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Re: Mastodon – A Federated Twitter Alternative

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Post by JetAlone »

JetAlone wrote: post #93
metamet wrote: post #57

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

You're probably right, and they're probably pretty interesting and fun to be around.

I'm back, to smell and reply to my own toot today. It's always better fermented. I want to talk about the kanji I used earlier, "屁". Like many movements about what should be done with regard to social media platform policies, it's composed out of radicals.

In the case of 屁, that would be this radical, 尸, whose on yomi is shi, and 比 which is hi. The kun yomi are longer and not derived from the shared Japanese heritage with China, who also use this kanji for the word "fart". The Japanese word is "Onara", the chinese word is "Pi" which seems a lot more onomatopoeic.

尸 in this case has a meaning of "corpse" or human remains, and is very close to the kanji for "door", I almost mistook it for just being that. 比 has to do with comparisons, also apparently has something to do with race. So the image I get through this kanji when I connect it to "tooting" on social media, is as follows: "The corpse of someone who could have been somebody opens up the door of its sphincter, and releases a gaseous comparison about race."

Re: Mastodon – A Federated Twitter Alternative

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Post by wraptile »

kertoip_1 wrote: post #112
brunoqc wrote: post #64

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 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.

Ahh, what a disappointment. Being able to subscribe to hashtags is the feature I wanted to see for so long and when I saw the first comment, I thought they did it finally. But no, it's not what I needed. It should not be called "subscribing hashtags", but "pinning" them

That's what it is tho. You create a time-line filter that shows only posts containing those hashtags - is that not a subscription?

There are also more literal implementations for this like SocialHome [1] where you can click + on hashtags you like and public post with them appear in your home timeline

1 - https://socialhome.network/

Re: Mastodon – A Federated Twitter Alternative

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Post by fdschoeneman »

nextlevelwizard wrote: post #23
fdschoeneman wrote: post #5

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

Requires pretty big buy in. Having to run your own instance is a big ask for most people and since whole idea of Mastodon revolves around the operator censoring discourse on their instance you pretty much have to run your own instance unless you want some random Joe deciding what you see and can post about. Idea here is good, but I cringe at the main selling point being able to censor topics you don't like.

That makes a lot of sense. Thanks.

Re: Mastodon – A Federated Twitter Alternative

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Post by fdschoeneman »

reitanqild wrote: post #72
jterrys wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There are. Mastodon's problem (and/or best feature depending on how you look at it) is that it's pretty prevalent about their blocklists. So the most commonly federated and advertised places tend to be more liberal leaning. I don't keep close track of the community, but this is one blocklist that I just googled https://toot.cafe/about/more#blocked-instances Aside from the obvious terrible shit the list itself looks k…

It seems to me that for some it is enough that you don't block what they block or even ask someone why someone is blocked and voila, you are blocked too. I absolutely see the value of blocking and there are things I am happy to block, but I have never seen the need to block anyone based on who they don't block. It is kind of the outrage over Elon Musk buying Twitter: people are outraged not because they are blocked o…

I did not know that. Thanks.

Re: Mastodon – A Federated Twitter Alternative

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Post by fdschoeneman »

Normille wrote: post #84
fdschoeneman wrote: post #5

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

Assuming by 'conservative' and 'libertarian' you mean 'right wing'... [sorry. But American political labels are confusing from a European viewpoint] ... that's because the fediverse is just as censorious as all the social media it seeks to replace. Last time I looked into this fediverse stuff, the biggest 'Mastodon' instance by number of users was affiliated to gab.com. But good luck finding that, if you check out an…

No, I mean libertarian. Libertarians can be right or left leaning. I do not mean code for conservative.

Re: Mastodon – A Federated Twitter Alternative

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Post by fdschoeneman »

Spellman wrote: post #13
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…

Yeah setting up an instance is complicated. I've seen the do solution but even then.

Re: Mastodon – A Federated Twitter Alternative

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Post by fdschoeneman »

eyelidlessness wrote: post #15
fdschoeneman wrote: post #5

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

They’re nearly all libertarian. I’m not sure what you’re asking.

I have not noticed that to be true.

Re: Mastodon – A Federated Twitter Alternative

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Post by i5heu »

est wrote: post #123

Does ActivityPub support static site generators? I want to use it as RSS-like subscription format. Is it well supported?

I have had a look into it, but came not to a final conclusion. It seems possible, but I did not found a comprehensive guide what one would need to do so.

Re: Mastodon – A Federated Twitter Alternative

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Post by [deleted] »

_ink_ wrote: post #59
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.

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