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@Sphinx Google Photos has the option of saving the files As Is -- without trying to recompress them to save space.

If they are medium resolution for todays standards, and already in jpeg format, the file will be stored untouched -- and will NOT count against the allocated 15 GB space.

RAW, uncompressed images are huge and cumbersome, and unneeded unless you plan to do further processing, touch ups, professional level work. Those would be best stored locally in an external hard drive for example.

I don't use Google Photos but have read the terms and helped people who DO use them -- and their camera originals are stored untouched and without counting against quota space.

@techmagus Thank you for the suggestions, they make sense! Cheers! 😺

@khird

I think there might be Federation restrictions at the Botsin.space side -- I had noticed one of my Followed accounts from there disappearing from my feeds.

visited and read their About/more pages and there's NO disclosure of their blocking or silencing policies or affected instances. Maybe contact their admin with an enquiry? botsin.space/@muffinista is the one.

@dragfyre @bahai @bahai_wiki

@miguel31416 @Sphinx Yes, as Miguel said. Screenshot below.

Beware that Follower-Only posts can be Favourited but CANNOT be Boosted.

We are launching fedisearch.com , a website for doing full text search on fediverse content.

This could be very useful for small instances users that are missing full text searches, just about anyone else who is looking for a blazing fast fediverse search engine.

We have a well behaved indexer that honors users' preference on opting out status indexing.

Please give it a try and let us know what you think.

@freemo Sorry to hear that, my sympathies and condolences to the whole family. Sadly a huge number of people are being lost to this.

@nineth9t There is no hard limit on the size of toots, most mastodon instances stay with the default 500 characters maximum which is the lead developer's idea of an ideal size (mostly for screen layout purposes as he once explained in a response against loosening that limit).

Pleroma instances usually have larger limits. I have various accounts and limits varying from 500 (argh) to 65,535 here. Some Hubzilla systems allow 200,000 chars too.

And all of those work, nothing breaks if someone posts a bit longer. Sadly, they make it hard and inconvenient to change in Mastodon -- to try and keep the 500 in place.

@torresjrjr Very sparse page, not much to see there. Has a link to Wikipedia though, which has a good page -- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fedivers

@globcoco

>> That's it, In 5 min I'm going out!

Lol, a good thing! Do it. I just came back, went grocery shopping and found some interesting things. Plus the Bananas which are my essential breakfast food and missing this morning.

Just made a plate and had one, smashed, with oats and a drizzle of maple syrup on top. Yummy.

Another hot day here, and I think I will be inside for the peak warmth hours. Was on a road trip yesterday and it was hard on the afternoon, returning leg -- hot and sweaty, thankfully we didn't get much traffic which would have made it much harder to endure.

People were out on the roads like if it was normal times -- trucks, trailers, boats, canoes, dogs, kids and everything else.

@SecondJon

Long post, long quote included. 

@globcoco

I am looking at the buyer reviews on the Amazon link Jon provided, and they are quite good. The NY Times book review is also quoted briefly, and seems nice too.

A long review quote from John W. Cowan's post :

"The development of that magnificent resource for the mind, the Internet, has put us at a turning point in human history. The development of all the tools of the mind has provided turning points and in making his case Nicholas Carr takes us through what happened to us when we went from clay to papyrus to paper and from tablets to scrolls to books. With every one of these changes the world shifted some. Not as much as now though.

At the same time that the Internet is changing the world, bringing us closer together around masses of information, it is changing our ability to think and it is changing our brains in dangerous ways. The issue is not the content of the Internet, but its process.

The human adapts to its tools and its tasks. Give a man a hammer for a lifetime’s work and his body shapes to effectively drive nails. Take away his pen and give him a typewriter with a ball and his prose turns from fluid to staccato. (That happened to Nietzsche in the late nineteenth century.) In that process of adaption the brain, since it is not a machine but an organ, changes. These changes can be seen with instruments and their results observed in human behavior. This is the world of Nicholas Carr.

I will describe a tiny fraction of what the Internet is doing to our brains.

