#Welcome everyone! A few tips:
- Yes, servers can be temporarily slow when lots of people join at once. Be kind to your admins, they're working hard and it's worth the wait.
- Fill in your bio!
- Hashtags are your friends. Use them to give more visibility to your posts and to find new people to follow. You can even follow hashtags.
- Boost, boost, boost! There's no algorithm here deciding who sees what.
@mastodonusercount Fairly constant now at over ten thousand registrations per hour.
For comparison back in October there used to be only about 50 registrations per hour.
That should have been displayed as:
mastodon.social/@BeckePhysics
instead of
@ BeckePhysics @ mastodon.social
(Spaces added here so it didn’t display shortened)
For those trying to invite your friends over there in the bird app, I’ve discovered that if you write it as instance slash @ username, the link works directly. Otherwise, the app seems to try to send an email.
mastodon.social/@BeckePhysics instead of @BeckePhysics
Does this remind you of anything?
If I mentioned it’s the John A Roebling suspension bridge, would that ring a bell?
This was completed in 1867 connecting Cincinnati to Kentucky.
Roebling would go on to design the Brooklyn Bridge, which I’ve been a fan of since reading David McCullough’s The Great Bridge as well as the Ken Burns documentary.
When I realized this bridge existed in Cincinnati, I couldn’t resist a visit on my business trip.
#MarsHelicopter news by Bob Balaram, #Ingenuity's Chief Engineer: https://mars.nasa.gov/technology/helicopter/status/417/mars-helicopters-the-4rs/
• Ingenuity had a fourth software update which will give it advanced navigation capabilities that will allow it to safely fly up the steep terrain of the Jezero river delta, scouting ahead of the rover Perseverance as it searches for signs of past life on Mars.
• Sample Retrieval Helicopters (SRH) will have an arm manipulator with two-fingered gripper, and wheels
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An animation I made ~10 years ago: Every point of light is a galaxy in our local universe
So many people are having a bad first experience with Mastodon because they're using the official app which is lacking features, doesn't allow image uploads randomly, has random slowness, and doesn't give you easy access to the two most active feeds where you can find people (Local and Federated).
Please switch to Metatext, Tusky, or Tooot for a better mobile experience (or even use a browser).
Out of the >15k users that joined this week, over 11k are on the official apps.
Juan Carlos Muñoz
Terry 🦣🌏
65dBnoise
Brian Bilston
Kevin M. Gill
KuJoe 💞