@sbi

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I'm the Grumpy Old Ape, father of many, reader of books, writer of C++, doing 24/7 software that keeps your lights on. [he/him]
sbiNov 2, 2022
Per AxbomNov 2, 2022

You may be aware that there is something called the #Fediverse.

But do you know about all the different types of applications that run on the Fediverse?

I made this visual to give myself and others something to point at when explaining "the big picture".

You may be surprised by how many services beyond Mastodon there are to explore.

Download it for free here and use as you please:
https://axbom.com/fediverse/

That post also has links to all the different applications.

#FediTips

The many branches of the Fediverse

As more and more people are asking me about Mastodon I felt a need for a picture to point at, showcasing how the software known as Mastodon fits into the much larger concept of the Fediverse. I made this infographic to help myself and others explain the many different use-cases

Axbom • My Next Heartbeat
sbiNov 2, 2022
SenficonNov 1, 2022
Nothing to see here. https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/twitter-restricts-access-content-enforcement-tools-1234622010/
Employees Shut Out of Twitter's Content-Moderation Systems, Days Before the Midterms

The social network, now owned by Elon Musk, went from having hundreds of employees with access to the tools to limit misinformation to a little over a dozen, according to Bloomberg.

Rolling Stone
Show threadsbiNov 1, 2022

In case you've already tried it: It's well worth it to run @Luca's fedifinder again: https://fedifinder.glitch.me

For me, the number of hits has tripled within the 2 day since I did this last.

Fedifinder

Fediverse accounts of your X/Twitter followings

sbiNov 1, 2022
Show threadMichał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦Oct 31, 2022

The threshold to have someone or some instance blocked is way lower than on  .

Partially because fedi instances are smøl themselves, and so admins/moderators can focus better on abuse reports. But also, since users can flow relatively easily between instances, admins/moderators *want* to make their instances *nice*.

So your report *matters*. It's not shouting into the void, and if it feels that way, consider moving to a different, better-moderated instance.

5/n

sbiNov 1, 2022
Guillem LeonMay 10, 2021
I have encountered more image descriptions on Mastodon in 24 hours than I have in Twitter in a couple of years. Seriously. I'm not exaggerating.
As a blind person, this means a lot to me. If you read this and you describe your images, thank you so, so, so much on behalf of all of us. If you don't, now you know you'll be helping random Internet strangers make sense of your posts by typing in a few more words than usual.
sbiOct 31, 2022
Matthias OttOct 30, 2022

Did you know that when you put .rss behind your Mastodon profile URL, you get an RSS feed? 😎

https://mastodon.social/@matthiasott.rss

sbiOct 31, 2022
Nate Cull (.social)May 28, 2018

Protip:

When designing a user interface, imagine some old woman using it, say Margaret Hamilton, and she's clicking your app's buttons and saying to you, as old people do,

"Young whippersnapper, when I was your age, I sent 24 people to the ACTUAL MOON with my software in 4K of RAM and here I am clicking your button and it takes ten seconds to load a 50 megabyte video ad and then it crashes

I'm not even ANGRY with you, I'm just disappointed."

sbiOct 31, 2022
Charlotte /Cinny     Oct 29, 2022

elon musk did so much for humanity, we can never forget him for:

  • buying tesla
  • buying paypal
  • buying twitter
  • privatizing nasa
  • littering the night sky with shiny satellites
  • inventing trains but they kill you instantly
  • inventing tunnels but they kill you and only let you use 1 type of car
sbiOct 31, 2022
Austin Dern, Dean of CoatisOct 13, 2022
You can tell how Star Trek: The Next Generation is set in a utopian future because every work meeting wraps up in at most four minutes with a decision about what the group is going to do, why they're doing it, who's in charge of doing it and who's supporting them in what ways, clearly communicated to all participants.
sbiOct 30, 2022
Luca Hammer ENOct 29, 2022

I wrote a nano tool that tries to extract the #Fediverse accounts of your #Twitter followings: https://fedifinder.glitch.me/

It searches for the patterns @[email protected], [email protected] and host.tld/@user in the screen name, description, location and URL field. It displays them to you in the correct format for easy copying as well as a CSV download that can be imported to #Mastodon.

New version: https://fedifinder-backup.glitch.me/

Fedifinder

Fediverse accounts of your X/Twitter followings