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Mastodon – A Federated Twitter Alternative

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Re: Mastodon – A Federated Twitter Alternative

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Post by JetAlone »

camjohnson26 wrote: post #3

DigitalOcean has a one click app that lets you setup a Mastodon instance ridiculously easily. For my own reasons I’m trying to migrate away from Twitter, and have found it relatively easy to sync Twitter profiles with a self hosted Mastodon instance so I can follow the accounts I’m interested in without directly interacting with Twitter. Configuring email sending and DNS is a little tricky, but if you use namecheap a…

>Unfortunately it looks like Mastodon still hasn’t renamed their “toots”

Maybe we wouldn't have so many reasons to leave twitter if people had taken tweets less seriously in the first place. If everyone knows that artificially short posts with insanely widespread potential reach are all 屁s, that could help fix a lot of what's wrong in our world.

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Post by Spellman »

fdschoeneman wrote: post #5

I'm curious to know why there aren't more conservative or libertarian mastodon sites. Seems like a good fit.

Most Conservatives have instead gone to platforms that actively advertise for their specific niche. Especially places like Gab and Parlar. Although Telegram has been a very popular gathering place as well.

Libertarian Tech folks are actually a small minority in the grand scheme of things, and any I know are definitely in favor of Mastadon. But non-tech folks have a much harder time understanding and building out the platform.

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Post by sohkamyung »

Abishek_Muthian wrote: post #10

Folks, What are your recommendations for some Mastodon communities which might be of interest to typical HN audience and are 'absolutely legal'?

For those with an interest in books, try BookWyrm [1]. It's a Mastodon instance that caters for books (think 'federated Goodreads'). I use it to put up my reviews of books and to find new books and bookish people.

[1] https://bookwyrm.social/

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Post by jerojero »

I'm in an instance with a couple thousand users, it's not very active. I think network effects are extremely important and eventually you have most people going into the biggest instances anyway.

Though obviously this is still a preferable situation, mastodon's reach is still not good enough. People don't just want to say things, they want to say things and have others engage with them.

But I mean, I would still encourage at least trying it; exploring different instances, finding a home.

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