Bigue Nique @biguenique@masse.québec.tk

@antdesros @amicalmant @bpruneau J'ai inscrit Jasette FACiLe manuellement sur https://www.chatons.org/search/by-service il y a un bout et je découvre (là) qu'il y a de nouveaux services pour référencer les serveurs. (Je connaissais https://the-federation.info, apparemment rendu inutilisable car trop lent et quelques autres). Avant d'aller inscrire notre instance (notamment sur joinmastodon.org), je pense prudent d'attendre d'avoir une équipe de modérateurs/trices (peut-être élu.e.s en AGA ?) et de confirmer ...

Some Mastodon thoughts, for bird-site expats (which include myself). I'm aggregating these from posts I've boosted before, so little of this is my own brain.

- There's no algorithm here. That means favoriting/liking doesn't do anything except communicate approval to the OP and others (which is still nice!).

- No algorithm means boosting ("retweeting") is the true method to increase a post's visibility. Do that more than you did on birdsite.

- There's no post-quoting here, and that's by design. Look at quote-tweets on the birdsite; it's a feature primarily used for toxicity.

- There's no direct word-search here either; that means you want to use hashtags to make posts more searchable. This is also intended, since word-searching posts was often used to harass/stalk on the birdsite and elsewhere, so that was left by the wayside here. This also means hashtags are much more a thing here than any of the algorithm-powered sites.

- It's encouraged to put in text descriptions when you post images; a lot of Mastodon users use screen-readers due to various disabilities, and getting an image description read out loud helps them immensely.

- Speaking of screen-readers: using capitalization in your hashtags allows the screen-readers to read them more easily, especially if you're smashing multiple words together. #rockmusic = unreadable. #RockMusic = readable.

- The best way to make threads is to make set your first post as public, but "unlist" all of your replies. This prevents your whole thread from clogging up feeds.

- Content Warnings should be used more liberally here. If you haven't gotten the impression yet, much of Mastodon was built and populated by marginalized groups who were harassed/bullied off of other platforms. This is the culture they built, to respect each other's mental health. It's not a rule, but it's well-appreciated.

- Consider chipping a few bucks towards whomever runs the server you're on; the strain is real, and most server admins were likely paying out of pocket before so don't have an existing donation base. The growth here has been extremely fast, and that means money's needed.

- DMs are just posts with privacy settings. So if you @ someone in a DM, you pull them into the thread. That could be embarrassing.

- Also, no, DMs aren't end-to-end encrypted, but they aren't on Twitter either. Don't use either if you want true privacy.

- Including your Mastodon handle in your birdsite profile will help people find you here; there's a tool (pruvisto.org/debirdify/ is one of them that's used) people can use to pull Mastodon handles from Twitter profile.

- Use the blocking and reporting features liberally, if needed. This should go without saying, but they work, and work well!

- If there's an entire Mastodon server you don't want to hear from, you can block the whole thing too.

- Preferences -> Appearance -> "Slow Mode": this can make larger "Local" feeds and any "Federated" feed much more readable.

I'll reply with some more as I see them, or reply here too. I've only been here 4 days but I'm loving it so far.

En migrant d'une instance à l'autre, j'ai remarqué que mon fil global est complètement différent. Si j'ai bien compris, le fil global ne montre que les pouets provenant des instances où il y a des gens suivis par ceux de mon instance... :-S #TwitterMigration

The Fediverse has its own video platform called @peertube.

You can follow PeerTube accounts from Mastodon, for example try following craftykat@diode.zone

You can watch and interact with the videos entirely within Mastodon, or on PeerTube itself.

Here's an example of a PeerTube server:

➡️ https://fedi.video

If you see an account you like, you can copy and paste its account address into Mastodon to follow it there. When new videos are published, they will appear in your Mastodon timeline.

Une liste (à jour) des #chatons gérant une #instance est disponible sur https://www.chatons.org/search/by-service?service_type_target_id=All&field_alternatives_aux_services_target_id=All&field_software_target_id=266&field_is_shared_value=All&title=

Actuellement, les #inscriptions sont ouvertes sur:
- https://toot.portes-imaginaire.org
- https://mastodon.ethibox.fr
- https://jasette.facil.services
- https://m.g3l.org
- https://mastodon.roflcopter.fr
- https://mastodon.underworld.fr
- https://mastodon.zaclys.com

100 Mastodon myths:

1. Mastodon is hard.

FALSE. It’s a "soft"ware. Not hardware.

