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Home educator, blogger, I have children, books, and pictures crowding out the words in my head. Oh, and I'm autistic! They/them. My links to follow, but this name everywhere.
Linktree - lots of things I've gatheredhttps://linktr.ee/liveotherwise
Capitalism is a death cult.
I love all the stuff I'm seeing from @Curator, wondering whether that would actually be a closer home for me. Do people switch instances?
the harassment instances such as poast, nicecrew, etc are currently going through the introductions hashtag to try and find any queer people they can find to harass, as well as spamming it with their own shit.

a lot of the harassment replies /untag/ the original poster so they might not realize those are replies are there but other people looking at the post will see them.

please defederate from any such instances to keep your users safe, they're very nasty.

Also paused to take a picture of one of my favourite #wildflowers

I prefer to call them #PetalledPioneers rather than weeds, but I didn't manage to get that to take off on Instagram. Maybe people will be more receptive to the concept here. This is Herb Robert, of the cranesbill family.

I went to the job centre and actually my job coach is incredibly supportive so that's good. Even printed the form off for me that I need, and if I drop it back to her, she'll scan and email it to the right place.

And on the way back I found a fantastic #HomeEducation resource in a charity shop for £2!

@Liveotherwise Mastodon is a software, the fediverse is the network and ActivityPub is the protocol.

So yeah, your analogy to blogging software works. Mastodon is to the fediverse what Wordpress is to blogging.

Brain is not really cooperating
I have to leave the house in 15 minutes. I need to get up.

Wrapping my head around the term #fediverse and where Mastodon sits in it.

Thinking back to my early days of blogging. Mastodon is a type of software, like WordPress is a type of software. Remembering having an actual stand up argument at a blog conference with the tech presenter who didn't know the difference between .com and .org

To extend it, there are lots of other ways to run a blog, and it appears there are other ways to run an instance. Eg pleroma

Am I getting to grips with this?

This may seem like a trivial thing, but please re-consider using the word 'refugees' when you're coming over from other sites. It's easy to not put much thought into our words, but for a lot of people here, 'refugee' carries a really heavy implication that's being diminished seeing it used for people switching social media sites.

The fediverse at large - not just .art - is a very diverse place full of beautiful people trying to look out for each other in a caring environment. Let's be kind <3