Notices by nellie-m (nellie_m@autisticpri.de)

@inthehands

that's a wonderful quote.

@LoganFive

people on screereaders? for sure.

@LoganFive

I’m not, but a lot of my friends here are. Like for example that awesome musician, Andre Louis from London. (follow him if you don’t already, lots of fun stuff, music wise)

Here’s a thread he posted a while ago and while it’s not specifically about emojis and symbols, but usernames with cutesy fonts, it’s essentially the same thing.

https://universeodon.com/@FreakyFwoof/110277460860510209

@tokyo_0

firstly, if my instance blocks annihilation, a bot hosted there can’t access it to scrape info. So I’m guessing the person who received this message is on an instance that doesn’t block it.

And if someone even says they got their info from a tool run by one of the known bad instances I would think it’s pretty clear where they’re coming from.

@tokyo_0 @mastodonmigration

except annihilation is on the most basic 100% list at Oliphant’s and if a server doesn’t at the very least use that list, I don’t know what to tell you.

https://codeberg.org/oliphant/blocklists/src/branch/main/blocklists

@reginagrogan

I don’t fully understand the problem but maybe
@feditips can help?

#AskFedi #fedihelp

@aral @hollie

Here’s me, unable to do mental arithmetics in spite of trying hard for nine years at school. Then we were allowed to use electronic calculators (those old-fashioned thingies before mobile phones existed) and suddenly I became good at maths! I began to really enjoy it even , and I loved algebra - maths with letters, woohoo!

So dyscalculia doesn’t keep you from understanding the logic of maths, it just keeps you from crunching numbers 🙂

@lacraia @feditips

I’m on a single user instance, and I don’t recommend it. Especially not for someone coming from the biggest instance there is. You’ll be shocked to find yourself on a desert island. The lack of backfilling makes it a very frustrating experience, and yes there are workarounds, and yes it takes dedication to implement them and keep your blocklists up to date etc.

Go find a nice medium sized instance and give its admin a fiver a month. Much less hassle and better federation.

@youronlyone @autistics @actuallyautistic @actuallyadhd @autism @pathfinder

The relationship between numbers and my brain is one of mutual dislike.

My brain doesn’t do them. I swear I don’t even know what numbers are. As a kid, I learned mental arithmetics like a poem. I recited it in every test, for every exercise. What I wrote was mostly correct, but time was always up before I had finished even half of it…
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@youronlyone @autistics @actuallyautistic @actuallyadhd @autism @pathfinder

maths was my poorest subject until we were allowed to use electronic calculators. Late 70s. And then suddenly, it became fun! I loved algebra so much. Being able to do maths with my good old friends: letters!

At that point, I chose maths as a favourite subject even. I loved how unambiguous and logical and elegant it was. Just don’t expect me to do numbers.

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@inthehands wow, thank you so much for taking the trouble!!!

@inthehands

unfortunately, that picture seems to be gone. It’s still an absolutely great thread, but is there any chance of you paraphrasing what was said there?

@dekaminski @pathfinder

The safest space I know is mastodon.art really. @Curator relentlessly silences or prunes away all connections to anyone and any server that would compromise the safety of its very diverse users.

Maybe check it out. Some art content behind CWs but really nothing to worry about there IMO.

And before you decide on one browse a server’s local and federated timelines where I’ve always found plenty of stuff to report… just saying.

@aral

“….isn’t optimised…” being a very polite British understatement.

@feditips @smokler

as someone on a small self-hosted, single user instance, I’ve found groups to be absolutely indispensable to help with federation. Very much appreciated your tip back then. Hashtags don’t do that at all.

@aral @kittylyst

here’s a step by step instruction.

https://allthings.how/how-to-migrate-from-one-mastodon-server-to-another/

When you upload your lists on your new server, pay attention to the drop down menu. It defaults to “following” so select block if you upload your block list. Just saying 🤣

@dacrivelli @Ruth_Mottram

good choice, and welcome!
„news“ is a broad term. I’d say it depends a bit on what corner of the world you’re in 😉

Personally, I’m a big fan of RSS feeds for news. If you’re on iOS, get NetNewsWire (free and perfect) and subscribe to all the news sites directly that you don’t want to miss.

Here on Mastodon, @feditips is a good account to follow. The other day they posted a whole list of news accounts, for example. I didn’t bookmark it, sadly.

@JacquelynGill @michael @rudiev @nativeplants @plants @fernleaf07

Ferns!
Ferns!
The history of ferns!!

So exciting.

@thomasfuchs @mekkaokereke @sentient_water

unless you use FediFetcher or combine.social 🙂

@feditips what’s wrong with using the official Mastodon app?