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https://pleroma.dereferenced.org/users/kaniini
Lain, developer of Pleroma, is also rad:
@lain@pleroma.soykaf.com https://pleroma.soykaf.com/users/lain
Mastodon looks great, but one newbie Q holds me back - what if you join, participate, and after some years your the instance/community upon which you built goes under? Are you starting again from scratch somewhere else? Thanks for any help!
As others have said you can backup your data, which is a good rule of thumb everywhere.
Was Sage Sharp previously known as Sarah? Did they transition? I just want to know if it's the same person. It would be a big coincidence if they were not.
People https://mastodon.social/@eevee - good tech blogger https://mastodon.art/@Curator - admin of an art-based instance who boosts lots of cool art https://framapiaf.org/@davidrevoy - artist behind https://peppercarrot.com https://octodon.social/@emersion - friend of mine who works on cool projects with me Orgs https://mastodon.xyz/@Liberapay https://mastodon.art/@Krita https://mastodon.technology/@kde Bots https://…
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Its a recent new server software and client for the StatusNet "fediverse". StatusNet and the protocols it uses are very old, and a small community of users have been there for like a decade. Its a federated social network. It is like a cross between Twitter and email. Anyone can start a server and set their own community rules and guide lines. If you or someone on your server remotely follows someone they like on ano…
> It has a troubled history Stop there; this is where your comment goes off the rails. I'm an admin (disclosure - my blocklist: https://github.com/kstrauser/freeradical/blob/master/content... ) and see almost none of the far-left censorship you describe, particularly on content. You want to be pro-Trump? Go for it, as long as you're polite and respectful. Sure, people will argue with you, but that's their right to be…
There is a market for closed instances, as some people don't want their opinions challenged or to see things they don't like and it's awesome that there's a way to get that. It just shouldn't be the norm because it discourages federation.
Edit: FWIW judging by your blog post and block list you arent an example of what I was talking about so don't take it that way. There are plenty of reasonable Mastodon servers now that repect dialogue it just had a rough start.
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Its a recent new server software and client for the StatusNet "fediverse". StatusNet and the protocols it uses are very old, and a small community of users have been there for like a decade. Its a federated social network. It is like a cross between Twitter and email. Anyone can start a server and set their own community rules and guide lines. If you or someone on your server remotely follows someone they like on ano…
If you want a freezepeach instance there are lots of them, and I wish you luck. Frankly, social media is a place where I want a bit of a "bubble", and by "bubble" I mean "blocking people and communities that annoy me".
Othetwise our shared social network will not grow
I think people will assume their data is safer with Mastadon. But in a way, your data might even be more insecure, as you have no idea what and who the Instance owner is, and what they will do with the data. Also, now the responsibility of securing the platform is in the hands of the instance owner, whom you have no idea how they have their platform setup. FYI, an open source project called Drupal, was recently affec…
> FYI, an open source project called Drupal, was recently affected with a a bug where millions of sites could be hacked.
Goiven that Drupal is a CMS, something completely different from a social network, this is like asking that you have seen an airship burn, so how are fish avoiding being eaten.
I think people will assume their data is safer with Mastadon. But in a way, your data might even be more insecure, as you have no idea what and who the Instance owner is, and what they will do with the data. Also, now the responsibility of securing the platform is in the hands of the instance owner, whom you have no idea how they have their platform setup. FYI, an open source project called Drupal, was recently affec…
As I am the instance owner, I am pretty sure my data is secure, both against prying eyes as well as against data rot. > FYI, an open source project called Drupal, was recently affected with a a bug where millions of sites could be hacked. Goiven that Drupal is a CMS, something completely different from a social network, this is like asking that you have seen an airship burn, so how are fish avoiding being eaten.
For example, can I ask you how you secure your server? Would your server be able to pass an Openvas/Nessus penetration test, have you even performed one? What are your server update policies like? Do you have any external logging server? If not, how do you know someone malicious didn't login to your server and stole your data and erased his tracks?
There are a lot more variables when it comes to security and data.
People https://mastodon.social/@eevee - good tech blogger https://mastodon.art/@Curator - admin of an art-based instance who boosts lots of cool art https://framapiaf.org/@davidrevoy - artist behind https://peppercarrot.com https://octodon.social/@emersion - friend of mine who works on cool projects with me Orgs https://mastodon.xyz/@Liberapay https://mastodon.art/@Krita https://mastodon.technology/@kde Bots https://…
People https://mastodon.social/@eevee - good tech blogger https://mastodon.art/@Curator - admin of an art-based instance who boosts lots of cool art https://framapiaf.org/@davidrevoy - artist behind https://peppercarrot.com https://octodon.social/@emersion - friend of mine who works on cool projects with me Orgs https://mastodon.xyz/@Liberapay https://mastodon.art/@Krita https://mastodon.technology/@kde Bots https://…
If I were to setup my own instance, like you, how do I interact (read & write) with other, curated instances (e.g. octodon.social, mastodon.social etc.)?
Sometimes if the remote instance's entire feed is interesting I might set up a "read only" account on that instance to get an idea of people to remote follow from my main account. I've heard good multi-instance clients can help a lot with that, but I've not yet found a multi-instance supporting client I like.