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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 3np »

themodelplumber wrote: post #27
apetresc wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I recommend https://fosstodon.org/

I'm curious, is there any reason to sign up here if one is already on another tech instance?

The only reason I see would be if you want your posts to reach people you don't know and who don't follow you; they will end up on the local timeline of the instance you're on.

Conversely if you don't want to spend time with setting up relays/subscriptions (which can get you the same thing) and want to easily discover things on the local timeline there, the local GUI helps with that.

IMO that Mastodon's timelines work this way by default for non-private instances is unfortunate as it conflates physical infrastructure with social community too much.

Other than that it should all be the same.

Theoretically you should also be able to set up "relay accounts" on foreign servers that can mirror your profile and just mirror/reshare your content there. It's not something I've seen already so you'd probably have to script your own bot for that.

Re: Mastodon – A Federated Twitter Alternative

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Post by nextlevelwizard »

imron wrote: post #28
Spellman wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

> Especially places like Gab Gab runs on a Mastodon fork: https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2019/07/statement-on-gabs-fork...

Could be funny to see how many Mastodon instances have blocked them

Re: Mastodon – A Federated Twitter Alternative

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Post by xiphias2 »

Barrin92 wrote: post #8
tdhz77 wrote: post #4

I wish I could be happy to use this, but I’m afraid big tech is just too big for me to jump ship. (Network effect) I’m starting to think that Government should think about breaking up social media sites or highly regulate them. The twitter Elon saga makes me think it will be impossible in the United States.

>Government should think about breaking up social media sites or highly regulate them they don't need to do anything that drastic. They literally need to do one straight forward thing. Force Twitter to open up their API and let people build a bridge to ActivityPub. Hell Elon could do it if he is serious about decentralization.

He never really said decentralization, I’m not sure where you read it. He wants to identify people like Facebook does it to get rid of bots.

At the same time at least he is greatly incentivised to get rid of car emissions, which is good enough reason for me to side with him instead of other people.

Re: Mastodon – A Federated Twitter Alternative

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Post by metamet »

JetAlone wrote: post #11
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.

I suspect there's a limited number of people who want to be told so explicitly that they're just farting their thoughts out online.

Re: Mastodon – A Federated Twitter Alternative

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Post by eriner_ »

I run one of the larger Mastodon servers in the fediverse, and as far as I know the largest non-cloud hosted Mastodon instance.

Here's a ten-post thread I wrote about my experiences scaling this self-hosted instance: https://noagendasocial.com/@eriner/108115547628441425

AMA I guess

Re: Mastodon – A Federated Twitter Alternative

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Post by _ink_ »

unicornporn wrote: post #33

My recommendation to anyone having difficulties getting started or finding interesting people: try to find a small instance that suits your interests. Mastodon got so much better for me when I left the generalist instances. I now see my instance as a micro community with the ability to connect to a greater community.

Huh? Does it matter which instance you join? I don't use it, but thought that it does not matter since every post bubbles to every instance.

Re: Mastodon – A Federated Twitter Alternative

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Post by philshem »

unicornporn wrote: post #33

My recommendation to anyone having difficulties getting started or finding interesting people: try to find a small instance that suits your interests. Mastodon got so much better for me when I left the generalist instances. I now see my instance as a micro community with the ability to connect to a greater community.

I just found this site, which indexes instances:

https://instances.social

(but didn't find anything local or interesting...)

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