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Ed BottI just wrote a quick guide on how to get started with Mastodon, for a non-technical but not tech-phobic audience. If you have any fact-checks or suggestions, feel free to reply here.
https://www.zdnet.com/article/getting-started-with-mastodon/
A reader asks if there's any easy way to translate a Mastadon post into their own language. That's a built-in function on Twitter; is it possible here?
And a quick answer from @xatlasm
Translation is coming in the upcoming Mastodon 4.0 release, which is available as a Release Candidate right now.
Byteback@edbott I haven't set any specific language preferences yet, but I do see a lot of non-english toots in my feed.
I haven't seen any without a translate link.
This is in the browser for reference.
I haven't seen any without a translate link.
This is in the browser for reference.
Simon Brunning@edbott YET AGAIN NOT CALLED A TOOTIRIAL! How disappointing.
PamelaWaldman@edbott This is terrific, thanks. Do you have any tips on how to translate a post into English? On Twitter that is more intuitive.
@PamW Good question. I'm asking around.
Patrick Dirks@edbott
This is excellent - thank you!
This is excellent - thank you!
bmaz@edbott I dunno, he thing is still pretty frustrating to me. Will take it kind of slow assimilating, thankfully twitter is still working well in the meantime. That might change by next week though!
Saobraćajna Kamera@edbott I just shared your toot on birdsite but without the last sentence.
aiwama@edbott how do l pin a post on iOS?
Mel@edbott Thank you for the info, appreciated.
Tom Watson@edbott this is really helpful, thank you. I want to do my bit and set up a server. Do you know how I could do that? I guess I could do a UK Labour one, or is that daft?
@baggy You should talk to @adamdavidson who has some recent experience with this!
Dr. Quadragon ❌@edbott
> Each server runs the same core software, and all the servers know how to talk to each other.
For simpliciy's sake, you can say it likr that, but it's not true.
Fediverse is a heterogenous network. It doesn't ONLY run Mastodon. It's actually the whole social ecosystem, and it's crazy extensible.
We have Pixelfed (akin to Instagram, example: @bestacy), Peertube (akin to Youtube, example: @kafazen), Friendica (@Horhik), Bookwyrm, etc. Go follow those links in your browser, you'll be surprised.
@edbott oh, and you can subscribe and interact with them using your Mastodon account, basically seamlessly.
@edbott
This is possible because they share the same federation protocol, which is called ActivityPub
This is possible because they share the same federation protocol, which is called ActivityPub
@drq
Yes, I understand that. I could have added another thousand words to explain everything more fully but my point there was about the Maston network, not the larger fediverse.
Yes, I understand that. I could have added another thousand words to explain everything more fully but my point there was about the Maston network, not the larger fediverse.
CascadiaWest🇺🇦@edbott Ed, thanks for writing this.
Paul Warburton 📸@edbott that’s a very useful article, thanks for posting.
ddraco@edbott Thanks Ed. been following you for a long time. Deactivated Twitter last week and was feeling a twinge of regret so this guide came right in time.
ShaneShaps@edbott Thank you for the guidance.
@edbott Mind blown at ‘…a free, decentralized, loosely organized group of servers (vs. what?)’ /‘Many apps (which do I likely know?) coexist … using the ActivityPub protocol for sharing content.’ (I have 100 new ???; much less savvy than your normal readers.)
I don’t know enough about how servers work at Twitter (or anywhere else) to be able to understand how Mastodon is different & how it affects me.
“… every server … and decide which servers it will federate with.” How? So many servers.
@edbott
BTW - no trouble joining Mastodon; used link in your Stack.
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Norman@edbott Thanks!
On To The Next Thing Podcast@edbott Thank you, good Bott