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Re: Find your Twitter friends on Mastodon

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Post by celdon25 »

martythemaniak wrote: post #35

You know, I think Reddit is actually the best positioned Twitter alternative. You can use your real name, or anonymous account. You go there to follow particular subreddits, but there no reason why I shouldn't also be able to follow people and see their non-topic (ie, not part of any subreddit) microblogs interweaved with posts from subreddits. They deal with spam and trolls reasonably well. They have all the pieces,…

Reddit's censorship is even worse than Twitter's, so I would expect Reddit to be next on the list of places to liberate on the Internet.

Re: Find your Twitter friends on Mastodon

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Post by _cenw »

cmrdporcupine wrote: post #104
augustuspolius wrote: post #95

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Is there a non-niche general Mastodon instance that's really popular? That would be the easiest way for me personally to embrace it. I checked a few instances and it's all very niche and very empty. (To clarify, I don't mind niche instances, just at this stage there isn't enough discussion or interesting profiles to follow.)

mastodon.social is by far the largest, but the recommendation is generally to find the one that has interests & people on it you find interesting to start. you'll get content from people on mastodon.social anyways.

mastodon.social is silenced (no federated timelines) on quite a few instances, simply because there's a lot of volume that's not very high quality.

Re: Find your Twitter friends on Mastodon

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Post by celdon25 »

augustuspolius wrote: post #87
martythemaniak wrote: post #35

You know, I think Reddit is actually the best positioned Twitter alternative. You can use your real name, or anonymous account. You go there to follow particular subreddits, but there no reason why I shouldn't also be able to follow people and see their non-topic (ie, not part of any subreddit) microblogs interweaved with posts from subreddits. They deal with spam and trolls reasonably well. They have all the pieces,…

Feels like Reddit is closer to Mastodon than to Twitter. Each Mastodon server is like a subreddit with its own rules, moderation, user base, etc.

Not really. There's a centralized committee that will blacklist or even dump your subreddit down the memory hole if it doesn't meet its standards of moderation.

Re: Find your Twitter friends on Mastodon

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Post by scarface74 »

sbarre wrote: post #164
kortilla wrote: post #89

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think you’re quite confused about email users. Very few of the companies I worked for outside of startups used google for email hosting. Business email is very dependent on the fact that it’s an open protocol.

I work for a 100-year-old company with 30k employees. Last year we moved from self-hosted Exchange to GSuite, because it's just easier to spend money on that than to spend money on an increasingly complex and hard-to-staff-properly internal service.

The issue is not self hosted versus GSuite. It rarely makes sense for any company to self host their own email. I think the parent poster was saying few use Gmail versus hosted outlook

Re: Find your Twitter friends on Mastodon

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Post by davidork »

Embrace the fragmentation.

The economic situation seems to be getting worse, there's tons of people without jobs that could get lots of exposure and experience working in tech related field by moderating all these small federated instances.

Plenty of networking opportunities as well.

There are going to be a lot more niche and diverse internet communities, and with things being spread out among the various instances it'll be a lot harder for trolls to summon concentrated attacks.

Communities will be smaller and higher quality while still being able to co-mingle via federation.

Unfortunately that stuff may also apply to more nefarious communities online and they may benefit by hiding amongst all of the other federated instances.

Re: Find your Twitter friends on Mastodon

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Post by jacooper »

kemenaran wrote: post #24
twblalock wrote: post #13

Doesn't this prove the value to users of a centralized platform over a federated platform? The centralized platform made it very easy to find people. Now people who are moving to a federated platform miss the value of centralization, so they are writing a tool that will leverage that value and import it into the federated platform. Maybe if Mastodon was a centralized Twitter-style platform it would be more usable, an…

To find someone on Mastodon, I would either enter their nickname in the search bar (no need for the domain, it will search on all instances) – or simply click on their profile on a post I like. Just like a centralized network. This tool just exists to do this automatically and in bulk. It seems to me that finding someone on a federation is as easy as on centralized systems. Do you have a use case in mind where centra…

> To find someone on Mastodon, I would either enter their nickname in the search bar (no need for the domain, it will search on all instances)

Nope, It will only show accounts followed by local accounts.

Mastodon doesn't do any kind of per server search, And your "federated feed" is basically accounts on other instances followed by local accounts.

This makes hosting a private Mastodon server, for personal or family use, incredibly hard as discovery is basically impossible.

This can be fixed by using Activity pub relays, but guess what? Mastodon's official servers don't use them, which are the servers that really matter.

Its a big part of why I'm hesitant to use Activitypub, as I believe discovery is a big part of modern social media, and Mastodon absolutely sucks at it.

This is coming from someone hosting his own Matrix server.

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