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The Firefox "Mastodon - Simplified Federation!" is helpful as it makes following people on other instances when browsing those instances' websites a much smoother task. It automatically enters your handle/server & actions it on your account. addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firef… #FediTips #tips

Mastodon – Simplified Federation! – Get this Extension for 🦊 Firefox (en-US)

Download Mastodon – Simplified Federation! for Firefox. Simplifies following or interacting with other users on remote Mastodon instances in the Fediverse.
addons.mozilla.org
#FediTips #tips

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I give Musk a year, maybe two, before he wants out of #Twitter. This article from The Verge nails the reasons why, closing with:

"Anyhow, welcome to hell. This was your idea."

theverge.com/2022/10/28/234281…


Welcome to hell, Elon

Elon Musk now owns Twitter — and a huge number of impossible political problems around speech, content moderation, and trying to make money.
Nilay Patel (The Verge)
#twitter

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This is my third time (attempt?) migrating to Mastodon from Twitter. The first lasted a while, although I cross-posted everything to both platforms. The second time, I lasted just three posts, before bailing back to Twitter. Both times nobody else had come along with me, today the #TwitterMigration seems to be a big one, I've picked up 200 followers in the space of a few hours. So, maybe this time it's real? But no matter what happens? "Welcome to hell, Elon." theverge.com/2022/10/28/234281…

Welcome to hell, Elon

Elon Musk now owns Twitter — and a huge number of impossible political problems around speech, content moderation, and trying to make money.
Nilay Patel (The Verge)
#twittermigration
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Trevor Flowers

Personally, I'm ding dang happy to see groups like Nextcloud offer no-fuss instances. Not everyone likes to self-host and it's better than everyone DDoSing that one big node.
nextcloud.com/blog/no-need-to-…

Trust in Musk or go federated with Nextcloud Social! - Nextcloud

Nextcloud Social offers federated, trusted, big-tech-free social networking to tens of millions of users
Jos Poortvliet (Nextcloud)

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Hello to all the new people! 👋

You can choose any Mastodon server to sign up on, but you can also make your own server if you want!

You don't need tech skills or deep pockets, you can get a managed hosting account for about 6 euros a month. (Managed hosting means the hosting company does all the tech stuff.)

If you want more info including a list of companies that offer this, have a look at:

growyourown.services/grow-your…

#Mastodon


Grow your own social network | Grow Your Own Services

Helping non-technical people create their own online services
growyourown.services
#Mastodon

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#AndroidAppRain today at apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid with 10 updated and 2 new apps:

* Locate my device: locate a lost smartphone through the use of conventional SMS
* OwnTracks: keep track of your own location

Enjoy your #free #Android #apps with #FDroid and the #IzzySoftRepo :awesome:


IzzyOnDroid F-Droid Repository

This is a repository of apps to be used with F-Droid. Applications in this repository are official binaries built by the original application developers, taken from their resp. repositories (mostly Github).
IzzyOnDroid App Repo
#android #free #fdroid #apps #AndroidAppRain #IzzySoftRepo

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January this year we started with #translations of our website & app-documentation. We're already at six languages, but want to step up our game.

Will you help us make this happen? Join our volunteer team as translations coordinator! (± 1hr/wk) More info: antennapod.org/blog/2022/10/tr…


We're looking for a translations coordinator! – AntennaPod

AntennaPod already is available in many languages. Will you bring us to the next level?
AntennaPod
#translations

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Accessibility in the Fediverse (and Mastodon): yatil.net/blog/accessibility-i…

Accessibility in the Fediverse (and Mastodon) · Eric Eggert

Many people think about moving or at least establishing a presence in the so-called Fediverse. The Fediverse is (and this is probably a very shortened and incorrect) a collection of distributed web applications that can talk to each other.
Eric Eggert

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I wrote up some instructions on how to enable the "Edit button" on your Mastodon instance, if anyone's interested.

Basically edit
1. app/javascript/mastodon/components/status_action_bar.js
2. app/javascript/mastodon/features/status/components/action_bar.js

Uncomment menu.push({ text: intl.formatMessage(messages.edit), action: this.handleEditClick });

Do a yarn run build:production and restart your Mastodon services and that should enable it!

Boosts appreciated 🔁

phocks.notion.site/How-to-enab…


Notion – The all-in-one workspace for your notes, tasks, wikis, and databases.

