strawd @strawd@qoto.org
Software developer, skeptic, geek
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Joined Nov 2022
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Mastodon: What you need to know for your security and privacy
If you’re leaving Twitter for Mastodon, here are some things you should know.
https://grahamcluley.com/mastodon-what-you-need-to-know-for-your-security-and-privacy/
Please reblog/boost if you think this would help folks you know who are new to Mastodon. (Likes are appreciated, but won't help spread the advice)
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Probably not a lot of people know this now, but Mastodon's web app started out with "Publish". In 2016 a famous YouTuber jokingly offered to support Mastodon's Patreon forever if I changed the button to say "Toot" instead. Needless to say, this was a really early, and not very informed decision. The first glimpse of attention and financial support. As a non-native speaker I had no idea there was another meaning.
@daeyoung the search bar doesn't do the same thing if I understand correctly. It only searches by hashtag. Perhaps that will drive people to use more hashtags - I suppose it did for me on this very question. Agreed that Elon is doing his darndest to drive folks over here. We'll have to wait and see if it becomes ubiquitous.
Could Mastodon ever be the place where I can search for local events like "fire in Colorado" when I see smoke in order to find out what's going on? I'm not sure if hashtag search will work as well for that. This is one of the main things I have liked about the bird site. #TwitterMigration #mastodonquestions
Software developer, skeptic, geek
he/him
Joined Nov 2022
