the world have significantly cut rates of virus infection, precancerous lesions and genital warts HPV vaccine has significantly cut rates of cancer-causing infections | New Scientist #health #HPV #vaccine https://www.newscientist.com/article/2207722-hpv-vaccine-has-significantly-cut-rates-of-cancer-causing-infections/

“This is the first study suggesting that bee decline is a global process, and that the most significant changes have occurred in recent years.”
https://t.co/kskHyGd7hg

https://twitter.com/ScienceNews/status/1221115516670136326?s=09

@ErikaDesign Even if you just love science or want to be surrounded by science people you would be welcome here. No topic restrictions