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Re: Find your Twitter friends on Mastodon

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Post by anderspitman »

langsoul-com wrote: post #342

I wonder if there's something like Twitter but a feed (RSS or otherwise) of interesting people's blog, YouTube, podcast or creative work? I feel the value of Twitter would be a feed of interesting people. But 280 characters is just knee jerk thoughts. Something to easily discover people, like Twitter, whist showing their content, seems more valuable. Right now, the discovery part sucks. It's possible to find interest…

We need to decouple discovery and distribution of content. Discovery is much easier to manage with centralized platforms. Distribution is better decentralized. And since we have URLs there's no reason for them to be tied together.

Re: Find your Twitter friends on Mastodon

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Post by anderspitman »

tomashubelbauer wrote: post #360

Is there a way to find the Mastodon instance you yourself signed up on? I am pretty sure I already made a Mastodon account, but not on mastodon.social and based on the list of instances, nothing rings a bell. :-/ Edit: it was mastodon.social, the password reset email just took 15 minutes to arrive… Good tip in the comments though, thanks!

What we really need is for selfhosting to be as easy and secure as installing an app on your phone.

Somewhat related: there should be a way to have a Mastodon ID based on a domain you control, regardless of what instance it's hosted on.

Re: Find your Twitter friends on Mastodon

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Post by sprokolopolis »

kramerger wrote: post #320

I use Twitter to follow fellow engineers and honestly all the politics (regardless of the new guy in charge) was getting annoying. I might as well use this opportunity to become more active on mastadon. Can anyone recommend a good android client? Preferably from f-droid?

I think Tusky is the most polished android client.

Re: Find your Twitter friends on Mastodon

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Post by reitanqild »

mojzu wrote: post #382
pron wrote: post #370

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I've always been curious about that. Does Twitter forbid discussing lowering taxes? Maybe demanding harsher immigration policies? Higher prison sentences? Bans on abortion? Shutting down the department of education? Reinstating a monarchy? Who is more conservative than The Federalist? Quillette posts "race science" articles, and even the Claremont Institute, which is so reactionary that it balks at the term "conserva…

I'm not a big Twitter user but am often bombarded with right wing content on other sites like Reddit and Youtube no matter how often I try to tell the site/train the algorithm that it's not content I'm interested in seeing whatsoever, the idea that conservatives are being silenced when I (a left wing Brit) am constantly seeing their content is frankly ridiculous

I think it is an algorithm thing:

As a member of NAFO I get bombarded by Pro-Russian views every single time I refresh my timeline it seems, and I never like any of it or follow any of those genocidal maniacs or their cheerleaders :-/

Re: Find your Twitter friends on Mastodon

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Post by reitanqild »

akho wrote: post #412
EarlKing wrote: post #367

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This. Mastodon is a federation in name only. If the protocol is not the policy then you really don't have a federation at all, rhetoric notwithstanding. I note that this is not a problem particular to Mastodon/The Fediverse, though, as its the exact problem that led to people forking their own networks off of FidoNet.

You can run your own and federate with whomever. It’s unlikely that this scenario will be common. It’s more likely that the large instances switch to whitelisting eventually. Maybe self-hosting could be made more common through selling a (cheap) appliance with self-hosted services pre-installed. It is not clear how to solve the chicken-and-egg problem with such a setup. Also, someone will need to maintain the tunnels…

> You can run your own and federate with whomever.

One big problem IIRC (haven't touched it for a year or two):

I'm all in favor of being able to block users or instances.

But many Mastodon instances have a policy of blocking other instances if they don't block certain other instances.

When I realized this it was one of a number of reasons why I just gave it up.

I'm currently hoping that nostr and element/matrix takes off, but in the meanwhile I agree with whoever commented somewhere onnthe Internet the other day that Telegram is a DIY social network.

Re: Find your Twitter friends on Mastodon

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Post by sneed-oil »

pron wrote: post #370
treeman79 wrote: post #366

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No. People don’t want Conservatives to have a voice.

I've always been curious about that. Does Twitter forbid discussing lowering taxes? Maybe demanding harsher immigration policies? Higher prison sentences? Bans on abortion? Shutting down the department of education? Reinstating a monarchy? Who is more conservative than The Federalist? Quillette posts "race science" articles, and even the Claremont Institute, which is so reactionary that it balks at the term "conserva…

Twitter suppressed the NY Post's story on Hunter Biden's laptop right before the 2020 presidential election. Calling a surgeon who performed sex reassignment surgery a criminal is what got Jordan Peterson suspended until he'll remove that tweet. Trump was banned despite never telling anybody to go inside the Capitol building and even posting a video telling his supporters to go home. Milo Yiannopoulos was banned for making fun of an actress. Alex Jones was banned for posting a video where he insulted a CNN journalist. Nick Fuentes was banned for repeated violations but Twitter has never made clear what the relevant tweets were. These were just off the top of my head. I also remember tweets calling for mass reeducation of white people or the eradication of whiteness being allowed.

Re: Find your Twitter friends on Mastodon

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Post by mechanical_bear »

docmars wrote: post #424
hn2017 wrote: post #420

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How Musk has tumbled so quickly will go down in history books. Now he's spouting conspiracy theories.

I feel the same about Hillary. She shared a conspiracy theory this last week that Paul Pelosi's attacker was a right-wing extremist. It was found later that the alleged "blog" David created wasn't created long ago and was taken down pretty swiftly after the attack, showing that this was created as a prop for a political stunt before midterms. The residence for the attacker, David, was found to be a hippie commune wit…

All of my conservative friends live in Berkeley, attend nudist weddings, and live in Communes. Don’t yours?

Re: Find your Twitter friends on Mastodon

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Post by Cyberdog »

xigoi wrote: post #302
Cyberdog wrote: post #50

Obligatory reminder that Mastodon is a user interface for a defederated network commonly called the Fediverse, and that referring to the Fediverse as "Mastodon" is like referring to the web as Chrome. Spitting into the wind at this point, I know, but it still bothers me.

How do posts from other Fediverse networks work on Mastodon?

Think of Fediverse as akin to the email system, where there are thousands if not millions of different servers out there hosting email and exchanging them to each other.

Now consider Mastodon as an email client which is hosted on a web site, like Gmail or Yahoo! Mail or Hotmail. That web site gives you an interface with which to interact with the network of email servers, but people using other servers with other interfaces can still see messages from each other; someone using Yahoo! Mail can send and receive messages with someone using Gmail.

The difference is that Mastodon is open source, so that anyone can download the code and run their own Mastodon instance (whereas nobody can download and run their own Gmail instance), but that instance can still exchange messages with instances running any of the several other Fediverse interfaces there are out there, such as Pleroma, Misskey, Soapbox, etc. (Unless an instance at either end has "defederated" the other; that is, the administrators have configured it to not exchange messages with the other server.)

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