Is it really complete list of communities available through Mastodon or is there more? Looks pretty tiny so far.
Mastodon now a non-profit organisation
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#62Glad to see this important step in securing the future of software that is more than just code. Having been a member of the Fosstodon instance https://www.fosstodon.org/ for six months I expect that many HNers may find it an interesting and engaging instance. It's centred around free/open source software and similar services and is fully of friendly, witty and knowledgeable folk.
Fosstodon, despite the name, is run by people who don't actually use free software. It's pretty funny.
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#63I wonder if all the hoopla is because mastodon / the fediverse are finally receiving some (deserved) traction? The accounts count does not seem to show a new regime ( https://the-federation.info/ ) but maybe there are more reliable indicators? In any case, sorting out conflicts of interest, business models, competing visions etc about the fediverse is a task that is still almost 100% for the future, as being niche an…
Isn't (one of) the point of federation to limit the scope of surveillance? e.g. My host knows everything about me, but hosts it peers with only know that I'm indigochill@myhost, essentially the same as email.
there are so many configurations with different "information leakage" profiles / preferences: from self-hosting to mass instances, from pseudonymous accounts to verified / public identities etc. One of the strong points of the fediverse would be to enable and organize that multitude of options under uniform protocols that do not force anybody to particular architectures...
Re: Mastodon now a non-profit organisation
#64Earlier quoted context omitted.
>> "Human decency involves not telling other adults what they are allowed to peaceably publish or read." So you agree the Mastodon project should be able to decide not to publish certain instances in the list it maintains. Cool. Freedom is not meaningful without the freedom to not do something. If they're compelled to publish things they don't agree with, then they don't really have free speech.
Yes, I do. I also believe in my right to criticize them for appointing themselves censors. This need to paternalistically protect other adults from online content "for their own good" is authoritarian and rude and I hope it goes out of fashion right soon. It's extra bothersome when instance admins (unrelated to the mastodon project) decide for their users what they should be allowed to read. Imagine if your email ser…
> Imagine if your email service decided you couldn't send or receive email to certain domains they decided were "bad people".
Almost every email provider does something like this - it is called a spam filter. If email of a certain type comes in, it doesn’t go into your inbox. Is that censorship?
Sure, you can go into your spam folder and see it, just like mastodon users can connect to an instance not listed on the main mastodon list.
Curating content is not a sin.
Re: Mastodon now a non-profit organisation
#65Glad to see this important step in securing the future of software that is more than just code. Having been a member of the Fosstodon instance https://www.fosstodon.org/ for six months I expect that many HNers may find it an interesting and engaging instance. It's centred around free/open source software and similar services and is fully of friendly, witty and knowledgeable folk.
Fosstodon, despite the name, is run by people who don't actually use free software. It's pretty funny.
You'll also find that users of the instance don't all run entirely free software and yet it's still a relevant place to congregate and discuss topics like "why this open source project didn't work for me", "why this open source project was a great alternative to closed-source offerings" and all of the subtleties in-between. My experience of most of these conversations is that few people try to gatekeep or provide vapid criticism of people who aren't fanatical purists.
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#66Mastodon is an ActivityPub implementation, right? So does that mean Mastodon can interact with other AP implementations? Or do they add some additional stuff that doesn’t interop?
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#67> I want Mastodon to have more resources for things like hiring extra developers, UX designers, developing official apps and so on, and I want there to be a clear boundary between fundraising for that cause and my personal income. This is an important step, and one that I'd love to see more FOSS projects take
In USA it's pretty difficult to get a NFP (501c3) created around just code. One needs to have other things in place, community, grand goals, etc. I wish it was easier too but US-IRS has put additional scrutiny. If any lawyers on here have a speciality on this I'm looking for help.
Software Freedom Conservancy is a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization that […] provides a non-profit home and infrastructure for FLOSS projects.
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#68Mastodon is an ActivityPub implementation, right? So does that mean Mastodon can interact with other AP implementations? Or do they add some additional stuff that doesn’t interop?
It can and does. e.g., a Mastodon account can subscribe to one on PeerTube.
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#69I really wonder how Bluesky [1] (Twitter's project of project to build a decentralized social media protocol) will take ActivityPub and especially Mastodon into account… Both the W3C and RetroShare have reacted to the news on Twitter [2] but are totally ignored so far. [1] https://blueskyweb.org/ [2] https://twitter.com/jack/status/1204766078468911106
A wild guess would be that he is trying to remake a centralised decentralised Twitter. I think he just wants to keep one hand in somewhere that can be spun as something else when Twitter will start being unbearable if it hasn’t already. Something like the Banks first dissing crypto and now lining up to make “their own crypto”.
I mean who knows. But he not even acknowledging ActivityPub in any of those N insipid tweets, even after being reminded by others, says volumes about his intentions.
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#70Mastodon is an ActivityPub implementation, right? So does that mean Mastodon can interact with other AP implementations? Or do they add some additional stuff that doesn’t interop?
Yes. I subscribe to a few write.as blogs and Pixelfed accounts from my Mastodon account.