Markus Silpala @msilpala@qoto.org
Male parental unit of two kids; married to their mother; resident of Minneapolis, MN, USA; lover of cats, climbing, human connection; writer of software and occasional coach of software teams.
Joined Nov 2022
Markus Silpala
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Early worries I have as a journalist using Mastodon for #journalism:
1) Subpoenas & source protection: You're at the mercy of whoever operates your instance. I'm guessing most smaller instance admins aren't also lawyering up to protect newsgathering.
2) The owner of your instance can read your DMs. Be careful.
3) Publishers could effectively verify journalists by running instances from their official domains. They could surveil their journalists there too. Not every publisher is ethical.
@freemo Do you know of any federation issues between qoto.org and mastodon.social?
I’m trying to follow a couple of my folks who are on that server. They don’t see my follow coming, nor even a follow request.
From my side, it shows that my follow request is Pending.
They also don’t see it when I @ mention them (@RonJeffries and @GeePawHill)
Do these issues sound familiar to you?
I’m sure there’s documentation of all this, and it quite amuses me how much I am NOT feeling an urge to find or read it.
So, I enabled the “advanced web interface” option. I see more stuff at once.
But now I can’t find my list of Follows and Followers.
Feels a bit like my parents looked, while trying to figure out the VCR controls.
@GeePawHill Hey there!
Profile updated—at least with the basics.
I have not written a self-bio in a while. Defs influenced by my daughter’s vocabularic style.
Dang it—already made my first annoying typo in a toot. The prior should be “I remember WHEN twitter.com…”
Hmph.
Nostalgic fun: Mastodon has a Federated view, which appears to be a live-updating stream of _all_ public toots? I remember which twitter.com had that right on the front page—12+ years ago.
Yes, I need to put basic stuff into my profile over here.
I also have to learn the rudiments of this mastodon place. Such as: now that I am following a few people, where do I see the feed of all their posts? This seemed so obvious on that other microblogging platform.
Hello, Fediverse.
Male parental unit of two kids; married to their mother; resident of Minneapolis, MN, USA; lover of cats, climbing, human connection; writer of software and occasional coach of software teams.
Joined Nov 2022
