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@ragnar @freemo That sign is great! 😃

Short and effective.

Sometimes Churches might have some good ones too.

@susi123 @freemo
Bings Balkenbrij...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balkenbrij

Rice, I love the Italian Arborio rice. More expensive than regular types, but makes beautiful and creamy rice. Add a few veggies like frozen peas and a poor mans Risotto results. :smiley:

Even without any added extras, Arborio has delicious taste.

@soum Yey, you are welcome. I was so glad to find this.

Documentary Recommendation on a Snowy day... 😃

A favourite since I first saw it, Professor Betanny Hughes wrote and presented "When Moors Ruled Europe".

I loved and was fascinated by it, years later had the opportuinity to see Sevilla, Cordoba, Granada in the Andalucia region, Souther Spain.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/When_The_Moors_Ruled_In_Europe

There's a full copy on Youtube.

https://youtu.be/gfcLBdCrm3s

@soum yes, gimme me a sec, take a snapshot of my Settings screen...

Done....

Go to Settings -- Other, bottom of the screen there's "Public Timelines". Select only the ones you want to see, hit save and from them on the other ones should be excluded.

VERY helpful!! 😃

@soum Someone posted about a new Trotsky documentary yesterday, it's on Netflix and I am looking forward to it.

He was a great man, unfortunately Stalin took control and did a lot of damage.

@soum Kids love snow days! :) We couldn't count on them, and it was a blessing when one was confirmed -- sometimes with a 6 am phone call. Gratefully enjoyed a freedom day, I used to be a teacher, now retired.

@soum I heard it might be coming in a future release, it's a nice feature.

For now, I discovered I can select only posts in the languages I understand, at least partially. Select those and then you won't see Japanese or Chinese ideogram posts, or some in script we have no idea either, which have started to show.

For the Federated feed, at certain times of the day that is a huge time saver, there were so many kanji posts flowing by.

@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. 😃