Open post Hans-Cees @hanscees@mastodon.lol · 47mo ago Replying to @technomancy@icosahedron.website <p>if you're a new arrival who's created an account on someone else's server but you have the technical skills to run your own, please consider giving it a try!</p><p>folks with experience running rails might try installing Mastodon, but for others who want something simpler, I've been running a GotoSocial server at hey.hagelb.org for the past few months, and it's pretty easy to install/operate</p><p>if you're thinking of starting your own server, I might be able to answer questions; happy to help if I can</p> @technomancy@icosahedron.website what's a goto social server?
Open post Hans-Cees @hanscees@mastodon.lol · 46mo ago Replying to @aral@mastodon.ar.al @jerry@infosec.exchange Also, a note about account migration: your existing posts are not automatically moved over. You apparently have to export/import them manually. (I’ve never attempted this so I don’t know how much of a hassle it is in practice.) @aral@mastodon.ar.al Hi Arial could you perhaps boost my webwidget https://mastodon.lol/@hanscees/109519867414487280 mastodon.lol
Open post Hans-Cees @hanscees@mastodon.lol · 48mo ago Replying to @Danhon@mastodon.cloud <p>First news organization to stand up its federated Mastodon server with a trustable domain (e.g. <a href="http://follow.washingtonpost.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">http://</span><span class="">follow.washingtonpost.com</span><span class="invisible"></span></a>) and accounts for its staff for people to follow gets a prize.</p><p>Also, proposal for a standardized domain for news orgs, e.g. follow.bbcnews.com, follow.nytimes.com, and/or autodiscovery of a mastodon server for a parent domain e.g. a socialnetworks.txt</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.cloud/tags/mastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>mastodon</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.cloud/tags/media" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>media</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.cloud/tags/news" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>news</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.cloud/tags/newstech" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>newstech</span></a></p> @Danhon@mastodon.cloud is there a reason why if I share this post to twitter, it does get the url right, but does not copy the text from the post into the tweet. Makes cross-posting less nice?