@vadian lol, it sounds really cool to have boat stuff to work on. The whole AIS thing is interesting to me, but not something I get to mess with regularly.
@snickerbockers @DMEdwards I think @keyoxide meets some of these needs now, verifying that profiles across different sites represent the same entity, but doesn't attempt to provide messaging or other features
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Introduction round two in an attempt to ID if its a specific hashtag or my presence on the platform I won't name that triggered the deluge of abuse.
Hi, I'm Dani, amd early career quantitative ecologist who works on African wild dogs, global change ecology and conservation. Do a lot of #rstats #gis #modelling in my #climatechange and #ecology research.
I'm also a science communicator and author of #DoesItFart :D #scicomm
@vadian welcome! (The rust hashtag brought me here, so that worked.)
@lanodan best block in minecraft is dirt
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@pkrugman welcome man. Sorry it seems flaky on your instance.
@trinsec @cstanhope thank you! And to recap the convo on matrix - I had to look under the hamburger menu on settings - preferences, then found exactly that.
@cstanhope I see that, and can turn on the advanced interface to do that, and that is how I would probably prefer to use the interface on desktop, but it doesn't work well for me on mobile, and it doesn't add it to that list of hashtags I see in my preferences... Not sure where that came from.
Thank you though.
How in the heck do I follow a hashtag? I have two that show up in my preferences, and that seem to occasionally surface posts in my feed, but I can't remember how I put them there.
@bwbeach I did just that (use it to learn Haskell) a couple years ago and it was extremely painful, but very educational. Unfortunately recently I've let life get in the way too much for adventofcode - I always try to catch up late at night during family vacation, but never quite make it 🤪
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Last year, I did [#AdventOfCode](https://adventofcode.com) as an exercise to learn #rust. It's a sequence of daily programming puzzles in December. I'm thinking of doing it again this year and learning #haskell.
I don't try for speed, and I don't try to be the first to solve a problem. I take my time and solve each day's problem a day or two later. It would be nice to have people to chat with about solutions if anybody else is interested.
@Ktmacg79 yeah, it takes a minute to get used to. Take your time and explore a little and you'll get it no problem.
@Ktmacg79
Here's the image I was talking about that shows the different buttons on most mastodon interfaces.
@Ktmacg79 then to get to other servers, you might just click on Elizabeth's name there and you'll see her profile on another server. Or you might just go to newsie.social in a browser and (without logging in even) click the button near the bottom of the page that shows you all the toots going on. Most servers have that link, and it shows you what the fediverse looks like from that server's point of view.
@Ktmacg79 check out #newbies, one of the top things you may see there is from @Elizabeth_5 and it's a graphic of what I'm talking about. Your instance may have a different view of that hashtag than mine, though, so I'll steal the photo and post it here too.
@Ktmacg79 hello
Say whatever you want! Anybody browsing fosstodon's local feed will see it (the button with the people peeking out behind each other). Anybody who follows you will see it. Anybody who browses your profile will see it... And if you throw in a hashtag then folks on other servers following the hashtag might see it.
Try an #introduction if it strikes you - or just click there to find other interesting people.
@WPalant @jerry #fediverse anybody have some recommended instances that won't have (or are less likely to have) this problem?
It is tough to vet so many instances, but surely some folks find themselves in places that aren't like that.
I suspect large busy instances with solid codes of conduct get away from this issue a little... With so many people you just become a smaller target. Not a great solution but...
Great day for a walk at Eisenhower park, let's see how this handles a panoramic photo.
