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

  1. 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

  2. Mehr Förderung für Newcomer: Popakademie Baden Württemberg erweitert RegioNet Programm

    Die Popakademie Baden Württemberg baut ihr RegioNet Programm ab 2025 deutlich aus. Der Landesanteil wird mit Mitteln der Popländ-Initiative des Ministeriums für Wissenschaft, Forschung und Kunst auf rund 200.000 Euro verdoppelt. Damit können die regionalen Popbüros und Popzentren künftig auch Mikroförderungen für Popschaffende anbieten.

    backstagepro.de/thema/mehr-foe

    #förderung #newcomer #pop #akademie #bw #regio

  3. Mehr Förderung für Newcomer: Popakademie Baden Württemberg erweitert RegioNet Programm

    Die Popakademie Baden Württemberg baut ihr RegioNet Programm ab 2025 deutlich aus. Der Landesanteil wird mit Mitteln der Popländ-Initiative des Ministeriums für Wissenschaft, Forschung und Kunst auf rund 200.000 Euro verdoppelt. Damit können die regionalen Popbüros und Popzentren künftig auch Mikroförderungen für Popschaffende anbieten.

    backstagepro.de/thema/mehr-foe

    #förderung #newcomer #pop #akademie #bw #regio

  4. NM #primaryschool students will take the “#AI enhanced” Amira reading test (replacing iStation). When asked how the AI will be able to correctly compute #newcomer accents, speech impediments, etc. to accurately determine #student #fluency and placement, the trainer - I kid you not - opened up the Amira AI chat to ask it how it worked. It received a very confident answer about using multiple measures. This happened in front of my actual eyeballs. #education #elementary #newmexico #assessment

  5. Amazing acceptance speech (in English) by "Sonic Interventions" starting at about 39 minutes into the video #StopTheGenocide

    Their powerful 13 minute performance starts at 14:15

    How many traumatised generations...
    How many refugee camps...
    How many genocides will it take for the revolution to thrive?

    #Gaza
    #Palestine
    #solidarity
    #genocide #refugees
    #HowManyGenocides
    #Jazz
    #JazzPreis #Köln #Deutschland
    #music #Musik #DeutscherJazzPreis
    #SonicInterventions #newcomer

    youtube.com/live/CMIbIZPv6Bk?s