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Re: Find your Twitter friends on Mastodon

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Post by alwillis »

rybosome wrote: post #23
michaelwww wrote: post #9

I find this whole situation to be incredibly depressing, especially with Musk tweeting out a fact free insinuation about Paul Pelosi (since deleted without apology.) The proverbial shit is going to hit the fan on Twitter on election night Nov 8 in America and I don't think Musk is prepared to handle it. I'd love to live in a country where we could have nice things, but apparently America is not it.

The shit hitting the fan on election night will not be limited to Twitter. Expect chaos in meatspace, exacerbated in part by Twitter.

Right.

There are some people who may decide to not vote due to what they’re seeing on Twitter in places where it may matter.

Re: Find your Twitter friends on Mastodon

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Post by holler »

Timja wrote: post #25
twblalock wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah but who would use a system like that outside of a small hardcore contingent of techies?

The interface could be just like Twitter or Hacker News. In fact, users could use any service they like. It would not matter what client you use to reply to me. Your reply would appear on Hacker News, because HN would follow the protocol and accept properly signed comments relayed to it.

What incentive would Twitter or Hacker News have to support the protocol?

Re: Find your Twitter friends on Mastodon

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Post by michaelwww »

commandlinefan wrote: post #223
michaelwww wrote: post #9

I find this whole situation to be incredibly depressing, especially with Musk tweeting out a fact free insinuation about Paul Pelosi (since deleted without apology.) The proverbial shit is going to hit the fan on Twitter on election night Nov 8 in America and I don't think Musk is prepared to handle it. I'd love to live in a country where we could have nice things, but apparently America is not it.

I think it’s depressing that droves of people are leaving Twitter because they believe that they might tone down all the censorship.

I get what you're saying but I don't think it's that depressing or surprising, but that's a big discussion better had in other places.

Re: Find your Twitter friends on Mastodon

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Post by andrewkdinh »

GeckoEidechse wrote: post #71

On the topic of Twiter, Mastodon, and the Fediverse, why do federated FOSS alternatives to popular platforms not offer a read-only version of said platform as one of its instances to augment its lack of content? In the example of Twitter, Nitter already exists as an alternative front-end. Now what if there's a Mastodon instance that uses Nitter to wrap official Twitter content and serve it as if it where the twitter.…

BirdsiteLIVE does this

Source code: https://github.com/NicolasConstant/BirdsiteLive Official instance: https://beta.birdsite.live/

Re: Find your Twitter friends on Mastodon

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Post by jdeibele »

HellsMaddy wrote: post #252
jdeibele wrote: post #120

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I actively dislike the federation that Mastodon is using. If they would let me use somebody@gnail.com or somebody@hotmail.com, fine. Or somebody@mastodon.master-name-server. Instead, you have somebody@mastodon.technology. Guess what? mastodon.technology is closing down. Any connections using that address are going to be lost. It's really too bad that the idea of where you connect became conflated with what your name…

Is there a hosted Mastodon solution, where you can bring your own domain name and they do the rest, like how I can bring my domain name to any number of email providers?

You can definitely set up your own Mastodon server. I don't know how hard it is to get other servers to federate with you because I don't want to take on the overhead of running a server.

Discussions of running your own mail server make it sound like it's difficult because you have to get Microsoft and Google to accept your mail and they tend to let it go into the spam folder and not respond to you.

Will mastodon.social federate with HellsMaddy.social? Maybe. Can you use me@hellsmaddy.com? No.

Re: Find your Twitter friends on Mastodon

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Post by andrewkdinh »

haunter wrote: post #220

Does Mastodon the software support ads? I always see the platform more akin to Reddit or Discord than Twitter tbh. Say I want to make an instance and want to host it. According to some 3rd party services [0] a 2000 user instance will cost me ~$90+taxes/month. That’s a lot if you compare it to a reddit sub or Discord server which are free and where I’d say a similar sized sub/server are quite small (not all 2000 users…

Mastodon doesn’t support ads, but since it’s FOSS, you could add it yourself.

However, if people find value in your instance, they will donate. For example, see Fosstodon (which even has an excess amount of funds):

https://hub.fosstodon.org/about/

Re: Find your Twitter friends on Mastodon

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Post by panic »

scrollaway wrote: post #258
klyrs wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

We had Trillian back in the day, but then the messaging services locked down their protocols. I don't expect such an app would survive the cat&mouse with major players for long.

The messaging services never opened their protocols. Trillian (& pidgin etc) has always played catch-up. It was just more difficult for the "major players" of the time because for a protocol update, you needed to release a new version of your software, and somehow have all your users seamlessly migrate to it before releasing breaking changes. MSN/WLM, AIM, YIM, ICQ, Gadu-Gadu, Skype… all of them were reverse-engineer…

AIM had the open TOC protocol, but it never got all the features of the OSCAR protocol the official client used.

Re: Find your Twitter friends on Mastodon

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Post by jdeibele »

Macha wrote: post #135
jdeibele wrote: post #120

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I actively dislike the federation that Mastodon is using. If they would let me use somebody@gnail.com or somebody@hotmail.com, fine. Or somebody@mastodon.master-name-server. Instead, you have somebody@mastodon.technology. Guess what? mastodon.technology is closing down. Any connections using that address are going to be lost. It's really too bad that the idea of where you connect became conflated with what your name…

Is this not the same as email? If you ran your own you could use your own domain. If gmail ran an instance you could use @gmail.com . Otherwise you're at the whims of your host shutting down, like when google nearly pulled free google apps, or when microsoft used to reclaim accounts that didn't use the web UI often enough. I guess what's needed here is an ecosystem of "point your DNS at us and use your own domain wit…

I do run firstname@lastname.org I would love to be able to use that with Mastodon as my one and only identity, regardless of which server I happened to be logging into.

I like the idea of different servers as being Special Interest Groups. I use lists a lot on Twitter. But people who I put on a Mac list also talk about baseball, the war in Ukraine, etc. Google+ wanted to have each person separate out their posts by topic and that isn't the way most people seem to want to operate. For selling something, like Craigslist, OK, I'll put it in a specific category. But just things I want to write about? Unless there's a House of Dragons server, a Houston Astros server, a Rust server, etc. it's not going to happen.

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