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Hi! This may be a really dumb question but why is it limited to certain areas?

Cctv on blockchain?

Big money is already losing some money, AFAIK. I'm in Amsterdam and there's news every other week of a big company or organization moving to Amsterdam _already_, just in case brexi…

Check out the episode blame gameby revisionist history ( https://leopard.megaphone.fm/PP3573562692.mp3?updated=148063... ) In short: the likely explanation for those failures, rega…

To combine what two sister comments said: you can create multiple, but you can follow people anywhere. So you don't _need_ to create multiple, but you could. Like subreddits. Some …

>It might be a nice idea for Mastodon advocates to create general topic instances, that may feel more approachable for newcomers. Yeah, the instance names are often quite silly, bu…

>Who decides how content is relayed? I mean things are relayed if you ask for them to be. Two cases, pretty much: (1) someone is following someone else, content is asked for by the…

>who in their right mind thinks about "servers" outside of tech circles? the way a lot of subreddits are used, for example, is intuitive enough to people who get used to the concep…

Fair enough. The current influx has made this worse (lots of metaposting about joining mastodon), but that depends on who/what you're looking for. Try another instance, maybe? That…

>fewer users that's just a bad point to make? I mean of course a newer platform will have fewer. UI is a good point (although I prefer it this way). But there's Pinafore[0] or Halc…

Plume is a WIP, and has been discussed here before: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17411173

It's not mentioned but it depends on the instance how long the character limit is (as in, it's configurable). default is 500, but there's some with a limit of 5000, or 666 (some wi…

>Because Mastodon is full of like-thinking people, and the ones they'd strongly disagree with aren't joining. or they're on other instances. there's some far-right political instan…

so join an instance with lax moderation. or set up your own. if you're thinking "that's expensive", look into Pleroma, it can run on a $1 a month server or a raspi. Set something u…

Kiiiind of, but there's quite some general instances. Most of them are more like a "here's some people interested in the same subjects as you". So yes, on my (politically motivated…

You make a good point (and one that's being worked on being overcome, better onboarding and whatever). But consider twitter: >Compare that to getting started on Twitter: pick a use…

>Look, you want me to get excited about Mastodon? Show me something exciting I can do with it that I can't do with[…] Have a healthy conversation? I know some people who stopped or…

Which is just a proxy for left/blue vs right/red, and since their post is on twitter --> mastodon that would be a really weird way to talk about it?

>I skimmed over the rest of the article and it appears to include an "Actually It's Not Technically CP" argument, so I think I probably made the right choice here. You'd do well to…

Halcyon and Pinafore are both just front-ends for existing mastodon accounts (like brutaldon). Pleroma is a different technology, but federates the same. As is Misskey; depending o…

I've been using mastodon for a few months and it depends on your instance, really. A lot are more "this is the type of people you'd expect here" (tech people, lgbt people, art peop…

(great article!) I feel like there's a little bit missing: the federated aspect. Depending on what type of art you make, you might find you are more findable (and able to find peop…

>On an equally important note, why is it that people out there assume that ANY form of electronic communication is impervious from government surveillance? The reality is that if a…

Have you considered going to a therapist yourself?

This got me curious, so I looked a few things up on pubmed. Here's some articles that piqued my interest: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24086443 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/…