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Mastodon – an open source alternative to Twitter

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Re: Mastodon – an open source alternative to Twitter

#13

Post by newscracker »

I'm looking forward to platforms that are decentralized as well as allow rich media content (photos, videos, etc.) to be embedded/uploaded. Such platforms would have some chance of being an alternatives to centralized walled gardens like Facebook and Google+.

Edit: As pointed out by daveid (thanks!), Mastodon does allow uploading photos and videos. So my statement referring to it as text-only was incorrect, and I've removed that part.

Update: I created an account on an instance and it looked like Tweetdeck's web interface, which is something I do like during the rare times I login to Twitter. I personally would still like to see something richer and more familiar to people who use Facebook and Google+ in terms of the interface, features like groups, etc. I struggle to keep up with Twitter, and I find groups to be the best place for me on social networks. I also like that longform articles can be posted on Facebook with Notes. The 500 character limit in Mastodon seems a lot better than Twitter, but is still a huge restriction.

Re: Mastodon – an open source alternative to Twitter

#14

Post by daveid »

newscracker wrote: post #13

I'm looking forward to platforms that are decentralized as well as allow rich media content (photos, videos, etc.) to be embedded/uploaded. Such platforms would have some chance of being an alternatives to centralized walled gardens like Facebook and Google+. Edit: As pointed out by daveid (thanks!), Mastodon does allow uploading photos and videos. So my statement referring to it as text-only was incorrect, and I've…

Mastodon supports photos and videos.

Re: Mastodon – an open source alternative to Twitter

#16

Post by nosuchthing »

Mastodon impliments a very very confusing username system, due to the design of domain-name based federation.

  alice@mastadon.social
  alice@mastadon.network
Twitter suffers from impersonator accounts on its own network, imagine the confusion of an unfamiliar user having to find a real account on mastadon.

Re: Mastodon – an open source alternative to Twitter

#18

Post by ar0 »

nosuchthing wrote: post #16

Mastodon impliments a very very confusing username system, due to the design of domain-name based federation. alice@mastadon.social alice@mastadon.network Twitter suffers from impersonator accounts on its own network, imagine the confusion of an unfamiliar user having to find a real account on mastadon.

You hear this a lot, but I don't really get this... Everyone is using email and I have never heard anyone complain "email implements a very very confusing username system" because alice@gmail.com and alice@hotmail.com are not the same people.

Maybe it would help to make it more explicit that Mastodon works more like email than Twitter in that respect, but to be fair joinmastodon.org and also the new user onboarding tutorial do try hard to make that very clear.

Re: Mastodon – an open source alternative to Twitter

#19

Post by QAPereo »

ar0 wrote: post #18
nosuchthing wrote: post #16

Mastodon impliments a very very confusing username system, due to the design of domain-name based federation. alice@mastadon.social alice@mastadon.network Twitter suffers from impersonator accounts on its own network, imagine the confusion of an unfamiliar user having to find a real account on mastadon.

You hear this a lot, but I don't really get this... Everyone is using email and I have never heard anyone complain "email implements a very very confusing username system" because alice@gmail.com and alice@hotmail.com are not the same people. Maybe it would help to make it more explicit that Mastodon works more like email than Twitter in that respect, but to be fair joinmastodon.org and also the new user onboarding t…

You do hear those complaints, but they tend to take the form of bemoaning the prevalence of phishing emails.

Re: Mastodon – an open source alternative to Twitter

#20

Post by vfu6 »

daveid wrote: post #14
newscracker wrote: post #13

I'm looking forward to platforms that are decentralized as well as allow rich media content (photos, videos, etc.) to be embedded/uploaded. Such platforms would have some chance of being an alternatives to centralized walled gardens like Facebook and Google+. Edit: As pointed out by daveid (thanks!), Mastodon does allow uploading photos and videos. So my statement referring to it as text-only was incorrect, and I've…

Mastodon supports photos and videos.

There is also https://mediagoblin.org/ , which is more oriented toward videos.
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