alex-esc's old account @alexesc@librem.one

@Gargron ...Some people on the GitHub issues think this features is not needed since anyone can go to any instance on a logged out web browser and add /public to the URL to preview a foreign community. But the problem is not if we can preview an instance or not, the problem is users are incentiveized not to bond with people outside of your followers and local instance.

This is not a matter of ease of use alone, it's about creating inclusive communities. We need to open up!

@Gargron ...so you can create an account on mastodon.social, search for linuxrocks.online on the mastodon app and see the public timeline of linuxrocks.online, now you can interact with linuxy people and feel part of their community, despite being from another instance.

Just like an American teen can find a connection with an European band or artist. I may be a citizen of mastodon.social but I can relate and interact with people from another server....

@Gargron ....The more accounts someone has, the more likely those accounts can be abandoned because the users interests have changed.

This need for multiple accounts also creates stress for the users, now they have to perform their character more than once, keep up with different paswords and splitting their "self".

A simple way to create subreddit-like communities is to make the /public timeline of an instance searchable like hashtags...

@Gargron Another way to reduce spam accounts is to make mastodon users less incentivized to create more than one accounts.

Some people, including me, join an instance because it specializes around a topic (Art, games, socializing, computers) but people have more than one interest. So we create an account per instance that strikes our hobbies.

Reddit has subredits, this solves needing multiple usernames for subscribing to different topics. We need something like that...

@SuricrasiaOnline Open library is a godsend.

@lightweight yep, I rather be an unrecognized hero than a wold known villain.

For the first time, I proofread my article before posting. I know, thanks, thanks! 👏

@Piejacker875 Never answer any calls in the first place 🧠

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@felix@radical.town

Maybe unrelated but...

what's an app for openstreetmap noobs like myself?

I want to switch to OSM, but don't know where to start. My main interests are looking up bus stops / routes, browsing for places to eat or grab a drink and making contributions of my own since I suspect we have bad OSM coverage in my area.

What are the best apps to start browsing and contributing?

@switchingsocial@mastodon.at IMO a good reason to recommended brave it's accessibility. Brave runs on Mac, PC, Android and iOS, it was my go to recommendation for non savvy people.

Is there another mobile-desktop out of the box privacy respecting browser out there I can recommend?