Jeremiah Lee @jeremiahlee@librem.one

Mastodon will update to 4.0 soon! Here are the most exciting new features (in addition to fixes & changes):

- ability to follow hashtags
- ability to filter by language
- ability to translate posts
- ability to post HEIC files (i.e. your iPhone’s native photo format)
- define user roles (big deal for admins)
- define sign-up process on your Instance (admins again)

See all changes here: https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/releases/tag/v4.0.0rc1

Thanks, @Gargron and @Mastodon Team. #Mastodon4

Elon Musk achieved the impossible: he encouraged competition in microblogging when none existed! Of course that wasn’t his intention but I personally will take competition any way it comes!

✨ The first release candidate of Mastodon 4.0 is now officially available for testing! Find out what's new on the changelog:

https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/releases/tag/v4.0.0rc1

To Twitter migrants complaining about learning how to use the Fediverse—do you forget what it was like to first join Twitter?

Questions that arose back in 2008:

1. What can I possibly say in 140 characters?
2. What is a hashtag, and why does it even exist?
3. How does anyone find anything?
4. Who do I follow?
5. What's a feed?

Twitter came with a learning curve.

Why should #developers be interested in the #Fediverse? I spoke to @darius, who (y'all probably know!) runs a Mastodon instance called Friend Camp, about why developers should experiment with open protocols like ActivityPub & how becoming a hosting provider is a way in. https://thenewstack.io/why-developers-should-experiment-with-the-fediverse/

How to verify your account to an existing website, and it not cost even $8 bucks a month.

https://mastodon.social/@Gargron/108245858984927046

The @eff's Cory Doctorow has prepared some excellent examples for how #interoperability between social media platforms could look like in practice. #UX #UI

Full report here: https://www.eff.org/interoperablefacebook

It's the weekend, baby
#startrek

The whole idea of the town square is that it belongs to the town. No one should be able to buy it. And honestly, they can’t.

Twitter isn’t really the town square, any more than Facebook is or MySpace was.

We are the town square. It goes where we go. No one can buy that.

Thank you for following me!!! I don’t know how verification works, so I’m just going to put on a completely unretouched photo from the photos in my damn iPhone. I mean, I’m the only one who has those. :)

As it turns out, Elon is to the Fediverse what Oprah was to Twitter in 2009.

Oprah inspired millions to join Twitter.

Elon inspired millions to join the Fediverse.

Both celebrities inspire the masses to adopt new innovative technology 🤩

#Mastodon instances aiming at #universities, #students #scholars #academics #researchers #scientists:

• https://fediscience.org for publishing scientists (from #PhDstudent to #professor) & researchers outside of #academia

• https://scicomm.xyz for scientists, #science students, #communicators & anyone with rational mindset

• https://scholar.social for researchers, students, #librarians, #archivists, high schoolers, #educators, journal #editors, #researchassistants, professors, #academia

It is #WorldVeganDay!

I am in the best shape of my life on a mostly* vegan diet.

* Husband occasionally uses butter and eggs. I will eat fish when Michelin star restaurant chefs lack the creativity to serve me.

You should watch this documentary: https://gamechangersmovie.com/