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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 sprokolopolis »

ndnxhs wrote: post #19
sprokolopolis wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Even though Mastodon is decentralized, the interface has a federated timeline that shows toots from all instances that the server federates with. I have found this to feel similar to a centralized, real-time stream of posts like Twitter. The user can still follow hashtags/keywords from most of the users out there. Many of the more popular instances do not federate with a few of the more toxic, anything-goes servers,…

I don't think searching works properly as it only searches posts your instance knows about.

I think this is true for general full-text searches, but hashtag searches should return toots from the whole federation.

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Post by ar0 »

forrestthewoods wrote: post #6

What Mastadon servers do folks here frequent? Which ones are worth your time?

Mathstodon is cool, and it allows LaTeX formulas in your toots: https://mathstodon.xyz/about

And if you are into data science and especially data visualisation, also check out vis.social: https://vis.social/about

Both are also well run, IMHO.

Re: Mastodon’s 2 Year Anniversary

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Post by buovjaga »

wpietri wrote: post #16

Aren't these all vanity metrics? [1] Features are swell, and registered users are nice, in that it indicates somebody was at least curious. But how many of those 1,627,557 registered users are, say, active at least once a week for the last 3 months? What's the NPS of Mastodon users after 7, 30, and 90 days? I'd love to see them succeed. But I think it's dangerous for programmers to focus on building a thing rather th…

Stats for the whole federation (from servers that agree to share their stats): https://the-federation.info/

Last month active users: 478516

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Post by unicornporn »

wpietri wrote: post #16

Aren't these all vanity metrics? [1] Features are swell, and registered users are nice, in that it indicates somebody was at least curious. But how many of those 1,627,557 registered users are, say, active at least once a week for the last 3 months? What's the NPS of Mastodon users after 7, 30, and 90 days? I'd love to see them succeed. But I think it's dangerous for programmers to focus on building a thing rather th…

> I think it's dangerous for programmers to focus on building a thing rather than serving their users.

It seems Mastodon is an example of programmers actually building something with real ambitions rather than just trying to make big money by trying to form an addiction for their users.

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Post by codewiz »

forrestthewoods wrote: post #6

What Mastadon servers do folks here frequent? Which ones are worth your time?

I picked https://mstdn.io/ because it's a medium-size instance hosted in Europe, the sysadmin seems very competent, and the site rules seemed reasonable (especially where it says "We only block/silence foreign accounts and instances for legal reasons.").

There are quite a few instances where a capricious admin gets to decide what content is acceptable for all their users. Even less transparent and less accountable than corporate censorship.

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Post by gemma »

forrestthewoods wrote: post #6

What Mastadon servers do folks here frequent? Which ones are worth your time?

https://mastodon.technology is chock full of geeks, so the local timeline is all people's hacks and bugs and side projects. It's one of the older instances, and it's maintained by this guy: https://ashfurrow.com/

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Post by MrEldritch »

natural219 wrote: post #14

It doesn't seem like a lot has been accomplished since launch.

I mean, it successfully created a social network I find enjoyable enough to be my primary social network, and which is sufficiently active + growing that I don't see it dying out the way Diaspora did, so regardless of whether they accomplished a lot, they certainly have accomplished enough

Re: Mastodon’s 2 Year Anniversary

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Post by natural219 »

MrEldritch wrote: post #28
natural219 wrote: post #14

It doesn't seem like a lot has been accomplished since launch.

I mean, it successfully created a social network I find enjoyable enough to be my primary social network, and which is sufficiently active + growing that I don't see it dying out the way Diaspora did, so regardless of whether they accomplished a lot , they certainly have accomplished enough

Oh yeah. I think Gargron accomplished a lot when he launched the initial version. Just wondering what this list is supposed to communicate. I'd hope for more active development on the critical issues.
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