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

@spike

You are very welcome, I love helping people out. Once a teacher, always a... 😛

Builds community and a nice place for everyone to hang out in. 👍

@freemo

@spike

You can find many good suggestions from people's Follow on Friday's posts, usually hashed as #FF or #FollowFriday .

https://qoto.org/web/timelines/tag/followfriday shows many posts, and is worth checking.

The sys admin here posted one of those a couple of weeks ago.

@freemo

@spike Yep, I agree. Don't like all the visual noise those things bring in, specially at road side, intersections.

We don't need that.

@zevahs which genres do you like?

A New and interesting Mastodon Guide project is being developed. I saw a post from one of the authors yesterday on birdsite, he was looking for translations for French and Spanish.

Gave it a read later, it's probably a Mid Level guide - I learned things I did not know until now, for example.

But I think a bit too detailed for a totally new user. Maybe moving the extensive section on Instances down further into the guide, or as subsection, could help.

https://rame.altervista.org/mastostart/

Including here some screenshots of something that until now baffled me -- the bizarre way threads break out into tangents if people do not keep the same @ attributions and people in their post.

Coming from the Forums world, that is weird for me, and a Bug, not a Feature as far as I am concerned. 😜

@spike Fair reporting, a BSOD windows and a Kernel panic linux equivalent. 😜

They look fun on those huge outdoor screens.

@spike
It depends on the time of the day. Some people come in, others check out for sleep. The user count and post graphs show some of the spikes.

But it is indeed a quiet instance, considering the number of user accounts.

Sometimes I jump into other systems to find some ongoing thread to join, or post new things too.

The Home feed will get more interesting and lively as you add Follows, they all show in there. The Federated feed is always busy, it shows posts from all users followed by anyone here in Qoto. That is a lot of data flashing by.

@freemo

Luxor and Cleopatra are beautiful. Better than a Black cat? Only two of same. #cats #mastocats #meow #moa #familiar
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RT @CatDisapproval
Of course it's Black Friday! All Fridays are #BlackFriday to me!
https://twitter.com/CatDisapproval/status/1200406059292209152

@Zyzzyva an older machine needs lighter software, I would suggest you give FF or Waterfox a try.

Uses a lot less resources than Chrome, and is not tied into their ecosystem and espionage.

@spike oopsie.

Busy morning. 4 hours session, VPN says 1 GB of downloaded data.

Web only, no streaming videos or binaries. Yikes.

@Zyzzyva And I should mention - honestly, the best way to explore and handle the rich information here in fediverse is on a desktop or laptop computer.

A moblie is goo for quick things on the go, getting a map, etc, but reading is limited and TABS!!! Need Tons open.

Waterfox is my fave browser, and it handles the unbelievable load I am throwing at it perfectly.

Laptop, best. Desktop, for power users, multi monitor, but then it's tying you down to a desk. 😉

@Zyzzyva I would suggest you to try Fedilab Lite - I made a review and links, screenshots on this thread:

https://qoto.org/web/statuses/103150545437071079

@Zyzzyva I liked Facebook for linking up with local people. I enjoy bicycles and cycling, and have many cyclist friends there.

But then the posts get very repetitive, and we might not have much of a connection other than the interest and love of bikes and riding them.

There is one part of the Fediverse which is called Friendica, and has a similar interface and logic. It fully federates with us here in Masto, I have an account there and can follow, reply to or mention anyone here.

@rgx@nerdica.net is listening. 😜

With so much to experiment, learn, read, all those fascinating wiki pages we end up with, like you described, my Friendica account hasn't seen more than some test use.

It does allow beautiful text formatting AND post editing too, Woot!!

But you need to connect to people, or it seems an empty place.

If you ever want to see how it is, there's a test server for trying out an account - it gets deleted in a week, and nobody minds what you do there, you are not embarrassed in front of an active instance.

https://tryfriendica.de/ is the URL

@Zyzzyva I am using the Mastodon web interface, on my laptop, and it allows the maximum post size as defined by the instance admin -- in Qoto's case, that's 65,000 chars max.

Plenty eh? 😜

Some clients (for mobile mostly) might have a hard limit of 500 chars, which is the usual default max size.

If that's the case, maybe consider changing to another client? Fediverse is good one too. Free from the F-Droid app store.

Don't worry as we are all learning. I have been here for only a month and feel comfortable, but still am surprised by things sometimes, and have many things on my wishlist to read or act upon.

Have fun, ask any questions if needed. 😉

@kosame Hello Kosako, and welcome to Qoto.

You are very welcome -- I am pleased that my post helped you. 🙇

Enjoy the network and all it has to offer. If you are new to using Mastodon, there's a good guide here: https://lifehacker.com/a-beginner-s-guide-to-mastodon-1828503235

Any question, just ask, and someone will try and help out.

Have a good day!

@Zyzzyva Yeah, it's true. The Local feed sometimes is slowish, it depends of the time of the day.

when it happens that some prolific posters are online simultaneously, some nice longer threads do develop.

I used to use FB, but was tired of the repetitiveness of the posts there. Plus the polarization, and people posting back and forth about an election that happened a year ago or more.

You can't change the results, but move on, people are playing into the politicians hands by doing that fan club cheering.

Glad you like the arXiv posts, as there's a lot of them flying by, lol. 😜

The Home feed is fun, with a manageable pace and interestign things flying by. Or we can get an account in a second instance, to liven up the quieter moments, or to research more delicate topics.

I do that, and it sometimes is very interesting, although I primarily post here.

An account in an instance supporting a different language is also a good idea, to practice and keep in touch with the culture. Got one, but haven't visited yet - I don't like leaving an account open without a minimum of info, avatar, etc. So it's on the To Do list...

@shibaprasad

Unbelievable that he would post what he did. How about it he was the one raped by 4 men?

...and then killed and burned afterwards?

Opened mouth and inserted both feet. That will hurt his life for sure.

@realcaseyrollins