This tweet had gained a bit of traction, some people were sympathetic with Simon that this has happened (and especially in this way) and the BILE that others quote tweeted Simon’s tweet with is horrendous.
Guess any sort of human interaction has just gone out the window then?
But if there’s one thing that @SBkcrn has done is create and develop a wonderful feature for Twitter for its diverse communities to interact with one another.
And for that I’m grateful to him for allowing me access to the feature and create the Genealogy Twitter community.
Will also admit, not sure where Twitter is going to after this… 🤔
And also to see this impact for this, look at the #OneTeam hashtag. — you’ll see the extent of all of this unfolding there.
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So as time progresses, I've seen people wondering if Twitter does go down in a ball of fire or people leave, where to go?
One of these suggestions was Mastodon.
While it's been described as not an alternative to Twitter, it's very similar to how it operates. You can respond, boost (retweet) and favourite (like) tweets and even see all the hustle and bustle of Twitter.
There are also some improvements to Mastodon that aren't on Twitter.
One of these things is the character count in a post. You can have 500 characters in a post on M compared to 280 characters on T. Another thing is there are no ads or algorithm-suggested/popular tweets, who you follow is all that will appear in your timeline unless...
And I shall! Second tech tip of the day, who would’ve thought it! So #genealogy folks who have either an iPhone or iPad, this is for you. (Android folks, stay tuned - I may have a similar way)
Firstly, what you’ll want to do is open up TweetDeck on Safari on your device (it has to be Safari, from what I’ve tried) and make sure you sign into your account. Once you’ve done that, and your TweetDeck has appeared. Hit the share button (box with an up arrow - as shown)
Once you’ve done that, scroll down the options and select “Add to Home Screen”.
Here you go, @nellstra (and anyone on Twitter wanting to know how) - here's how you make a Twitter moment.
A thread.
First things first, this can only be done on the web version of Twitter. It can't be done on a Twitter app. So when you open up Twitter, on the menu on the left hand side, click 'More'.
Secondly, on the many options that'll appear, click 'Moments'.
Really thought provoking thread about grief from @ScientistSoph and how we should normalise talking about grief and one thing I’d also like to raise is that grief affects people in different ways and different durations.
Back in January 2017, my inspiration for starting my genealogy journey Padraig - my grand uncle died at the age of 85. I never met him many times but while I was there at the funeral home, there was one person who I didn’t see there - my grandfather. Turns out he wasn’t doing…
…too well and was dealing with a number of health issues which young, naive 13 year old me thought he would recover from. Young, naive old me didn’t think that he would lose his grandfather in less than 5 months that year. Thinking back, I can remember…
On Wednesday, January 26th - myself and @mishjholman are setting you a challenge. We want as many people interested in genealogy to tell your genealogy story either in the form of a blog post, Facebook/Instagram post, Twitter thread or any form that you like!
We'd love to read about how you got into genealogy, your favourite discovery/part about genealogy and where do you hope to see the genealogy world/community/industry in the future? We hope to have all posts showing on social media throughout January 26th (so you can schedule them
for that date if you wish!) and then share it on social media with the hashtag #MyGenealogyStory or tag me on social media on the relevant platform:
A thread... but one I feel is quite important to be discussed.
As family historians/genealogists, we are often taught how to research in the past. But what about the here and now? At the #GenealogyForAll discussion I co-hosted a few weeks ago, the topic of gender... /1
...identities as well as the different kinds of relationships [can't take credit and don't want to as they weren't my ideas, just merely wanted to share these very valid points] Firstly, when someone fills out their profile on a family history site, they are given three... /2
options: male, female and unknown. And one might not identify as any of these three options. What do we do for this? On the topic of relationships, I've family who are in a relationship but aren't married, yet if you choose another option other than 'married' it puts them... /3