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ly want to go back to your twitter profile and add your new forwarding address my address for example is jeffjarvis mastodon social by the way mastodon does not have a good full text search on purpose for they also believe that that enables trolls to find their targets but you can search for names mastodon addresses and hashtags now let s explore the advanced web interface for mastodon the second column from the left is the most important your home timeline this again is just the people you follow in reverse chronological order no algo no ads the third column is notifications once you get your sea legs click on the settings icon on the top right of the column the three lines and you ll find a plethora of choices for what notifications to receive or not new followers posts that mention you replies to you and so on while you re here i recommend turning off sound on each one the blips can be quite annoying note the subtle blue bar on the left this is just what is new since you last read the column you can click the check atop the column to mark all as read now to the first column here you can search for names you can also search for hashtags that is how people gather around topics and conversations on mastodon i have to get back into the habit of using hashtags in my posts if you find a hashtag very useful you can pin it as a column that will always appear click the icon with a head and many arms and you will get your local timeline in another column this is just people on your server whether you follow them or not depending on the server you choose it can seem useful or random in the setting for this column you can choose to pin and always show it or not the globe icon will open a new column called the federated timeline which is a collection of everything from everyone that all the folks on your server boost on other servers it can be a firehose you may also choose to pin or not pin this thus far i don t use the local or federated timelines much but you might like them as a way to discover serendipitous conversations and people now click on the hamburger menu on the upper left of the first column if it is not already open this will open the getting started menu with lots of offerings direct messages to you with the caution that direct messages are not encrypted so don t go sharing your innermost secrets here posts you have bookmarked i find this handy posts you have favorited liked in twitter parlance lists you create follow requests nb this is just the follow requests mastodon thinks might be suspicious you will find all your follow requests in the notifications column note also that you can create lists of accounts you want to read regularly i use that feature frequently on twitter but unfortunately they are private and cannot be shared instead there are groups see some examples on the academic on mastodon page click explore and you see four nice features posts are posts that are popular from across the fediverse hashtags are stats on the trending hashtags news is an ok list of media stories getting links and for you are recommendations for folks to follow i find it of limited utility now finally to the important part writing in that first column you ll find the box for that purpose on most mastodon instances the character limit is 500 generous next to twitter s 140 then 280 some servers up that to 1 000 i have so far resisted the temptation to migrate there here you can add a poll and mark the post s language by the way translation works pretty well i follow people in many languages as a result mastodon has many norms built up since 2016 norms being norms these are likely to evolve as new people arrive wanting change and veterans resist that change such is society one strong norm is that when you upload an image with the paperclip in the posting box you are expected to click edit and add alt text for accessibility i was scolded once for not doing so and now i do it another set of norms revolve around the content warning when posting click on the cw in the creation box and you can write a small headline others will see with the option to reveal the rest of your post or not this was intended to mask triggering or offensive content important because mastodon from its start has served vulnerable communities however some have extended this norm to contend that the content warning should be used for political posts others especially people of color insist rightly i think that we should not hide the realities of life behind this veil how you use it or not is up to you some folks prefer other interfaces for mastodon on the web and mobile i m odd chrome os and android so i can t speak to those for mac and windows and ios the ethos of mastodon i find is friendly polite curious open caring decent there will be bad apples in any orchard block them report them if they re bad enough there are more than enough smart people here with whom to have enjoyable informative and provocative conversations without the trolls elon is nurturing in the other place keep in mind that nearly everything you do on mastodon is thanks to the volunteers who run servers and moderate activity there they are humans not algorithms they like algorithms will make mistakes give them a break and give them money every server is likely to have a link to a place to give money to the host to pay for very real technology bills you have left the land of corporatized centralized controlled conversation it s a new and exciting world help support it new tip thanks to my new mastodon friend maxi5x who pointed me to the notifications setting for the quick filter bar that s the menu bar atop the column set the second choice to display all categories and this is what appears that way you can get notifications just for mentions favorites boosts poll results and new followers that little house icon takes you to another feature i didn t mention when you follow someone next to the follow button is a bell click on that and you will be notified whenever that person posts thus i see whenever eugen and my son and mike masnick post cool telling the story that defies telling november 8 2022 by jeff jarvis auschwitz books holocaust journalism comment jonathan freedland s the escape artist the man who broke out of auschwitz to warn the world is perhaps the single most effective chronicle of the holocaust i have read freedland does not attempt to convey the full scope of the holocaust or of auschwitz that is an impossibility in any literature he tells the story of one man rudolf vrba born walter rosenberg who as a teenager memorized every detail of death in the camp and became one of only four jewish prisoners ever to escape so he could tell the world and hope to save lives there are of course countless excellent studies and stories of auschwitz what impresses me so about freedland s is his discipline in staying close to his subject seeing through his eyes alone and his subject s discipline in turn gathering facts freedland is a journalist an incisive thinker who in my experience commanded any conversation i witnessed at the guardian where he was head of opinion and is still a columnist the escape artist is a work of journalism that i cannot help but see as a work about journalism as it brought me to reflect on my field freedland begins with the escape then tells of vrba s capture subjugation and survival and of all he witnessed and recorded in his memory when he manages to leave and find refuge he and another