Notices by Wladimir Mufty (wlaatje@social.edu.nl)

The #NoKings protests today throughout the US, with insane numbers of spirited, brave and fed-up protesters, is in such an extreme and unbelievable contrast with the uncritical and cowardly tech-billionaires applauding like fan-boys from the front row seats during the inauguration.
https://canada.masto.host/@Byrnejmf/114683089197880866

In the category: how to make the #Fediverse and #Mastodon better, step by step... 🌱

The University of Twente (@utwente) has made it possible to enter and verify a Mastodon account on the personal profile page at the university! 🔒

The green checkmark, also on places that are important in the #academic ecosystem! ✅📚

🎩 H/T @OpenSciTwente & @SchuberthF

@tyil just read my initial toot and the extra context I gave you about how not everyone knows what open source is and you will have to explain that by explaining the differences between products. And for the rest I would say keep preaching to the choir.

Btw: if you have a toot scheduler you know of, please share! It can be any license or businessmodel, I will make a list and add value by explaining the differences, pro’s, con’s etc. #Merci

@tyil Aaaah! You’re playing the “from us” card! Totally fine! I think in this case, the “us” people value autonomy, the ability to choose for themselves, more highly than the value of “someone else deciding for me what is garbage.” Or do these kinds of interventions work well for you? Have you already had many successes as the watchdog of education and the fediverse? (1/2)

Dear community and #mastoadmin!

I want to make a list of #Mastodon content Scheduling tools to share with educational social media teams.

It can be part of a bigger Social Media Management Platform such as Buffer or Publer, but it should at least support scheduling content to publish to a Mastodon account.

If you know one, or have some experience with them (good or bad) please share!

Open Source, As a Service, payed, free(mium), all good!

@tyil Now, on to the content: the mere fact that you don’t want “garbage” to enter your home makes it necessary to know the differences between what you do and don’t want. I don’t assume that everyone knows what open source is, let alone that they keep a spreadsheet with a column for “OK” and one for “garbage.”If your approach works, by all means, keep going. I choose an approach based on informing, highlighting differences, and ensuring freedom of choice—combined with well-informed users. (2/2)