Science Daily : Articles on Plastics and Polymers
The two articles were posted to Mastodon.
Firstly a look at the problem of Micro-plastics
Secondly an article on Polymers
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Science,#ScienceDaily,#Articles,#MicroPlastic,#Polymers,#Chemistry, #Plastics,#Research,#Mastodon,#SocialMedia,#TheYearOfTheFediverse
Collaborative editing
One of the really great things about the Fediverse is that others are willing to chip in and help. I was working on another article for the Beach Hut [1]. As this was about Mastodon and the Fediverse. I asked for help.
Pasting a draft in to a Disroot [2] pad and then pasting a link in to mastodon so that others could collaborate editing, within an hour the article was pretty much completed with others users connecting and editing.
This was real time collaboration using free software and also open source software tools. The article will now be submitted for hopeful publication in the January 2022 issue.
You can find out more about Mastodon at [3].
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#Fediverse,#Disroot,#Collaborative,#Editing,#Mastodon, #TheYearOfTheFediverse,#Promotion
Citing posts on Mastodon
As I have an interest in Science, and am on a STEM based Mastodon instance 'qoto' [1]. I suggested a feature which helps users cite individual posts (if writing a paper for example).
This has now been added to the issue tracker [2]. The actual issue suggestion can be found at [3]. At present this is a very rough idea.
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Electronic dating violence starts as early as 12
This is an interesting article
We could do with proper discussions on how to deal with this.
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#Mastodon.#Online,#Dating.,#Harrassment,#Violence,#CHildren,#Youngpeople,m#Teens.
Mental health and the fediverse
Mental health has hit the headlines more often since the Covid 19 pandemic hit the world People at home with little contact with other people.
Couple this with the impact of centralised social media services, giving people personalised content, which in some cases is causing more problems for people of all ages.
Shout Out
To this end, this article is more of a shout out to organisations who offer mental health services to set up on the fediverse. Services such as a Mastodon and Peertube could provide an excellent platform to share your message and connect.audience who may need help
As a user of decentralised social media I do find people who need help, you can tell by what they write, their tone that they need to perhaps talk to someone for advice.
This post also comes as a result of my own attempts to ask people on to the Fediverse. I have had conversations on Mastodon and there is support for this, but that is not enough. If we want something then it is up to people to be pro-active and act, rather than waiting for expecting someone else to do it.
So I am taking action and trying to do something about this.
Not Alone
Signing up to the fediverse is easy, however you are not alone, people can and will help you with this.
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A few useful links
The following is shared from Mastodon. Hopefully will help spread the word little.
Ade Malsasa Akbar @[email protected]
https://floss.social/@ademalsasa
Mastodon Posts June 2020
Alternatives (added 11/8/2021)
Switching https://switching.software #Privacy Tools https://privacytools.io #PRISM Break https://prism-break.org android: Droid Break https://droid-break.info #FreeSoftware Directory https://directory.fsf.org/wiki/Category:Collection #Games https://libregamewiki.org signal: Secure #Messengers https://securemessagingapps.com #Photography https://pixls.us/software #Distros https://computefreely.org fediverse: #Social https://fediverse.party
Update 25/4/2022
This link was sent to me in April 2022. Not had time to check it out yet. Privacy tools – search history
#FreeSoftWare #FOSS #Mastodon,#Games,#Social,#GNU,#Photography,#Android,#Communication(s),#Privacy
Climate change threatens European forests
Interesting article posted to the Fediverse by the Science Daily bot.
So trees are essential for several things including CO2 reduction, so we are chopping down trees and also pumping more CO2 in to the atmosphere, which is causing climate change, which in turn is also causing trees to die.
One way to sow the seeds of our own destruction. Once Humans are gone, I think the Earth will recover, probably quite quickly.
We have seen evidence of how wildlife takes back control, during the first lock down in March –> May 2020, with no cars or people around, villages had animals take over. See BBC news link below.
Well worth reading the article, for a picture of what is happening.
Citation information:
Max-Planck-Gesellschaft. “Climate change threatens European forests: Well over half of Europe's forests are potentially at risk from windthrow, forest fire and insect attacks.” ScienceDaily. ScienceDaily, 1 March 2021. .
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#YearOfTheFediverse,#Mastodon,#ScienceDaily,#Climate, #Change#Trees,#Dying,#Forests,#MaxPlanckInstituteforBiogeochemistry,
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Fediverse Services
The #Fediverse list of services is growing: * #Mastodon – #microblogging #twitterdown * #Peertube – #videosharing #youtube * #Pixelfed – #photosharing #instagram * #Friendica – #socialnetwork #facebook * #Pleroma – #microblogging #twitter * #Lemmy – #linkaggregator #reddit * #Nextcloudsocial – #filesharing #filehosting * #Mobilizon – #eventplanner #facebookevents * #Funkwhale & #Reel2Bits – #audiosharing #soundcloud * #WriteFreely – #Federated #Blogging #Plume #diaspora – #Decentralised #SocialMedia #Facebook #Alternative #GNUsocial – #Federated #MicroBlogging #misskey – #Distributed #Microblogging #LBRY – #Video #Sharing #Decentralized #Blockchain Coming soon * #flockingbird – #professionalnetworking #LinkedIn
Others not on the Fediverse but still useful
#OpenStreetMap – alt to google / bing maps
#fediverse,#activitypub,#services
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FOSS And Crafts Podcast
If you enjoy the LibreLounge podcast [2], Christopher Lemmer Webber [6] appears to have left this, and started up a new podcast called FOSS AND Crafts [3]. This is a “A podcast about free software, free culture, and making things together”
This is something that is worth checking out, as with LibreLounge you can subscribe to the podcast and also download on .ogg [5] and .mp3 file formats.
I wrote a post in December on how to subscribe to LibreLounge using vlc [7] so the procedure is the same.
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1 Free Software Foundation 2 LibreLounge 3 FOSS AND Crafts 4 Mastodon 5 FSF Ogg vorbis page 6 Christopher Lemmer Webber 7 Subscribe how_to
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#YearOfTheFediverse,#Podcast,#vlc.#Subscription,#rss, #Media,#help,#support,#FOSSandCrafts,#Mastodon,#ogg, #mp3
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