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“Scientific Method”

Ripescando foto dal telefono, uno dei meravigliosi carpini (Carpinus betulus) del Montello

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

KEEP IN MIND! #Mastodon doesn't work like #Twitter!

Have you just made the #Twexit or the #TwitterMigration?

Favorites ⭐ - they're not "likes". They don't "elevate" posts, they just the poster know you liked their post.

Boosts 🔁 - these push someone's post into your friends feeds (and help discovery).

So if you ⭐ my posts, that's great (and I love you too)!

But if you 🔁 posts, then more people see them!

OH! - #Hashtags are how you search!

#mastodon #MastodonTips

Our world is connected.

We see evidence of that from seeing social media updates from people around the world or news broadcasts that cover events happening from anywhere. But have you considered the physical infrastructure of the internet? Of course there are datacenters, giant buildings with loud computers buzzing away. But those buildings need to be connected to each other, to your modem at home, to mobile cell towers that are sprinkled all over the place, and "to the internet". But what does that mean? Contrary to popular belief, satellites are NOT how most information travels the world. Indeed, we have physical cables all over... but instead of carrying electrical signals those cables carry light generated by lasers.

These cables not only exist alongside roads and hung on power lines. They're also running along the bottom of the world's oceans. The image below is an inventory of each of these underwater internet cables. What I find interesting is how many there are! It seems like a lot. But then when I think more about it I am also amazed at how few there are. If you pay attention you will see news articles describing occasional sabotage of these cables, here's one recently published by Wired: https://www.wired.com/story/submarine-internet-cables-egypt/. This is actually very important to the future and security of the global internet.

#internet #fiberoptic #infrastructure #submarinecable #lasers #packets

You can see a vector version of the map here: https://sudorandom.dev/assets/images/works/submarine-cable-map/geo-mercator.svg
or from my portfolio website: https://sudorandom.dev/portfolio/submarine-cable-map/

The data for generating this map is based on: https://www.submarinecablemap.com/

#daleggere

Time magazine interviewed Mastodon's founder, and you'll learn a lot about the decentralized social network he's been working on. https://time.com/6229230/mastodon-eugen-rochko-interview/ https://twitter.com/dangillmor/status/1589584295009533958?s=12&t=qSkKr_Y2wBXprn_myGqQbA

Götheborg is still in Barcelona.
#ships #sailing

Ciclisti, automobili e privacy, in Baviera. Mio pezzo di oggi sull'Alto Adige #Germania

Has anyone ever in the history of mankind submitted a grant application "in good time, a few days before the deadline"?!

** this is a rhetorical question. If your answer is yes, I don't want to hear from you. Not now. Perhaps not ever.

Brenda, irlandese della campagna di Cork, con un accento tremendo che nessuno capiva, si era affezionata a me per la mia capacità ad aver l’accento meno peggio del laboratorio. Anzi mi si era appiccicata. A lei mancavano le sue abitudini di casa. Un giorno l’ho portata nel posto migliore di Nantes: un vecchio salone da thé per ultra sessantenni ma che serviva una tarte tatin da paradiso. Brenda ha ordinato il Darjeeling col latte. Girava il cucchiaino facendo uscire il thé dalla tazza. Piangeva.

Il movimento orizzonte dritto è riuscito ad aggirare i bug e a caricare una foto perfettamente a bolla!

Gli intervalli su Twitter sono più semplici da caricare, mettetevi ‘na mano sulla coscienza.