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@kaasiand Yep, je bent zeker niet de enige, da's gewoon een van die cultuurverschillen waar mensen even aan moeten wennen :)

@kaasiand Wereld van verschil inderdaad :) Twitter Web is echt zo ongelooflijk gaar, die emoji picker doet er ook altijd 10 seconden over om te laden...

(Overigens kun je woorden op Mastodon beter niet censureren met sterretjes - namesearching is niet echt een ding hier, en een hoop mensen gebruiken muted keywords om bepaalde onderwerpen te vermijden en dat werkt dan niet)

Next on my "Getting rid of Google" list is the calendar. Would like a cloud calendar that ideally is zero-knowledge. Which ones do you like?

The fediverse today trying to explain to newcomers where they are.

If you're new to the Fediverse, here's what made the platform work for me: aggressively following and unfollowing new people.

Whatever standards you've built up on Twitter for deciding to follow someone, throw them out the window. Follow someone because they made a funny or insightful post. Follow someone because their bio says they like pesto. Follow someone because they have a cute fursona. Anything really.

Following is free. And if it doesn't work out, unfollowing is also free.

@Mirteaaa Check your notification settings and see whether they're set up correctly? Eg. you might've accidentally turned off notification display entirely when trying to disable notification sounds?

@f0x Yeah I can't be sure either, but I feel like it's happened twice now. No way to tell after the fact whether it was Mastodon or my brain bugging out :p

@Mirteaaa Isn't it just mastodon.lol being overloaded? I noticed that it was much slower to respond to my follows/lookups/etc. than most other instances

Long thread of other fediverse platforms 

@GLaDTheresCake Additionally, there's Matrix joinmatrix.org/ for private messaging and group chats and communities and such, which *isn't* based on ActivityPub, but works very similarly (the Element client for Matrix is pretty Discord-like)

Long thread of other fediverse platforms 

#FediverseTip Mastodon is not the only fediverse social media platform! It's based on the standard called activitypub, which implements a lot of different use cases mastodon does not! There's a lot of different types of fediverse social media out there, like pixelfed (instagram like) pixelfed.org/ or friendica (facebook like) friendi.ca/ or even peertube (youtube like) joinpeertube.org/en or funkwhale (spotify like) funkwhale.audio/

Okay, either I'm imagining things, or Mastodon is definitely sometimes posting replies as not-replies.

@evelyn@misskey.bubbletea.dev Very "Oh, the one with the wolf hoodie and the gas mask? Yeah, their address is on a post-it in the car" energy

Best transactional mail for Mastodon servers 

I used Mailjet, but they only have a 200 daily limit a that is not good enough for two middle sized servers. One of the servers I switched to Sendinblue, with a 300 daily limit. Mailgun needs a creditcard for their free plan and I don't have a creditcard (most Europeans only can get a creditcard when they earn enough money).

So what is the best free transactional mail provider in 2022? If you need to pay a few euro's per month that's Ok.

#mastoadmin #mastodev #email #transactionaleEmail

@evelyn@misskey.bubbletea.dev Dunno, I think that's more just a layout/documentation thing; it's actually much clearer with Matrix what you're supposed to be implementing than with the pick-and-mix XEPs of which many stick around in a de-facto-obsolete state, but the single-page format is what makes things miserable.

The new layout does improve on this a bit, at least: spec.matrix.org/v1.2/client-se -- I think more 'modular' writing would go a long way to get the Matrix spec into better shape, even if it's still a monolithic spec.

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