Okay, it's time to tell new users a secret about Mastodon.
Mastodon is (whispers) part of a much bigger network 😮
Mastodon servers use an open standard called ActivityPub to talk to each other. That's how you interact with people on other Mastodon servers.
But, dozens of other federated networks also use ActivityPub, so (this is the good bit!) you can follow people on these other networks from your Mastodon account!
For example:
PixelFed (https://pixelfed.org) is a photo sharing network, here's a random example account @Iancylkowski
PeerTube (https://joinpeertube.org) is a video sharing network, with a p2p system that allows videos to go viral even on small servers, here's a random account @craftykat
BookWyrm (https://joinbookwyrm.com) is a social reading site, an open alternative to Amazon's Goodreads, here's a random account @mouse
Together, Mastodon and these other services form... The Fediverse
(whispers) Click on the link...
https://framatube.org/w/4294a720-f263-4ea4-9392-cf9cea4d5277
Byzantine emperors, incompetent invasions
Someone with more energy than me is quoting the book on generalship by Emperor Leo VI (died 912) to show some of the elementary errors the Russians are making in #ukraine https://nitter.net/chrysoboullon @greyor
In 2019, an Australian pig stole beer cans, became drunk, then started a fight with a cow
https://www.mynation.com/lifestyle/pig-steals-beer-cans-gets-drunk-fights-with-cow-video--psd8au
Original tweet : https://twitter.com/tilbots/status/1436502876893982722
Amazon deletes job listings for analysts to track ‘labor organizing threats’
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/09/01/amazon-seeks-intelligence-analyst-to-track-labor-organizing-threats.html
(submitted by SirLJ)
You know, someone just mentioned and corrected me - even with kids going to school, people won’t care about the death of children. Kids dying wasn’t enough for gun control, how will it curb control around virus spreading? (https://v2.jacky.wtf/post/a382e5b1-6159-42e2-8f96-d7e37f3fc6ec)
Twitter bans 7k QAnon accounts, limits 150k others as part of broad crackdown
https://news.yahoo.com/twitter-bans-7-000-qanon-000000686.html
(submitted by MBCook)
N. K. Jemisin’s Dream Worlds
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/01/27/nk-jemisins-dream-worlds
(submitted by apollinaire)
Google offers free fabbing for 130nm open-source chips
https://fossi-foundation.org/2020/06/30/skywater-pdk
(submitted by tomcam)
Facebook accused of trying to bypass GDPR, slurp domain owners' personal Whois info via an obscure process
https://www.theregister.com/2020/06/23/facebook_gdpr_workaround/
The Largest & Most Detailed Photograph of Rembrandt’s The Night Watch Is Now Online.
Zoom In & See Every Brush Stroke
http://www.openculture.com/?p=1077120 https://t.co/YFQwMRoeTX
Nine biological aging measurements were compared with actual deaths over a 20 year period, telomere length, DNAmAge, Horvath, Hannum, PhenoAge, GrimAge, physiological age, cognitive function, functional aging index, and frailty index. Go ahead and try to guess which of those 9 tests actually predicted who would die. https://news.ki.se/new-measure-of-biological-age-can-predict-health-risks
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