misschienaasappel @lidia_p@post.lurk.org

I am very happy to announce that the new issue of the Pervasive Labour Union zine, 'Fed Up!', is finally(!) out and can be consulted here: http://ilu.servus.at/category/13-fed-up.html
Many thanks to contributors @eliotberriot, @Gargron , @decentral1se, @entreprecariat (and indirectly @rra and @fcr), @pip Julia Janssen, Inge Hoonte and Louisa Bufardeci, Gui Machiavelli, and Martin Schotten.

#fediverse #federation #zine #labour

@bau @jboy @Jmrzenno @Chun @signe If you know of other people who could feel at home on lurk, please invite them by generating an invite code: https://post.lurk.org/invites

Our moderation policy can be found here: https://post.lurk.org/terms

Mastodon has quite granular visibility settings for your posts, you find them in the message compose field. Here is how they work: https://dev.glitch.social/@cassolotl/99942225799392803. In addition to those we have another option (the chain link) which makes your posts not federate, meaning they are only visible on post.lurk.org.

It is possible to switch to different color themes and even a multi-column layout in your preferences: https://post.lurk.org/settings/preferences/appearance

If you want to move to another instance you can migrate your social graph here: https://post.lurk.org/settings/profile

If you wanna do some serious reading on what else is possible, here's a good place to start: https://github.com/joyeusenoelle/GuideToMastodon

Lastly if you have any questions or issues you can contact me or one of the other mods:
@320x200 or @rra
happy lurking!

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Hello @bau, @jboy, @Jmrzenno, @Chun and @signe and welcome to post.lurk.org!

The Fediverse and Mastodon are not super intuitive to get started with so here is an introduction in two parts!

The most difficult thing is to discover content and people you find interesting.

For that there are generally two strategies: first you can post and subscribe to hashtags. This is currently the best way to find particular conversations. For example you could look at or post to #fediverse to find others interested in that topic. Most commonly #introductions is used to describe briefly what you are interested in, that way people can follow you. If you do I can boost you for visibility.

The second strategy is to make use of both the 'Local' and 'Federated'/'Global' timelines. The local one shows all posts by people on post.lurk.org. The 'Global' timeline shows all posts by people followed by people on lurk.org but who are themselves on a different part of the network. See here for a visual explanation:
https://dev.glitch.social/@cassolotl/99942225799392803

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@ofelia @VocalConstructivists @eaon If you know of other people who could feel at home on lurk, please invite them by generating an invite code: https://post.lurk.org/invites

Our moderation policy can be found here: https://post.lurk.org/terms

Mastodon has quite granular visibility settings for your posts, you find them in the message compose field. Here is how they work: https://dev.glitch.social/@cassolotl/99942225799392803. In addition to those we have another option (the chain link) which makes your posts not federate, meaning they are only visible on post.lurk.org.

It is possible to switch to different color themes and even a multi-column layout in your preferences: https://post.lurk.org/settings/preferences/appearance

If you want to move to another instance you can migrate your social graph here: https://post.lurk.org/settings/profile

If you wanna do some serious reading on what else is possible, here's a good place to start: https://github.com/joyeusenoelle/GuideToMastodon

Lastly if you have any questions or issues you can contact me or one of the other mods:
@320x200 or @rra
happy lurking!

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Hello @ofelia, @VocalConstructivists and @eaon and welcome to post.lurk.org!

The Fediverse and Mastodon are not super intuitive to get started with so here is an introduction in two parts!

The most difficult thing is to discover content and people you find interesting.

For that there are generally two strategies: first you can post and subscribe to hashtags. This is currently the best way to find particular conversations. For example you could look at or post to #fediverse to find others interested in that topic. Most commonly #introductions is used to describe briefly what you are interested in, that way people can follow you. If you do I can boost you for visibility.

