NatureMC (@NatureMC@mastodon.online)
@FediTips The warning about the "legal" steeling of the #guppe domain is also very important for all people who gave regular donations to the site! I'm sure they don't want to throw money at this guy.
#groups #GuppeGroups #Fediverse #donations
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notes (@notes@plasmatrap.com)
Welche App(s) würdet Ihr für #Mastodon auf #Android empfehlen?
Gerne auch noch kommentieren, warum ihre diese gerne nutzt bzw. für welche Anwendungszwecke Ihr die App besonders empfehlen würdet.
Gerne teilen 🔄 #BoostOk
#Umfrage #Poll #Fedilab #Focus #Fread #Mastodon #Moshidon #Trunks #Tusky #ZonePane #Fediverse #AskFedi #oknrw
...es gibt auch eine Umfrage für iOS 🍏
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TorbenMau (@TorbenMau@bildung.social)
Ich habe gerade das Whitepaper von @torbatschow aus dem Projekt "Staat im Netz: Zwischen Echo-Kammer und Community Management" gelesen https://agoradigital.de/projekte/staat-im-netz/ Er widmet sich sechs populären Medienrechts-Irrtümern und macht staatlichen Institutionen Mut, im Netz aktiv zu sein und das demokratische Potenzial moderner, digitaler Kommunikation auszuschöpfen. Leseempfehlung für das Thema staatliche #offentlichkeitsarbeit #fediverse #meinungsbildung #medienrecht #FediLZ #FediCampus #demokratie
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SANKOFAB (@SANKOFAB@zirk.us)
Dr. Hansen's Climate Warning: It's Worse Than We Thought
#climate #ClimateCrisis #ClimateAction #ClimateDiary #environment #nature #tiktok #eu #cdnpoli #mastodon #fediverse #water #farming #sustainable #groundwater #ecology @environment @socialsciences #education #africa #canada #usa #planet #anthropocene #capitalocene
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item (@item@hub.netzgemeinde.eu)
@aburka 🫣 @Ygor The very definition of alt-text is that it's a written replacement for the image. It is meant to convey the relevant visual information in the image. It is not meant to convey any information not immediately available in the image.
Alt-text was not invented for Mastodon. It's way older than Mastodon. It was made for websites. And on a website, the alt-text describes what can be seen in the image, and if necessary, either a caption right below the image or the text in which the image is embedded explains the image.
The real problem is Mastodon's tiny character limit. Mastodon offers 1,500 characters in alt-text, but only a measly 500 in the actual post, minus the CW, minus mentions, minus hashtags. Thus, Mastodon's culture has pretty much declared it okay to put additional information into the alt-text and, when I mention that this is not accessible to the point of actually being ableist, blame all user interfaces that aren't the Mastodon 4.4.x Web interface.
What's even worse is that this is widely, namely all across Mastodon itself, considered the one and only Fediverse standard. And for newbies and people in Mastodon-only bubbles, this is not the Fediverse standard, this is the Fediverse because the Fediverse is only Mastodon.
For comparison: I'm not on Mastodon, not even on a fork. Hubzilla is ten months older than Mastodon, based on Friendica from the same creator which is about four and a half years older than Mastodon, and both are developed completely independently from Mastodon. When Mastodon was launched, it immediately federated with both. Their character limit is defined by the size of the database field that stores posts: over 16.7 million characters. And even beyond that, they've got lots of features which many Mastodon users wish "the Fediverse" had and even features that are completely unimaginable for Mastodon users.
In the early Fediverse, it was these two that set the quality standards. But then came Mastodon with its intentionally, painfully limited set of features and a character count which Twitter refugees considered huge, but which is actually tiny, and for which there is no technical reason. Not only did Mastodon present itself to new users as an enclosed network of its own named "Fediverse", but by doing so and quickly growing to a staggering size, it forced itself into the position of the (perceived) Fediverse gold standard.
Now we're in a situation where some 99% of all the millions of registered Mastodon users spent their first months or even years believing that the Fediverse is only Mastodon, and in fact, many still believe that. Those who learn the hard way (e.g. by having a 4,000-character comment full of text formatting dropped into their timelines) that there's much more to the Fediverse than Mastodon still think that Eugen Rochko has invented the Fediverse and ActivityPub, that Mastodon was there first, that Friendica, Hubzilla & Co. are "intruders" that were only recently created to connect to the Mastodon Fediverse, and that if something surprisingly turns out different from Mastodon in some way, it's broken.
This is also where Mastodon's culture came into play. Mastodon's culture as we know it today was completely coined in spring/summer 2022 by the February/March 2022 Twitter migration wave that was caused by Elon Musk's announcement to buy out Twitter. This migration wave was so huge that, at least within their own bubbles, these Twitter migrants hugely outnumbered the already present Mastodon users to the point of barely even noticing that Mastodon already had users, sometimes leading to the idea that Mastodon itself didn't exist before February 2022. And so there was no influence on Mastodon's culture from Mastodon veterans and even less from non-Mastodon Fediverse users who never had anything to say on Mastodon anyway.
