Arindam Basu @arinbasu@qoto.org
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Professor, Epidemiologist. Doctor (ENT specialist). Professor of Epidemiology and Environmental Health at the University of Canterbury in New Zealand.
Interests: lego MOCs, wood carving, mountain biking, tramping.
Joined Apr 2022
Arindam Basu
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It makes me really happy to hear that. Me and many others here have committed a lot of effort to try to have a community mature enough to talk and not fight, to be respectful and decent without the need for much if any censorship (there is always the occasional bad actor, but its rare).
Myself and im sure my fellow long-time qoto members all appreciate very much hearing that you feel safe and at home here, and most important, you are happy to be here.
I too think this is really a good decent server; if you check the local timeline, you will discover nice folks around. The editor is well designed, and this server actually allows you to integrate other federated tools, that's fantastic. I also found nice uptime and so on.
#GoodInstance
Arindam Basu
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RT @RobertHaisfield@twitter.com
Anyone have a good explanation of Mastodon's federation, from a user perspective? Like how the different instances interact, how users go from instance to instance, that sort of thing
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/RobertHaisfield/status/1590403932538699776
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I am obviously biased but I think we have hands down one of the best servers on the fediverse. Drama is very rare here and when someone comes who does tend to start it they never last long. Amazing for an instance which doesnt limit the topics we are allowed to talk about and generally encourages free speech (hate speech not being free speech).
Its the first time I've ever seen a social media community actually work and get a long. I love it here.
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.
As I often say these days, there's bog #mastodon. Then there's qoto.org Mastodon, ;-)
Arindam Basu
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@arinbasu wow, it's <em>true!</em>
@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!
And you can write in markdown that renders into html, 🙂
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A reminder for anyone new to mastodon who might not be happy with some of the racist and bad actors out there on other servers... Just import the fediblock list to your personal blocks and you will be safe from the vast majority of bad actors.
I took all the domains from https://fediblock.neocities.org/ block list and put it in a csv file that can be imported so you can block all hateful ...
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The QOTO server gives you 65535 characters per toot, which makes around 36 standard printing pages 
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An #introduction to eLife's new Mastodon page!
We're an #OpenAccess not-for-profit journal that publishes and reviews #research in the life and biomedical sciences.
We want to improve the way research is practised and shared in part by working with early-career researchers #ECR and supporting #OpenSource technology.
We also just announced our new publishing model that we hope will tackle an overreliance on journal titles and publishing decisions as quality measures for science and scientists.
Review of a nice how-to-do-mastodon article
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.
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#twittermigration #mastodonmigration
To help with finding users to Follow, here are three curated lists:
The Walt List (Walt Shaub’s list of prolific posters — mostly US politics) >>> https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1rNfUosPSiMwRbUAbnI3h-7D9grP6ULgS/edit#gid=1301725065
Notable Twitter users on the Fediverse >>> https://fedified.com/
Large list of journalists on Mastodon >>> https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/13No4yxY-oFrN8PigC2jBWXreFCHWwVRTftwP6HcREtA/htmlview?resourcekey=undefined&pru=AAABhH2W2zA*V1PG7hJSTbifNCcDu40zLA#gid=1320898902
Mastodon Migration User List Link >>> https://medium.com/@mastodonmigration/sharing-advice-and-assisting-with-the-great-mastodon-migration-53c1a286b805#f5af
Old man yelling at the cloud about fediverse new entrants, ignore ... ;-)
@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.
Is where federated metaverse lives, experiencing the metaverse in the same way we are experiencing connected communication here.
@zwanran
Have you considered storing data on public servers and call them in your analyses?
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Professor, Epidemiologist. Doctor (ENT specialist). Professor of Epidemiology and Environmental Health at the University of Canterbury in New Zealand.
Interests: lego MOCs, wood carving, mountain biking, tramping.
Joined Apr 2022
