Ethan   @booligoosh@fosstodon.org

The Mozilla Blog: Mozilla releases local machine translation tools as part of Project Bergamot https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/local-translation-add-on-project-bergamot/

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We have informed Apple of our preliminary view that it abused its dominant position in markets for mobile wallets on iOS devices.

Our preliminarily findings show that Apple may have restricted competition, to the benefit of its solution Apple Pay.

ℹ️ http://europa.eu/!QFBpnV

Introducing https://fediverse.info - a bespoke guide to the fediverse!

Some highlights include

⚡ People Directory - opt-in directory of people based on topics

⚡ Projects list

⚡ Mobile Apps list

We're working to improve our FAQ section and add additional projects! #fediverse #activitypub #fediverseInfo

One thing that I keep telling myself as I grow into the #Fediverse is that it's not going to replicate what I had on legacy social media.

The boosts are less important than feeling boosted by y'all. Engagement isn't a metric, it's a feeling. The numbers don't matter, it's the community that matters.

Apple to developers: if we deleted your old app, it deserved it

https://www.theverge.com/2022/4/29/23049576/apple-outdated-apps-removal-extension-90-days

#Verge #RSS #News #Bot

The whole idea of social media as some town square to solve the worlds problems coming from both Musk and Dorsey is completely bizarre. When was the last time we resolved a societal issue or had an actual substantive global debate on Twitter that went well?

OK, we've got some traditions here that may be very useful to all of our new arrivals. They are:

#followfriday where you recommend some of your favorite follows and why,

#caturday where you toot pictures of your cat on Saturday

and

#screenshotsunday where you toot a screen snapshot from your computer or phone. It can be anything but it is normally your desktop with a neofetch.

Let's have a good showing this weekend to help our new friends out.

Please boost.

Yes! Finally we might see some more browser engine competition.

https://www.theregister.com/2022/04/26/apple_ios_browser/

#feditips

oh, by the way: mastodon and pleroma instances (as well as others) can have custom emoji. these work like on discord, in that a sequence of characters is assigned an image, except you don't need to pay anyone to have them animated.

check out your emoji picker to see what kind of custom emoji is added to your instance!

@pjd Welcome PJ!!

Cause of the federated nature of Mastodon, you can never really be a refugee from here... You might one day be a refugee of this instance, but never of Mastodon.

It's like email - you might end up a refugee of Yahoo mail, but you will never have to 'leave' email completely; you can switch to a new email provider, import all your contacts and emails, and keep emailing like nothing happened...

listen, i'm glad everyone is here/back but platform metacommentary alone won't be enough to make this stick. you need to start posting inane nonsense

what did you eat today. did you see any cool bugs

A few years ago I made this flow chart of which Mastodon posts end up in which timelines!

So, you can see how each instance will have a different local timeline, and even a slightly different federated timeline - and you can see why the federated timeline moves so much faster than the local one, too.

This is why it's important to boost good posts and use hashtags - the fediverse is fragmented and harder to search by nature.

[ #mastodon #meta #tootorial #howto #mastopedia #mastotip ]

In light of recent news and an increased interest in alternatives, I've updated my Mastodon Quickstart Guide with the latest info on apps and such.

Mastodon isn't something you need to move wholesale to! Start migrating today!

https://dev.to/zkat/kat-s-mastodon-quickstart-for-twitter-users-39db