How to migrate from one Mastodon server to another without losing followers:
1. Sign up on new server
2. On NEW server: Go to Account -> Moving FROM another account
3. Enter old account's handle
4. On OLD server: Go to Account -> Moving TO another account
5. Enter new account's handle and submit
I posted this on the birbsite, too:
There're only 3 types of folks who support #onlinevoting. Those who:
1. don't understand voting (but have unfounded 'faith' in technology),
2. hate democracy, &/or
3. have an online voting system to sell. Poor sods. 2/2
@lightweight #BigBlueButton to replace Zoom is a bit of overkill. #Jitsi Meet is more of a direct replacement, if you don't need the rest of the infrastructure.
So it seems that trolls of the Trumpist frozen peach variety, mostly those who set up their own Pleroma instances when Parler got taken down, are undertaking a semi-coordinated effort to target journalists who sign up on Mastodon for a couple of reasons...
* Trump has taught them that professional journalism and critical thinking are elitist and bad so lets harass them until they go away
* they are trying to prove some sort of point that this place can be just as toxic as their beloved Frozen Peach in Chief's microblogging site
If you are a journo and you get dogpiled by trolls DO NOT ENGAGE with them at all! Immediately:
1. REPORT them to your instance mods, THEN
2. Block them
Step 1 is very important! This isn't twitter or facebook...mods will take swift action, and if they don't you can migrate instances to better moderated ones...
@scottjenson @lawremipsum On the mastodon home page, the two choices are Get the App and Find a Server. I want to make an account. There is no way from those choices I could deduce 'find a server' is the first step in account creation'.
When I check the menu, there is no Help or FAQ; the only two things that look helpful are Support and Documentation. Documentation generally refers to the technical details of a program; I want user level help. I click on Support. It's GitHub.
Disney+ isn't working on Linux because of a bug
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2022/11/its-not-just-you-disney-doesnt-currently-work-on-linux
Social.Coop does not have admins, as such. We have three elected working groups -- Finance, Tech, and Community -- made up of members.
All members can participate and vote in Social.Coop governance, via Loomio.
Income and expenditures are transparent. See Open Collective: https://opencollective.com/socialcoop#category-BUDGET
Finance: https://www.loomio.com/g/Zq69RToJ/social-coop-finance-working-group
Tech: https://www.loomio.com/g/Mtb0FrvX/social-coop-tech-working-group
Community: https://www.loomio.com/socialcoop-community-working-group/
Brazil supreme court ruling to reactivate Amazon Fund gives hope in fight to save rainforest - https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/nov/04/brazil-supreme-court-ruling-to-reactivate-amazon-fund-gives-hope-in-fight-to-save-rainforest good news, good timing...
@endomain Tell them to give America back to the natives. ;-)
After another long #debugging session with the #librem5 , I decided to publish a comprehensive tutorial for remote graphical debugging with #QtCreator.
May you suffer less, compared to plain #GDB.
Been reading The Work of Living by Maximilian Alvarez and got to a part where he's talking to a miner about recent changes in management where managers are now disconnected from the work they're overseeing. Alvarez talks about hearing the same from a shipwright and a nurse.
Given the widening wealth gap in the USA, then if management can be defined as a wealthier class, it makes sense that new managers would come from families that have had to labor less.
Us Dictatorships Have To Stick Together
https://rall.com/comic/us-dictatorships-have-to-stick-together
#Rall
@ocdtrekkie @varx Ouch! I was in that boat as well for a number of years. Now I feel lucky my employer still offers a so-called low deductible plan (i.e., most expensive monthly), because all the high deductible plans require hitting the deductible before pharmacy costs are reduced, and I have two household members that require expensive medicines.
Hey Everybody. Two of the best security communicators and practitioners I know have just launched their book,
Security for Everybody
https://www.holloway.com/b/security-for-everyone?vip_code=SFELAUNCH
I’m not joking when I say this is going to be a vital tool for improving the security practices of individuals and small orgs. Please boost and share the link widely.
"Karrot can be easily deployed with co-op cloud."
Never heard of this. Looks amazing!
#ShlaerMellor, #FunctionPointAnalysis, #punk, #environmentalist, #unionAdvocate, #anarchosocialist
"with a big old lie and a flag and a pie and a mom and a bible most folks are just liable to buy any line, any place, any time" - Frank Zappa