Siddharth Shah @siddharth05h4h@librem.one

If you lose a Toot, remember to contact the Toot fairy.

Do you solemnly swear that you will tell the Toot and nothing but the Toot?

I like to clarify why we don’t have a verification system like the #birdsite with the blue thingy next to your name.

On the #fediverse or at least #Mastodon we all are equal. No person is ‘higher in ranks’ or better than everyone else, our point is exactly the opposite. We want equality right?

We have plenty of methods to prove who you are on other platforms, we don’t need a badge for that 😉 Ofcourse you can use it however you like but this would be the reason, I’ll hope you’ll understand

Current status

Acropolis... Hello

Hello

Oh god oh fuck. How do I answer everything. Here, have this cat picture I took today

Our lead developer was recently laid off from his job, your support via Patreon, Open Collective and other platforms means a lot during this difficult time.

We've come too far to give up now, progress may be slower for the next few weeks.

The littlest patient is back from the doctor and relaxing on her perch 💕

We want to add a moderator who speaks Hindi to the mastodon.social team. Must uphold our code of conduct, must stick around on Mastodon, some monetary compensation is included.

Apply over DM or reply. Will try to get through the applications in the following days (I’m not home though)

On one hand, tech companies violate our #privacy, capture massive amounts of data without consent, and process and categorize it w/ ruthless efficiency to ever-more-precisely target us with ads.

On the other hand, AARP keeps trying to sell my deceased dad life insurance.

There is no introduction needed for PlayStore. But I would like to introduce an alternative app store for Android called as @fdroidorg

This app store allows only Free and Open Source Android apps. You need to download f-droid from it’s website.

Here are some of my app picks from the store.

Blokada - this app runs in the background as a vpn client and blocks trackers and ads that irritate us all over. You may still see few ads in apps like Youtube because Google does an end-to-end encryption for serving ads. See next app to solve this.

NewPipe - this is an alternative and a much better app for Youtube. You can download video or only the audio. You can subscribe to channels without Google or Youtube account. No ads. No tracking. A clean video experience. Video popup modes, etc.,

Fedilab - I have already written about it. My goto app for accessing Fediverse.

OsmAnd~ - Completely offline Map viewing and routing application. The data comes from @openstreetmap First time download of map is required. You can record your trips and export them as GPX file and share it with friends, add places to the map, contribute to OpenStreetMap like Wikipedia, etc.,

CityZen - another OpenStreetMap based app for exploring various avenues in a city.

StreetComplete - Like a game, it shows you what information is missing in a particular road or street in OpenStreetMap, so you can start contributing to OSM in a more fun way. With OSMGeoWeek around the corner, it’s good time to start.

Note: OpenStreetMap is a map that is built by people’s participation like how people write in Wikipedia. All data that goes into OpenStreetMap is available under a #OpenData license which means we are free to reuse the data for our purposes unlike Google Maps, where google completely own all the data that goes into it and charges for it.

@thej should be able to explain more about #OpenData

Mastodon is not Twitter
BUT THIS ALONE WILL NOT HELP...
...if you are still tangled in a Twitter-mindset!!

Are you still searching for the Trending Topics that will impose to everyone what is the thing about whom you "must" talk today?

Are you searching for "people to follow" instead of "people to interact with"?

Are you still planning time wasting things like hashtag wars instead of doing something real?

Are you searching for emotional and social gratifications by the number of retweets you received?

Are you still judging a post by the number of likes that received?

Are you still writing '"cool lines posts" for obtaining likes insted of writing interesting posts that stimulates discussion and interaction?

If so, pkease pay attention: there is still much Twitter INSIDE YOU.

(It takes some time to heal 😉)

I also love and use

Maps.me - maps based on openstreetmap maps

AntennaPod - for podcasts

Feeder - Feed reader

Tusky - for here

Markor - Markdown editor

FairEmail - For Email

Briar - p2p comma

Termux - CLI tools

AnkiDroid - Flash card based learning

Labcoat - for gitlab

DNS66 - adblockong

AndOTP - for otps

Aard2 - for offline dictionaries

Userland - for linux on Android




@prashere @fdroidorg @openstreetmap

Historical Blunder

A super computing nation is sold the fairy tale of never ending counting of demonetised currency for months and months when its matter of couple of hours to collate the data in simple Excel sheets!

Drugged people bought Emperor's lies and granted him election wins 🤣

Allow F-Droid to update repositories. After that you should see following screens. Install #Fedilab.

And don't forget to check apps in F-Droid. They are all FOSS apps. Mostly useful and fun. Just not very glossy. But no ads. 😎

There is no Blue Tick kind of verification in Mastodon. But mastodon provides another way to get an account verified by linking your profile with another link outside of mastodon which people already know it's yours. Other than that there is no real verification due to it's decentralized nature for now. There is no central authority to verify or reject some identity. So beware. Demand more proof.

Keybase method of verification is there but that is not a user friendly mechanism.

Until then don't get too excited and retoot. For People on pleroma there isn't even that option.

Read more: https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2018/10/mastodon-2.6-released/

I hear this question a lot: There are no blue tick verifications on Mastodon. You can verify ownership of a homepage, it shows up as a green tick next to the link on your profile. To do so check instructions on the edit profile page. It’s automatic.

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