escapee pour every fact every number even the sequences of numbers registered to and tattooed on prisoners and their relationship to their place of origin and date of arrival to a committee of jewish leaders in their home country their report is typed up in spare sparse language recounting only the facts at first as freedland relates vrba is upset that it does not include a warning to the jews of hungary for based on what these two men saw and heard they are next on the trains the leaders refused to include anything that is not based on verifiable fact no speculation no prediction to assure the credibility of the report there is a lesson for journalism the report in various versions and translations makes its way to london and washington and also into the hands of journalists who finally begin to get word out about the horrors though far too little is done what strikes me here is the value of witness vrba committed a profound act of journalism without his observation and memory and courage there would have been no reports i won t go on only will recommend that you read or listen to the book yourself i am going to try and likely fail to post more about books i am reading to share recommendations with you and hope to read more recommendations from from hope for a post musk net november 5 2022 by jeff jarvis bluesky elon musk fediverse internet twitter web comments maybe we ll look back and see that elon musk did us the civilized citizens of the net a favor by forcing us off our cozy if centralized corporatized and corrupted internet to find and build an alternative future grounded in the founding principles and dreams of this networked age how s that for looking on the bright side well optimist to a fault that i am i see a better future come along twitter will fail for all the reasons nilay patel s mic drop foretells ending up in the sewer where journalists claim it has been all along in bankruptcy in the hands of saudi princes or who knows in yahoo where all good things have gone to die i m not leaving twitter i m still on facebook and i m enjoying tiktok s honeymoon but i am packing my go bag to travel to an internet built on protocols over platforms here i ll explore some of the opportunities afforded by the likes of bluesky scuttlebutt the fediverse and indieweb not to mention good old reliable rss nowhere better to start getting one s head around this distributed vision than with mike masnick s epic explainer protocols not platforms a technological approach to free speech to start with the present i am on mastodon and already enjoying it come on in the water s fine for me it is already reaching critical mass not mass media mind you let us leave scale and its debasements behind with folks i know from twitter and new and interesting conversants particularly academics and journalists don t let unhelpful reporters dissuade you with their arm waving about complexity you are smarter than they think you are it s really quite simple join any server set up your profile say who you are please and start looking for folks to follow search for friends and follow whom they follow or click on the local your server or federated every server timeline to see who s strolling by the front porch then follow hashtags to interesting conversations and people a few tips from my vast experience of days go to the settings and switch to light mode really it makes a difference it s not just my dark mode phobia and enable the advanced web interface it s like tweetdeck boost posts you like no quote tweets here use the verb to toot at your option if it slows down for a bit just remember twitter s fail whale of yore know that your server is run by volunteers led by the amazing eugen rochko and chill it ll speed up speedily there are more than 3 000 mastodon servers all built on and connected via the activitypub protocol there are also related services you can connect to e g pixelfed an instagram that doesn t zuck you may follow folks from any server so where you start isn t all that important later if you want you can move yourself to another server you ll keep your followers but lose your posts here s the most important thing about this open architecture no one owns it musk can t buy it not that he can afford to buy a bagel anymore i predict this will give censorious and authoritarian governments fits when they realize that a federated distributed conversation is impossible to control just as the printing press was i have a book about that coming out soon that immunity from control is a reason to love it and also to be concerned for there is no central authority to verify identity or kill bad accounts which leads us to the next most important thing about this fediverse it s adaptable look how already academics are gathering to create groups and lists of folks you can import and follow all at once i d like to see journalists and covid experts and my beloved book history wonks do likewise see also dan hon s excellent suggestion for news organizations or universities companies or any organization or institution to set up their own mastodon servers to verify and control their users say the guardian set up a server and created accounts for all its journalists then when you see someone coming from that server you know for certain who she is that is a new blue check of verification now that twitter s blue check becomes the mark of the 8 shmuck again if someone leaves the paper she can take her identity and social graph with her elsewhere because it s open and federated i want news organizations to not only set up their own servers but also to start adding share on mastodon buttons to story pages that will send a message to elon et al endorsing an alternative with me so far now is where it gets exciting in an open federated distributed and or peer to peer ecosystem folks can come and build services atop it as both masnick and daphne keller explain see also cory doctorow and jonathan zittrain this might allow you to pick the level of algorithmic and human curation and moderation you want as companies or organizations offer such services say you want the disneyfied social feed cleansed of all nastiness and filled with unicorns disney could provide that and charge for it ditto a guardian liberal feel you could donate to help them or yes you could get your crazy uncle al s feed of nothing but conspiracies from q s pizza parlor that d be up to you in this distributed future other services can be offered institutions entrepreneurs or individuals could provide services including curation and recommendation of users and content verification of users and authentication of content see also our founding webmaster sir tim berners lee s vision for data vaults that would allow you to hold and control your information he s building a service called inrupt based on the protocol he proposes solid we will see new means to help pay for and support the services and creativity we want i anticipate new kinds of clubhouses where folks of like interest need or circumstance can gather to connect or collaborate then no longer are we caught in an endless hopeless game of whac a mole against the bad shit on the net now at last we can concentrate instead on finding the good shit and get help doing so this is precisely what happened when print emerged see the story of nicolo perotti asking the pope to censor the press in 1470 when what he really wished for was the establishment of the new institutions of editing and 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