@Maude Nificent good morning! aha, i see my stealthy footsteps quietly checking out this brand new Oz instance have not been so subtle after all, heehee. sprung! ta for the follow-request, which ofc i've accepted, but just to let you know fyi... atm i've deliberately not publicised this, nor imported my contact lists, coz i'm still assessing this new instance to see if having an account here actually provides advantages over my current ones. so, tbc...
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in reply to Droppie • •Excuse me for butting in but your test posts seem to be public so they're visible to those of us who are doing the same as you - poking around to see how thing work.
If I can get a few accounts going on different types of servers I figure it will be easier to nudge my family to try fedi, so we can all get off the MMD (Media of Mass Destruction)😉
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in reply to Lyn • •@Lyn heehee, g'day Lyn! no, you're not butting in at all, indeed your reply has provided me with a much-appreciated "proof-of-life", when my prior tests of recent days had been leaving me most unsure if this new account of mine was fully functional. so, a tentative yippee, maybe? 😆
yes, though i would have preferred not to bug peeps by publicly posting my early experiments, after my attempted private test-post did not make it to my recipient t'other day, in desperation i reverted to public posts to see if that made an improvement.
best wishes with your family nudging! 🤞 🤞 🤞
btw, i dunno if you like delving beneath the bonnet or not, but fyi, this morning i was most pleased to get a reply from our friendly admin @Friendly Koala @
... Show more...@Lyn heehee, g'day Lyn! no, you're not butting in at all, indeed your reply has provided me with a much-appreciated "proof-of-life", when my prior tests of recent days had been leaving me most unsure if this new account of mine was fully functional. so, a tentative yippee, maybe? 😆
yes, though i would have preferred not to bug peeps by publicly posting my early experiments, after my attempted private test-post did not make it to my recipient t'other day, in desperation i reverted to public posts to see if that made an improvement.
best wishes with your family nudging! 🤞 🤞 🤞
btw, i dunno if you like delving beneath the bonnet or not, but fyi, this morning i was most pleased to get a reply from our friendly admin @Friendly Koala @Marek 🇦🇺🇩🇪 , who was kind enough to activate some other AddOns i use on my other Friendicas, so fwiw you can check them out now in your Settings. eg, via my customised
Quick Comments SettingsAO, i now add... 🎉 🥳💃cc:
farcebook.space/profile/msdrop… friendica.opensocial.space/pro…
Lyn
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Thanks I will look into the emoji thing, but it may have to wait until tomorrow. I have already used up my one-new-thing-a-day quota on finding out about elephant shrews - I accidental moved my mouse over your name and saw your list of tags and while checking the (quite a few) things we have in common I idly wondered "what is Sengi?" and like magic I was down a wikipedia rabbit hole.
Apart from the fact I'm more Cinnamon than KDE the only fault I can find in your list is the absence of TerryPratchett! Greatest writer in the English language, apart from Douglas A and Will S of course.
I tried to follow you from my mastodon account but the response message said you were now following me. Meanwhile I'll keep experimenting too. Friendica doesn't seem quite as intuitive as Masto or Pixelfed but I suppose it has more features to get to grips with.
My little OCD brain is now at the point of taking screen shots and writing notes so this non-project will soon
... Show more...@Droppie
Thanks I will look into the emoji thing, but it may have to wait until tomorrow. I have already used up my one-new-thing-a-day quota on finding out about elephant shrews - I accidental moved my mouse over your name and saw your list of tags and while checking the (quite a few) things we have in common I idly wondered "what is Sengi?" and like magic I was down a wikipedia rabbit hole.
Apart from the fact I'm more Cinnamon than KDE the only fault I can find in your list is the absence of TerryPratchett! Greatest writer in the English language, apart from Douglas A and Will S of course.
I tried to follow you from my mastodon account but the response message said you were now following me. Meanwhile I'll keep experimenting too. Friendica doesn't seem quite as intuitive as Masto or Pixelfed but I suppose it has more features to get to grips with.
My little OCD brain is now at the point of taking screen shots and writing notes so this non-project will soon be "bigger than Ben Hur". (Not sure if your old enough for that expression, it was a big movie in 1959). I have about six firefox tabs and several other windows open and my desktop is starting to look like a linux web-dev's lab.
