How Does Mastodon Work?
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How Does Mastodon Work?
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Re: How Does Mastodon Work?
#2Finally, a cogent explanation.
Edit: But missing a key issue, perhaps.
> Because Mastodon uses a collection of Instances, you’re not at the beck and call of one site owner. If you don’t like the direction an Instance is taking, you can pack your virtual bags and go. Mastodon even has an import/export tool that allows you to migrate the people you follow from one account/instance to another.
That sounds great. But if you do "pack your virtual bags and go", is there any way to map foo@bar.net to foo@baz.net? In the email analogy, there's clearly not. You need to tell all correspondents.
Re: How Does Mastodon Work?
#3The thing I never really see from these is about setting up on an existing instance vs running my own. And if I set up my own, does it need to be a community? Am I shutting myself out of an experience by creating, say, a Mastodon instance for my family?
I'm bought in to the idea of Mastodon, but getting started is like being handed an atlas of the US and being told, "Please pick a neighborhood to live in."
Re: How Does Mastodon Work?
#4Is there a straightforward way to change Instances without losing connections with other users?
Does it make more sense to host your own, so that you'll always be @isl@isl.tld ?
Re: How Does Mastodon Work?
#5The thing I never really see from these is about setting up on an existing instance vs running my own. And if I set up my own, does it need to be a community? Am I shutting myself out of an experience by creating, say, a Mastodon instance for my family? I'm bought in to the idea of Mastodon, but getting started is like being handed an atlas of the US and being told, "Please pick a neighborhood to live in."
Open social operates somewhat like email, where you don't need to be on the same server as someone else, but it can make things easier.
For the most part, if you are running your own email server for you family, it might make sense to run your own mastodon server. You can have control over your file storage, etc.
Re: How Does Mastodon Work?
#6How does it deal with spam?
Re: How Does Mastodon Work?
#7The thing I never really see from these is about setting up on an existing instance vs running my own. And if I set up my own, does it need to be a community? Am I shutting myself out of an experience by creating, say, a Mastodon instance for my family? I'm bought in to the idea of Mastodon, but getting started is like being handed an atlas of the US and being told, "Please pick a neighborhood to live in."
Different servers are linked to with the system of federation. If you set up your own, you also choose to what other servers you connect to. So, no, you are not shutting yourself out. But you have to manage your federalization.
Re: How Does Mastodon Work?
#8How does it deal with spam?
Nobody wants to use it, so the ROI for spam is very low. This keeps spam to a minimum.
Re: How Does Mastodon Work?
#9Is there a straightforward way to change Instances without losing connections with other users? Does it make more sense to host your own, so that you'll always be @isl@isl.tld ?
That's what I'm thinking.