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

@Sphinx this is the palette choice in Toolbox, Irfanview.

@Sphinx The highlight rectangle? Yes, you can pick any colour easily in Irfanview toolbox. I use either a lime green or an orange like show above, whichever will contrast more with the background colours.

@realcaseyrollins LOL.... 😜

@realcaseyrollins The Gimp, eh? I downloaded the package but did not install it yet. Very powerful, it seems.

And free. 🙂

@Sphinx ...continued...

- the second I used the Right click, select Screen Shot from the Firefox Context menu, and snapped it to your post box only (it does a good guessing job of what block you want, or pick two window limit points - upper, lower corners.).

@Sphinx 🙂 For quick job, a one use image like that one above, I would use the built in Screen Capture in Waterfox (same as Firefox Aurora version 68).

Took a couple snapshots to show it:

- the first I used the whole screen capture (to get the Firefox menu in action), then cropped and compressed the image to .png in Irfanview.

@reitrace @georgia yes, it might be a case of needing company, and for a lady, going alone can be intimidating.

@Gargron Merry Christmas and Happy New Year, boss. Thank you for all the work you do.

@kashi Gorgeous map, thank you again. Another one saved for future use. 🙇

@kashi Happy Holidays for you too, and thank you for the lovely image. Saved it here. 👍

@cantinto
Take a look at this thread, and it has a link to the discussion being mentioned here.

Pretty active too.

https://qoto.org/@design_RG/103363357923380440

@mngrif

And I just found out up to date stats for Masto Bida IM -- ant they are over 7,000 users.

https://fediverse.network/mastodon.bida.im

@realcaseyrollins @Sphinx An automated search program, assuming you mean looking at website contents for indexing, would be called a crawler, most likely. Or a spider, going about the web.

@realcaseyrollins @Sphinx Take a look at Wikipedia, their Bot (Computing Technology) has quite a few variants.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bot#Computing_and_technology

@realcaseyrollins @DissidentKitty@radical.town Yeah, and on Christmas eve to boot. Someone had a rough night, maybe.

@realcaseyrollins Yes, that's true. Many places have degrees of restrictions for new accounts. Some are by invite only.

We are not a General instance, imo; the theme gets diluted if we go that way. Easier to keep focus on a smaller place, but this is an open one, and the spot at the top of the list gives a lot of exposure.

I selected my first instance from that page, Qoto, but not by default -- I liked the theme and focus, and chose it for that reason.

@realcaseyrollins Oh, Geez, and that's after we deleted a bunch of spam accounts earlier this week.

About 50 created in maybe 10 minutes or so. Bot action from NJ, US.

We passed 5,000 maybe two weeks ago, almost 6,000 now. Sadly many of those never post much.

@realcaseyrollins @DissidentKitty@radical.town The Grinch Came this morning... 😜

3 large Instances now at the top of the JoinMastodon.org suggestions list.

I am glad, that there are other larger instances, helping accommodate new users joining #fediverse

👍 Bida.im is suprising me, didn't realize they had those numbers. Congrats!

https://joinmastodon.org/#getting-started

New user? need a Guide?

There's a good one here: https://lifehacker.com/a-beginner-s-guide-to-mastodon-1828503235

@Massick Lechón coming up, eh?