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in reply to Lyn • •@Lyn oh look, i simply have to plead guilty as charged re TerryPratchett -- i cannot explain it but somehow he remains a criminally-negligent omission in my cultural awareness, which ofc is just shameful of me. trouble is my reading list is huge & at the current rate of progress i don't reckon i'll get around to him til next lifetime, alas!
cinnamon is ofc very nice, but yes i do prefer kdeplasma.
sengi is an interesting Masto front-end, & if you're interested, another nice one worth checking out is statuzer.
though i still have my masto & sharkey accounts, i rarely use them these days, being pretty captivated by friendica, for which i've tried several instances over recent years. if it's any consolation for you, fwiw, i found friendica's UI & functions quite overwhelming at first, & it took me at least a few months to get comfy with it, & now i do really like it. but i have tried some unreliable friendica instances in the past, & s
... Show more...@Lyn oh look, i simply have to plead guilty as charged re TerryPratchett -- i cannot explain it but somehow he remains a criminally-negligent omission in my cultural awareness, which ofc is just shameful of me. trouble is my reading list is huge & at the current rate of progress i don't reckon i'll get around to him til next lifetime, alas!
cinnamon is ofc very nice, but yes i do prefer kdeplasma.
sengi is an interesting Masto front-end, & if you're interested, another nice one worth checking out is statuzer.
though i still have my masto & sharkey accounts, i rarely use them these days, being pretty captivated by friendica, for which i've tried several instances over recent years. if it's any consolation for you, fwiw, i found friendica's UI & functions quite overwhelming at first, & it took me at least a few months to get comfy with it, & now i do really like it. but i have tried some unreliable friendica instances in the past, & some that somehow don't seem to work well. my current default,
opensocial.space, works on the whole very well [i saw you Followed me there a couple of hours ago].i still hope though that this new Oz one will get its early bugs ironed out, as i do like the idea of one not based in the northern hemisphere. that said, for the time being, i have deliberately not yet taken the time to fill out all my profile info here... but later, if i do decide to make it my new daily, i shall be copying all my profile info from
opensocial.spaceto here.fwiw, ben hur was made in the year i was born, so i certainly have later on become well used to that figure of speech.
best wishes for your firefoxes!
🤗 and also 💜🐧 plus ofc 🐳🌻
Lyn
in reply to Droppie • •Mmmm, when I joined Friendica.world (Netherlands) last year they had a latency issue like that. Maybe it is more about friendica software itself rather than an instance thing.
... Show more...I don't know if they fixed it or not as I was just starting to get the hang of it when I had some dental surgery and my brain went into a 'mental meltdown' for a few months so I wasn't doing much of anything for a while. (the whole move the family off MMDs was supposed to be last year's resolution).
I only decided to look at it again when I saw Shlee's message about the new Friendica.au instance. I agree that we need to be moving ourselves to more local servers, given the state of the world at the moment. (Who knows what the tangerine-clown will do next).
You are right about reading... so many books so little time... but Pratchett is worth the effort if you can squeeze some in. I'd recommend starting a few book in rather than the very beginning he definitely got better as he went along. Just be ready to get totally hooked once you start.
I really should learn to speak better emoji. I have an ext
Mmmm, when I joined Friendica.world (Netherlands) last year they had a latency issue like that. Maybe it is more about friendica software itself rather than an instance thing.
I don't know if they fixed it or not as I was just starting to get the hang of it when I had some dental surgery and my brain went into a 'mental meltdown' for a few months so I wasn't doing much of anything for a while. (the whole move the family off MMDs was supposed to be last year's resolution).
I only decided to look at it again when I saw Shlee's message about the new Friendica.au instance. I agree that we need to be moving ourselves to more local servers, given the state of the world at the moment. (Who knows what the tangerine-clown will do next).
You are right about reading... so many books so little time... but Pratchett is worth the effort if you can squeeze some in. I'd recommend starting a few book in rather than the very beginning he definitely got better as he went along. Just be ready to get totally hooked once you start.
I really should learn to speak better emoji. I have an extra 9 years on you (but I think of myself as Mid-century Modern rather than old 👵).
It's been fun chatting but I now have to go and be a 'domestic-goddess' and order some pizza so my long-suffering husband doesn't starve.
I'm sure we'll chat again while I'm trying to understand how to make this thing do what I want. 🦊 🦄 🦘🐀 🎊🎈💛📈 (hope I didn't say anything rude)
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