2. You have to use Linux to post on Mastodon.

FALSE. FreeBSD and OpenBSD are also supported.

3. You need to learn to use the Vim editor before posting on Mastodon.

FALSE. There’s also an emacs plugin.

4. Mastodon is only for computer nerds.

FALSE. As you can see, we sometimes try to make jokes that everyone could understand.

"Mastodon Is 'Antiviral' Design"

My essay on this: https://clivethompson.medium.com/mastodon-is-antiviral-design-42f090ab8d51

Twitter (and most big social media) is laser-focused on creating virality -- i.e. training the joint attention of millions of people on one hot post/meme/story/event happening *right this instant* ... and doing it over and over and over again

Mastodon really isn't -- for lots of rich and interesting reasons

It's why some emigres from Twitter find Mastodon so baffling

This place embraces slowness and useful friction

Note: IF YOU ARE LOOKING FOR JOURNALISTS / MEDIA to follow here on Mastodon, @tchambers is maintaining a spreadsheet of journalists who have shared their info: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/13No4yxY-oFrN8PigC2jBWXreFCHWwVRTftwP6HcREtA/edit?resourcekey=undefined#gid=1320898902

Currently over 770.

It's a good list of people!

"CBC starting a Mastodon server could be the start of the news organization seeing itself as not just creating content online, but building better infrastructure for Canadians to create online." #canada #journalism https://thetyee.ca/Analysis/2022/11/10/CBC-Should-Start-Own-Mastodon-Server/

Let’s try this again. Where you at #fediverse? Boosts welcome so we can get the best sample size.

@martinb @biguenique @zxo
On a eu des nouvelles de Manu à propos de FédiQuébec. Il a l'intention de relancer le projet en 2023
https://forumsdulibre.quebec/t/fedi-quebec-parti/1622/3

Parler de @Mastodon sur #mastodon et dans La Presse! https://plus.lapresse.ca/screens/f345916a-4585-4392-a745-d43331707bed%7C_0.html

@Nelliebriere Et si suffisamment de journalistes et de recherchistes de Radio-Canada aime Mastodon, la SRC pourrait même lancer sa propre instance.

@Nelliebriere Contrairement à la France, Mastodon est encore embryonnaire au Québec. Il semble n'y en avoir aucune qui réponde aux critères de https://joinmastodon.org/fr/servers
J'ai essayé de savoir combien il y avait d'instances au Québec. Sur https://instances.social/, je n'ai trouvé que mas.atmx.ca avec 13 membres. (D'ailleurs je m'apprêtais à écrire à notre admin pour lui demander pourquoi la nôtre ne s'y retrouvait pas). Il semble donc que Jasette FACiL soit la plus grosse instance généraliste au Qc

Quels serveurs je devrais proposer aux québécois dans mes chroniques pour commencer sur Mastodon?

La même chose est possible avec l'alter ego ouvert de #YouTube : #Peertube.

Vous pouvez vous abonner à une chaîne ou une instance peertube et vous verrez les nouveaux vidéos dans votre fil #Mastodon.

Si vous répondez à une publication peertube ou #pixelfed dans votre fil d'actualité, votre commentaire apparaîtra sur cette instance.

https://joinpeertube.org

#TwitterQuebec #Quebec

À tous les #nouveaux sur Mastodon, bienvenue! 👋

Plusieurs d'entre vous ont connu Mastodon à travers son alter ego privé, #Twitter.

Mastodon a un ami, #Pixelfed, qui est l'alter ego d'#Instagram.

Mastodon, Pixelfed et plusieurs autres, se parlent. Comme si vous pouviez suivre un compte Instagram à partir de votre compte Twitter et vice-versa. ↔️

Exemple: https://pixelfed.social/jumpinglangur

Site officiel
https://pixelfed.org/
Le magicien: @dansup

#TwitterQuebec #Quebec #FédiQuébec #MastodonQuebec

Love how new communities are from the #TwitterMigration are forming themselves and finding each other via #hashtags and lists.

#Histodons - History educators and writers...

#Astrodon - Astronomy-focused accounts...

Other hashtags?

And look here for these lists of other academic disciplines of users self-forming: https://github.com/nathanlesage/academics-on-mastodon