Chris Kendall

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Anglo-Schwäbisch eurocrat - maker of EU foreign policy & spätzle - guerrilla knitter - cross-Channel commuter
Twitter profilehttp://twitter.com/ottocrat/
Personal bloghttp://ottocr.at/about/
Cakewatch podcasthttps://cakewatch.fireside.fm/about
Moving my main mastodon account across from @ottocrat to eupolicy.social

The latest Mastodon update lets you follow hashtags. When you follow, posts with a tag appear in your timeline automatically.

Try following #Gardening to make posts about gardening appear in your timeline.

This can be REALLY useful for discovering interesting accounts.

To follow a hashtag:
1. Log in through your server's website
2. Search for hashtag
3. Click it to see its results
4. Click on 👤+ icon in top right (click again to unfollow)

Posts from followed tags are visible in the apps too.

Which is it, Russian media? Make up your minds ffs.

#ukraine #Russia #disinformation

yeah I don’t think we’re going to mars
@UbiquitousPhoton @glynmoody @mike @Vittoria @wendyg @1br0wn The pernicious influence of the algorithm is overstated imo. We are talking about human nature here. Happens also where no algorithms involved.
@Tighnacoille Indeed. There’s a 6c: billionaire with an agenda buys platform and wrecks it. But the fediverse has in principle innoculated itself against that.
@1br0wn @wendyg @glynmoody Would be nice! Not holding breath, but crossing fingers.
@giovannigruni Ooh well done. I’m thinking about making the same move.

Heard elsewhere:

"The swing voters in marginal seats _ARE_ the electorate under FPTP!"

How true. We need to #GetPrDone

@wendyg @1br0wn @glynmoody There’s an established lifecycle to online communities. It will be the same here. Niche -> friendly -> growth -> factionalism -> disenchantment -> disintegration. If you’ve been on the internet since the 90s you’ve already lived through three or four of these cycles.