Mike Capern @mikecsees@qoto.org

"... openness isn’t just about getting more help to implement your evil plans for world domination. It’s also about allowing participants to change your evil plans for world domination."

https://blog.waynebeaton.ca/posts/opensource/rules-of-engagement/

Again, a quick and dirty analysis, but if I have no bugs then the 1% largest #Mastodon instances accounts for 84% of all users.

The top 5% accounts for 97% of all users.

We can say that the system is effectively centralizing around a few instances, and this might be a problem for the overall stability and sustainability.

@tiago @lmrocha @estebanmoro @hirokisayama @PessoaBrain @danielemarinazzo

#MastoStat #ComplexSystems

Suggestion that if you've recently joined the #twittermigration, please consider keeping your #Twitter account active for a while and put your full mastodon handle in your #Twitter profile so that apps like debirdify (https://debirdify.pruvisto.org/) can help your followers back there to find you over here.

Seems Impressive: @CMSGov@twitter.com reports #ACA FFE improper payment rate less than 1% (by contrast, Medicaid is 15.6%, CHIP is 26.8%, Medicare FFS is 7.5% & Medicare Advantage is 5.4%): #xp
https://acasignups.net/22/11/21/cms-ffe-improper-payment-rate-less-1

👆 agree, and welcome.Hari!

@Joel Just checked, my venmo account is @freemo. You are welcome to donate there and ill will ensure it gets transfered to the QOTO account.

I have an important request.

Bad actors will soon figure out - if they haven't already - that setting up impersonations of important organizations now will allow them to set off an explosion of chaos and confusion at a time of their choosing.

So if you run an account for an organization, please set up link verification between your Mastodon account profile and your organization's website.

If not, please boost.

Instructions are here under "Link Verification":
https://docs.joinmastodon.org/user/profile/

The custom is:
• Reply to the toot, remove any @, set to global.
• Set appropriate CW on your toot.
• Mention in your toot to see the one you’re replying to 👆🏻; Mastodon will thread it.
• Send toot
• Boost your own toot.

Like I’ve just done here.

Fred Brooks, author of The Mythical Man Month, has died at the age of 91. This classic was my introduction to managing complex software projects. Its many insights and lessons still apply today. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Brooks

Regardless of whether you are staying on Twitter or migrating, now would be a good time to review apps and accounts linked to your Twitter account and revoke access for anything you no longer use.

#ITSecurity #privacy #Twexit

Sweden 🔺70 points
Germany 🔺68
France 🔺63
Italy 🔺59
Canada 🔺57
Spain 🔺57
UK 🔺53
Australia 🔺52
S Korea 🔺50
Japan 🔺48
Greece 🔺42

I haven't done a proper #introduction yet! I'm a #data #analyst with a #marketing, #manufacturing & #healthcare background. I use #SAS, #Cognos, #Tableau, and #SQL, mostly (and I know a lot of #Excel jujitsu).

I'm also currently the head of 6 municipalities for the #Dems in PA & I've been spending a lot of time trying to fight #BookBanning locally.

I also write short, creepy #fiction, and until COVID, was an #alto in a local #choral group! Happy to be here as part of the #TwitterMigration !

Are you trying to find your friends or people you follow during this #Twexit or #TwitterMigration?

There are some great tools to do this:

1. Debirdify - https://pruvisto.org/debirdify/

2. Twitodon - https://twitodon.com/

3. Fedifinder - https://fedifinder.glitch.me/ | https://fedifinder-backup.glitch.me/

You can also try services like https://getstarted.social/ (to find specific hashtags) and the fantastic https://fediverse.info/ to find people by interests!

#MastodonTips

Never met anyone trans before? Come and say hi; meet me!

It's #TransAwarenessWeek! Y'all are invited to ask any questions (inc. personal Q's in good faith) about gender, dysphoria, transition, HRT, Surgery, what I do, or just to chat.

I'm here all week! 🥳🎉🏳️‍⚧️❤️

One thing that's getting a little lost in this mix, is that some of the people desperately holding on at Twitter are because they are trapped by either healthcare or visas.

That there are systemic traps that trap worker in America so they feel unable to move freely to new employers who want them and would have better pay or conditions is *nuts* and deserves a lot more attention than it gets.

Please add missing #Mastodon accounts of organisations, projects and persons to #Wikidata with the property P4033 (and a start date).

You can see all entries with this query
https://w.wiki/kV7
and you will find interesting accounts there.
Now we have 3323, let's go!

Thanks for your #retoot.