*banned 4 MarkDown love* @design_RG@qoto.org

@kapoorrajat1857 Awesome, I never tried that, my mid 70's Mitsubishi reciever works so well here at home.

Jazz.fm has an app too I think.

https://jazz.fm/download-the-new-jazz-fm91-mobile-app/

@Karthikdeva Thanks, Karthik - I chose that specific frame as it shows the real small size of the planet as compared to the Sun behind it.

Poor Mercury must he a living Hell of heat and radiation, being so close.

@raining_night That's great! 😄

@raining_night @freemo Is that screenshot from MS site? They are running a newer version of Mastodon there.

We have a Migration page here:

https://qoto.org/settings/migration

Very minimal, just a new username and instance pointer required, no options.

Did you miss seeing the passage of Mercury over the face of the Sun earlier this week?

Beautiful images from the Solar observatories like the screenshot below.

See the footage at :

https://mercurytransit.gsfc.nasa.gov/display.php?year=2019&phase=In&dataset=Mercury19_AIA96s_171&title=AIA%20171

or from different cameras at the main site:

https://mercurytransit.gsfc.nasa.gov/2019/

@freemo @raining_night Oooh... Upgrada, nice.

But are we going to have that new Tilled Feed view? I find that confusing. Like the one on MS itself, already at v.3.01

https://mastodon.social/public

@raining_night I think they must have footage archived to show.

Check the post, found it on my posts line since I liked and boosted it.

https://qoto.org/web/statuses/103119441779521999

An example of a working, lively instance with Pleroma running. Showing their Local feed.

https://blob.cat/main/public

@raining_night Thanks for the post, we had a nice post the other day with pointers to live cameras showing the solar telescope views of the Mercury passage over the face of the Sun. Quite cool!

Really small planet, and so close to that huge star.

@raining_night @freemo I am glad you found Qoto and moved here, MS is too large and too general to be interesting, and diffcult to manage properly.

Losing the followers is a pain; there seemed to be some "moved" option you could enable, and it will keep the old profile and all the data still there, but people will need to re-follow I think.

Good work on adding the RN, it will make it easier to refer to you.

@kapoorrajat1857 You are welcome, Pranoy!

See, you have an advantage on using the web stream, it displays the title and more info. 😄

I am listening to the station in the FM band, receive it quite well since it's about 40 Km from my home or so.

I have it playing all the time, other than when they put Opera on, that I don't like much.

There's a nice Jazz station from Toronto, Ontario that also transmits over the web:

https://jazz.fm (got to love that URL!)

or

https://radio.securenetsystems.net/cwa/CJRT

Finished reading the page and it's excellent.

The author defines well what a Local timeline is, what the Federated timeline is as well.

And he explains the differences between Pleroma and Mastodon as server software alternatives:

"## How is it different from Mastodon?

If you are currently using Mastodon, you are probably interested in the differences between Mastodon and Pleroma. Here are some of the big ones.

## Lower system requirements.

Pleroma can run well on a Raspberry Pi or a $2.50 Vultr instance. This makes it affordable to host for single user instances. You can still run a hundred users or so on instances this small, though, so it also works well for bigger instances.

## Less moving parts.

Pleroma is built on a lot less technology than Mastodon. To run a Mastodon instance, you need Rails, PostgreSQL, Redis, Sidekiq, NodeJS and - if you want search - ElasticSearch. For Pleroma, you only need Elixir and PostgreSQL, while still getting all the features. This simplifies installation and makes maintenance somewhat easier."

original page (also linked above):

https://blog.soykaf.com/post/what-is-pleroma/

@freemo @raining_night Thank you, that was quick! 😃

@raining_night Ok, will do, maybe add the RN in your profile where it says Name (mine shows Rob G.).

Regarding changing the user handle, I don't know - and it's a good question. Would be useful if possible.

We could ask the boss, @freemo

@raining_night you are welcome. I wanted to make another complimentary post here, but accidentaly posted it as a new topic, oops. It's here:

https://qoto.org/web/statuses/103132093623500329

If you Favourite an item with the Star, you have a better chance to find it in the future.

Currently, it's like a "Like" button on many cases, since we don't have one, but the original idea was a Favourites or Bookmark.

Found another nice page for reference. You might be able to get some explanations for the general operation of the network and instances, etc.

https://blog.soykaf.com/post/what-is-pleroma/

"In my last few posts I talked a bit about Pleroma. Since then, we had a lot of questions about what Pleroma is, how it is different from GNU Social and Mastodon, why you should use it and so on. This post will be an introduction to Pleroma, so read on if you are interested.

What is Pleroma?

Pleroma is a microblogging server software that can federate (= exchange messages with) other servers that support the same federation standards (OStatus and ActivityPub). What that means is that you can host a server for yourself or your friends and stay in control of your online identity, but still exchange messages with people on larger servers. Pleroma will federate with all servers that implement either OStatus or ActivityPub, like GNU Social, Friendica, Hubzilla and Mastodon."

@moonshine@freespeechextremist.com Ah, ok, thank you.

@raining_night Nicely done. 😄

Welcome. Do we call you Raining Night, or maybe RN for short?

I am using the same handle I did on birdsite, but kind of regret not taking advantage of a short nick that can be easily grabbed here.

Might help when people want to post and include you with an @ sign.

@raining_night Pleroma home site : https://pleroma.social/

and a list of sites using the platform:

http://distsn.org/pleroma-instances.html

@raining_night That is a good question. 😃

But I am afraid the answer is not "mastodonians', because mastodon is just one of the possible ways to access the 'fediverse' (or Federated Universe, the network we are participating in).

There are sites using "Pleroma". There are other names which I am even less familiar with. But your posts will show there, as we will see theirs too, being "federated" with hundred of other places.

The great community would be Fediverse, so maybe a word built into that root?

Fediversians comes to mind, although you will need to quickly explain what that means and why you chose the word.