why is hacker-news flooded lately with mastodon-related content? it's irritating
Because Twitter is.
It's even worse on the Fediverse, which is flooded with both Mastodon- and Twitter-related discussion.
Your Organization should run its own Mastodon server
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#12No organization wants to do this, unfortunately.
Twitter and Instagram are “free”. Running servers costs money, made more expensive by the choice in the Mastodon design to not support virtual hosting on a per-domain basis. You have to run (and admin) a complete new instance of Mastodon for each domain you wish to support.
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#13why is hacker-news flooded lately with mastodon-related content? it's irritating
Because Twitter is now being monetized like a free dating app. Pay to boost.
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#14The writer of the article works for Thoughtworks. Do they offer consulting services related to Fediverse?
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#16NOW this is of concern. Is this more backlash talk or an honest thought? If the latter why just now and not six months ago?
I don't think there's any need to hide from this. For a while, all the major social networks were run by people who all felt politically much the same way. That has now faded, and it will probably never come back. So people who also felt that way politically feel the need to take greater actions to take control of their social media presence.
While I do not align with these people politically, I applaud their desires and encourage them to continue taking action to own smaller spaces instead of us all trying to fight over the monolithic centralized large spaces. As I've said several times on HN now, I am not particularly convinced in the long term that massive centralized communities are practical because the intersection of all community social norms is essentially the null set, or at the very least, much smaller than anyone wants to be confined to. The fact that all of the major sites sourced from a particular geographical location with particular dominant political beliefs was a historical anomaly that won't be replicated.
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#17why is hacker-news flooded lately with mastodon-related content? it's irritating
Because a rich man recently bought Twitter, because he felt some people were managing to avoid what he says. Some people think that it would be nice to find somewhere else to hang out
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#18That way everyone can subscribe to your company's professional toots on masto
Exactly. Same way how people can subscribe to a company's Twitter account. Except that the company owns the content, server, and can define their own rules.
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#19Not trivial. Slack/teams are built to handle confidential communications with legal oversight.
I'm not sure this is the case.
Like sure, slack / teams can see all your data, but if you have a trivial problem such as being in the EU, you suddenly now have a compliance problem if specific data gets put on the service.
Run mattermost on your own server and many of the problems go away.
Mastodon is a bit different because it's federated, but I assume since it's more akin to a social network, it's similar to running a community support website compliance wise.
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#20NOW this is of concern. Is this more backlash talk or an honest thought? If the latter why just now and not six months ago?
Because….
Narratives?