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

We just played around on an unlisted thread, and some fun things were learned.

Do you see any differences?

( first of a series of posts )

Have made a mirror copy of my Blog posted listed above, here at our QOTO.org Discourse Forums.

Why? Well, maybe someone wants to read and leave a comment, or maybe they will just stumble into it while visiting the Forums.

Can be seen here: https://discourse.qoto.org/t/to-help-new-users-set-up-todon-101-page-also-learn-about-fediverse-trunk/144

...I hadn't - discovered it earlier this afternoon. Very interesting!

Made a series of Toots about it, and since I started a new blog (finally), a blog post with the same content and polish, text formatting, etc.

Find out about Trunk for Fediverse - https://write.tedomum.net/rgx/to-help-new-users-set-up-todon-101-page

#followfriday

Furthermore, since I m really enjoying this, I just made a new Blog page.

With this Whole Set of Toots, images, formatting and all. 😉 🍷

See it here: https://write.tedomum.net/rgx/to-help-new-users-set-up-todon-101-page

Help pages are useful always.

"This page is a about two kinds of help:

* helping you, if you're running into problems
* helping us, if you'd like to support us"

https://communitywiki.org/trunk/help

"If you want to read about one or more of these topics, all you have to do is click on the various lists linked below and follow the people on these lists.

If you write about one or more of these topics and think that people wanting to read about the topic might benefit if they followed you, consider volunteering for a list.

Note that you cannot volunteer other people. People have to volunteer themselves. "

F A N T A S T I C resource!!!

Organizations are listed on Trunk, all on one page. Click on desired one for more info, follow it desired.

https://communitywiki.org/trunk/grab/Organisations

Image below shows The Lists" of * people *, all sorted into a multitude of interests. From the main page, just scroll down.

https://communitywiki.org/trunk/

Reading through their page, I noticed "Trunk for the Fediverse".

What is it? https://communitywiki.org/trunk/

"Trunk allows you to mass-follow a bunch of people in order to get started with Mastodon or any other platform on the Fediverse.

If you click on one of the lists below, you'll see a page full of people that volunteered to be on that list. Yeah, people. Our goal is to connect newbies with people. The only exception we have is our list of Organizations."

Great ideas deserve to be recognized.

Todon.NL has a custom "101" page to help new users set house and find worth people to follow.

https://wiki.todon.nl/todon/101?redirect=1

Simple, good advice and organized.

And -- I discovered an awesome new thing, describing on next post.

Sometimes people can be very obtuse.

Hopefully someone doesn't pull me back into that thread, lol.... 😜

And thankfully I remembered where that BLESSED Mute Conversation control was.

Ever handy when a thread gets out of hand.

Below the post, click on DOTs menu '...' and... Of we go. 😉

#newusers, #quiet the noise when needed! #fediverse #mastotips

And then we discover new and cool places... When looking for cool and old software.

Adobe PageMill in my case. Now abandoned, FREE, used to be their web dev solution around 1999.

"WinWorld is an online museum dedicated to the preservation and sharing of vintage, abandoned, and pre-release software. We offer information, media and downloads for a wide variety of computers and operating systems.

Our entire library is free, open and available to everyone. "

#retro #computing is alive and well.

* apps library : https://winworldpc.com/library/applications

* op systems library : https://winworldpc.com/library/operating-systems

read about twitter aspiration to federate. BlueSky, pie in the sky? #xp
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RT @neqone
As a big advocate of the #fediverse to get out of the walled gardens like Facebook, and ironically Twitter, I think it'd do a lot of good for them to be involved in ActivityPub (the W3C standardized lingua franca of the federated social media platforms).…
https://www.theverge.com/2019/12/12/21012553/twitter-bluesky-decentralized-…
https://twitter.com/neqone/status/1205483095635439619

#fedi love. #xp
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RT @dj_walnut
can't wait for twitter to implode when they concede to the right and ban porn

no really, this place needs to die so something better can take it's place #fediverse
https://twitter.com/dj_walnut/status/1204763621638557697

Depressing how little response I get to posts at birdsite. No wonder I never enjoyed it much there.

Here [mastodon home instance] in an hour I have more interaction than there in a day, at least. And the quality, no comparison.

Keep cool, #fediverse 💓

Service will resume after a brief interruption.

#network #testing #ping is #love

#diagnostics

ReToot with Comment is possible.

"House (1960) in Kalamazoo, MI, USA, by Norman F. Carver jr. https://germanpostwarmodern.tumblr.com/post/189641829944/house-1960-in-kalamazoo-mi-usa-by-norman-f

from https://mamot.fr/@doctorow/103300976068479361

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..."But, because there is no "Fediverse, Inc." there is no entity to aim legislation at.

That all changes when $COMPANY, Inc. decentralizes. Now that company has to solve those privacy, data retention, data deletion, geographical storage, privacy legislation, right to be forgotten, etc...problems that the Fediverse can just ignore."

OP at https://hackers.town/@jonw/103300782742711288

ReToot from Jon's new blog post.

"It is easy to make fun of Twitter's Bluesky, but as I point out here, there are some troubling privacy issues with Fediverse content caused by decentralization: https://www.jonwatson.ca/posts/privacy-and-the-fediverse/

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