The irish have come up with a pretty cool hasttag to identify themselves across the fediverse: #Mastodaoine
Best case scenario here is that somehow #mastodon instances remain small, community based, serving to bring people together rather than keep them divided in fear, with just the right amount of cross over to stop filter bubbles. something that always would elude twitter.
Turning things upside down, it suddenly occurs to me that #fediverse could have the inverse effect of what is expected.
Twitter, as far as I can make out, generally goes like this:
Somebody who for whatever reason, makes something, builds something, or does some research, etc and makes a post of genuine interest about it, often linked to a blog or a publication.
several 100 or 1000 (maybe people, maybe bots) post one liner (often hateful, sometimes trying to be witty) noise on the thread.
Ahora pueden donar a #TIC con @circles 😃
https://circles.garden/profile/0xfba64287b96824BBab0E087D15F1e59A8747Cdb2
You know the #fediverse isn’t just #Mastodon, right? :)
Do you live stream? Check out https://owncast.online
It’s a lightweight free and open live-steaming server. (We use it at Small Technology Foundation for our streams at https://owncast.small-web.org)
And you can follow people’s Owncast servers from the fediverse and get notified when they’re about to start streaming, etc. (e.g., hit the follow button on our stream and enter your Mastodon/fediverse account)
I've noticed a small wave of new people making their way to Mastodon from the birdsite.
Here is my brief Mastodon guide for social media worriers that may prove useful for making yourself more at home.
Editorial: Between Mastodon and Feedbin, I Now Have All the Tools I Need to Avoid Using Twitter While Following People’s Tweets https://ryanschultz.com/2022/10/21/editorial-between-mastodon-and-feedbin-i-now-have-all-the-tools-i-need-to-avoid-using-twitter-while-following-peoples-tweets/
@NGIZero “Open Source” for a surveillance capitalist like Google is one or several of four main things:
- The potential to use free labour
- The potential for positive public relations (which, when amplified, will hopefully get people thinking about them as a benevolent philosopher kings instead of the robber barons and people farmers that they are)
- The potential to influence the stack (with tools that function in line with their success criteria)
- The potential to find new talent
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Decolonizing Circles Design
#UBI
https://medium.com/circles-ubi/decolonizing-circles-design-d7ed8bdfc2f9?source=rss-41744003e71------2
Technology Coordinator / Rhizomatica.