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Re: Mastodon and Keybase

#91

Post by Kye »

dbasedweeb wrote: post #68
aldoushuxley001 wrote: post #66

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I mainly got hung up on these words: "We boop snoots instead of boosting toots". Are these mastadon-specific terms?

I googled this, and was very very sorry that I did. Suffice it to say this terminology is specific to a subculture of people who dress up as animal mascots. Booping snoots apparently means touching the nose, I think? I also ran across something called “cub porn” and now I need a shower so hot it can melt glass.

Cub porn is generally frowned upon among furries. Don't judge a group of tens (maybe hundreds) of thousands of people by a glance at a few dark corners.

Re: Mastodon and Keybase

#92

Post by metildaa »

dwighttk wrote: post #88
zach43 wrote: post #15

Just wanted to say that i moved from twitter to mastodon sometime late last year amd couldn't be happier with it. Keybase integration is interesting to me, but not realky useful since i don't want to tie mastodon with my real life identity. the Fediverse as a whole has a very different 'feel' to it compared to Twitter. Twitter feels significantly more commercialized amd stressful...mastodon / pleroma feel a lot more…

I opened a Mastodon account and me and one other person I know who opened an account toot at each other every 6 months or so... I guess there is another person I know who opened one but never toots... I try to pretend it doesn't matter to me, but calling individual posts "toots" really does keep me from talking about the service with other people.

There are lots of interesting people on Mastodon, I would recommend searching by hashtag and joining an instance that matches your interests (eg: sdf.org, sergal.org (furries), cybre.space, etc).

Many instances block Mastodon.social and other massive instances, and different instances will have different views of the network (based on who the users of the instance follow and how long toots are retained).

Re: Mastodon and Keybase

#93

Post by metildaa »

StavrosK wrote: post #73
bisby wrote: post #71

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There is a concept of a federated timeline, which does get synced to your local instance. If you follow someone on a remote instance, that instance feeds content into your instance so it can be loaded.

It syncs the people you follow, right? So presumably the only additional content on your instance is content from the people you follow, which should generally be low-risk.

You can also block just media if an instance is known to host images that are illegal in your country or your users don't want to see (silencing is a better option for the latter tho).

Re: Mastodon and Keybase

#94

Post by metildaa »

skybrian wrote: post #65
mirimir wrote: post #47

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> Keybase integration is interesting to me, but not realky useful since i don't want to tie mastodon with my real life identity. Ummm. I mean, https://keybase.io/mirimir has nothing to do with my "real life identity".

That's a good point but on the other hand, when you have no reason to connect accounts, connecting them in this way might not be good opsec. I guess this could be useful to make switching mastodon servers smoother.

Mastodon and other fediverse software support pointing your old account to a new one. Keybase could be useful for confirming both are your accounts, but its hardly the only way.

Re: Mastodon and Keybase

#95

Post by metildaa »

mgoia wrote: post #64
Kye wrote: post #37

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Translation: every weird niche interest can have its own server for its community with its own rules, culture, and user experience while still communicating with other servers.

That is correct in theory. But in practice, other servers will block your server if the rules deviate from the mainstream rules, effectively isolating your server.

If your users post hate speech, child porn or run amok reply guying, then yes your likely to not federate with other instances.

For other differing rules, instaces generally silence from the federated timeline. Eg: I can still follow Humblr.social and Sinblr users, but Federated timeline users won't have to drown in porn if the admin silences the server.

Re: Mastodon and Keybase

#96

Post by seishan »

jeena wrote: post #18
zach43 wrote: post #15

Just wanted to say that i moved from twitter to mastodon sometime late last year amd couldn't be happier with it. Keybase integration is interesting to me, but not realky useful since i don't want to tie mastodon with my real life identity. the Fediverse as a whole has a very different 'feel' to it compared to Twitter. Twitter feels significantly more commercialized amd stressful...mastodon / pleroma feel a lot more…

It would be cool to see everyone's Mastodon usernames/domains, I'm on my own self hosted instance where it's a bit more difficult to find other people. Mine is: https://toot.jeena.net/@jeena

Mine is: https://mastodon.social/@sei

Re: Mastodon and Keybase

#97

Post by djsumdog »

jeena wrote: post #18
zach43 wrote: post #15

Just wanted to say that i moved from twitter to mastodon sometime late last year amd couldn't be happier with it. Keybase integration is interesting to me, but not realky useful since i don't want to tie mastodon with my real life identity. the Fediverse as a whole has a very different 'feel' to it compared to Twitter. Twitter feels significantly more commercialized amd stressful...mastodon / pleroma feel a lot more…

It would be cool to see everyone's Mastodon usernames/domains, I'm on my own self hosted instance where it's a bit more difficult to find other people. Mine is: https://toot.jeena.net/@jeena

I run my own instance too: @djsumdog@hitchhiker.social

I also made a guide for making your own Mastodon CSS:

https://penguindreams.org/blog/using-custom-css-with-mastodo...

Re: Mastodon and Keybase

#98

Post by adamsea »

Kye wrote: post #91
dbasedweeb wrote: post #68

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I googled this, and was very very sorry that I did. Suffice it to say this terminology is specific to a subculture of people who dress up as animal mascots. Booping snoots apparently means touching the nose, I think? I also ran across something called “cub porn” and now I need a shower so hot it can melt glass.

Cub porn is generally frowned upon among furries. Don't judge a group of tens (maybe hundreds) of thousands of people by a glance at a few dark corners.

Ummm if cub porn is what I think it is and it is frowned upon which it sounds like it is then imho I suggest not using a community-specific euphemism as the euphemism implicitly grants it a place and status within your community.

Re: Mastodon and Keybase

#99

Post by stevenicr »

wut42 wrote: post #24
insomniacity wrote: post #9

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I would imagine they're happy to support small instances if they have a legitimate userbase... why not ask them and report back?

They already somewhat said that porn related instances will not be allowed. So sex workers and such won't be able to use this. Why bother asking them? I moved to the fediverse to NOT be controlled and regulated by corporations, because there's no need to. Adding such a feature in Mastodon is stupid. What's the next step? Integrated Twitter client?

Keybase has said porn related names / IDs won't be allowed? I was going to suggest some people look at using it as an alternative ID system to use in various chat systems. However some of those appear to be sex chat focused, so if that could cause an issue for them I'd be better off not mentioning and looking for a keybase like ID alternative.

Re: Mastodon and Keybase

#100

Post by labster »

zach43 wrote: post #15

Just wanted to say that i moved from twitter to mastodon sometime late last year amd couldn't be happier with it. Keybase integration is interesting to me, but not realky useful since i don't want to tie mastodon with my real life identity. the Fediverse as a whole has a very different 'feel' to it compared to Twitter. Twitter feels significantly more commercialized amd stressful...mastodon / pleroma feel a lot more…

Okay, how do I sign up for Mastodon? I went to mastodon.com, and I got a page that the domain was for sale. Are they having funding problems?

Okay, I'm not that dumb, but some users are. And I really don't know how to get started. Not that I've ever been a big social media user, but I'm enough of a hipster to want to say I was on Mastodon before it was ruined.

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