Here Comes The SunYou made it to a milestone! Today we added a *whole minute* (plus an extra second!) of daylight to the day! Every day from now on is going to be at least 1 minute longer than the day before, and that's something to celebrate.
Kate
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Loving life in the garden, growing, exploring, learning. When it's raining I read, mostly bugs & plants but history too.
The HumanoidI'm so done with #Duolingo
The whole recent AI thing obviously is shitty, but Duolingo has been pulling shit for as long as it has existed really
The courses were all initially created by volunteers, and I feel like they were entirely shit on by Duolingo's actions
They used volunteers, then when had enough to leave them behind, shut down the volunteer program
Plus they present their content in a way that maximizes profit obviously, which is just a painfully slow way
Idk I used to find Duo fun, but I'm just so done
I've been leaving a bunch of mainstream stuff lately, and duo is next
The whole recent AI thing obviously is shitty, but Duolingo has been pulling shit for as long as it has existed really
The courses were all initially created by volunteers, and I feel like they were entirely shit on by Duolingo's actions
They used volunteers, then when had enough to leave them behind, shut down the volunteer program
Plus they present their content in a way that maximizes profit obviously, which is just a painfully slow way
Idk I used to find Duo fun, but I'm just so done
I've been leaving a bunch of mainstream stuff lately, and duo is next
@imthehumanoid I didn't know that about the Duo vols, that's really rubbish. What were you learning? I was doing Turkish and found after a certain point I wasn't really learning it properly. I think Duo is good for starting off, not great for a real understanding of the grammar.
Dr. Zalka Csenge VirágHello!
I'm Csenge, professional storyteller and author from Hungary. I post about #folktales, mythology, storytelling, RPGs, and general nerdy stuff.
Things I usually post:
#FolktaleMoment: snippets of tales I am researching
#StorySpotting: blog posts about folktales spotted in popular media
#StorytellingPSA: comments of the life of a professional storyteller
#GirlInTheChair: research help for all your folklore needs :)
#ToddlerDnD: Adventures in nerdy parenting
@ablueboxfullofbooks I grew up with Davidson, but loved Tennant the best. My 11yo adored Rosa Parks ep, watched it over and over.
DanMy upcoming Campaign got approved by Kickstarter today!
I'm planning on launching it on either the 29th of November or 1st of December! Haven't decided which yet...
But if you'd like to know when it goes live, check out my pre-launch page and click to get notified!:
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/danharris/inkys-adventures-volume-three
Esteban MoroAlmost 180k new users joined #mastodon yesterday, a new record. This third #twitterMigration wave happened after Musk's Twitter 2.0 ultimatum to #Twitter workers. Each wave is stronger than the previous one. Here is my updated plot showing the three consecutive waves.
CurmudgeonThere seems to be a lot of misconceptions about how to set up Mastodon.
1. You do not have to sacrifice a duck. Any waterfowl will do.
2. The bit about dancing around naked in a forest glade? While dancing is fun, you may just walk.
3. When the demon appears, you needn’t chant in Latin. It is fluent in all languages.
The rest of the guide is correct.
cheskathey put a christmas sweater on the t-rex at the national history museum in london and it's ridiculous and adorable
HollieHEY HEY FRENZ on mastodon.social! You may want to MOVE to a new instance, very soon.
Why? 
Mastodon is a bunch of islands that can talk to each other. The smaller and more spread out we are, the easier things are to moderate. Horizontal scaling FTW!
All of you who fled that one site 🐤 ended up at mastodon.social for likely a few reasons. It was obvious, it was big, and it's where you saw a bunch of folks going.
But it has a long history of being poorly moderated, which means a LOT of instances are silencing or blocking it. Which means you're on the big island that SEEMS like it's "where everyone is", but in fact, it's a giant island unto itself (momentarily trending toward turning into a post-bird-site echo chamber), and huge swaths of the Fediverse don't talk to it, or even see it.
If you want the quality of interaction (and moderation!) Mastodon is known for, move thy funky buns to a smaller instance of cool folks you enjoy. 