Pablo SB @iPabloSB@qoto.org

Here's what people on the outside looking in, don't get, Mastodon isn't an alternative to other social media, it is its own thing entirely.

That's what struck me about it, and why I'm still there. People on Mastodon didn't care how many people were on it or if their favorite celebrity or journalist was here. They want to build communities with real people.

All these kinds of articles are basically stating, "This wasn't for me, therefore these things are failures." How absolutely ridiculous.

Maybe the internet being mostly five corporate websites for the past 15 years was a really bad idea.

Whenever someone tells you that the climate crisis is a personal responsibility issue, show them this:

https://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/2017/jul/10/100-fossil-fuel-companies-investors-responsible-71-global-emissions-cdp-study-climate-change

The climate crisis is a billionaires crisis, a trillion-dollar corporations crisis, a capitalism crisis, a systemic inequality crisis.

#climateChange #climateCrisis #climateCatastrophe #climate #corporatocracy #capitalism

I think it would be amusing if Reddit did implode over this. It'd be entirely self-inflicted... The site is only usable with third party apps.

A small FAQ to hopefully help new users to kbin

I wanted to post this here since I want to help as much as I can in my own way to people coming here for the first time. I hope it is useful and helpful! I tried to assume low knowledge with the Fediverse in my responses which I collected here from a different post and assembled into a single article.... #faq #kbin https://kilioa.org/m/kbinMeta@kbin.social/t/266

Apollo will close down on June 30th. Reddit’s recent decisions and actions have unfortunately made it impossible for Apollo to continue. Thank you so, so much for all the support over the years. ❤️ https://www.reddit.com/r/apolloapp/comments/144f6xm/apollo_will_close_down_on_june_30th_reddits/

Getting some Blade Runner vibes from these photos of Times Square

https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2023/06/07/canadian-wildfire-smoke-nyc-residents-urged-to-stay-inside.html

There's a really good community feature on here called groups. It works like this:

1. Follow a group's account
2. You will start seeing posts on that topic
3. You can post to the group by @-ing it

For example, follow @tea to see posts about tea.

It's more powerful than following hashtags, as all group posts are actively pushed to all of the group's members. No one misses anything.

Find out more at https://fedi.tips/how-to-use-groups-on-the-fediverse/, and I've curated some nice active groups at https://fedi.directory/tag/fediverse-groups/

Apple Vision Pro

When you spent $3500, but Apple wants $1 more/month

Kudos to all the various Mastodon instances for not falling over during the WWDC keynote. I used Mastodon just as I would have used Twitter in years past, and it worked great.

#pride