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Mastodon: Add end-to-end encryption API

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Re: Mastodon: Add end-to-end encryption API

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Post by fomine3 »

young_unixer wrote: post #33
jack1243star wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The whole blocking situation turns me away from Mastodon. Short of maintaining my own instance, there's no way to be sure I can follow anyone I'd like to, or communicate with them. There's no way to find out from the outside if an instance is defederated.

I left Mastodon because the big "traditional"/sanctioned instances started banning other instances they didn't like, specifically Gab (instance full of right-wing people that allows basically anything that isn't illegal). I had high hopes for Mastodon but whatever, this whole social network thing isn't worth the trouble. Now HN and Youtube are the only websites I visit for entertainment.

Actually It's better than traditional centralized system like Twitter. If it's centralized , you can't do anything after banned. On decentralized SNS, you can join the problematic instance or start a your own instance that not banning.

Re: Mastodon: Add end-to-end encryption API

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Post by robobro »

fenwick67 wrote: post #9
robobro wrote: post #8

Pleroma does what mastodon't

Last I checked Pleroma doesn't even have moderation tools, let alone message franking.

It has command line and web moderation tools.

I wrote a proprietary tool that provides a Pleroma client as filesystem called Polearm

Re: Mastodon: Add end-to-end encryption API

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Post by novok »

jack1243star wrote: post #26
throwaway1997 wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I was assuming it was due to the sheer volume of loli being posted on that instance. Most instances block / mute it for this reason.

The whole blocking situation turns me away from Mastodon. Short of maintaining my own instance, there's no way to be sure I can follow anyone I'd like to, or communicate with them. There's no way to find out from the outside if an instance is defederated.

It is too bad that mastodon is less RSS / Email and more IRC chatroom networks, but that's what it is.

Re: Mastodon: Add end-to-end encryption API

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Post by ldjb »

DarkWiiPlayer wrote: post #38
young_unixer wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I left Mastodon because the big "traditional"/sanctioned instances started banning other instances they didn't like, specifically Gab (instance full of right-wing people that allows basically anything that isn't illegal). I had high hopes for Mastodon but whatever, this whole social network thing isn't worth the trouble. Now HN and Youtube are the only websites I visit for entertainment.

I had a quick look at mastodon a while ago and saw a few more problems with the model, but I wasn't aware instances could block each other. Maybe some day there will be an even more decentralized alternative (Looking at you, indieweb) where it is up to the user whom they block. I'm also not a huge fan of how mastodon is an implementation, more than a protocol.

So long as instances are serving content from other instances (pretty much required for a social network), there will be demand to be able to block other instances. Of course, people could just host their own instance, which is possible with Mastodon, and is indeed what a lot of people already do.

Mastodon uses the ActivityPub protocol, and there are other implementations that use this protocol (Pleroma, for example).

Re: Mastodon: Add end-to-end encryption API

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Post by zdkl »

DarkWiiPlayer wrote: post #38
young_unixer wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I left Mastodon because the big "traditional"/sanctioned instances started banning other instances they didn't like, specifically Gab (instance full of right-wing people that allows basically anything that isn't illegal). I had high hopes for Mastodon but whatever, this whole social network thing isn't worth the trouble. Now HN and Youtube are the only websites I visit for entertainment.

I had a quick look at mastodon a while ago and saw a few more problems with the model, but I wasn't aware instances could block each other. Maybe some day there will be an even more decentralized alternative (Looking at you, indieweb) where it is up to the user whom they block. I'm also not a huge fan of how mastodon is an implementation, more than a protocol.

Have you looked into ActivityStreams? It might be the protocol you're looking for!

https://www.w3.org/TR/activitystreams-core/

Re: Mastodon: Add end-to-end encryption API

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Post by cjslep »

jack1243star wrote: post #26
throwaway1997 wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I was assuming it was due to the sheer volume of loli being posted on that instance. Most instances block / mute it for this reason.

The whole blocking situation turns me away from Mastodon. Short of maintaining my own instance, there's no way to be sure I can follow anyone I'd like to, or communicate with them. There's no way to find out from the outside if an instance is defederated.

Have you seen the "About" page on instances? It lists exactly what you want: what instances are defederated by the instance. Here's the page for the instance I reside in:

https://mastodon.technology/about/more

Re: Mastodon: Add end-to-end encryption API

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Post by joelbluminator »

robobro wrote: post #8

Pleroma does what mastodon't

Was it wise to start this project in Elixir? Note - I have no idea what this project does, it may be a tremendous success, I just think it's a pretty wide gamble to start it in a language that has such a tiny user base and steep learning curve.

Re: Mastodon: Add end-to-end encryption API

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Post by cjslep »

zdkl wrote: post #46
DarkWiiPlayer wrote: post #38

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I had a quick look at mastodon a while ago and saw a few more problems with the model, but I wasn't aware instances could block each other. Maybe some day there will be an even more decentralized alternative (Looking at you, indieweb) where it is up to the user whom they block. I'm also not a huge fan of how mastodon is an implementation, more than a protocol.

Have you looked into ActivityStreams? It might be the protocol you're looking for! https://www.w3.org/TR/activitystreams-core/

ActivityStreams is a data format, not a protocol. ActivityPub is the protocol that Mastodon, Pleroma, etc use which shares ActivityStreams data.
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