saki @saki@qoto.org

@saki @brss

I can recommend the mobile web interface as that's mobile friendly and Qoto is a modified Mastodon server with many extra features that the app might not cover.

And when you check out the settings on this server, you'll see that there are many ways to follow things in the Follows and Subscriptions section. (This option is specific on Qoto, it doesn't exist on other servers).

I just spotted a 'Domain subscriptions' there, this might be what you're asking for?

Twitter is a moderation product, not an engineering product, and failing to understand that - and the legal, political and reputation risks entailed - makes it not just a bad purchase, but a disaster for Musk, argues Nilay Patel
https://www.theverge.com/2022/10/28/23428132/elon-musk-twitter-acquisition-problems-speech-moderation

Hey, just a reminder: it's OK if this isn't an 1:1 replacement for Twitter. How would your digital social life look if you were the one curating it and not some algorithm? You don't need to follow the same people you did on Twitter. And you don't need to be a part of the same conversations. Like, sure, you can make this place a new Twitter, but you don't have to.

I'm honestly confused by all the people flat out whining about it being too difficult to figure out Mastodon. Just play around with it! Over on Twitter I was talking about it, and one guy said it seemed too confusing... and another said "it just takes 15 minutes to figure it out" and the first guy is now ranting that that's 14.5 minutes too long... Dude, get a grip.

Always copying your old hard drive onto the new one until one day you get an SSD drive and nothing fits. (Ep.17)

@adrianord You can check out @FediFollows

Egyptian authorities’ abusive measures for the global climate summit #COP27 include:

⚠️ dozens of arrests of people calling for protests

⚠️ more police checkpoints, where people are forced to give up their phones for checks into their social media content

⚠️ cameras in all taxis, allowing security agency surveillance of drivers and passengers

More here: https://www.hrw.org/news/2022/11/06/egypt-arrests-curbs-protests-cop27-nears

@mattblaze The three biggest impacts of server choice are:

1. The stability/reliability of the server (depends on where it's hosted, who's hosting it, how well resourced, how funded, etc).

2. The local moderation rules -- what actions could get you banned, etc, what other servers might be blocked, and so on.

3. The content of your Local Timeline (everyone else on your server) and Federated Timline (everyone followed by someone on your server) -- affecting discovery.

2/ Such taboos might include:

- Only ever wear the same woolen undershirt for the rest of your life.
- Only shave on Saturdays
- Only ever wear one stocking
- Never enter churches or never spend more than half an hour inside

(The last one might be rather tricky for priests who want to stay in their profession, I presume...)

1/ "Schools of #Magic " show up from time to time in German #folklore . One of these is the "Black School", which is known in Northern Frisia and Denmark.

In it, priests are instructed in the magical arts by the Devil. Most priests know a little about magic, but full graduates must sign their souls over to him. However, they are saved if they adhere to certain taboos for the rest of their lives.

https://books.google.de/books?id=_Jg9AAAAYAAJ&pg=PA192#v=onepage&q&f=false