Tom Barber Mars Data Engineer @magicaltrout@qoto.org

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It is so awesome to see a human-rated, deep-space craft... actually in deep space. For all of SLS and Orion's well-documented problems, this is only the second time in history that this has happened. Thinking back to watching the early Orion design analysis cycles internally in 2007-2010 and watching that heading towards to the moon.

This set of configs and detailed instructions for running a self-hosted Mastodon on https://fly.io/ by @indirect looks really promising https://github.com/indirect/flyapp-mastodon

Just made Mastodon my only social media app on my phone... and I've never been so proud of my phone 🥲

On a clear night in Kinlochleven in November, the Milky Way is visible down the loch. This shot took several attempts as the high road to the village runs to the left of this image. A 30 second exposure meant it took a bit of good timing to avoid light trails from the few cars which did venture down that night. This image was taken next to the slipway area in Kinlochleven.

#Photography #LandscapePhotography #AstroPhotography #ScotlandPhotography

Elon Musk tweeted an image on a whiteboard from a "Twitter HQ code review" that wrapped up early Saturday. The image has attracted nearly 12k upvotes and over 1,000 comments over at the subreddit r/ProgrammerHumor, under the title "Twitter for Dummies". The image itself is an architecture schematic, not code. I put it on a Miro Board and Luke Dubois and Mark Hansen helped annotate it. If you're curious how Twitter's bits work, check it out here: https://miro.com/app/board/uXjVPBnTJmM=/?share_link_id=748653261357

Tusky is much better than the official Mastodon mobile app - it gives you the same visibility as the advanced web browser app i.e. you can see both local and federated timelines, plus other features I'm yet to explore #tusky

If you are new to #mastodon, migrating from #twitter and you love to post videos, please consider posting your video over at a hosting site such as Youtube or Vimeo (others exist). Then post the link, it should show and play in your Toot.
It saves your server from having to store and stream huge quantities of extra data.

I've made a deliberate choice against a quoting feature because it inevitably adds toxicity to people's behaviours. You are tempted to quote when you should be replying, and so you speak at your audience instead of with the person you are talking to. It becomes performative. Even when doing it for "good" like ridiculing awful comments, you are giving awful comments more eyeballs that way. No quote toots. Thank's

reasons mastodon's "viral dampening effect" is a good thing:

👉🏻 no "main character of the day"
👉🏻 no free text searching for people to get angry at (and harrass)
👉🏻 doomscrolling is *actually bad for you* and not a thing we should be trying to replicate
👉🏻 birdsite's virality is heavily driven by actual paid advertising and bots. You think that "Explore" tab gets its content organically? really? That's not making connections between people, it's about driving sales.

Mastodon is not, and should not be, a 1:1 replacement for Twitter. But it *can* be a new place for you to make valuable connections with other human beings. #twitter #twittermigration

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@Jrz813 @magicaltrout welcome to the new cult