@spla 281! Vaig a provar-la! Moltes gràcies per fer tant!
@joanrafols de res!
reminder that you're not required to keep on following the (micro)celebrities who place nothing but suffering and misery into your social media timeline. you can just unfollow. its free and the cops can't stop you
@kopper Personally I think it's really important to try and not let the downers take over your timeline.
@spla era una mica en broma. Però és ver que no sembla haver tanta gent.
@Comely perquè molts només llegeixen
@spla 281! Vaig a provar-la! Moltes gràcies per fer tant!
This one perplexes me as well. Even if the tech CEOs and crypto VCs thought Trump would be president for life, the guy is 80. It wouldn’t have lasted that long and a reckoning was inevitable.
Their thinking has been so short-sighted on this, much like their treatment of workers as they pivot to AI.
@carnage4life the intense fervor in the Silicon Valley set for *immortality* of some sort, whether through medical intervention or some sort of "virtual" immortality maintained on a computer, may help explain their inability to reckon with the general ageing of their whole set. Not just Trump but all of them ... Elon Musk is the world's oldest kid. they seem to think they're on the verge of annihilating Death itself somehow, erasing the distinction between past and present and future
@Comely sí que n’hi ha, sí, només a mastodont.cat ja som més de 800 usuaris actius.
@spla era una mica en broma. Però és ver que no sembla haver tanta gent.
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Decentralized social media for environmental research
www.biorxiv.org/content/…/2026.11.06.764567v1
(Found with Aftergleam, a private reader for new research papers.)
Decentralized social media for environmental research
A. Chai-allah, A. Ghermandi, N. Fox, D. Van Berkel bioRxiv · 10.64898/2026.11.06.764567v1 · ecology · submitted 2026-11-12
Abstract
Social media data are reshaping environmental research. However, recent ownership and policy changes on centralized platforms like Twitter/X have motivated many users to seek new alternatives while simultaneously accelerating data restrictions for scientists. Decentralized social media, particularly Bluesky and Mastodon, are emerging as alternatives for users seeking greater control over their data and as a more stable and sustainable source of data for researchers. This rise may be instrumental in revitalizing the role of social media in environmental research. This study aims to provide a first-of-its-kind analysis of the potential of these new sources for environmental research, demonstrating their potential usefulness through the examples of climate change discourses and people’s appreciation of wildlife. We find an increased adoption of Mastodon and Bluesky, with high linguistic diversity, even if dominated by English. Wildlife image content reveals broad taxonomic diversity, with plants, birds, and insects dominating the records. We find this pattern broadly consistent with that observed on the popular citizen science platform iNaturalist. Climate change discourse is found to broadly reflect the scientific consensus on both platforms, with contrarian claims remaining uncommon. This suggests that researchers may benefit from less polarized opinions and misinformation, arising from interactions that are less driven by engagement maximizing algorithms implemented in other platforms. Our study illustrates the promise of decentralized social media as a new data source for environmental scientists and paves the way for their broader use in environmental research.
People drop out of Fedi and it can be years until you notice because you generally look at what IS being posted and who HAS replied to you, and you don't really look at who has gone quiet.
@lydiaconwell I do. When people I read has gone quiet for quite a while (say, a year or more), I just unfollow. There are exceptions, of course, like people I consider fedifriends and I hope will come back eventually, like @sullybiker.
@kaia it's the character for 'harmony'
@lydiaconwell If it helps, To Have and Have Not is the worst novel by Hemingway. I know this because Howard Hawks once told him: “I can do a great movie based on your worst novel.” And he adapted that one, and it was great, of course.
That said, I read The Old Man and the Sea back at school, and it was awfully boring. Apparently, he was better at short stories, or so did Dorothy Parker wrote, but I don't think I will ever know.
@josemanuel So he does write long poetic prose then?
You know it’s properly winter once my neighbour has parked his tractor in its winter parking spot.
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After Brussels, we joined Volt Nederland's General Assembly! 🇳🇱💜
Fresh from Volt and PRO's budget success, shifting €1bn in taxation from work to wealth, it showed how even a few seats can shape legislation.
It was great to see our Dutch chapter gearing up for provincial elections and electing Laura Harks to co-lead the chapter with Kees van Lede.
Now back to Slovenia for local elections and hopefully our first elected officials.
Our European party is taking shape! 🇪🇺
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discord servers have the same energy as everything requiring you to download an app but like if your phone had a hard cap on 100 apps installed
@spla però si no hi ha tanta gent a Mastodon.
@Comely sí que n’hi ha, sí, només a mastodont.cat ja som més de 800 usuaris actius.
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Federation test
Post migration fediverse #HashTagGames test
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I’ll not against watching older anime. I just wanted to keep the recommendations down to series that were in wide screen. What older isekai do you recommend?
Juuni Kokuki/The Twelve Kingdoms
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Hal hadn’t survived three Thanksgivings by being stupid.
The1goit
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Cats should be allowed to destroy their enemies by breathing fire, as a treat
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Plotarmor ist wohl die sicherste Rüstung in jedem Setting! Egal ob im tiefsten Mittelalter, in einem Sci-Fi-Abenteuer oder in einem Kriminalfall – Plotarmor ist allgegenwärtig und unzerstörbar!
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reminder that you're not required to keep on following the (micro)celebrities who place nothing but suffering and misery into your social media timeline. you can just unfollow. its free and the cops can't stop you
