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Mastodon's founder has a vision to democratize social media

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Re: Mastodon's founder has a vision to democratize social media

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Post by notpushkin »

detaro wrote: post #87
earthscienceman wrote: post #77

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What's the community of academics? I haven't joined Twitter specifically because I think it's a horrible medium for communicating science or meeting with academics. Can you point me there?

Just from a quick look, no claim to completeness, intentionally including also small ones: https://fediscience.org/ https://vis.social/ https://mstdn.science/ https://astrodon.social/ https://mapstodon.space/ currently not taking signups: https://scholar.social/ https://scicomm.xyz/

https://qoto.org/ is another really nice instance oriented on STEM. It adds some features like LaTeX and Markdown support (not sure how well do those federate though).

Re: Mastodon's founder has a vision to democratize social media

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Post by baq »

detaro wrote: post #87
earthscienceman wrote: post #77

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What's the community of academics? I haven't joined Twitter specifically because I think it's a horrible medium for communicating science or meeting with academics. Can you point me there?

Just from a quick look, no claim to completeness, intentionally including also small ones: https://fediscience.org/ https://vis.social/ https://mstdn.science/ https://astrodon.social/ https://mapstodon.space/ currently not taking signups: https://scholar.social/ https://scicomm.xyz/

How do I follow a server with an account on a different server? I don’t want to register on multiple servers since it’s a hassle…

Re: Mastodon's founder has a vision to democratize social media

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Post by kevin_thibedeau »

bergenty wrote: post #74
Robotbeat wrote: post #70

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The content moderation policy hasn’t changed. I mean, I guess some far right folk think Elon’s their man. They’re sorely mistaken (as can be seen by the outrage/despair of Nazis when Elon said he’s talking with ADL representatives).

Hopefully. Elon never felt like a racist to me plus he’s been my hero for a very long time so I hope I don’t have to start disliking him.

Heroes don't generally make libelous pedo accusations against people who are trying to do good things.

Re: Mastodon's founder has a vision to democratize social media

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Post by yanderekko »

ocdtrekkie wrote: post #67
andai wrote: post #39

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Yeah, that's the point. Mastodon was created because its developers thought Twitter didn't have enough censorship. I don't mean to trivialize their achievement, but I thought that was pretty funny.

The thing is, Mastodon isn't adding censorship: Anyone has numerous servers to choose from that will let them say whatever they want, but other people have the choice to go to servers which don't federate with the other one. Free speech is the right to speak, not the right to force everyone to listen. The federation model codifies this.

>Anyone has numerous servers to choose from that will let them say whatever they want, but other people have the choice to go to servers which don't federate with the other one.

And then people who are unhappy with the mere existence of other servers hosting speech they dislike will launch coordinated attacks on the upstream infrastructure and revenue streams of those servers, as we've seen time and time and time again. And of course this will just be justified as giant corporations merely engaging in their free expression by ensuring that certain narratives cannot be easily communicated between willing parties via a digital medium.

Re: Mastodon's founder has a vision to democratize social media

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Post by kaba0 »

saurik wrote: post #97
kaba0 wrote: post #41

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Just to not forget the “past”: Trump was banned from twitter due to inciting violence, see https://blog.twitter.com/en_us/topics/company/2020/suspensio... There is an objective truth out there, no reason to return to our echo chambers. Some people are angry at Elon buying twitter because a subjectively good platform might just die in a short time, because everyone who had even an ounce of try at managing a platform k…

The point of the person you are responding to wasn't to really defend whether the idea of unbanning Trump was good or not: it was to demonstrate how ridiculous it is to explicitly move to a decentralized solution like Mastadon if that's your concern.

But mastodon is not without moderation on a per instance basis.

Re: Mastodon's founder has a vision to democratize social media

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Post by detaro »

baq wrote: post #112
detaro wrote: post #87

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Just from a quick look, no claim to completeness, intentionally including also small ones: https://fediscience.org/ https://vis.social/ https://mstdn.science/ https://astrodon.social/ https://mapstodon.space/ currently not taking signups: https://scholar.social/ https://scicomm.xyz/

How do I follow a server with an account on a different server? I don’t want to register on multiple servers since it’s a hassle…

not sure what you mean by "follow a server"? You can interact with/follow people on other servers from yours.

Re: Mastodon's founder has a vision to democratize social media

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Post by kstrauser »

m3kw9 wrote: post #91

Imagine you need to choose a server every time you wanted to surf the net and some server you may not see certain things

Imagine you need to choose a server every time you want to email your someone, and that server may have spam filters.

Re: Mastodon's founder has a vision to democratize social media

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Post by Finnucane »

samsepi0l wrote: post #46

I dont think Mastodon will gain mainstream adoption because of the naming, and they call messages "Toots". Normal people will baulk at the branding of it all.

So what? It doesn’t need to be mainstream. It’s not built for exploitation of the user base, so it doesn’t need to sell the idea that everyone needs to be there.
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