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As Twitter destroys its brand by renaming itself X, Mastodon user numbers are again soaring | TechCrunch in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Tools help, and because the Fediverse API is completely accessible, folks have already come up with awesome stuff.

  • Populate your following list by finding friends, the Fedifinder still appears to work and helps find friends from Twitter on Masto: https://fedifinder.glitch.me/
  • Now find friends of friends, the wider social graph. Followgraph works wonders: https://followgraph.vercel.app/
  • Now you will likely miss posts, so try following updates of people if you really enjoy their content, plus of course pinning hashtags. PLUS. Up your game with an algorithm, either in the dedicated Mastodon app (trending posts) or with more customisation through the app Fediview: https://fediview.com/ Using Mastodon Digest (GitHub), you could also set up your own automation script.
  • Folks have created lists and groups you can mass subscribe. The most successful one I know is from and for academics, perhaps there is a field for you in there. Journalists have similar stuff. See https://github.com/nathanlesage/academics-on-mastodon
  • There are many awesome apps out there to access your content, improving the experience. I recommend Phanpy because of its unique and sleek design, see https://phanpy.social/. If you miss Quote Tweets and other stuff, try an app like Elk.
  • Mastodon is only one option, if you want all of Twitter's tools and more cool stuff, try Firefish. You can migrate followers and posts. This way, you can skip many external tools.

And that's just the beginning.

What are some simple ways to live a solarpunk life? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

To hell with it, I would even say N+1 bicycles. Ride the shit out of every bike according to the various needs you and others have. Share. Built. Assemble for group rights. Have fun.

If you value privacy, ditch Chrome and switch to Firefox now in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Yes, a while back, but it appears to be lacking key features, see here. This comes from the GrapheneOS circles. https://madaidans-insecurities.github.io/firefox-chromium.html

Not an expert though, updates or critique highly welcome.

If you value privacy, ditch Chrome and switch to Firefox now in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago (3 children)

And, crucially, security. It is far behind, on desktop and especially mobile. Process isolation aka sandboxing is superior on Chrome platforms. Unfortunately.

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Resource-efficient fork of Mastodon—or go for other Fediverse packages instead? (social.tchncs.de)
 

I'm looking for a customizable, resource-efficient Mastodon fork. Bonfire? Rebased? Or go non-Ruby, like Pleroma (nah), Misskey Calckey, indeed, Lemmy (hui)? Any experiences?

This is part of an endeavour to host w/ a RaspberryPi & solar power. It will be a device to mess around, test, and share experiences.

Potential features:

  • tweaking network traffic in various ways
  • media options: off, auto compression, auto delete
  • monitoring server metrics, energy flow, sharing data through a bot
  • auto-off when battery low, sad emoji

Re-posting this from Mastodon w/ minor edits, because Fediverse and potential cross-interaction. I probably should have posted here first and then shared the link on Mastodon, but it's a Mastodon question, so I did it the other way around. Still not sure what's the best way to do this though.

The future cannot be 'the status quo but battery powered' because that future leads to disaster in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Haha, great response, I somehow knew that you were exactly on that line of thought. Preach

The future cannot be 'the status quo but battery powered' because that future leads to disaster in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago (3 children)

There is a nice book on this topic, Against Purity:

Why contamination and compromise might be a starting point for doing something, instead of a reason to give up.

https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/against-purity

But the last comment on the global south is odd, for many reasons. Empathy and support was on your mind, I suppose. 🤓

There’s a deeper problem hiding beneath global warming - waste heat in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

That’s a (probably foolish) dream that could be compatible with exponential growth beyond what is available on Earth.

Sounds like a Solarpunk novel to be written. Let's put all incineration activities away. Yet, space colonization is here and serves capital accumulation, first and foremost. There's also the tiny part where rockets have to be shot to outer space with a little bit of energy and waste heat.