Ethan Black @golemwire@librem.one

Livestreaming people!

Do you want people on Mastodon to be able to follow your livestream and be notified when you go live?

There's a free open source streaming platform called @owncast which is also part of the Fediverse:

➡️ https://owncast.online

You can follow OwnCast streams from Mastodon, and a post will appear in your timeline when they go live.

For example you can follow music accounts like @live or tech & gaming streamers like @Hamish or @hatnix

#Fediverse #ActivityPub #OwnCast

Friend spotted

@Stephan

Alright I hope I don’t come off to preachy, so forgive me if it sounds that way.

But, one of the things I struggled with after I moved from twitland about a year ago was changing my twitter-user mindset.

Entering fedi is kinda like entering into a new school.

First, you just gotta get to know the kids in your class. (Your instance.)

Then, you expand and get to know the kids in other grades and other schools. (Other instances.) You figure out who is popular and who is not.

Ultimately, I found (just like in school) that I do not care if I have a lot of followers. I have a handful of people I consider friends and interact with regularly and that has been good enough for me. It’s something I never had on Twitter, reddit, or even Facebook (atleast not in the later years), and it has felt really good to have that homie feel online again.

Everyone on popular social media nowadays are chasing internet points. What we in Public Relations call ‘vanity metrics’.

More followers
More boosts
More exposure

I think most people around here actually shy away from that. It’s not a contest for popularity on fedi. This isn’t really a news platform where the goal is to garner followers, gain popularity, become an influencer and rise to be a cyberpower. Most of us see right through that stuff and I for one don’t care for it.

It’s just social media. for being social. For making friends and meeting new people. Plain and simple.

I am only saying all this because I find that lots of new users think like this:

Follow all the big accounts.Businesses
Admins
Developers
Public figures
Get more followersPost memes
beg for boosts

After a few months of doing this my self, I ended up un-following most of those “big” accounts and changing the way I interacted with fedizens. Now, I stick with the peeps I consider friends, and keep my eyes open to meeting new people who are interesting, friendly, and may challenge my belief system in some way.

I don’t care at all for metrics on here. I just care about my people.

Honestly, that’s what has made fedi so fulfilling for me. Social media is fun again.

On Mastodon the so called "Direct messages" are *actually* messages where the privacy setting is "visable for mentioned users only", i.e. users you "@"'

Now let's follow that to it's logical conclusion shall we… what if you want to talk to someone in private about a third person?

Do NOT "@" the person you want to talk about or guess what… you are talking to them as well!!! 😱

💡 If you write out their username without the first @, e.g "ruari@velocipederider.com" that OK.

#FediTips

Can I ask a favour?

I'm really grateful to be recommended as a follow, but can you also mention the website (https://fedi.tips) when you do so?

At the moment getting a lot of questions which are answered on the site, and it's difficult to keep up with every question. I'm happy to keep answering, but also afraid I'll miss someone's question.

If they know about the site from the beginning, they will have a chance of finding the answers themselves if I do miss their question.

Thanks 🙏

'𝗛𝗼𝘂𝘀𝗲 𝗜𝗻 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗛𝗼𝗹𝗹𝗼𝘄' 𝗜𝗻 𝗚𝗮𝗺𝗲 𝗦𝗰𝗿𝗲𝗲𝗻𝘀𝗵𝗼𝘁𝘀

The 'House in The Hollow' isn't just about the mysterious Manor House.

Surrounding the Manor is a dark woodland called 'Braebrook Forest'.

Explore the woodland to discover the lost Manor House.

#UE5 #game #videogames #mystery #HouseInTheHollow #steam #gamedev #UnrealEngine #puzzle

Musk bought Twitter. Good or bad?

Update: 49,215 new users across different Mastodon servers since yesterday. Probably a lot of them are actually from yesterday. My crawler only runs once a day so I get a bit of a delayed view of things.

@bearmine for folks in the US, it might be easier to think of Mastodon as a country, and instances as states. You can just start in any state, each state has its own rules, and if you find that it’s not a good fit, you can move to a different state to have an experience that you like better. Your posts live in whatever state you’re a part of, but can be shared with other folks in other states.

Found a neat command recently.
We all know about `apropos`, a.k.a. `man -k`
Well, `man -K` is a lot like `man -k`, except it performs a *full-text* search of all man pages.

Nifty!!

#man #ManPages #UNIX

Quick tip: if you camelCase your hashtags, people who use screen readers will have an easier time with them.

So, for example: #twitterMigration or #TwitterMigration instead of #twittermigration

#accessibility #a11y #fediTips

Once you get past 99 open tabs, #Fennec / #Firefox Mobile just displays an infinity symbol in the tabs button.

Why ya gotta be so snarky, foxy?

Time to cull tabs and save bookmarks.
I just wish I could export all tabs to a text file, since that's how I keep my bookmarks.

Okay, so... I have a bit of an announcement.

I've created a website for FediFollows which has all the accounts I've ever recommended (that are still working!) organised into nice topics and tags:

➡️ https://fedi.directory

You can browse the main directory or the top 100 tags page. (Also considering adding an "all tags" page, if there's demand.)

Please let me know what you think! Any feedback very welcome 🙏

(This is why I haven't posted in a few days! 😅 )

#Fediverse

I decided to give electric shaving a try, since using my blade and soap takes some time an I sometimes am in a hurry. This is the first thing I saw, seriously, an app for a shaver???
What is wrong with us 🤦🏼‍♂️

#VanillaOS offers an innovative, modernized "post-Debian" experience

https://tuxphones.com/vanilla-os-linux-apx-immutable-system-upstream-lightweight-ubuntu/ #linux #opensource