scriptkitty @catte@situational.softi.city

I'm almost halfway there on paying my Masters fees.

I paid them by myself for the past 18 months but circumstances changed. I can't not graduate now after all the hard work.

£857 to go 🤞 if you can help at all, even just by boosting this toot, it would be so appreciated 💕 of course all PayPal donations will be added to the GoFundMe total. Thank you.

https://www.paypal.me/dockers

https://www.gofundme.com/help-to-fund-the-last-6-months-of-my-masters

They say players never read text, but my pet theory is that they only read on loading screens. Which implies that if you really need to get that steaming lore dump into the player's brain all you need to do is make your loading times long enough. Please fund my study.

Good and bad news regarding my participation in #nfbookclub.

yay: the university library (to which I have access) has the book about data bias in its catalogue!

nay: It's status is still on "waiting for delivery from the book store" 😩

So I'm going to read it digitally I suppose. Can anyone recommend an #ebook reading app for Android, please?

This helps because everything you boost gets added to your own instance's federated timeline, and the federated timelines of everyone who follows you.

More importantly, it also adds those boosts to hashtag searches, making it easier for people to find posts about their interests using hashtag searches on their own instances.

Spreading the good stuff around the fediverse helps everything to interlink and keeps the timelines and Home feeds organically full, varied and busy.

#mastodon #meta

📣​ PSA (Please Boost)

A friendly acquaintance of mine is a trans professor at Bryn Mawr college and is co hosting the first ever Early Modern Trans Studies conference (starts tomorrow through Friday).

He was super excited about me sharing on Mastodon so def check it out if you're near the campus or in PA!

https://www.premoderncultures.com/early-modern-trans-studies-conference

I think Mastodon has such a low retention rate not because of the nonstandard layout or because of lack of discovery features, but because most features are not clearly explained.

The welcome modal has an explanation that doesn't work very well for those unfamiliar with the platform, and most basic actions are never explained; it's assumed you know them because you are coming from Twitter.

Is Vespucci still the best #OSM editor on android?

Our Mastodon fork has BBCode, custom emoji size, unlisted + local posting option, options to select the kinds of text formatting you want to hide, media hiding behind CWs and bigger character limits.

Glitch-soc has a bunch of stuff listed on that page.

Computer Fairies has a lot of glitch-soc features (not sure if all) plus BBCode, BBCode in content warnings, Mutant Standard emoji as default, a followers-only + local timeline posting option, bigger character limits on bio and probably other things too.

Monsterpit uses glitch-soc, has custom character limits, has bangtags, markdown and probably more.

Trollian Space has BBCode (including fonts) and, uh, apparently some other stuff? They probably also have a bigger character limit.

Kibousoft's Customized Mastodon is probably the origin of all BB Code, although other implementations cited are more complete imho.

There are also other instances with custom character limits, features that were dropped from the "original"'/"default" code, larger columns on all themes, some glitch-soc features but not all, or other features.

If you have the means and technical knowledge to do so, please don't be discouraged from modifying your own instance. There are other instances with custom code. There are people who can probably help.

#mastoAdmin

Yesterday @hafnia was talking about true facts that seem fake and I think the one I'd most like to share is:

However you are using language is almost certainly fine. You have been made to feel inadequate by powerful people telling you they're right and everyone else is wrong but language is democratic: we all know best what's best for us and we're already using it. The suitability of different kinds of language for different contexts is a big strength, not a weakness.

Academics hide humans from #AI surveillance cameras with 2D prints
https://www.zdnet.com/article/academics-hide-humans-from-surveillance-cameras-with-2d-prints/

Public Service Announcement:

"uBlock Origin" and "uBlock" are two different privacy plugins for web browsers.

✅ uBlock Origin is the one switching.social recommends

❌ uBlock is NOT recommended

For more information on why they have such similar names but are so different:

https://www.reddit.com/r/ublock/comments/32mos6/ublock_vs_ublock_origin/

p.s. Switching.social recommends installing both uBlock Origin and Privacy Badger (https://www.eff.org/privacybadger) alongside each other.

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