Hiya, Bluesky Users... 🙋‍♂️

On picking a server.

Seriously, it's no big deal. Lots of good servers, but maybe you just want help choosing. If you don't want to join 'the mothership' Mastodon GmbH mastodon.social and want a strong recommendation right now, you can't go wrong with mstdn.social.

@stux is a great admin from the Netherlands with a proven commitment to standing up for his users. Servers are in the EU. By all reports the users are very pleased.

Join here >>> https://mstdn.social/about

De laatste mooie zomerdag in het noorden van Nederland 2025

@dansant @Algje dank je wel.
Ik ben wel voor rechte paden, dat geeft me als vrouw een veiliger gevoel, in het algemeen, maar boomwortels dienen gekoesterd te worden, evenals oude bomen en restanten van oude structuren. Ik kan invoelen dat buurtbewoners met het gebeuren niet blij zijn, maar alles is aan verandering onderhevig op deze planeet, laten we 10 jaar verder kijken, hoop het mee te maken.

@dansant @Algje oei. Ik werkte vroeger in la belle alliance, dat gebouw tegenover de begraafplaats en liep tussen de middag een rondje, meestal door het sterrenbos. Groningen is een grote stad, ik neem aan dat er toch wel een stadsecoloog geraadpleegd is.

@Algje sluit het mooi aan op het sterrenbos?
Ik ben er nog niet geweest sinds het klaar is

Herfst equinox. Is een oogstfeest, of een viering van de balans tussen licht en donker. Deze meme kwam vorige maand op mijn tijdlijn via een ander platform. 😁

🚨 Mastodon Support Scam 🚨

It looks like there's another wave of fake Mastodon support accounts asking you to verify your account.

Do NOT click on any links in these posts. Please report them to your server admin as soon as possible.

Please boost so that as many people can be aware of this as possible. Thank you! 💙 ☁️

#FediAdmin #MastoAdmin #MastodonSupport #Scam #Moderation #Report #Mastodon

If you post videos on #PeerTube, remember that most of your potential followers aren't on PeerTube but on other Fediverse platforms.

People from Mastodon etc can follow and interact with your videos without ever joining PeerTube, because PeerTube is part of the Fediverse.

If you have a Mastodon etc account, you can encourage your followers to also follow your PeerTube account by mentioning it, so they can follow it in one click. (For example @fedivideo).

More info at https://fedi.tips/how-to-publish-videos-and-audio-on-peertube

Another reminder that you should never ever use link shorteners:

https://www.heise.de/en/news/Google-s-URL-shortener-goo-gl-will-only-show-404-errors-from-the-end-of-August-10501127.html

Dividing Up the Planet and Championing Illiberal Democracies: Trump Seeks to Make Carl Schmitt’s Vision of World Order a Reality | Harvard Kennedy School
https://www.hks.harvard.edu/centers/carr/our-work/carr-commentary/dividing-planet-and-championing-illiberal-democracies-trump

Weer een jaar lid van DEDS geworden. 🎁

Bloei van de els

@nathair Foto van de picknick plaats 🍀

Niet zo zeuren over het weer. Wij houden gewoon een picknick 💚

Op pad omgeving Vries

IJshaar ❤️

"Microsoft Office, like many companies in recent months, has slyly turned on an “opt-out” feature that scrapes your Word and Excel documents to train its internal AI systems. This setting is turned on by default, and you have to manually uncheck a box in order to opt out.

If you are a writer who uses MS Word to write any proprietary content (blog posts, novels, or any work you intend to protect with copyright and/or sell), you’re going to want to turn this feature off immediately.

I won’t beat around the bush. Microsoft Office doesn’t make it easy to opt out of this new AI privacy agreement, as the feature is hidden through a series of popup menus in your settings:

On a Windows computer, follow these steps to turn off “Connected Experiences”: File > Options > Trust Center > Trust Center Settings > Privacy Options > Privacy Settings > Optional Connected Experiences > Uncheck box: “Turn on optional connected experiences”"

https://medium.com/illumination/ms-word-is-using-you-to-train-ai-86d6a4d87021

#Microsoft #AI #GenerativeAI #AITraining #MSWord #Privacy #Word

@paul good morning Paul

You can use Mastodon on your computer, the web interface is excellent and there are also a number of desktop apps available. Here's a guide to desktop options on Mastodon:

➡️ https://fedi.tips/desktop-apps-for-mastodon

If you do use the web interface on a computer, you might want to explore the advanced web interface which has a Tweetdeck-style multicolumn layout:

➡️ https://fedi.tips/how-to-activate-mastodons-tweetdeck-style-advanced-web-interface

#FediTips

Lot of new people asking how they can discover people to follow, and how they can make their own account more discoverable.

Here's a guide to discovering accounts to follow:

➡️ https://fedi.tips/how-do-i-find-accounts-to-follow-on-mastodon-and-the-fediverse-how-do-i-find-my-friends

...and here's a guide to how to make your own account and posts more visible:

➡️ https://fedi.tips/how-do-i-get-more-followers-on-mastodon-and-the-fediverse

If you see new people asking about these topics, you might want to share links to these guides.

(Also, all the text in my guides is CC-By-SA so feel free to build upon it.)

#FediTips