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

y@Sphinx Yes, it's due to dryness, happens to me too sometimes.

@realcaseyrollins Wow, very nice! I like how your parents cared about her expenses too.

Have a friend who is quite exploited by her two grand daughters. Merciless, they are .

Nice dinner!

* Is it Important, which Instance you are in ? *

Once again I had an enjoyable conversation, earlier today. Achso was there, and we continued a conversation from a day before. We discussed different things, and specially how choosing an instance to fit your needs and preferences is important.

My thoughts on the matter, and a detailed list of some instances I frequent.

On today's web magazine, live at : https://write.tedomum.net/rgx/is-it-important-which-instance-you-are-in

Wasn't me only, Todon.nl shows some downtime earlier at fediverse.network.

Their stats show it online, although not for me yet.
Nice to have these tools.

https://fediverse.network/todon.nl/checks

@Anarkat Thank you, Anarkat! Boosting here from my instance, would like people to see that.

Nice, well done!!

@ghostdancer
Ah -- good to know. I think the Facebook Groups feature are the best they have at their site. It allows focused discussions, and full moderation, different privacy selections, etc. Well done, I enjoyed some good groups there, with knowledgeable users.

But haven't visited the site lately or posted in many months; just leaving my stuff there for now, but not adding any content.

The Book Club group at Hackers.town seems to be working well, I as happy to see that since I made the push for it to use this as a channel. Much nicer than a hashtag alone, and each participant gets personally notified of any new posts.

@datatitian

@achso@mastodon.social
The reason for my post was that we are getting a lot of twitter content, which the users eithe rhad saved, or new posts they want here too.

I agree there's a lot that's best left there. But there's also some good materials, specially large media organizations like Scientific american, The Economist, BBC News with full fledged feeds there and no presence here.

Those I try to bridge a few posts here and there when I visit my not very active twitter account. We got a barrage of copied twitter URL only posts here today - and as a mod and helpful guy, I made that post showing there's a better way.

A rich cross-post (which Renato's tool does wonderfully) is much nicer and valuable as content here than a nude URL only.

I do use both Moa and Renato's tools (with different trigger hashtags and destination mastodon instances for each).

Not to be abused, but a powerful tool if focused.

@renatolond

@ghostdancer You are very welcome, I came across the project by chance, seeing a post by William and starting to try and use it.

It's still in Alpha phase, but seems to work fine. We will need some moderation, controls to list access before a wider deployment; for now it could be spammed to death, sadly. But William is doing good work on it.

William is at : @datatitian

@Keeneire Nice work, Keeneire! Thanks for posting them here. 🌻

@achso@mastodon.social That's not a problem -- was thinking of our newly arrived amigos, many Twitter users migrating from Twitter to Mastodon.

A week ago it peaked -- mastodon.social was crawling with the huge load. I was visiting and wondered what had happened. They got about 4,000 new users in 2 days.

We got twice our weekly average at Qoto.org.

For someone not in our instance, I would recommend the excellent Crossposter for Mastodon, by @renatolond . See it at : https://crossposter.masto.donte.com.br/

This one has many options and it explains well what each one does. Top notch work, probably faster than Moa even.

@Thenaniest21 Hola, amigo/a y binevenido/a.

Sí, tenemos Guias tanto en Inlgés como en Español.

Inglés : If you are new to using Mastodon, there's a good guide here: https://lifehacker.com/a-beginner-s-guide-to-mastodon-1828503235

We also have another new users guide, posted here : https://write.tedomum.net/rgx/suggestions-and-guidelines-for-new-users-written-by-mastodon-art-administrator

Casey Rollins made a video to explain the Fediverse, here :

"I made this video awhile back to help explain how the #Fediverse works."

https://www.bitchute.com/video/XOtRcgIdqihs/
https://invidio.us/yBRrqbRQ3tM
https://youtu.be/yBRrqbRQ3tM

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

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Esp. : Si es nuevo en la red Mastodon, se puede veer un guia para nuevos usuarios ahi :

* "Guía básica de Mastodon para principiantes"

https://www.realdroid.es/2018/10/07/mastodon-guia-basica/

* tambien una FAQ (Questiones Frequentes) a este sitio :

https://github.com/tootsuite/documentation/blob/master/Using-Mastodon/FAQ_ESP.md

Hope you enjoy you time here, welcome. 😃

@realcaseyrollins A nice meal, if I gather it right?

Pray do tell, as a Brit would say...

@realcaseyrollins let me Bing that for you.... LOL..

https://www.thebalancesmb.com/what-is-material-recovery-center-2877733

@chikara Thanks, nice post -- too bad we are in the Northern hemisphere and miss the extra heat this could bring.

Warm in the South, infernal in Australia, many wild forest fire there. I am happy to see you posting here again, Chikara! TY...

@menudotiarro Hola Tiarro, puedes veer este -- https://qoto.org/@design_RG/103426900522312518

que contiene una suggestion que penso seria buena para usted. Gracias!

Hola amigos de España, hán visto que teniemos algunas opciones de Crossposters para tracer conteúdo desde Twitter y hacia Mastodon?

Hay várias, para nosotros ahí en Qoto.org recomendaria una llamada Moa -- https://moa.party

Gratuito, solo tienes que elegir algunas opciones y tus posts en twitter puedan aparecir ahi. Con todo el texto, imagines y un enlace al original.

Muy bueno, lo uso yo mismo.

* Puente Moa está a https://moa.party

* o veas la traducion a español ahi : https://www.translatetheweb.com/?from=en&to=es&dl=en&ref=trb&a=https://moa.party/

[ captura de pantalla traducida al Español, gracias a Bing Translator ]

#YoMigroAMastodon #crosspost #Espana se cambia a Mastodon

#Fediverse -- Some people will come and see what is going on here if it keeps growing and getting media reports.

I only joined here in November -- close to 2 months now, but in that short time I went from total newbie to having 3,400 posts or so, Staff position at my main instance, and being part of maybe 10 instances of Mastodon alone.

Plus the wonderful integrated services - love Write.freely!

Insta, I stayed away, always. Dumb people, hashtag binging, bothers me, they are clueless.

Curiously -- I found my curiosity and interest in this Fediverse due to a BBC news report about the Indian Diaspora, from TW to mastodon instances.

Saw it on my rarely visited TW timeline, read the article. Uhm, what is mastodon?

LOL, the rest is #history.... 😜

https://www.bbc.com/news/amp/world-asia-india-50343054

@realcaseyrollins
Facebook needs to get revenue from somewhere, just to keep the lights on the bill for data centers and electricity alone must be astronomical. So I don't expect them to have no ads, I would block them as a matter of course if I wanted to use their services, which I don't, it's just too boring and repetitive in there.

I do support Wikipedia, giving them a regular donation to keep it running. Many people use it and can't or won't donate, but they also have operating costs.

Their service for me is worth way more than the FB walled garden.

@freemo

@SecondJon An attack on embassy or consulate site is serious. The site is defined legally as foreign territory.

Yes, things are very polarized, and with an unstable man as top level commander.

I am not aware of the attack to embassy you mentioned, a have been off the news loop for similar reasons you mentioned in your OP above. The American action, I consider an act of War indeed.

https://todon.nl is not responding, bummer.

Me, mid way thru and interesting convo. 😞