Gooseus @gooseus@qoto.org

Oh my, the "☑️ Enable advanced web interface" option! 👌

Incredible. Musk's team literally fired people without knowing what those people even did. Some employees laid off by mistake, other employees were laid off on purpose but it turns out they're the only ones who know how to implement features Musk wants.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-11-06/twitter-now-asks-some-fired-workers-to-please-come-back

"You live and learn. At any rate, you live." - Douglas Adams

Rich people use the permitting process to slow and stop clean energy projects. Lowering energy costs and reducing carbon emissions will require stripping them of that weapon. https://www.ft.com/content/45131c29-7d33-4b08-91aa-cca642132616

Woke up to find the twitter exodus **Still** accelerating. The last 24 hours has been the biggest influx yet, up over 20% from yesterday. We are seeing 1000 new users a day now!

Mastodon and Twitter can coexist. Mastodon is for smart content, Twitter is for watching Elon Musk own himself.

For those of you who joined this week, it may be hard to understand how bewildering it is for us who have been here longer.

It took me from April to November to connect with 300 people. It took from when Elon bough Twitter for me to connect with 1,300.

It took me since LAST NIGHT to connect with 2,700. This is bonkers.

We are so glad you are here and PLEASE don't turn this into the what many of us fled some time ago.

1. Dunking gets you no points here.
2. Claps/clapbacks etc. don't either.

These repub extremists seem to think it's okay to lie, cheat and, steal as long as it's for their (perceived) greater good?? #republicanvalues

✔️ Twitter addiction is like mainlining a drug, seeking endorphins. By comparison being on a Mastadon federated server is like a methadone clinic.

You will not get the same high, but you also won’t be doomscrolling through back alleys filled with neo-Nazis for endorphin hits.

🎶 Free your tweets and the rest will follow

#Fediverse

This is concerning.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/shan-wu-writes-appointing-a-special-counsel-for-trump-would-be-a-mistake-amid-midterms
#trumpisanationalsecurityrisk

Mastodon habits I'm trying to lock in, rather than revert to my Twitter habits:

1) use CWs liberally
2) when threading, set first post to "public" and the rest to "not listed"
3) don't forget the description text when posting images (had to work on that in Twitter too)
4) throw in hashtags like it was Tumblr or Instagram when you want to reach beyond your followers
5) pin and visit hashtags to find more people
6) boost a lot

Interesting fact of the day: The same effect that cuased light in a prism to split up into different colors is what ultimately caused the first transatlantic telegraphic wire in 1858 to fail.

Morse code is transmitted as on-off signals, effectively square waves. Square waves are in fact made up of many different frequencies. Like in a prism different frequencies move at different speeds through a wire. Therefore as the on-off pulses traveled through the transatlantic telegraph wire the signal spread out like it does in a prism and ultimately the pulses would overlap and be indistinguishable.

The effect was so extreme that it took a message of only 98 words (the first message sent) over 67 minutes to send one way and a whopping 16 hours to confirm the message.

Whitehouse, a doctor with little mathematical understanding, thought he could solve the problem by increasing voltage, which we now know was a futile effort. He increased the voltage to the point he managed to short out the cable entirely and made it useless. However Lord Kelvin had already warned of the problem as was ignored and he came up with the law of squares to describe the problem which later was refined to give us the telegraphers equation. The telegraphers equation is still used today to model feedlines in radio transmitters and receivers.

#Science #STEM #Physics #History @Science #QOTOJournal

A friendly reminder to enable Two Factor Authentication on your new Mastodon accounts.

PS. Don't forget to save your backup codes somewhere safe!

#security #TwitterMigration #2FA

“Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee wants us to ‘ignore’ Web3: ‘Web3 is not the web at all’…” https://www.cnbc.com/2022/11/04/web-inventor-tim-berners-lee-wants-us-to-ignore-web3.html

To add to the above:

Since there is no #algorithm it is really important that you #boost interesting posts by others.

A star (liking) does nothing to help increase a post's visibility beyond the original author's followers.

I know it is strange coming from 🐦, but it really is the only way to increase a post's audience.

So #BoostAllTheThings (if you like them) and you will notice others will do the same to your content. Here we're all in it together!

#BeTheAlgorithm #BoostsWelcome #FediTips

When I joined #mastodon, I just wanted an open-source #twitter clone.

I got more than that. Subtle design differences made for healthier conversations in ways I wasn't expecting.

Here's a blog post to try to capture those differences and why they matter. https://scott.mn/2022/10/29/twitter_features_mastodon_is_better_without/