Paul Sutton @zleap@qoto.org

Initial impression of Mastodon…
(image source thanks to @jsit: https://www.instagram.com/p/CKrqzp-F420/)

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)

since a lot of folks are becoming newly interested in escaping corporate silos and moving to community-based services, are you aware of @matrix?

Matrix is to Slack and Discord, what Mastodon is to Twitter: a decentralized, federated network based on open standards/specs. It also supports full end-to-end encryption, just like Signal, so you can exchange messages privately!

If you find the fediverse interesting/inspiring, I recommend giving matrix a whirl. The quickest way to get started is to head over to https://app.element.io/ and make a (free!) account (although you can also join any number of other home servers, or host your own--they all talk to each other!).

If you _do_ end up checking it out, please do say hi! I'm @zkat:zkat.tech over there. I also manage a "space" (a group of channels, kinda like a Discord server) that you can join by clicking here: https://matrix.to/#/!tKdDSgQTxQzcOuTXqV:matrix.org?via=zkat.tech&via=matrix.org&via=envs.net

I hope this sparks your interest! I'd love to see you over there, too!

@zleap @Flightlessbird Hello - following back. And now that I’ve seen that Mastodon uses hashtags, too, I’ll add #FBPE to my profile.

This is why nurses are striking.

Mobilizon v3 is out today!
With a federated search engine for events and groups, many sorting options, map view, a new home page...
Infos in our blogpost https://framablog.org/2022/11/08/mobilizon-v3-find-events-and-groups-throughout-the-fediverse/

The numbers of users is going up while the number of instances is not. We need more instances running in the network, thats the real idea of decentralization.

In case you are not confident running Funkwhale, our Support Forum and Chat are available to help you getting up and running! :) 🐳

If you download your Twitter archive it arrives wrapped as a static HTML page, which is not very useful for doing anything with, and worse: it requires the original account to be still active to do useful things like enlarge the images since they use t.co links.

So here's a Python script to convert a Twitter archive to markdown or other formats: https://github.com/timhutton/twitter-archive-parser

Now you can archive your tweets in any way you want.

This Ancient Inscription Is The Oldest Sentence in The World's First Alphabet

www.sciencealert.com/this-anci…

#ScienceAlert - The #Best in #Science #News and #Amazing #Breakthroughs #bot

"Pixelfilm is a home for film photography on the fediverse - photos (pixelfed) at pixelfilm.nz and microblogging (misskey) at misskey.pixeiflm.nz"

https://misskey.pixelfilm.nz/

#photography #FilmPhotography #Aotearoa #NZ

Hello

#FBPE Trying to find my people on here.

It's amazing how on Mastodon even with 1/10th of followers I get way more comments and meaningful interactions on my posts. I feel that no algorithms deciding who gets to see what really makes a difference.

@zleap Ahh very cool, I love LaTeX but have not tried Overleaf

@zleap I've found it very convenient for my current limited usage of LaTeX, not having to keep installing the whole pack in every machine and nice for collaboration.

My new Mastodon app ‘Mammoth’ is now ready to beta test.

If you’ve found that all the Mastodon apps out there currently haven’t been great, you’re in luck. 😏

https://testflight.apple.com/join/66c1wW8y

Looks like I might just hit 30K followers in the next 3 days or so at current rates... Who wants to have a beer to celebrate?

Twitter account deactivated & app deleted A done chapter.

Migrated from Twitter to Mastodon but finding it hard to find the folks you used to follow?

Fedifinder can help. https://fedifinder.glitch.me

Cool tool for finding your old Twitter buddies that have moved to Mastodon (and what you can do on your Twitter account to help others find you here)

Please reblog/boost to spread the word. (Liking/Favouriting won’t help)