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I'm a #Data Analyst, with an interest in #science of all types, inc #Healthcare. Hopefully constantly questioning my thinking, and considering whether an answer is as obvious as it seems.
Love word games and #puzzles, general interest in sport (strictly as a spectator on grounds of incompetence), cynical centre-left politically. "Inside every cynical person, there's a disappointed idealist" - George Carlin
Twitter Migration Class of '22.
Joined Nov 2022
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@Sime0nStylites passed on this article which is frankly gobsmacking and ratchets up the estimate of the amount of chaos internally at Twitter, the risk of losing money via regulatory failure.... https://www.theverge.com/2022/11/10/23451198/twitter-ftc-elon-musk-lawyer-changes-fine-warning
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Ukpol assault westminster
Listening to the ever wonderful Naga on #bbc5live . Mp Charlotte Nichols saying that when she first came to westminster (very recently), she was sat down and handed a list of about 40 mps she's not safe to be alone with, not in a lift alone with, not to accept a drink from, cross party. She says there's a well established #whispernetwork in Westminster to help women navigate life as an mp without assault. What the actual. #ukpol #politics
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New legislation in #France: all existing carparks with 80 or more spaces must install a #solar roof within 3 to 5 years.
This could generate up to 11 gigawatts of #SolarPower.
#Renewables #RenewableEnergy #ClimateCrisis.
https://electrek.co/2022/11/08/france-require-parking-lots-be-covered-in-solar-panels/
UK Politics and Public Funding
Rather too much of this sort of thing going on for my liking. Opera isn't ever going to be a cause that easily tugs at the heart strings, but plenty in the public sector will recognise the demand to do the government's job in resolving structural social issues.
I'm all for moving things out of London, but it's not clear to me how the ENO being in one big city rather than another changes anything. "Let them eat Carmen"?
Still, I look forward to the not-at-all-hypocritical outrage when someone next suggests moving Parliament, even as a temporary measure for renovations.
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Probably enjoyed discovering this exchange from 2020 too much.
He clearly took a different path.
RT @joinmastodon@twitter.com
@elonmusk@twitter.com You can self-host a Mastodon server
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/joinmastodon/status/1286737657138155520
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Lotta talk about replacing Twitter.
The better dialogue is how to get people to re-evaluate how they engage with the internet.
Personally, I'm convinced of two things:
- You can't 1:1 replace Twitter unless it's a similar top-down walled garden.
- Most people probably shouldn't want a Twitter replacement, since Twitter is bad for us.
Instead of finding/molding/creating a replacement, we should encourage people (and ourselves!) to focus on what they like most about internet interaction.
I'm seeing comments from the #TwitterMigration crowd saying "isn't it exciting being here at the start?"
Guys, please remember #mastodon has been here and in use for years, not just sitting empty, waiting for you to discover it.
Every major digital migration I've seen has had moments of tension as different approaches and cultures collide. So it would be a good start if we all took extra care not to sound like colonisers disregarding the existence of the natives who've been here forever.
UK Politics
Amid all the comment about #Williamson's resignation, which I can't really add to, this little detail jumped out at me.
Williamson's erroneous use of "refute" to indicate that he disputes the characterisation of his behaviour is not only a crime against the English language, but also strangely similar to the words of a "friend of Williamson" four days ago.
Not often you get such strong evidence that "friend of X" can typically be taken to just mean X.
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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](https://twitodon.com/) - Find your Twitter friends on Mastodon
[FediFinder](https://fedifinder.glitch.me/)- Similar to Twitodon
[Fedi Tips](https://fedi.tips/) - an informal, unofficial guide for non-technical people who want to use Mastodon and the wider Fediverse
[Fedi Directory](https://fedi.directory) - A human-curated small selection of accounts to spice up your timeline.
[Trunk](https://communitywiki.org/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](https://fediverse.info/explore/people) -growing list of people and topics can help you discover mutual interests with people around the world
**Mobile Apps:**
[Metatext for iOS 
](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/metatext/id1523996615)
[Tusky for Android 
](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.keylesspalace.tusky&hl=en&gl=USt)
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 
Hello, is this thing on? Yes, it's another refugee from the Bird Site.
I'm a #Data Analyst, with an interest in #science of all types, inc #Healthcare. Hopefully constantly questioning my thinking, and considering whether an answer is as obvious as it seems.
Love word games and #puzzles, general interest in sport (strictly as a spectator on grounds of incompetence), cynical centre-left politically. "Inside every cynical person, there's a disappointed idealist" - George Carlin
Twitter Migration Class of '22.
Joined Nov 2022
