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Yes, on mastodon you can follow @someone@anothermastodon.local even if you are on firstmastodon.local, and the server running your instance will phone out to anothermastodon.local to retrieve posts from the person you follow.
Do you have to use federation, or can you create your own little bubble and everything is self contained?
I went to joinmastadon.org Please disable your ad blocker and reload the page. I disable adblock and reload. Please disable your ad blocker and reload the page. Yknow
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Do you have to use federation, or can you create your own little bubble and everything is self contained?
It's self-contained by default and as you follow outside users it starts receiving their posts and so on. You don't have to participate in the whole fediverse.
My /etc/resolv.conf currently uses
options attempts:1 timeout:1 max-inflight:1
nameserver 127.0.0.50
Is this really news? Isn't this just business as usual in corporate America?
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And if you believe that then I have a nice bridge I'd like to sell you. --- Look at those downvotes. You people are so protective of your little social media nipple.
If you think that Mastadon is in any way a 'competitor' to FB or anyone at FB gives a shit about Mastadon I think that the bridge you are trying to sell only exists in your mind. Programmers are lazy and almost always breaking shit; the probability that this is anything more than some sloppy code somewhere pruning an offending URL in a way that blocks more than it should is so remote as to be laughable.
Because they feel threatened by your neighbor's garage sale? Of course not.
I imagine it's like squashing the ants in your kitchen. We aren't really afraid that one of them is gonna make off with the milk jug. But all the same we don't like them touching our stuff. So we implement that policy. Almost unconsciously.
Censorship is always abused. Maybe this time or maybe not. But it's always abused. And yes, it's worse than misinformation.
If my kids were late coming home from school, and I asked you if you know what has happened, and you either: 1. Don't say anything because my neighbour tapes your mouth shut 2. Lie and say, "They were brutally murdered by your neighbour", resulting in a dead neighbour followed by my kids showing up unharmed from school ...can you explain in this scenario how censorship is worse than misinformation. I'm not trying do…
Concretely to your hypothetical: don't attribute to misinformation the issue that is most like your barbaric reaction. Not to say that the liar should not be punished, it should bear a big responsibility in the consequences of the actions. But at the end of day it was not the liar the one that killed your neighbor, you were.
Interesting how "because COVID" has become the thinly veiled excuse here. A similar manifestation of the "think of the children" trope that can be used to manipulate emotions and shut down dissent.
I went to joinmastadon.org Please disable your ad blocker and reload the page. I disable adblock and reload. Please disable your ad blocker and reload the page. Yknow
It's joinmastOdon.org, not joinmastAdon.org. We don't own the misspelled domain. I wonder how many people fall prey to it though.
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There is a timeline that randomly mixes in posts from users from other instances whom users from your instance follow
Perfect. I'll give it a go. Any specific recommendations? I figured mastodon.social just because it's the largest, is that bad reasoning?
I doubt anyone at Facebook is freaking out about Mastodon and setting out to censor all mention of it. It's probably just a keyword or link that tends to co-appear with other, actually rule-breaking content, and some automated system has learned to block it. Still, it does seem like the sort of thing that could get Facebook in trouble with a regulator if you squint at it.
Yes, Facebook's upper management is definitely not freaking out about Mastodon. However, from my own experience working at a large, somewhat ethically-challenged organisation (not fb), it would not surprise me in the least if they gently yet actively pushed down a competitor, provided it can be done discreetly.