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Dan Fox
@torontodan
- 3 Followers
- 280 Following
- 260 Posts
On the other site I’m @DanFoxTO for as long as that lasts
Exploring Mastodon a bit more today, and it looks like I'll be migrating to a new server. I probably picked the largest/most obvious one when I joined, but there are good reasons to be on a smaller server, especially a local one in #Canada like mstdn.ca
If you are on a Canadian server, which one did you choose and why?
Emmett MacfarlaneICYMI - "An obvious - but ignored - limit on the notwithstanding clause" https://emmettmacfarlane.substack.com/p/an-obvious-but-ignored-limit-on-the
FediTips has moved!If you need help with using Mastodon 
and the Fediverse 
you can ask me for help, but please check the website at https://fedi.tips first. It has lots of questions answered!
If you can't find what you need on the site, just mention me or message me and I will reply to you as a DM.
(I'm not doing publicly-visible replies from this account any more, as most people don't need to see them.)
David Elfstrom#TwitterMigration Tip: On #Mastodon hashtags are very important, and you can subscribe to them in your feed! Enter a hashtag like #CorsiRosenthalBox in the search bar, click on the result link, and then click on the Follow Hashtag icon. Matching posts will now appear in your home timeline!
#TwitterMigration Beginner tip:
The #Mastodon search bar disappears on narrow screens, so click on the Explore (#) icon to reveal it. To find a specific person you need both their handle and server name.
The #Mastodon search bar disappears on narrow screens, so click on the Explore (#) icon to reveal it. To find a specific person you need both their handle and server name.
NancyGPTHot take: I’ve been reading a lot of research about thriving organizations the last couple of years as I lead that pillar of Microsoft’s New Future of Work Initiative. There will be no HBR case studies of what’s happening at Twitter because there is nothing to learn that isn’t already well known and a “don’t do that” article will be too obvious.
An-Tim Nguyen 
Twitter was never the singular town square that many claim.
All users were invisibly separated based on tracking your activity that fed the targeted advertising algorithm. You never actually saw everything nor broadcasted to everybody.
Any "silo/echo chamber" structures on Masto are all directly opted into by the user. YOU have control over what you want to follow or block.
Many users are not used to making those choices for themselves. Many would rather have the algorithm.
Chief TWiT 
Now that we're learning this lesson that centralized silos are brittle and operate in the interest of the owners not the users...
...please note the move toward centralizing podcasts into apps from Amazon/Audible, Spotify, iHeart, YouTube, TikTok etc.
If you like podcasts, use an RSS-based podcast player. Support the open ecosystem. We can only survive if you clearly see the threat and act supportively.
Watching the deterioration of the bird site, yeah, it will probably take a while, and it will continually get worse over time rather than all at once. Mastodon has a long way to go, but I can already see very clearly the potential here, and that it could be even better than the other place. It will take some effort, and network effects, so bring your friends.