Paul Sutton @zleap@qoto.org

Here's a random question for you guys!

Do you remember game books? Like fighting fantasy stuff etc? Choose your own adventure kinda jam.
Well, I had a couple as a kid that I absolutely adored. Each bookcase with a blue and red die. One for the hero and one for the enemies. They had faces and swords on them etc.
They weren't separate, they came with the books. For the life of me, I can't remember what they were called. Absolutely no idea whatsoever.
Do you know? Could you share this if not?!

https://martinfowler.com/articles/your-org-run-mastodon.html but, no one wants to run their own server https://moxie.org/2022/01/07/web3-first-impressions.html. Discuss!

@cwebber@octodon.social I am immensely sorry for the person from QOTO who responded to this and your other post with a middle finger and disrespect. I suspended them for hate speech. I am talking to my other mods to make sure they dont object, but with it being clearly against our rules I suspect their suspension will stick.

Once again very sorry for that uncalled for behavior, he hasnt acted like that int he past.

What is this Federation thing? https://tilvids.com/videos/watch/d62847b6-b803-4985-8b7e-9f905799188c

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.

@gamingonlinux Awesome dude! It's WILD right now. @thunderbird got 1000 new followers in the last 8 hours or so.

Completely blown away by that.

Mastodon is really having a moment in mainstream news coverage. CNN, BBC, TIME, etc.

The influx of users will continue at an alarming rate. Remember to be welcoming, and kind, and positive, and helpful.

This isn't just an opportunity to improve the idea of social media, it's an opportunity to shine a wonderful light on #opensource.

Awesome people from around the world attended the #LibreOffice Conference 2022! Regina Henschel gave talks about Fontwork and shapes – check out the videos, and her thoughts: https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2022/11/07/libreoffice-conference-2022-impressions-from-an-attendee-and-speaker/

My 10 year old Macbook Pro has been resurrected with KDE Neon!

Really all my issues with Ubuntu in the past I think have just been with Gnome, KDE is very slick in comparison.

Looks like this laptop is going to be used for the next decade, whether it likes it or not 😄

Brutal Truth: The most successful people in life are those who are learning, experimenting, failing, and trying again.
#learning

@jaz how do you put a Welsh flag in the profile Jaz. Never done it before.

This one is for all the new people on #Mastodon: did you know that the #fediverse has more than just a microblogging replacement? And that they can all interoperate with your Mastodon account?

Check them out!

Facebook replacement: Friendica
Instagram replacement: Pixelfed
YouTube replacement: PeerTube
Spotify replacement: Funkwhale
MeetUp replacement: Mobilizon
Reddit replacement: Lemmy
Podcasting replacement: Castopod
GoodReads replacement: BookWyrm

@zleap * people ;) But otherwise, yes :) (I’d been attempting to do that for a while but it’s an uphill struggle with the algorithm and, personally, I want nothing to do with Musk.)

Hello there! The National is now on Mastodon.

So if you support #ScottishIndependence make sure to give us a follow and check out our website at thenational.scot.

“I want news organizations to not only set up their own servers but also to start adding share-on-Mastodon buttons to story pages. That will send a message to Elon et al, endorsing an alternative.” — @jeffjarvis https://buzzmachine.com/2022/11/05/hope-for-a-post-musk-net/

Hello #mastindia. I am a public interest technologist, helping out various groups with digital security training(s).

I am a core developer of the #Python programming language, fellow & director at the Python Software Foundation. Core team member of the @torproject, #Fedora project contributor.

At https://sunet.se I help to create new tools & help to maintain services to with #security & #privacy in mind.

I also write my learning at https://kushaldas.in

@profcarroll thinking this might be useful for you since I know you're thinking of going down the path of running your own instance for a group. ^

For those of you thinking about or getting a start on running a Mastodon instance, you may want to bookmark and use @nova's useful instance blocklist. https://github.com/hachyderm/hack/blob/main/blocklist