If you're reading this post, you are viewing or following my old account.Please follow my new account instead at:➡️ @FediTips@social.growyourown.services Thank you!

If you're reading this, you're viewing or following my old account. This account has moved to:➡️ @FediTips@social.growyourown.services Please follow me there instead!

If you're reading this post, you're viewing or following the old FediTips account. Please follow the new account instead:➡️ @FediTips@social.growyourown.services I've also attached an image so that this post reaches followers on Pixelfed 😄

Just a headsup to anyone reading this post, FediTips has moved to:➡️ @FediTips@social.growyourown.services You can follow me and message me there.

If you're reading this post, you're viewing or following my old account. Please follow my new account instead at:➡️ @FediTips@social.growyourown.services Thank you!(If you have any problems with following the new account, contact my personal account at @FediThing)

📣 I'm moving the FediTips account to another server.The new address to follow is:➡️ @FediTips@social.growyourown.servicesI'm just about to start the automatic migration procedure, so it should move your follow over to the new account seamlessly, but if you want to follow the new account manually straight away you can do so (it won't mess anything up).The new server is my own one, it's where FediFollows, FediVideo etc are already.If there are any problems, contact my personal account at @FediThing

1. Meta/Facebook has a horrific track record on human rights: - https://www.amnesty.org.uk/press-releases/ethiopia-facebook-algorithms-contributed-human-rights-abuses-against-tigrayans - https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2021/dec/06/rohingya-sue-facebook-myanmar-genocide-us-uk-legal-action-social-media-violence - https://www.theverge.com/2018/7/18/17587080/mark-zuckerberg-holocaust-denial-kara-swisher-interview2. Meta/Facebook is trying to join the Fediverse. We need to defederate them.3. If you're a server admin, please defederate Meta's domain "threads.net" (here's how on Mastodon https://fedi.tips/how-to-defederate-fediblock-a-server-on-mastodon/)4. If you don't run your own server, please ask your server admin to defederate "threads.net". Your admin is listed on your server website's About page.

(One for techy people today...)Command line / terminal fans!You can use Mastodon through a command line interface or a terminal user interface using the third party app "toot" for Linux etc:➡️ https://toot.bezdomni.netIt's free and open source, find out more at the link.This also works with Mastodon-compatible servers.By the way, this app toot has nothing to do with the other third apps Toot! or Tooot, they just have very similar names.#CLI #TUI #Mastodon #CommandLine #Terminal

Some apps on here are offering AI/LLM for certain features such as entering an image description automatically.If you are abled and sighted, please don't use these features.If you are sighted and able to enter descriptions yourself, it would be better for the planet if you enter descriptions manually. Manual descriptions avoid anyone having to cause environmental damage.So-called "AI" features damage the planet:https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/12/05/1084417/ais-carbon-footprint-is-bigger-than-you-think/https://www.nature.com/articles/s42256-020-0219-9https://oecd.ai/en/wonk/how-much-water-does-ai-consume

Every account on Mastodon and the Fediverse has a unique account address, it will look something like this:@ (username) @ (server)You can find anyone's address by looking at their profile page, the address is written underneath their display name in a smaller font.If you're having trouble finding someone's account from your server, you can paste their account address into the search box which will force your server to fetch their profile page.Lots more info at https://fedi.tips/whats-my-accounts-address-how-do-i-follow-other-peoples-addresses-how-can-people-follow-my-address/