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Hey #AskFedi - I'm looking for more people to follow! Know of fun accounts that post about interesting or unusual animal and nature facts? Please tell me about them! I'd also like to practice my Spanish now that I've been studying it for more than a year, so I'll take suggestions for any accounts that might help with that too! Thanks!

Is there a Tweetdeck style thing for Mastodon?

#AskFedi @FediTips

Artists and DeviantArt users, what features would you like to see in Pixelfed?

#askFedi #DeviantArt

Fedi! I need a Xenia (the unofficial but way cooler Linux mascot) plushie for decorating my workplace.
any hints where I could buy one?

#AskFedi #PleaseBoost ​​

One reason why previous social media is difficult to replace with the Fediverse is the fact that images eventually stop loading. This occurs with both @pixelfed and @Mastodon . Unfortunately, the visibility of posts is not permanently guaranteed and societies & organisations are even harder to convince when they see something like this.

#fediverse #askfedi

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#AskFedi: are there any #Sharkey power users out there, willing to speak to me for a piece I’m writing about the software?

Spoiler alert: I have been using #Sharkey for two months now and I am totally smitten with it, especially its gorgeous UX/UI.

Bonus points if you also use / are familiar with #MissKey, so we could compare/contrast features.

Boosts would be greatly appreciated. Thanks! 🙏

Hey there, I need help from people who watch PeerTube videos! 👋

Do you have favourite PeerTube channels you would recommend to others? Or do you run a PeerTube channel yourself?

I run a site at https://fedi.video that tries to highlight the best videos and accounts on PeerTube. It's intended as a safe, easy way to discover videos. It would be great to get more channels listed, so it would be brilliant to hear your recommendations! 🙂

#PeerTube #PeerTubers #AskFedi

I don't have a Raspberry Pi 5 yet, but I'm really curious about its potential as a media center. Has anyone experimented with using the Pi 5 for 4K streaming, light retro gaming, or other applications? I'd love to hear your experiences!

#RaspberryPi5 #MediaCenter #TechDIY #CommunityTech #askfedi

If you were to buy a VPS to host personal projects, which provider would you pick?

#vps #cloud #askfedi

What's a good #FreeSoftware pastebin? #AskFedi

If you click on a link in a Bluesky post, it is now automatically redirected via the domain go.bsky.app before it actually goes to the link in the post. There is no way to stop this or know that it is happening as the redirect only flickers on the screen for a fraction of a second.

Presumably this means Bluesky can now track all link clicking on their platform, including IP addresses, destinations etc?

Or have I misunderstood?

Bluesky is spinning it as a tool for publishers to track referrals, but going beyond the spin it seems to be giving Bluesky access to people's online activity?

#AskFedi #Privacy #BlueSky

Dear Fedi friends, I need your help!

We are working on motion graphics for the Fediverse promotional video... and we would love to do a sequence at the end with a mosaic of people's profile photos. For that, I need your consent.

If you'd like to have a small cameo in our video, can you let us know if we can use your profile pic?

Thanks! 🙏

Can you please boost this?

#EleFediVideos #AskFedi

Does anyone here have information about the status of Matrix-WhatsApp bridging/interoperability? (Maybe @matrix?) 🤔

Ads coming to WhatsApp is making me much more frustrated than I already was. I haven’t been updating the app since the introduction of Meta AI, but now WhatsApp is demanding that I update within 15 days or I won’t be able to use the app anymore.

So, the time has come: I have two weeks to backup and quit WhatsApp for good.

Since I’m here: could I also ask for your advice for local-only, not cloud, software that can backup ALL my #WhatsApp chats and store them locally in a browsable format/database? I found out about WhatsApp-Chat-Chat-Exporter but I’d like to learn more before testing it out.

Boosts welcome, let’s help each other and resist the broligarchy together! ✨

Damn, we wouldn’t have all this trouble if only the #DMA was actually enforced 🤬

#Matrix #WhatsApp #bridge #interoperability #MatrixBridge #Meta #MetaAI #MastoAiuto #askFedi #help #broligarchy

I have a question for people who have been through really hard times. Not a bad day or a bad week, but extended periods of grinding, crushing hardship. (If you know, you know.)

My question is: what did other people do to support you that helped? Especially long distance friends (cf pandemic).

So many people I care about are struggling and deeply suffering. I want to find ways to be a better friend.

#AskFedi #Polycrisis

I'm curious to know how many people on the Fediverse are multilingual compared to non-multilingual.

How many languages are you fluent in (that is, you can either read, speak, and/or write it to get by in most situations)? Feel free to boost this to increase the sample size, and feel free to comment which languages you're fluent in!

#AskFedi #Poll #Language

🏕️ my adventures in #selfhosting - day 198 (summer project edition) 🏖️​

Hello Fedi friends,

I hope you've been having a nice week so far.

I've been in childcare mode, thus the silence. I've been thinking about something and I would love to get your advice.

#AskFedi: is there a way to export one's #GoToSocial archive of posts (but not replies to other users)? Like something with command lines that doesn't require tedious copy and paste operations?

I wanted to gather up all the posts about the first 6 months of my self-hosting journey, to neatly organize them on my website (either in multiple blog posts or pages) so that they could be more easily searchable. It's not really ideal to go on an infinite scroll quest in reverse chronological order to see the evolution of my self-hosting journey.

Like, I'm curious to see what I was up to in January but going back in time loading old posts takes forever. And I cannot really search for keywords.

I'd like to keep things organized and easily searchable. And implement a POSSE system going forward... publishing on my site first and then syndicating elsewhere.

It's my summer of POSSE inspired by @molly0xfff 🤗
https://www.citationneeded.news/posse/

If you have any ideas about how I can easily export all my #GtS posts, I'm all ears.

If not, I suppose I will start copying and pasting everything and do monthly installments of my self-hosting journey (aka "month 1" etc.). After all I have 1125 posts (sigh).

Anyways, I hope this finds you well and that you're keeping cool in this scorching heat (especially fellow Europeans).

have a lovely morning/afternoon/evening wherever you are ❤️​

#MySoCalledSudoLife