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@NDennis@mastodon.social what are those needs that you wish addressed? Maybe the community can help, if you explain yours?

@NDennis@mastodon.social About the "listening" part, one thing to get your "home" to fill up, is by starting to follow people. https://fedi.tips/how-to-use-mastodon-and-the-fediverse-basic-tips/#HowDoIFindPeopleToFollow has some great tips on finding people to follow. the other tabs are "explore", "local" and "federated". More on that, here https://fedi.tips/how-to-use-mastodon-and-the-fediverse-basic-tips/#WhatIsTheLocalTimeline Somehwat higher up on that page a good explanation of the "explore" is given. How to rant? Just write toots, and hold SHIFT WITH YOUR PINKY, I guess ;) Mastodon hasa a CW/content warning feature: try it!

@joeldebruijn @abergmeier @Di4na but in all such cases: no-one says that "using FLOSS" equals "getting it directly from the authors". There are numerous companies that'll provide FLOSS with support, for a fee. From SUSE, via Aquia to a local software house. Hell, in the Netherlands we even have nonprofits doing exactly this, for schools (e.g. surf.nl).

@otyugh@pouet.chapril.org @eloquence@social.coop using the correct words, is, indeed, important. It's crucial for communication. But, communication is a group task. The 'best' term, therefore, depends on the humans involved. Finding proper terminology (ubiquitous language?) a community effort. Ongoing and dynamic. Hence, a sentence like "or as I've recently taken to calling it" almost by definition an example of bad communication. There's no "I" that can "take to calling" anything.