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@shibaprasad There is a risk, although the fediverse has the advantage you can chose to be in a more sheltered, more actively moderated place and not exposed to any random insult from barbarians like in twitter.
However, there are yucky people in different instances too, and you might see their content in the "federated" feed.

I was dismayed to see a mirror bot with all the posts from the current US president. Woot.

Still, much nicer and civilized here. I like that communities are smaller and it's easier to get to know someone too.

@soum I don't think there's the Translate option for Mastodon yet. A lot of them are competely alien to me too.

@soum Ah, cool; the climate there is about the same as we have here, although NY was much warmer yesterday. About 20 cm of snow in the driveway, shoveling on the program soon.

@soum Hello Soum. Good morning on my timezone. Snow in the ground already! 😃

@yantrajaal That is a good question, I was thinking about it this morning, being a new user here as well. My thoughts were:

- the "Local" feed tab shows all new locally made posts, including any replies for existing posts. This will show to all users in that server or instance.

The local feed might be very quiet, in a small server, so one with a bit more users could be nicer, to see more and discover things you did not expect.

- The "Home" feed is different for everyone, as it shows any new posts from people you follow, including replies and any posts they decided to boost (retweet).

The boosting by someone you follow could lead you to discover someone else interesting, so I would suggest folowing those in turn, so you add more interesting content to the Home feed.

- And finally, the "Federated" feed is everything coming down the wire, a very fast moving stream of content and posts. It's even hard to read, but you can grab the scroll button on the side to hold it steady and be able to peruse with more time. Like something you see?

I would visit that post, maybe the poster's home page, and if I like what I se, maybe follow them. Their future posts would now show in the Home feed and I have a better chance of not missing it.

'Boosting' is important, specially for content discovery and to establish a new user in a community. When an administrator or user with a large following likes your post, and 'boosts' it, that post will now show in his follower's Home feeds, and they might discover you, follow you, and you get a notification and maybe decide to follow them too. 😃

That builds community, and it's easier here than in a larger site like twitter or FB.

@yantrajaal Hello and welcome! 😃

@Sphinx @freemo You are welcome.

Yeah, the Translate button on post in twitter is something I miss. Worked amazingly well for Japanese posts I was curious about, and able to reply to after reading translation.

But to have that in Mastodon would have to come from the development team, I imagine. (not an add on or plugin)

@raining_night Hello, and welcome to Qoto. 😃

@Sphinx I think if you want to use a different language, and might get responses from here or from other instances, that would be ok.

Seen a lot of people posting in Indian character sets, not sure which language it is, but there's lots of Japanese and Chinese posts on the Federated feed too.

@katlina Hello katlina, welcome to Qoto. 😃

Desktop site is loading normal for me right now.

I don't see the full URL on your browser, but just opened https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/

@shibaprasad @realcaseyrollins

You are welcome, good luck!

Found an eBook version at Archive.org.... Downloadable ePub or other formats.

https://archive.org/details/edwardsnowdenpermanentrecordmetropolitanbooks2019

@Surasanji Now, did he/she/they get some of that coffee that you had on the desk? 😜

@akashpunera Yes, and on a good way, I think. 😃

Welcome, Akash.

@nlvraoin This server had 174 new users joining in the last day.

Surely there's something bring all these people in, right? 😃

It's like Twitter, but with less corporate control or aggravating, radicalized users. More moderation, and each server controlling what their place looks and feels like.

Cory Doctorow's review of Edward Snowden's "Permanent Record" book is very good. The book is on my wishlist.

https://boingboing.net/2019/09/24/pardon-snowden-now.html