Ari Meier @arisphere@qoto.org

So many people are having a bad first experience with Mastodon because they're using the official app which is lacking features, doesn't allow image uploads randomly, has random slowness, and doesn't give you easy access to the two most active feeds where you can find people (Local and Federated).

Please switch to Metatext, Tusky, or Tooot for a better mobile experience (or even use a browser).

Out of the >15k users that joined this week, over 11k are on the official apps.

To this extent I'm really interested to know how the age breakdown of people on the #Fediverse. On one hand it would seem to make sense to me that most people here remember the "old internet" before the centralization and they're here to rekindle that flame of independence. On the other hand the youths are generally pretty up on this whole technology thing. I grew up on the internet and since then smartphones have become even more ubiquitous.

(Please boost for reach)

🎉 #Mastodon 4.0 is out now! This server software update includes a ton of improvements, like following hashtags, translating posts, editing, an improved filtering system, customizable user roles for administration, but also some important security fixes.

Check out the full changelog:

https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/releases/tag/v4.0.0

"Try reading the following out loud:

Hashtag screenreaders for the hashtag blind and hashtag VisuallyImpaired read every hashtag HashTags out loud and so it's hard for people with hashtag VisualImpairment to get the sense of the post because it's being constantly interrupted by well-meaning hashtag accessibility hashtag allies.

Easier to read with a block of hashtags at the bottom:
#screenreaders #VisuallyImpaired #blind #allies #Hashtags #accessibility"
--original author unknown

@sarah_edo Yes! Let's make the internet weird again!

🤔Q: Why do Black kids that go to school in Nigeria or Kenya excel in math, but Black kids that go to school in the US do not?

Why do Black kids in the US that have at least one Black teacher do better in math, and are more likely to graduate and go to college?

A: Because racist people are not good at teaching Black kids, and Black teachers can shield kids from racism.

Imagine if I taught at this school with this teacher. Wouldn't work. One of us would have to go.

https://twitter.com/Phil_Lewis_/status/1591881094432964612

Black teachers aren't intrinsically better at teaching, or even intrinsically better at reducing racism. In fact, Black teachers have less intrinsic ability to reduce racism than their peers. Because they have less situational power. Because racism. 🙂🙃

But Black teachers show more willingness to reduce racism, sometimes at great personal cost, and career risk.

My point is, any teacher of any race could step up at any time, and provide the protection that Black teachers provide. 👍🏿

Was anyone realistically thinking about creating a #dotnet implementation of #mastadon ?

I sorta started on it, but wasn't going to continue if there's a #Microsoft led effort.

If there's no existing project, I'll try to gather some collaborators and continue.

Who's interested in trying to get a #dotnet7 version going?

#OSS #foss

Please boost to help me find people or a project! Thanks!

I'm happy to say that I've now onboarded another iOS developer for our app, and we are set on making another update to the app as soon as possible. I've also onboarded the first batch of new moderators for this server.

Maybe I can say this here: it has never made sense to me why, for the most part, developers look down on artists (and simplify their work), and why artists do the same to tech people.

Having bridged both communities for years, there are more commonalities than disparities, and when the two are joined, amazing works take shape.

Maybe with this new stage of rebooting social, we can create weird web experiences like we used to.

@mekkaokereke none of your 4 points surprises me, but I appreciate you calling attention to them. Discomfort hearing about racism surely also stifles conversation about reducing or eliminating racism, especially when the members of systems get defensive. There are many topics we don’t talk about enough and racism is certainly a leading one.

An in-person conference after close to 3 years means I finally can distribute the hex stickers for my #rstats packages! If you see me in-person, please feel free to ask for it!

@mekkaokereke We need more people to remind us that Elon is not the genius his PR made him out to be. Thank you!

Elon doesn't build cars. Elon hires engineers, designers, and other professionals, that build cars.

The Model S was great because it was built by Peter Rawlinson, one of the best lead EV engineers of this era.

If Peter gets tired of Elon, he can leave, start his own company (Lucid), and build another car(Air), that one-ups Tesla on almost everything.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=4yjRIcRc9qY

If you don't know who Peter is, you think Elon is more of a genius than he is.

Truth
#technology #tech #twitter #twittermigration #socialmedia #elon #media

I was part of the folks who were on the ground back in #Ferguson in 2014. Twitter didn’t spawn that movement. It was the people on the ground that used Twitter to start that movement. We literally changed who voices that were trusted. All of a sudden news accounts became noise. It was that person who you saw live-streaming from the protest that you trusted. We literally shifted power w/ no check marks. I think that can happen anywhere. Including #Mastodon.

My goal on #Mastodon is to find community like many of us did on the bird site. Once we adapt to this platform a bit & start connecting with each other I think amazing things could happen. But it’s going to require culture shifts. I would hope that some orgs would invest in instances to help create an infrastructure that facilitates community and rapid messaging. I plan to start a server soon and invest in what I think is a genuine chance for something new and even better than what we had.