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Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #favourite, aggregated by home.social.

  1. #dating a #nerd is exciting. A few months have gone by since then, and I’m #learning things that weren’t on my #agenda . Do I need this? No, but now I can’t do without it either 😇 #youneverstoplearning

    Thanks to my #favourite bug 😘@tbaldauf

  2. #dating a #nerd is exciting. A few months have gone by since then, and I’m #learning things that weren’t on my #agenda . Do I need this? No, but now I can’t do without it either 😇 #youneverstoplearning

    Thanks to my #favourite bug 😘@tbaldauf

  3. Happy #Friday.

    This is my #favourite colour, spectacularly displayed in the shocking vibrancy of this beautifully unfolding oriental ooppy flower.

    It looks like a volcanic explosion, neatly crimped and folded, in an Issey Miyake fashion show.

    It reminds me of the 'Flaming June' portrait by Frederic Leighton, but with more bang for your buck.

    If there is an artist out there who can identify this heavenly hue for me then I woukd be most appreciative.

    ☺️🧡

  4. Dear Friends of all that right (not right or left wing you muppet) with the world, 🦞

    I love
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    101 - pet peeves
    #Dead and #Dad jokes
    #food #eaten or #eating or #preparing
    #different #cultures
    #cooperative #ventures
    punk
    #lo-tech
    #hacking our own
    #improving #health
    dealing with
    #hardship
    spiritual
    #discernment
    #crazy #ideas that make #sense
    4K
    #virtual #strolls, without commentary

    So many people have nothing
    #worth being disempowered by. Always the way. So find the #happy, #positive, #solutions. The #quieter, #maturity. The #experienced help, ally, direction. I do every day. It is the most #worthwhile thing I can do and #share ...

  5. I hear there's another swell of newcomers to the Fediverse / Mastodon. I have no idea what "forkiverse" means, but new people means an opportunity for a reminder:

    There is no algorithm here. You see nothing but the posts from accounts and hashtags you follow, and things that those accounts boost.

    This means: use the boost button! Liberally! Clicking "favourite" just gives a private thumbs-up to the poster, and has no effect on anything else. The boost button is what makes things happen in the fediverse. It's how you get exposed to new things. It's how you find interesting new people and subjects to follow. It's how you learn fascinating stuff about subjects you didn't know existed from people you don't know, half a world away.

    Boost. Boost often. If it's interesting, boost it. If you think others should see it, boost it. If it makes you laugh, boost it.

    Boosting isn't rude. It doesn't make you like the bloviating arsehole in that workshop who thinks everyone came to hear the sound of his voice. You aren't monopolizing peoples' feeds, or manipulating them.

    We need it. Please boost things!

    #boost #favourite #fediverse #mastodon #newcomer #reminder #NoAlgorithm

  6. @jbc Hey Jamie I've been here 4-ish years, it seems like the #favourite is not used all that widely but I use it extensively simply as a "like" or "appreciate" - I see it as positive feedback to the poster.

    I only #boost stuff that I want my followers to see, and I kinda curate my account towards fedi-privacy-security news/discussion, and a smattering of trans-queer politics. (Should make another acct for cats/funnys/activism I guess...)

    I ALWAYS have favourited what I boost - cos otherwise I wouldn't boost it 🙂

  7. These are a few of my #favourite things (circa 1982):

    • Programmers—Thompson, Ritchie, Kernighan
    • Terminals—VT100, HP2624, HP2645
    • Operating System—UNIX System III

    youtu.be/XvDZLjaCJuw?si=TDkmgI

  8. they only thing still missing is to #favourite / #like a currently playing song with a #keyboard #shortcut in @gnome . anyone has an idea how this can be done? audio controls (play/pause and next/previous track) work out of the box

  9. An important #taboo that we must address as a society:

    'Most parents won't admit it, but a surprising number have a 'hidden #favourite' and the way they treat that child compared to their siblings can have long-lasting impacts on their mental health as adults and on family relationships.'

    bbc.com/future/article/2023080 #siblings #depression

  10. After a lot of considerations (and a long list of #Favourite birds) I think the Jungle Babbler is definitely on the top - they are everywhere and always in a flock of 6-7, and very noisy! I might end up sharing a bunch of #birds since they are all deserving of #BirdOfTheDay #Photography #nature

    RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:36h6ttx2g23zqr4accilbvo7/post/3lzvlrwttfk23

  11. Le thème du #BirdOfTheDay est #Favourite
    Difficile de choisir mais une de mes espèces préférés à photographier est l’échasse blanche, si mignonne et élégante!
    #Photography #Bird #Nature #BirdPhotography #UnJourUnePhoto #BlueSkyMonday #HimantopusHimantopus #BlackWingedStilt

  12. A little reminder / tip about how sharing on Mastodon works.

    Remember, there's no algorithm. Nothing is "selected" for you. Everything you see in your timeline is things that you specifically follow - people, hashtags, etc. You see the posts of people you follow, plus things from others that they boost.

    Hitting the "favourite" button doesn't contribute to this at all. It's a silent nod towards the author of the post you favourited - nobody else sees it, and it doesn't affect who sees the post.

    If you liked something - share it! If you hit the "boost" button instead of, or in addition to, the favourite button, then that will share it with people who follow you.

    The fediverse runs on boosts - without them, there would be virtually nothing in your timeline to see.

    So go ahead and boost more stuff! Your followers will thank you.

    #favourite #boost #favorite #Mastodon #Fediverse #share