Arindam Basu @arinbasu@qoto.org

@freemo @SteveZissou

You have set up an extraordinary server. And an ecosystem that can enable people to do and write good science on #fediverse
Qoto.org is like #arxiv of fediverse.

@SteveZissou
@freemo

As I often say these days, there's bog #mastodon. Then there's qoto.org Mastodon, ;-)

@freemo @zleap
Another app we may need to consider
is
https://curvenote.com

They integrate #jupyter notebooks with text editor for version control and is an excellent editor. I will see if we can get the developers here and have a discussion. Great tool!

@zleap @freemo

I have done that as well. They are very good and open about these new ideas.

@SteveZissou

And you can write in markdown that renders into html, 🙂

@craiggrannell

Very nice work, Craig. With your permission, I will share it on my status. A few things are interesting:
Where you write,

> So err on the side of caution by using larger servers, and donate to keep them alive

I'd beg to differ. I'd say sign up for _smaller sized_ servers and if possible, pay them to stay alive. The strength of this system is interconnected instances sharing posts and resources with each other. If everyone were to join larger servers, then we'd end up with a duopoly/oligopoly, and I am not sure if that'd be something desirable.

Posts can be MORE than 500 characters, for example the https://qoto.org instance allows 65K characters in their Mastodon apps, so you may want to revise 'up to' to be accurate.

On your 'Any other important stuff', you may want to add a couple of important things:

First, 'content warning' (cw) as a good practice and encourage people to write them often

and, ask your readers to describe their images when they post images on #mastodon, because it helps people with limited vision to experience the image descriptors and also, as we say in #Aotearoa, it is about manakitanga.

Fediverse is all about kindness and being good and gentle.

As for
> Mastodon is the most Twitter-like alternative out there

This is debatable. #mastodon is part of the #fediverse and there are other apps that mimic twitter/birdsite more closely than mastodon. For example, sites based on #pleroma or #misskey mimic twitter better and there are twitter like skins as well.

For a really well-written article, you may want to consider some of these points.

@Saumyajit

See this,

https://mastodon.online/@mastodonmigration/109315434801078243

@hugh
writes,

> "the basic principles have mostly held up to now: the culture and technical systems were deliberately designed on principles of consent, agency, and community safety. Whilst there are definitely improvements that could be made to Mastodon in terms of moderation tools and more fine-grained control over posting, in general these are significantly superior to the Twitter experience. It's hardly surprising that the sorts of people who have been targets for harrassment by fascist trolls for most of their lives built in protections against unwanted attention when they created a new social media toolchain. It is the very tools and settings that provide so much more agency to users that pundits claim make Mastodon "too complicated"."

See https://www.hughrundle.net/home-invasion/

This is an important point of difference between a centralised corporate controlled social media that many are familiar with; they seem to have issues finding #fediverse too complicated.

On the one hand, if they were to take it easily, post status updates, follow others, and step by step, the experience of fediverse for a newcomer would be a lot smoother. Instead, many people want to replicate their birdsite/twitter experience on #mastodon and get frustrated.

https://web.immers.space/

Is where federated metaverse lives, experiencing the metaverse in the same way we are experiencing connected communication here.

#metaverse

@zwanran
Have you considered storing data on public servers and call them in your analyses?

## How do I find whom to follow?

Is a frequently asked question from people who are migrating from the birdsite, aka twitter.

https://fedifinder.glitch.me/

is a fantastic app to find people:

* People whom you followed on Twitter, many of them are on Mastodon as well (one or other servers or instances). Use this tool.
* First connect your twitter handle or account name (it is safe to give them your twitter handle)
* The tool then fetches which of the twitter accounts you followed are also on one or another mastodon instance
* copy the accounts (in the form of `@accountname@instance.tld`
* Paste it in the search box. You will see a plus sign next to the names and accounts that will be fetched. Click on the plus sign
* You can follow the old twitter friend now
* You can also see who among your followers on twitter are on one or another #mastodon instances

Remember to buy @Luca lunch!

#feditips

Thanks a milion!
Let's grow

@brainwane
@yuvipanda
@simon
@danielskatz