A new tool that blends your everyday work apps into one. It's the all-in-one workspace for you and your team
Notion
This entry was edited (3 years ago)

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Getting started with Mastodon 🌤️

Read:
fedi.tips/

Find people:
fedi.directory/
fediverse.info/explore/people

1. Boost good posts to your followers

2. Search hashtags to find stuff that interest you

3. If you're never posting anything people won't find and follow you

4. Add a profile image to make life more colorful :flan_cheer:

5. Generate an invite link and send it to your friends

6. Ask questions

#Mastodon #Fediverse


Fedi.Directory

Interesting accounts to follow on Mastodon and the Fediverse
fedi.directory
#fediverse #Mastodon

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Hello everyone!

We’ve got some cool news to share :) A while back, we sent an application off to NLnet as part of one of their NGI0 Entrust funding rounds.

We got word back earlier this week that we’ve been granted the funding we asked for! This means that for the next year or so, subject to final negotiations with NLnet, GoToSocial will have ~50k euros to spend on research + development.

In short, this means that tobi (current most-obsessed dev) will be able to work on GoToSocial full time for the next year, without having to get a part-time job somewhere. This also means we can pay Maloki and f0x for their ongoing admin work + frontend work, respectively.

The NLnet grant gives tobi in particular a lot more financial security and peace of mind, ensuring that development can keep moving along at a good pace. Even so, we will still be keeping donations open to our LiberaPay and OpenCollective pages.

Your very kind (!) donations will be used to pay for additional things like server costs, art, design work, and also put towards the pool for paying contributors for their code (once we figure out the best way of doing this).

Thank you for reading, and have a nice weekend!

Links:

GoToSocial

NLnet NGI0 Entrust

GtS NLnet project proposal + follow up questions


GitHub - superseriousbusiness/gotosocial: Fast, fun, ActivityPub server, powered by Go.

Fast, fun, ActivityPub server, powered by Go. Contribute to superseriousbusiness/gotosocial development by creating an account on GitHub.
GitHub

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New people! Here's how to fill your timeline:

-Follow hashtags if your server supports it. You can do this by logging in through the website, searching for a tag, then clicking the + in the top right corner. New posts with those tags will appear in your timeline.

-Find interesting people on directories:
fedi.directory
communitywiki.org/trunk
fediverse.info/explore/people

-On the official Masto app, click 🔍 and browse the trending posts, tags and Community

-On the website, click Explore


Fedi.Directory

Interesting accounts to follow on Mastodon and the Fediverse
fedi.directory

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#GNOME project retiring their mailing lists for good is interesting to me.
mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-…

As I have worked with colleagues that primarily use them and having used Discourse for a long time, I would assure them that email replies work well.
I hope they'll stay active and I'd expect the community to get a little closer.

So this gives an example to for other projects to move forward too.

Announcement: this mailing list will be retired by the end of Oct 2022

mail.gnome.org
#gnome
in reply to Tammi 🥴🐈‍⬛

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Emmanuele Bassi

I'm fairly certain that the migration to Discourse has already been successful: we developed a healthy critical mass over the past three years since we experimented moving the core toolkit lists over to Discourse. We had more traffic and more newcomers there, while the trend for mailing lists has been going down over the past 15 years. Right now, our main holdovers are people *strongly* used to email flows; some converted, others won't.

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Crowdfund audio recording and playback in LibreOffice presentations! There are eight days to go: blog.documentfoundation.org/bl…

Crowdfund audio recording and playback in LibreOffice presentations! - The Document Foundation Blog

LibreOffice’s presentation tool, Impress, includes a bunch of features for home and office use. But one thing that’s missing is recording and playback for audio comments in presentations. Please confirm that you want to play a YouTube video.
Mike Saunders (The Document Foundation)

LibreOffice reshared this.

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Recently, @tdforg@twitter.com has published some of the talks of the @LibreOffice@twitter.com Conference 2022. Watch @quwex_@twitter.com explain how to chase an #interoperability bug in Impress. 🐞

Watch it! 📹 youtu.be/KtzqBO7ukQQ

#CollaboraOffice #LibreOffice #LibOcon #OpenSource youtu.be/KtzqBO7ukQQ


Chasing an Interoperability Bug in Impress - LibreOffice Conference 2022

A session from the LibreOffice Conference 2022, in Milan, Italy. Presenter: Sarper AkdemirMore information, schedule and slides: https://conference.libreoffi...
YouTube
#opensource #libreoffice #interoperability #collaboraoffice #libocon
in reply to Aral Balkan

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David “the Talking Skull” Fox🌻

@aral No problem. Definitely at least check out the trailers and reviews. returntomonkeyisland.com

Return to Monkey Island | Available Now!

Return to Monkey Island is an unexpected, thrilling return of series creator Ron Gilbert that continues the story of the legendary adventure games The Secret of Monkey Island and Monkey Island 2: LeChuck’s Revenge developed in collaboration with Luca…
Return to Monkey Island | Available Now!
@Aral Balkan
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