And so Mastodon has a culture that's based on Mastodon 3.x, that doesn't even include new features from Mastodon 4.0. And this culture is being forced upon the whole rest of the Fediverse while disregarding how the rest of the Fediverse does things itself. To many, "the Fediverse" is a Twitter-cloning microblogging platform invented by Eugen Rochko with no more than 500 characters, full stop. Anything that's caught deviating from this, from Mastodon, is disturbing and wrong.
#Long #LongPost #CWLong #CWLongPost #AltText #AltTextMeta #CWAltTextMeta #FediMeta #FediverseMeta #CWFediMeta #CWFediverseMeta #Fediverse #Mastodon #NotOnlyMastodon #FediverseIsNotMastodon #MastodonIsNotTheFediverse #Friendica #Hubzilla #CharacterLimit #CharacterLimits #MastodonCulture
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jom (@jom@social.kontrollapparat.de)
Nigerian lovebombers active on Mastodon? 🤯
Even these bandits believe in the #fediverse more than German politicians do.
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freeschool (@freeschool@qoto.org)
@grumpygamer
#Retro #Game Monkey Island #Nostalgia
⬇️ The designer/creator is on the #Fediverse! Just realised and followed! ⬇️
💾 Ron Gilbert ! 
@grumpygamer
Hey, btw I still didn't understand the whole logic of that lyrical riddle sword fight if that was your design ! ⚔️
Last play was almost 2 decades when there was a small party of friends with people around as a bit of a revisit to the game (also to try get crowd-intelligence how to complete things) but we couldn't get to the end of that sword fight! But fun all the way.
Nothing much since then other than seeing it on hard disk a few times and maybe some art... since the youth has passed now. I guess time-killing was a past-time which many people did and do but this was actually the more lively, bright, creative humoured adventure games.
Quality.
And now your account as mini-revival (thanks!)
The basic animation of fire, 
, the scenes, music interactions, the drawing style etc all still lives on as very unique! Well done!
🗨️ Happy to talk about it via #Jitsi #Chat anytime with anyone! Love to talk and test our memory together! How about it?
#MonkeyIsland #ManiacMansion # #ReturnToMonkeyIsland.
P.S 1 ⬅️ ⬅️ ⬅️ ⬅️ ⬅️ ⬅️ ⬅️ ⬅️
⬇️ Original Monkey Island #Floppy disks posted here by Ron Gilbert :⬇️
https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@grumpygamer/115136564789767358
P.S 2
Oh wow I just found some #savegame files on my disk...
...and it has the date in them!! 👀
And now some music by Michael Land (sorry if it wasn't from your version Ron as I know lots of versions came out). But just quickly as this post is already too long even for a fan perhaps!...
Again love to talk more / invest in the nostalgia... if you want!)
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notes (@notes@moppels.bar)
Hallo @ki_und_koffein@ard.social und willkommen im #Fediverse
@lxplm@mastodon.social
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official-steps-into-the-open-social-web-but-whose-steps (@official-steps-into-the-open-social-web-but-whose-steps@hamishcampbell.com)
Official Steps into the Open Social Web… but Whose Steps?
We’re seeing “official” moves in the development of the #opensocialweb. Big players are turning up. Conferences in Geneva. Glossy orgs like @ProjectLiberty positioning themselves as bridge-builders between tech and governance. On the surface, this looks like progress, recognition, and legitimacy. But let’s be brutally honest: these are completely the wrong people to be steering the direction. The problem isn’t that they show up, it’s that they try to take up all the air in the […]https://hamishcampbell.com/official-steps-into-the-open-social-web-but-whose-steps/
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notes (@notes@punk.cyber77.de)
Having fun with #caddy #Sharkey #Fediverse #Loki and #Alloy .... aaaaaaand #Grafana of course
Now it looks really good to me.
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aral (@aral@mastodon.ar.al)
Also a huge warning: friends don’t let friends register .pe domains.
> This ccTLD's rules allow anyone to buy the domain 12 days before it expires.
https://github.com/immers-space/guppe/issues/118#issuecomment-3265015461
#fediverse #warning #TLD #domains #peTLD https://mastoart.social/@artmin/115167724873401080
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lerk (@lerk@social.tchncs.de)
Und wann kommt die @umwelthilfe endlich zurück ins #Fediverse? Bitte viele Emails schreiben, damit sie ihren #Mastodon-Account wieder aufnehmen!
#DUH #DeutscheUmwelthilfe #Umwelthilfe
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