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You Can Now Follow Mastodon Users on Threads (Sort Of)
Threads users can finally follow Mastodon accounts—sort of. The change, part of Thread’s multi-year plan to integrate with the Fediverse, means it’s now possible to find Mastodon and other compatible social media accounts in Threads. You can also click the follow button, though not much will happen if you do—posts from those accounts don’t show up in Threads, either in…
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Use Bluesky Network Analyzer to Find More Accounts to Follow
I may be more than mildly obsessed with Bluesky, the new-ish social media network that is taking the internet by storm, and serving as a safe haven for many former X users fleeing Elon Musk’s increasingly unpleasant virtual cesspit (I may be editorializing a bit too much here). It’s just that I haven’t had this much fun using social media…
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Use Bluesky Directory to Find the Best Starter Packs of People to Follow
If you’re tuned in to digital culture news at all, it’s been impossible to miss the chatter about Bluesky over the past month. The fledgling social media site—which looks and acts a lot like Twitter did a decade ago, long before Elon Musk bought it and renamed it X—is exploding in popularity, doubling in size over the past two months…
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Google Photos is getting an Updates page to help you follow changes to shared albums
Google Photos is making it easier to follow activity in your shared albums with a new “Updates” section. In the new section, you’ll be able to see notifications like updates to a shared album and updates to a conversation within Google Photos, according to a support post from Google. The Updates section can be found by tapping a bell icon…
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Can You Fax a Check? Yes. Follow These Steps to Do it Safely
There are probably a dozen ways of sending money that are easier than faxing a check. Even so, it is still possible and legal to send a check with fax — and you might find yourself in a situation where it’s your only choice. If you ever need to fax a check, it’s important to follow a few steps to…
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Microsoft tells staff it won’t follow Amazon or Dell on enforcing a return to the office – but there’s a catch
Microsoft has assured employees it isn’t considering any changes to its flexible work policy, although this is provided productivity doesn’t drop. The firm’s cloud and AI EVP Scott Guthrie told staff of Microsoft’s position at an internal meeting, according to Business Insider, who cited two staff members present in the meeting. The staff members asked not to be identified. According…
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How to follow live sports scores on your iPhone lockscreen
When it introduced iOS 16, Apple added a feature called Live Activities as part of a broader update to notifications and the lockscreen. Live Activities is a little different from a standard push notification or widget — it offers a way for apps to put real-time information in a persistent notification bubble on your lockscreen. It’s especially useful for sports…
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How to Follow a Training Program for a Marathon or Half Marathon, Even When Nothing Is Going Right
When you’re training for a race, a good training plan is key. With a plan, you’ll have all your runs planned out for you, with just the right mix of long runs, speed work, and easy mileage to get you to the start line strong and ready. But what do you do when the plan doesn’t match up with your…
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Amazon’s RTO mandate likely to boomerang, other companies ‘should not follow suit’ – Computerworld
Amazon’s planned move to five days a week flies in the face of a positive employee experience, according to Gownder. “Consistently, studies show that hybrid [work] drives higher levels of employee productivity,” Gownder said. “Offices have their own distractions, plus onerous commutes. Employees do best at individual level work when they can customize their environments and schedules. Employee experience, Gownder…
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Flipboard is going to let you follow fediverse accounts right inside the app
Flipboard is making good on a major fediverse promise. Late last year, at the same time it announced it would be switching user accounts to ActivityPub, Flipboard said it planned to let users follow users on federated platforms that used ActivityPub from the Flipboard app. Starting Tuesday, that feature is here, meaning that you can follow people from places like…
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