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Mastodon’s 2 Year Anniversary

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Re: Mastodon’s 2 Year Anniversary

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Post by unstuckdev »

I made a toot with 100 boosts the other day on a new account. The average is closer to 10-20. Tweets barely register on accounts with 10x the following. Mastodon might look small, but it's big where it counts.

I'm glad Eugen started it, and I'm glad it's thriving. It's like Twitter was before they went impression-obsessed after the 2013/2014 Situation showed them what was possible. And it's all funded by Patreons for the most part.

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Post by riffic »

ActivityPub the protocol is quite promising and there are other implementations besides Mastodon:

https://github.com/BasixKOR/awesome-activitypub

What will really get the ball rolling will be organizations such as governments, educational institutions, public libraries, or news agencies that create federated social infrastructure for their own membership.

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Post by vpzom »

piracyde25 wrote: post #3

Should I leave Twitter for this? Looks so good.

That sort of depends on what you use Twitter for. I used both for a while, but eventually found myself checking Twitter less and less and discovered I didn't really care. Basically just Mastodon and Reddit for me now

Re: Mastodon’s 2 Year Anniversary

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Post by djsumdog »

I currently run my own Mastodon server, and wrote some scripts if you want to run your own on Vultr:

https://github.com/sumdog/bee2/

I'm really glad I set this up. Mastodon is an interesting platform; like one big lopsided chatroom. You do have to follow a lot of strangers to get started (unless you can convince a bunch of your friends to join).

People also go pretty ban crazy on there. I've been called a "Nazi stooge" and been flagged and reported once ... which went to my instance admin .. which is me. A lot of instances ban entire instances (instances like sealion.club tend to get banned and bofa.lol recently imploded). So running your own ensures you control what you see and not be censored by an instance admin.

I'd be interested in following more HN users. I suggest putting your ActivityPub address in your HN profile.

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Post by danso »

I personally find Twitter’s centralization, despite the obvious inherent downsides, to be its defining feature. To be able to have a real-time feed of everything that is being tweeted by anyone in the world on a given keyword or topic is really amazing, as well as the (reasonable) certainty that I’m following/tweeting at the “real” @celebrityaccount. Otherwise, I’d be happy to stick to blogging and Google searches. That said, it’s great to see a community-driven open source social media project and watch its ongoing development. Really loved the reflection from the developer here:

> I’m very happy with Mastodon’s accomplishments. Overseeing such a large project has its ups and downs, as it’s impossible to keep everyone happy all the time when people have conflicting desires. Irregardless, I consider these to be the two best years of my life, as work on Mastodon is incredibly fulfilling and interacting with all the interesting people on the platform is very fun.

Re: Mastodon’s 2 Year Anniversary

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Post by s73v3r_ »

djsumdog wrote: post #7

I currently run my own Mastodon server, and wrote some scripts if you want to run your own on Vultr: https://github.com/sumdog/bee2/ I'm really glad I set this up. Mastodon is an interesting platform; like one big lopsided chatroom. You do have to follow a lot of strangers to get started (unless you can convince a bunch of your friends to join). People also go pretty ban crazy on there. I've been called a "Nazi stoog…

Running your own instance ensures that the idiot admin of the instance isn't gonna ban you, but other instances can choose not to federate with you.
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