marathon @marathon0@qoto.org

Okay this might be a long post

One thing that I realised is making #twittermigration harder for people to switch is because the whole concept can feel daunting & overwhelming for non-tech savvy people.

With Twitter to them it was straight forward and easy to find topics they enjoy but with mastodon its a bit different.
So if you're new to mastodon or you want to introduce someone to mastodon here are some tips, useful sites & tools:
### Tips:
- Choosing a home instance isn't as importance as it seems, don't overthink it. Yes moderation rules & policies may differ but they all have one thing in common: Be a decent human. You **always** have the option to migrate your account to a new instance.
- Toots (or posts if you think toots are cringe ) are what we call micro-blogging instead of tweets
- You’re supposed to "boost" AKA "reblog" toots that you like.Since Mastodon does not have an algorithm that surfaces toots that have been liked a lot, boosting is the best way to help spread stuff that you like, and to show appreciation. (credit to @orsvarn for this comment)
- Another way to fill your timeline with content you enjoy is to: Find other people with similar interests, follow them, favourite their posts, boost their posts, use hashtags. rinse, repeat. (credit to @garry)
- If you ever feel yourself getting sucked into arguments on the #Fediverse, you might want to take advantage of the instance mute/block feature!
Instances tend to foster a culture, so if you find people from a specific site tend to be bothering you, muting/blocking that instance will keep other members of that community from bothering you as well.
- Finally do not share private/sensitive information via DMs on Mastodon. Direct Messages are not E2E. **Keep it in mind**

### Useful tools & resources:
[Twitodon](https://twitodon.com/) - Find your Twitter friends on Mastodon
[FediFinder](https://fedifinder.glitch.me/)- Similar to Twitodon
[Fedi Tips](https://fedi.tips/) - an informal, unofficial guide for non-technical people who want to use Mastodon and the wider Fediverse
[Fedi Directory](https://fedi.directory) - A human-curated small selection of accounts to spice up your timeline.
[Trunk](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
[Fediverse.info](https://fediverse.info/explore/people) -growing list of people and topics can help you discover mutual interests with people around the world
**Mobile Apps:**
[Metatext for iOS ](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/metatext/id1523996615)
[Tusky for Android ](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.keylesspalace.tusky&hl=en&gl=USt)

Lastly if you are interested in setting up your own instance you can learn via https://learnfoss.org/ its completely free and its made by the wonderful @stux

I apologize for the long post lol, just hope this helps anyones transition over

A reminder for anyone new to mastodon who might not be happy with some of the racist and bad actors out there on other servers... Just import the fediblock list to your personal blocks and you will be safe from the vast majority of bad actors.

EU are calling for more Defence spend because they say that since 2001 #EU has increased spending by just 22%, #US 66% Russia 292% and #China by 600% - This is Disinformation. Reality is EU now spends 3 times more than Russia + #US spend more than next 9 countries put together...

🐦🔗: https://nitter.eu/wallacemick/status/1588783724124332034

Two principles currently govern the work of the digital humanities: open access and open source.
COVE (Collaborative Organization for Virtual Education, covecollective.org, subscribes to both principles: supporting an open-access publication platform, COVE Editions, and using and modifying open-source tools.
https://scholarlypublishingcollective.org/psup/victorians-institute/article/doi/10.5325/victinstj.49.2022.0198/319226/Going-a-Step-Further-Than-Open-Access-and-Open

Like all countries, #Iran has many challenges - Foreign Interference designed to bring about Regime Change will do nothing for the people of Iran. Let them sort their own problems...
RT @s_m_marandi: Many millions of anti-American protestors came to the streets in cities across Iran today. You won't see this in the western media. You will also not hear that western & Saudi backed rioters & thugs murdered a 40 year old man yesterday…

🐦🔗: https://nitter.eu/wallacemick/status/1588540950154211328

199,430 is the number of new users across different Mastodon servers since October 27, along with 437 new servers. This bring last day's total to 608,837 active users, which is without precedent the highest it's ever been for Mastodon and the fediverse.

Love the fact that organisations can take ownership of their social media conmunications with a #mastodon server while simultaneously interfacing very conveniently with the rest of the world via the #fediverse. A great model.

Some #fediverse #mastodon servers popping up more than others (beyond the main, large ones), not surprisingly given my interests:

https://drosophila.social for scientists working with the vinegar fly, #Drosophila, the genetic model organism par excellence.

https://fosstodon.org for FOSS: free open source software developers.

https://mathtodon.xyz for mathematics and physics. Famously @johncarlosbaez is hosted there.

https://scicomm.xyz for scientific communications, public outreach.

https://photog.social/ for photography, "3-5 photo posts per day recommended to avoid overloading the timeline" and no-nonsense.

Anyone familiar with the Mastadon Android app and how one might be able to get the browse functions to work?

Is it true that in Belgium you don't recycle aluminium? That sounds absurd to me...