And if you are having a hard time finding accounts there, I have been maintaining this tool:
to search for accounts across all instances.
Mastodon – A Federated Twitter Alternative
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Re: Mastodon – A Federated Twitter Alternative
#62I 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
hardware scalability isnt the issue, its management/operarions scalability.
its being beholden to flaky operators who feud with other operators or end their service.
Re: Mastodon – A Federated Twitter Alternative
#63I 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
hardware scalability isnt the issue, its management/operarions scalability. its being beholden to flaky operators who feud with other operators or end their service.
Agreed, running your own node gives you true ownership of your data. Those that can, should. For those that can't, community servers.
Re: Mastodon – A Federated Twitter Alternative
#64My favorite Mastodon feature is the ability to subscribe to hashtags [1] which makes discovering people to connect with super easy and you don't feel like a victim to some magic algorithm. Another thing I love about it is the small niche little community instances like this photographer [2] community. Themed instances make a huge difference in organizing your social media time - it feels less of a distraction and mor…
> My favorite Mastodon feature is the ability to subscribe to hashtags [1]
You need to enable "advanced web interface", search for a hashtag, click the top right icon and then pin it, right? I had no idea I could do that. Thanks!
EDIT: I'm having a hard time adding tags like "#matrix", it insists on me using autocomplete and propose #matrixdotorg.
Re: Mastodon – A Federated Twitter Alternative
#65My 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.
How do you find interesting, valuable, non-toxic small groups?
Re: Mastodon – A Federated Twitter Alternative
#66Been using fediverse with mastodon for months now. People are often much nicer, there are actual discussions and trolls are easy to block. Can recommend.
Re: Mastodon – A Federated Twitter Alternative
#67For all the belly aching in the other thread about "The Algorithm^TM" being immune to open source, here is an example of a fully open-sourced system as an alternative.
Re: Mastodon – A Federated Twitter Alternative
#68Been using fediverse with mastodon for months now. People are often much nicer, there are actual discussions and trolls are easy to block. Can recommend.
The nicest thing is that you can block (as a normal user) entire instances.
Which is very handy since shitty people tend to accumulate on certain instances.
Blocking because of bad behaviour is the path to sanity.
Re: Mastodon – A Federated Twitter Alternative
#69Mastodon became popular in Japan after Twitter banned lolicon and Pixiv[1] decided to start its own Mastodon instance named Pawoo[2]. It had a mobile app and all[3]. Last year, Pixiv stopped supporting the mobile app and transferred the instance to Russel[4]. I haven't followed recently but it seems to be still quite active (Japanese speaking mostly).
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pixiv
[4] http://www.russel.co.jp/newsrelease/newsrelease_pawoo.pdf
Re: Mastodon – A Federated Twitter Alternative
#70DigitalOcean 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…
Considering the US managed to vote in a guy called Trump I don’t think there’ll be a problem.