1) The brain, confronted with a glowing screen and the ability to hypertext its way from one interruption to another across the universe of knowledge from what its buddy in Australia thinks of rutabagas, to the spelling of rutabagas to the history of rutabagas to dishes that can be prepared from rutabagas leaves the brain sliding from one fact of surface interest to another fact even less useful, until it occurs to the brain to pursue the prompt on the pop-up menu and check the weather and get off of this slide onto the weather channel where a five minute video on playful seals on San Francisco Bay can be watched for free which does remind the brain that it could slide over to Facebook and find out if anyone “liked” the picture of the family cat posted an hour ago. And many do. Twenty-three “likes,” praise the Lord.

Just as the carpenter’s arm grew it muscles to deal effectively with the hammer the brain changes to succeed in a slippy slidey world of itty bitty bits of knowledge intended to interest momentarily and then disappear.

So what will happen when it confronts a life choice? Will this passive instrument skidding from meaningless bit to another meaningless bit see itself suddenly as an agent? A “decider?” Or will it in panic seek the next button to push, even if that button bears the label “Self Destruct?”

According to Time magazine this is happening now in the Silicon Valley high schools; kids depressed and without a sense of agency pushed around by the ripples on the surface of the Internet are choosing to leave life. Rutabagas have lost their interest. Having your cat liked did not fill the hole intended for having yourself loved. And this child is not accustomed to doing things about things. This child does not do. This child is done to. With the same alacrity that he or she pursued the prompt to watch the seals he or she may “decide” it is time to end this."

Seems like a good reading for us!

@SecondJon

@globcoco
Hello, bon jour Coralie!

>> I don't know why but i wasn't aware of the whole conversations here.
>> It seems that I don't receive anymore notifications...

This was a thread that started 3 weeks ago, and I can see all of the posts above, they include your attribution too (as they are all responses to your OP).

Thread had been dormant for a while, and you had spent sometime off the fediverse, so that might be the reason for notifications going un-noticed.

Stopping unwanted ones (by muting a topic) seems to be the hard part, as I keep finding out.

It is indeed wonderful to be able to find and converse with people from all over the world, plus the essential services like finances becoming so much easier.

I remember having to go out of the house, mid winter and during a snow fall, to pay some utility bills at a banking machine some blocks away. Now all done easily as soon as they arrive, with the payment date selected as close to their expected dates -- so much easier.

The problem is not the internet per se, but some uses of it which are making so much noise and distraction that even people who are interested readers like us end up feeling our attention span is being affected. And that is quite alarming.

Searched for the book Jon mentioned and can get it from our library, there are other books by the same author with similar topics -- the Amazon page has some suggestions.

@SecondJon

@SecondJon @globcoco Thanks Jon, that sounds very good! Will have to look for it here. TY!

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Muting a conversation, there's a control.

Except -- it doesn't work as expected. As shown by a recurring problem, undesired notifications showing up, and their dot menu controls show an UnMute Conversation.

Signifying, it's supposedly *Muted*, already.

But. Notifications keep coming. Argh.

@joey_zozo

>> Oh wow, this is like classic twitter where the favstar doesn't increment.

That is by design, to reduce people's anxiety on the reactions to their posts. It's all across mastodon, all instances. You can see the actual stats if you click on the post itself.

>> promise not to abuse this EXTREME 16 bit character count...

LOL, thanks, it's nice to see people who recognize the 2^16 max toot limit's roots.

@doliu666 Yes, many in fact. Depending on the theme, or subject you were interested in.

Some are still around and going quite well -- they are a lot more focused and organized than mastodon. You can actually see a logic structure and find things, no matter if they were originally posted 5 or 10 years ago.

@devharts You are very welcome, Sarah. And I am glad you found the guides useful - the first one is the one I found on a search and used when I first joined mastodon, in November, last year. An excellent guide, I re-read it the other day and still find it one of the best I have seen.

Any questions, feel free to ask! 😃

@devharts Hello Sarah, and welcome to Qoto.

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

We also have another new users guide, posted here : write.tedomum.net/rgx/suggesti

An official JoinMastodon.org "What is Mastodon ?" short video is here : youtu.be/IPSbNdBmWKE

@Sphinx Thank you! We had a very pretty day, went cycling, blue skies. Nice! 😄

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