Beautiful photo. The bird was posing for you.

@Callalily I took a lot of photos of him at various magnification and angles. Never cared that I was there.

what number did they dialed in?

See, that's a mistake. God only answers on subspace.

did it work?

...did she answer?

Tried that once… busy signal.

You’re such a good friend, Spaf.

@admin_backup

From what I've read on Mastodon, Bluesky is the new Nazi bar.

@JesseSkinner

@EvilKiru

Hardly.

"...sticking around Mastodon..."

I'm not quite sure, yet. I've seen more activity from historians and archeologists in three days on Bluesky than I have in two years on Mastodon.

One of the things I want to bring up is Bridgy App.

One of the plans I’m trying to make with getting people on BlueSky to turn on the Bridgy App has to do with the sudden-but-inevitable-betrayal moment.

One of the reasons people didn’t want to leave X was because they didn’t know people other places.

If they they give the gateway permissions, they will start knowing people other places before things go oh so very wrong.

They’ll already know where some of their friends are.

So that’s where they’ll look to go first.

I wrote a bunch of other stuff about all this here, at my fully-Federated and self-hosted blog.

https://solarbird.net/blog/2024/11/18/something-about-barn-doors-and-escaped-horses-but-also/

The "all or nothing" world of social media is over. We can start moving on from it now.

Mastodon is great, but to make it even better for professional use it might help if something like the "top-links" in the "catch-up" (Beta) window of #phanpy (https://phanpy.social/ ) is the home page by default for all users. These top-links are sorted by the number of times boosted by the ones *you follow*. This could be useful for #science, to highlight most important developments (e.g. publications) in your network. Now you easily miss them, causing some colleagues to leave.

I'll be on both..

@MikeBeas @moira Bluesky isn't owned and run by tech billionaires?

Bridging to bluesky should be enough. I still enjoy a non-algorithm view more than chasing a computer algorithm to boost things for me!

I'll be with the nerdy kids in the library, thanks.

@Cliftographer Serious, I'm afraid. Logged onto BS a couple times in the last week or so - first time in a year or so and saw lots of posts from MAGAts gloating about their election victory and trolling the 'libs' or whatever.

I'm not a Fediverse dogmatist and I'm not interested in being part of the next Twitter replacement. I'm sure BS will work for many people. I'm just not interested in that discourse anymore.

@EvilKiru @admin_backup Certainly true, IME.

Are you serious or satirical? #Bluesky is a wonderful welcoming & supportive environment. Throwing shade at Bluesky seems to be a popular pass time here. Both have their advantages and disadvantages. But the 'one true faith' #Fediverse dogma I see here is increasingly off-putting.

@EvilKiru 🇮🇸 he/him @Jesse Skinner @Die™ar

Fediverse.

Mastodon is only a Part of the Fediverse.

(Posted from Friendica. Friendica is not Mastodon!)

I must admit that my failure to reach "non-nerdy people" in the fediverse has been discouraging. The arrival of climate and biodiv scientists + communicators on bsky is massive.

I will "stick around" here, but I found, after a short trial that bridging is not good enough for me, because I can't see how to have two-way follow-up exchanges across that bridge.

So I have resolved to use buffer for posting in parallel on both sides, and then deal with the engagement where it comes.

@alexisbushnell
> an amazing Fedi following won't get you paid

I beg to differ. I recently got my first paid subscription from a shameless self-promotion here. I regularly see people posting jobs wanted and jobs offered ads. As well as begposts along the lines of 'can't pay my rent this week, please drop cash money in this digital bucket'.

Will an amazing BlueSky following get you paid in similar ways? Probably. But it has nothing to do with the relative size of their total population.

@seanbala I participated in this for a while last year but quickly got totally bummed out by the tales of woe reported and then tagged #joinin. I think I'll skip it this year. Sorry, but I don't come here so other people can bring me down. I need to look after my own mental health first. 🤷🏻‍♀️

🇬🇧 🇺🇸 If you're on Spain, we're promoting the tag #Únete
🇪🇦🇺🇾 Si estás en España estamos proponiendo la etiqueta #Únete para quienes quieran pasar estas navidades con su "familia virtual" del fediverso. Creo que también será bienvenida la gente de Latinoamérica, pero de momento estoy viendo eventos en horario europeo.