So I guess I've forgone my #Introduction post for a while now, and @ada has shamed me into doing it finally!
My name is Kaity (she/her), and I currently reside in Gubbi Gubbi country in what is otherwise called Burpengary, Queensland in Australia.
I'm a-47 year old woman from Australia. I'm #Trans of the #TransFemme variety. I'm wife to my spouse @internutter, girlfriend to @ada, mother to 2 kids in their late teens/early twenties and owned by 3 cats now.
I'm a #TechWizardess when I'm not otherwise being a #SocialButterfly.
My current focus is on improving the software (#Hajkey, a derivative of #Calckey ❤️
) that @ada and I use to run our #microfedi instance #BlahajZone.
It's totally #Fetch! As a smaller LGBTIAQ+ friendly and focussed instance, it's more intimate and we're welcoming to all friends of #Blahaj.
You should totally come and check it out if you're looking for an instance to join or migrate to.
Other than that, I work as a Team Manager/Tech Lead for a small software engineering team in the field of Innovation and R&D for a large UK-based multinational company, and then in my offtime I try to make the world a better place.
When I'm not busy casting my technological magery, I'm looking to go out and have fun, go spend time with my friends, do some shopping, act as a matchmaker and just generally having fun being me.
I love spending time on this fantastic community that we are all building here on the fediverse and the friends I have made here. I can't believe this wholesome place is here, and I'm so glad to be a part of it, and especially that you are here to be a part of it with us.
Moved to a #Iceshrimp, #Firefish or #Misskey instance and missing watching #Hashtags? Well do I have something for you!!
Antennas.
Antennas are effectively custom timelines. They work approximately like watching hashtags, but they can look for normal text as well. You can add as many phrases as you like and the results can be filtered with an ignore list.
You can make an antenna that just shows posts from specific users and notifies you when they post something new, you can make an antenna that collects posts containing or excluding certain key words, or you can make an antenna that collects only posts with files attached. You can even make an antenna consisting of “Posts from specific users” with “Show replies” checked.
Setting up
You can set up antenna by going to the More! section on your sidebar, and selecting Antennas. Press Add + to create your first. This is where you can also manage & edit previously created antennas.
Images:
1) Where to find More! on the sidebar (highlighted)
2) Where to find Antennas in the More! menu (highlighted)
3) My antennas page showing *Add +* button and my previously created antennas.
4 & 5) When you click Add + you get this page to set up your antenna. I've set one up as my Calckey antenna and another to alert me when PastaThief posts. There's a lot to go through here. Expect a separate post sometime soon.
6 & 7) What those antenna feeds look like.
8) On our progressive web app you can access your antennas by selecting the UFO in the top right corner.
9) Clicking on the UFO button brings up all my antennas and the link to manage/edit them
#Mastodon #Fediverse #Feditips #Calckey #Hajkey
I plan on writing up a fuller explanation soon, but happy in the meantime to help anyone wanting to set them up.
A big hello and welcome to all the new people who've joined #blahajzone the past couple of days. It's great to have you here!
Our admins are @ada and @supakaity.
Ada leads the front of house and moderation side of Blåhaj Zone, while Kaity leads the back-end and maintains Hajkey for us & a small group of other instances.
Our server runs a fork of Calckey that we call #Hajkey (pron. hi-key). We'll soon be merging our code with #Iceshrimp. A summary of the features unique to Hajkey.
Here's the link to our Community Documents such as our Community Guidelines, Terms of Service, and Privacy Policy.
If you're wanting to migrate from a #Mastodon account, here's a step by step instruction guide for moving to Blahaj.zone.
We also have a #Lemmy server available for signups at https://lemmy.blahaj.zone and a #kbin server that's soon to be open, for those looking for #Reddit - like communities. They can also be interacted with from here or other places in the Fediverse.
I'm neither a mod nor admin here, but am happy to help if I can. I've written this about how the five main timelines work and this popular post about #Antennas.
If you haven't already, please take the time to post an #introduction. Here's my #intro here and I've attached a #selfie with #eyecontact
I look forward to getting to know some of you more.
Kind love xx
Jo (she/her/they/them)
#Fediverse #FindAServer #Migration #Feditips #Welcome #Firefish #Misskey