Eric @eric@mastodon.ericbeckers.nl

Als iemand boze daden aankondigt of opschept over boosaardige dingen spreekt hij meestal de waarheid. Als hij het daarna afzwakt, afdoet als een grapje of het zelfs "filosofisch" of "ironisch" duidt is dat meestal een leugen. #VI

@jens @jwildeboer
A lot of instances have the list of silences or blocked instances somewhere in the "about" pages. I think this is good, since then potential users can inform themselves. Example: https://mastodon.social/about/more#unavailable-content

@Jain@blob.cat :3

Oh wow, the European Union 🇪🇺 now has its own official Mastodon instance!

https://social.network.europa.eu/explore

You can follow lots of important EU officials on here including the @EU_Commission

#EU #EuropeanUnion

For new people wondering why Mastodon is on thousands of servers instead of one:

-It helps protect us all against Elon Musk scenarios. It's very difficult for anyone to buy a network made of thousands of independently owned servers. (It's the same reason why no one owns the world's email network, because there are so many independent providers out there.)

-If your server misbehaves (or sells out to a malevolent billionaire), you can move your account to a different server, or even to a brand new server. Decentralisation means you're never trapped on a site you hate.

-Mastodon is an open platform where anyone can start their own server, and they don't need tech knowledge if they use a service like https://masto.host or https://federation.spacebear.ee

...and there are lots more good reasons too, to do with servers using alternative Fediverse software etc, but I'll save that for a future post 😁

#MastoTips #Mastodon #FediTips #Fediverse

because I have so many new users coming #mastodonTips #mastodon

discovery/discoverability

1) in addition to a bio, consider also making an #introduction / #introduction post also check this tag to find people who are also new and their interests

2) https://communitywiki.org/trunk is a wonderful place to find people who are active. it is human moderated. if you decide to stick around and have the bandwidth to do so, consider joining a list to welcome others as well.

....

Elon Musk wants to "authenticating all humans" on Twitter. Nope. Nope. Nope. https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1518677066325053441?s=20&t=lR-4BE8oNy42ChEWcDru-A

Ik mis Dominique van der Heyde nog niet.

Twitter about to become Musk Social.

I bet some of you are very happy to be on the fediverse right now. I know I am :)

https://www.independent.co.uk/tech/twitter-elon-musk-buy-company-b2064819.html

Small companies like http://masto.host and http://spacebear.ee offer you really affordable hosting of Mastodon, Pixelfed, Peertube instances. Be your own Elon Musk and as added bonus own your data in better ways :)

Your very stressed sysadmin is happy to report that quality of service has, at the moment, been restored...