The second strategy is to make use of both the 'Local' and 'Federated'/'Global' timelines. The local one shows all posts by people on post.lurk.org. The 'Global' timeline shows all posts by people followed by people on lurk.org but who are themselves on a different part of the network. See here for a visual explanation:
https://dev.glitch.social/@cassolotl/99942225799392803

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@ludictech @NetworkMusicFestival If you know of other people who could feel at home on lurk, please invite them by generating an invite code: https://post.lurk.org/invites

Our moderation policy can be found here: https://post.lurk.org/terms

Mastodon has quite granular visibility settings for your posts, you find them in the message compose field. Here is how they work: https://dev.glitch.social/@cassolotl/99942225799392803. In addition to those we have another option (the chain link) which makes your posts not federate, meaning they are only visible on post.lurk.org.

It is possible to switch to different color themes and even a multi-column layout in your preferences: https://post.lurk.org/settings/preferences/appearance

If you want to move to another instance you can migrate your social graph here: https://post.lurk.org/settings/profile

If you wanna do some serious reading on what else is possible, here's a good place to start: https://github.com/joyeusenoelle/GuideToMastodon

Lastly if you have any questions or issues you can contact me or one of the other mods:
@320x200 or @rra
happy lurking!

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Hello @ludictech and @NetworkMusicFestival and welcome to post.lurk.org!

The Fediverse and Mastodon are not super intuitive to get started with so here is an introduction in two parts!

The most difficult thing is to discover content and people you find interesting.

For that there are generally two strategies: first you can post and subscribe to hashtags. This is currently the best way to find particular conversations. For example you could look at or post to #fediverse to find others interested in that topic. Most commonly #introductions is used to describe briefly what you are interested in, that way people can follow you. If you do I can boost you for visibility.

The second strategy is to make use of both the 'Local' and 'Federated'/'Global' timelines. The local one shows all posts by people on post.lurk.org. The 'Global' timeline shows all posts by people followed by people on lurk.org but who are themselves on a different part of the network. See here for a visual explanation:
https://dev.glitch.social/@cassolotl/99942225799392803

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🌱 This Sunday, June 28th, there will be another Read & Repair session at #varia! 🌱

The guests for the upcoming Sunday are the custodians of the Digital Solidarity Networks pad (https://pad.vvvvvvaria.org/digital-solidarity-networks). Digital Solidarity Networks started as a listing of tools, practices and readings for convivial digital solidarity amongst individuals, institutions and collectives. The initiative lives as an online collaborative writing space, where people come together to collect and discuss examples of collective digital alternative practices.

You can join us both physically and virtually. Read more about the session here: http://varia.zone/en/rr-digi-soli-networks.html

@ccl @manetta

The new special issue of the Pervasive Labour Union zine is out! Edited together with Miriam Rasch and Kimmy Spreeuwenberg, "Urgent Publishing Debris" aims to provide new readings of the Making Public: Urgent Publishing Conference by creating remixes of the official archival sources with the 'unofficial' debris circulating around it. You can read it here:

https://ilu.servus.at/category/15-special-issue-urgent-publishing-debris.html

Welcome to post.lurk.org, @exstral and @hp !

Here's a small intro to help you get started on using #mastodon :

Besides the Local and Federated Timelines, hashtags are a good way to find content. Try typing #ornitology, for example, in the search bar. Posts containing that hashtag should now show up.
Using hashtags on your own posts is also a good strategy if you want them to be found by people with similar interests.

If you are using the multi column interface (Preferences > Appearance > Enable advanced web interface), posts containing a given hashtag can be pinned to your default view. To achieve this, select the 'show settings' button on the top right of the column.

To help you further, here are some guides by @cassolotl:

Toot Privacy:
https://dev.glitch.social/@cassolotl/99942218361780184

Finding posts on instances that haven't reached post.lurk.org yet:
https://dev.glitch.social/@cassolotl/99942232570954068

Consider writing an #introductions post so people interested in you or your work can find you!

You can invite people to lurk using invite codes: https://post.lurk.org/invites

We're not using vanilla mastodon but rather the Hometown mod by @darius (https://github.com/hometown-fork/hometown ) which allows for local-only posts, meaning they don't federate to the wider network.

For questions/issues, get in touch with the mod team: @320x200 @rra and me!

Happy lurking!

This is my stream-of-consciousness dispatch from the quarantine (part of a growing series with, among others, @entreprecariat (initiator)):
https://networkcultures.org/blog/2020/04/14/dispatches-from-the-quarantine-04-lidia-pereira/