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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 sdrothrock »

sprokolopolis wrote: post #18
danso wrote: post #8

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. T…

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,…

> the interface has a federated timeline that shows toots from all instances that the server federates with

This is the issue; many servers are picky about who they federate with and this creates a real bubble.

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Post by pome »

forrestthewoods wrote: post #6

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

For *BSD - https://bsd.network/

BTW, maybe exists something like to the "Awesome-Mastodon-Instances" for IT? BSD have instance, Ruby have instance, but how about Python, Linux, Computer Graphics, Game Development and so on. :-)

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Post by RX14 »

AnaniasAnanas wrote: post #32

My only issue with Mastodon is that it does not solve the issue of authenticity - you can't verify that a post sent by a user was not forged or modified by one of the servers in the federation. This is where public key crypto could help.

This is untrue, Actors have a keypair and inbox POSTs are signed with that key to ensure authenticity. For boosts (Announce), mastodon uses a complex signing algorithm based on JSON-LD, and pleroma just re-requests the post from the original instance and uses that, discarding the relayed object.

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Post by TarpitCarnivore »

I’ve been enjoying the use of Mastodon, though it’s not fully replaced Twitter for me. There’s a few TV/Movie & Video game related things I enjoy Twitter for.

While I’ve settled into two instances on Mastodon the one problem I’m finding is that you do kind of need multiple instances. Some instances, even with decent user bases, just don’t have the correlating activity. That or the user base skews to a time zone which can shift the discussion time.

The upside is being able to mute/block from the get go. This helps keep the federated timeline much more quiet. There’s a ton of bots & hashtag heavy people posting reblog kind of stuff. Things that aren’t really much value to a discussion so being able to just declutter that out has been helpful.

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