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

@yaco Yes, most certainly. Have a few of them here, used them for years. Lovely machines.

Please note the Source -- The Atlantic is a wonderful magazine. Thank you Bernie, time to bring US into the modern day and age.

#Health is an Essential Service, not a profit driven endeavour. Or so it is, in many developed countries. #xp

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2020/01/how-much-does-it-cost-have-baby-us/604519/
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RT @SenSanders
Cost of having a baby with health insurance today: $4,500
Cost of having a baby under Medicare for All: $0

We can afford Medicare for All. What we can't a…
https://twitter.com/SenSanders/status/1214612324599898113

Midnite Moonshine. 💕 Even her name is beautiful.

Blue shine on the fur of this gorgeous #BlackCat .

#cats #mastocats #catsofMastodon #meow #xp
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RT @DebbieMidnite
Me has not been on de twitter for awhile. Mama wuz in de hospital at Christmas! Her had a fing called numonia. Her wuz vury sicky. Her couldn’t breethe! Her is finally better, fanks to de good care, snuggles, & kisses me give her! Me mak…
https://twitter.com/DebbieMidnite/status/1214433198370967554

Please look at this status for an important explanation on WHY we don't have more reasonable limits on Toot size, or an easier to change limit.

By Design. Mr Mastodon head developer thinks it is best done so.

https://busshi.moe/@mewmew/103444186467997545

Blog post in gestation on this topic...

My thoughts on why the cramped 500 characters maximum Toot is a relic which Mastodon developers should consider revising. Or making easier to change, for the few instances that allow their users more modern space and limits.

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Geez...

I have encountered the hard core Twitter user mentality in some admins I have made this request to.

They were users there for years, are used to the short burst posting, which I as a Forum user find baffling, unattractive and a general pain in the butt, to be perfectly honest.

There was a time, in the older days, when twitter started and ran over SMS. The 140 character limit came from that, as people had voice and SMS access, not mobile data.

The cramped space, terseness resulting from it, I could understand in that situation. But we have left that long behind.

I usually don't feel attracted to responding to the very short one liners. To call that "micro blogging" is a weird distortion of what I consider blogging to be.

I do write long posts in mastodon, and much longer form in Blog posts; have a hell of a time to post an announcement in Twitter for those in their measly 240 chars.

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OP at my new Pleroma account, which thankfully doesn't have this Fossilized limit in place.

RT of : https://expired.mentality.rip/notice/9qlo8uV1Tez2DauhEG

@Lyudmila No es un buen hogar, el Twitter. Me hizo feliz que los compañeros de España se migran a Mastodon! 😃

Tengo algunos Guias en Español, se quiera leer mas cerca de Mastodon?

* "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

Sharing a tip and recommendation for music lovers everywhere...

"This is my go to for finding good stations. I have found a bunch of really good ones that don't have any commercials and very few station calls. "

http://www.internet-radio.com/

Thank you, friend... OP : https://twit.social/@souldessin/103443647347663966

@Lyudmila Si, Lyudmila -- puedes usar Toots mas longos si quieras, ahi se permiten hasta aquel limite que mencioné -- 65,000 caracteres.

En Twitter, son solo 240 y es una tortura para mi allá.

@Lyudmila Hola Lyudmila y gracias por tus aportes a Qoto y al Fediverso.

Quisiera dicerte que ahi en Qoto teniemos un limite para Toots muy grande - en verdad es 65 mil caracteres.

Si quisieras hacer posts mas longos, no haberian problemas; solo que percebo que estabas usando Tusky, y debido a un problema de configuración del servidor ahi, los clientes normales como Tusky , Fedilab y otros solo permiten usar 500 caracters, el limite normal de Mastodon.

Si utliizas el cliente Web, aportando a Qoto por un navegador como Firefox, or Chrome, ali puedes utilizar qualquier tamaño hasta los 65,000 caracters, como le dijo.

* Veas ahi en esta captura de pantalla -- aun tengo mas de 64,000 caracteres disponibles (estoy en Firefox, y con el cliente Web)

Pienso que quizá esto te puede ser util.

Buenas tardes!

This one seems to have one advantage compared to my own setup -- there's mentions of Columns being adjustable in width, which is a nicety I have only found in ONE client for Mastodon so far --> Whalebird.

https://github.com/h3poteto/whalebird-desktop/releases/tag/3.0.0

Found at another instance, a fellow user suggesting a way to use the FULL width of our modern laptop/desktop screens.

A big pet peeve of mine, if you know me. (got mine running and quite happy)

Here's his/her suggestion :

"Another tip is to use the the browser addon Stylus and then add a userstyle like https://userstyles.org/styles/154943/mastodon-variable-width-variation to make it fill whole the screen. You have to edit the userstyle to include your instance though. "

OP at : https://mstdn.io/@shellkr/103405434903544190

Have you ever seen or heard of the Altair 8800?

Tech historians and #retro #computing people know. Important, fist personal computer ever.

Original at his post : https://mastodon.sdf.org/@jebug29/103439876154972389

Jess is rebuilding one, and I just found a pic, cropped here for size (Bytes, I save them).

@freemo Going with the street practice, as in "Guidos". 😜

@pschwede In Binary, it would make quite a string of them.

@pschwede Oh, absolutely, it's ok -- I cropped out most of the page, you would be hard pressed to guess the source.

My bad, but a little plug for Bing Translator is bonus. LOL, I really like it.

I even use it for quick translation to a language I speak fluently, and then polish up the output for style and grace.

On the future writings front, I found a new inspiration.

Had seen Pleroma nodes in the past, when first joining #Fediverse , but there was so much new stuff to look and try to understand that I never joined a node to see what it is like.

Now I did, and I am impressed. Wow!

Lots of nice features. Things I only dream of here, or beg (in vain, mostly) for masto admins to consider adding in their nodes.

Have been taking and saving screenshots, will prepare an extensive report via Blog when I can understand it better.

But I want to share the news, there's a lot of talent working on that project. Kudos, Pleroma project.

For the time being, if anyone wants to see and join, I found this nice node via someone mentioning it -- and I seeing their post by chance.

https://expired.mentality.rip is a nice one. Recommended. @a1batross is the local admin, and a competent one. Kudos.

@Yann is my newest alt ID.

@lnxist hei, there, welcome!

You sound a lot like one of our locals here. Alt account, maybe?

@pschwede I use bing Translator because :

* it's not a google property.
* it accepts a big text block, up to 5,000 chars.
* and the output is paginated properly.

the google translate output is a mess if copied and pasted back into a letter or post. Or it has been in my experience at least.

regarding the contents, I recognized the Pi char, but really wanted a more mnemonic way to remember your username for posts. LOL, the @ one in itself is hard to remember, the Chinese one, impossible.