Hans van Zijst

Hans van Zijst

hans@social.woefdram.nl

Professional nerd and grammar nazi, writes in Dutch and English. Can read some German, French and Spanish too. Learning русский.

Location:: Netherlands

Mon, 07 Nov 2022 08:47:32 +0100

Hans van Zijst

hans@social.woefdram.nl

Meg wrote the following post Mon, 07 Nov 2022 07:43:16 +0100

Related to this, today I saw someone on the birdsite say (paraphrased) "most people don't want mastodon instead of Twitter because they just want to know that what's posted by the BBC is from the BBC" in among a bunch of stuff about how decentralization isn't that important, actually and like...

I'd rather know it came from the BBC because it came from the BBC's domain name than because some rando corp got thrust into the position of deciding who is and isn't real. Decentralization is the solution to this problem, if anything.

Mon, 07 Nov 2022 08:18:41 +0100

Hans van Zijst

hans@social.woefdram.nl

Sean Tilley wrote the following post Mon, 07 Nov 2022 08:15:19 +0100

This one is for all the new people on #Mastodon: did you know that the #fediverse has more than just a microblogging replacement? And that they can all interoperate with your Mastodon account?

Check them out!

Facebook replacement: Friendica
Instagram replacement: Pixelfed
YouTube replacement: PeerTube
Spotify replacement: Funkwhale
MeetUp replacement: Mobilizon
Reddit replacement: Lemmy
Podcasting replacement: Castopod
GoodReads replacement: BookWyrm

Mon, 07 Nov 2022 00:11:21 +0100

Hans van Zijst

hans@social.woefdram.nl

One of the new #Fediverse users is complaining about the lack of action. "Nothing's happening here."

He posted 6 messages in 8 days... :rolling_eyes:

fediverse

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Mon, 07 Nov 2022 00:17:21 +0100

Hans

hans@federate.hopto.org

Wait, that was Koen? :-)

Mon, 07 Nov 2022 00:23:35 +0100

Hans van Zijst

hans@social.woefdram.nl

@Old Fart Nope.

Mon, 07 Nov 2022 00:26:15 +0100

Tom Grzybow

tomgrzybow@diaspora.freifunk-naila.net

"You want action??? You want action??? I'll Give you some Action!!!"

/s

Mon, 07 Nov 2022 00:31:30 +0100

Hans van Zijst

hans@social.woefdram.nl

@Tom Grzybow I'll explain it to him a few more times: this isn't Twitter. There's no constant stream of insults and and abusive language that you can jump in. If you want a conversation, best option is to start one.

Mon, 07 Nov 2022 01:51:02 +0100

smellsofbikes@diaspora.glasswings.com

I mean, you click on 'federated' or even 'local' and you will indeed see a pile of comments rolling past faster than you can read. But on your own stream? You gotta seed it with stuff, or your friends do. If you've got a bunch of people all waiting for someone else to start a conversation you're not going to have a conversation.

Mon, 07 Nov 2022 02:40:58 +0100

isaackuo@diaspora.glasswings.com

What platform is he using? Depending on the platform, following tags can help with finding interesting folks and/or posts.

Also, my multi-column userstyles can help browse through a ton of content to find interesting stuff.

I have multi-column userstyles for diaspora and Mastodon:

https://userstyles.world/user/isaackuo

Mon, 07 Nov 2022 08:21:22 +0100

Hans van Zijst

hans@social.woefdram.nl

Ah, he's already quit. Back to the birdsite, Quitter ;-)

Mon, 07 Nov 2022 13:06:49 +0100

Adam Hunt

gander22h@diasp.org

Well that was too bad. We seem to get quite a few new accounts here, make one post, get many responses and never see them again.

Mon, 07 Nov 2022 13:27:52 +0100

Hans van Zijst

hans@social.woefdram.nl

@Adam Hunt I'll taunt him with this for a long time. He's one of my best friends, I've known him for some 30 years now, but he's never had much of a spine ;-)

Mon, 07 Nov 2022 13:33:27 +0100

Adam Hunt

gander22h@diasp.org

Figure you can taunt him into rejoining us?

Mon, 07 Nov 2022 13:35:43 +0100

Hans van Zijst

hans@social.woefdram.nl

@Adam Hunt Oh he will, once the general public finds it an acceptable platform. He's the conformist who mostly wants to do and be what everyone else does or is.

Mon, 07 Nov 2022 13:49:51 +0100

Adam Hunt

gander22h@diasp.org

There you go, improving the internet, one person at a time.

Mon, 07 Nov 2022 20:36:49 +0100

Tom Grzybow

tomgrzybow@diaspora.freifunk-naila.net

twits to twitter, balance is restored

Sun, 06 Nov 2022 23:01:28 +0100

Hans van Zijst

hans@social.woefdram.nl

Ah, #ELO, the Electric Light Orchestra... These guys have made so much wonderful music, I just have to point you guys at it tonight.

Electric Light Orchestra - Julie Don't Live Here

Music video by Electric Light Orchestra performing Julie Don't Live Here (Audio). (C) 1981 Epic Records, a division of Sony Music Entertainment

#music

music

Sun, 06 Nov 2022 20:43:39 +0100

Hans van Zijst

hans@social.woefdram.nl

Hesters Rariteitenkabinet wrote the following post Sun, 06 Nov 2022 19:33:37 +0100

Jongens, als we dingen van twitter willen lezen gaan we daar wel kijken.

Laat dat lekker daar te lopen te leggen te wezen.

Sun, 06 Nov 2022 20:28:18 +0100

Hans van Zijst

hans@social.woefdram.nl

Robin Zachari wrote the following post Sun, 06 Nov 2022 20:23:58 +0100

Sun, 06 Nov 2022 18:41:18 +0100

Hans van Zijst

hans@social.woefdram.nl

@prutser Ha, ma gaat modern worden en foto's delen op #Pixelfed: @Ada

Sun, 06 Nov 2022 16:06:06 +0100

Hans van Zijst

hans@social.woefdram.nl

Let #Twitter be the old world that you leave for a better life.

Lisa Neves Gonçalves wrote the following post Sun, 06 Nov 2022 15:48:10 +0100

Stop met crossposten vanuit Twitter, please.

Sun, 06 Nov 2022 16:17:42 +0100

psychmesu@diaspora.glasswings.com

If people want to cross post it should be from the Fediverse to Twitter and not vice versa.

Sun, 06 Nov 2022 17:47:34 +0100

Hans van Zijst

hans@social.woefdram.nl

@Susan ✶✶✶✶ Indeed.

Sun, 06 Nov 2022 12:42:43 +0100

Hans van Zijst

hans@social.woefdram.nl

Joris Vaesen wrote the following post Sun, 06 Nov 2022 12:27:05 +0100

Het is trouwens niet zo dat als een account je volgt (zonder dat jij het terug volgt), dat al zijn/haar toots op jouw instance landen.

Sun, 06 Nov 2022 12:49:01 +0100

Alexander Goeres 𒀯

jabgoe2089@hub.netzgemeinde.eu

that's mighty difficult for the average twitter using journalist ....

Sun, 06 Nov 2022 15:58:20 +0100

Hans van Zijst

hans@social.woefdram.nl

@Alexander Goeres I had to explain why a boost is different than a retweet on the birdsite, but this schema probably does a better job explaining how that works.

Sat, 05 Nov 2022 17:42:12 +0100

Hans van Zijst

hans@social.woefdram.nl

Roy Gardiner wrote the following post Sat, 05 Nov 2022 15:50:35 +0100

#Humour #Humor #Environment #Hypocrisy