Are there any good Mastodon instances for philosophy, writing, political discourse etc?
I have a friend I'd love to get involved in the Fediverse and want to make sure he lands somewhere friendly.
He's one of the smartest people I know and I think he'd like it here!
Package Manager for Markdown
I'm working on a project that is intended to encourage folk to make markdown text files which can be bundled together in different bundles of text files using a package manager.
Question for coders; Which package manager would you suggest I use?
Main criterias (in order) are:
1. Easy for someone with basic command line skills to edit the file and update version numbers and add additional packages.
2. All being equal, more commonly and easy to setup is preferred.
#Markdown #CommonMark #PackageManager #Programming #Dev
#NPM #RubyGems #Cargo #PickingAMastodonInstance
#Ruby #Python #Rust #Javascript #NodeJs #Lisp #CommonGuide
#ThoughtfulMastodonInvitations
These days when I ask someone to join me on Mastodon. I like to pair that ask with a recommendation for a great server to join. Obviously they are very welcome to go down a rabbit hole themselves and pick out one themselves, but in my experience a thoughtful recommendation of a suitable server or two really helps them to actually step across and to feel supported in the process.
I see it as this 'first account' divide, once in and playing around, people get much more confident either bedding in with where they started or making additional accounts on other servers, for themselves or their projects/orgs.
It's sort of like recommending a good place to go for dinner or a good wine or movie suggesstion.
Do you have certain mastodon servers you recommend to particular people, would love to hear your thoughts.
#Mastodon #Instances #PickingAMastodonInstance #GettingStarted #MastodonTips #FediverseGettingStarted #GrowingMastodon
Ryan
It's Richie