james h jackson jr @jameshjacksonjr@librem.one

Let’s try this again. Where you at #fediverse? Boosts welcome so we can get the best sample size.

@SocraticEthics done! $100 US for victory in Ukraine!! Слава Україні

Did you know?

Bumblebees used to be called Humblebees?

Back in Darwin's day and up to the early 20th century, they were mostly referred to as Humblebees due to the fact that they hummed while flying! But the lesser used named of Bumblebee existed on the fringes.

At some point between the two World Wars, there was a shift and Bumblebee became more popular and Humblebee was consigned to history.

This entry by A.W. Stelfox in the Irish Naturalist' Journal in 1921 still used the old name.

I made a new Twitter logo.

A lot of the time I say "I got lucky" when I get a good shot, but 90% of #BirdPhotography is being in the right place in the right time. Catching this egret and reflection was a lot of that luck. #birds #WildlifePhotography

Here’s an idea: let’s call people “people” on the fediverse instead of “users” whenever we can.

Compare:

“There are 42 users on this instance.”

vs

“There are 42 people on this instance.”

Which acknowledges our humanity more?

Language matters. We don’t need to perpetuate mainstream technology’s othering/colonial framing of “us” – designers/developers/other “clever folks” – and “them” – the users (usually one step removed from “dumb user” and usually the ones who get used).

#peopleNotUsers

@aral very new user here. What’s an “instance”? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

@Anilu7 It’s the server/domain that your account is on (in your case, your instance is mas.to). And welcome to the fediverse :)

@aral thank you! It was confusing at first but @jameshjacksonjr helped me get started. Metatext is a nice client app to use - it’s clear and has nice features such as the ‘home’, ‘local’ and ‘federated’ tabs.

The media has been reporting a lot on mastodon, but often reports as though mastodon is the fediverse. I saw a well-intentioned article today that the platform started six years ago, but this erases the immense amount of work that many put into ActivityPub.

Having done standards work myself and learning that I am unable to manage the immense social pressures of coordinating divergent goals and stay happy, my hat's off to the dedicated folks who made the fediverse happen.

@cwebber 👏

Ok I see that the hashtag #introduction is trending - likely due to the musky smell emanating from a certain blue bird 🤢! So, here it is: I am female, #audiologist, #Canadian, interested in #linguistics, #dogs (wishing @bunsenbernerbmd would come over from the bird), #science, #ScienceFiction, #Apple, #fun, #mystery, #history, support #Ukraine and #IranianProtests, #IndigenousRights

For some reason, Mastodon is experiencing a great influx of new users. 🤔

Within one month our following grew from 15k to 16k.

Happy to have been here since years already. 🥰🤩🥳

I was thinking, what if as an admin of a mastodon server, you could associate a standard set of #hashtags with your server, say no more than 200 chars worth, that would be added to local toots automatically? So if your server was themed, such as infosec.exchange, you might add some standard tags like #infosec to it, and in their options, people could elect to turn that off if they wanted or even elect to turn it off on a #toot-by-toot basis.

The general concept here to start building communities around standardized hashtags. Obviously, others could use the tags, and multiple servers/communities might use overlapping or even the same tags, but it would also mean that if I was into #infosec, I could pull up a column with that tag, and all the content from the #infosec communities would show up by default.

Being on a new network reminds me of the early days of blogging, when writing felt (for me) like a way to organize my thoughts rather than to reach as wide an audience as possible.

Writing for personal insights and to possibly generate a discussion with a small number of people feels refreshing.

#writing #mastodon #randomthought

Concert soon with #pirkanpojat

#taso #orchestra #percussion #choir