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Re: Twitter Suspends @Joinmastodon

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Post by syrrim »

someNameIG wrote: post #7
Kye wrote: post #3

Possibly in response to their tweet about the @elonjet account on Mastodon. Banning someone for talking about or linking to something that would break rules if it were on Twitter seems contrary to the variant of free speech Elon Musk claimed to support pre-Twitter purchase.

I think elonjet also has a sub on reddit. Will reddit links be banned from twitter soon? Any website that mentions elonjet? lol

The tweet linked to the account on mastodon, it didn't simply link to a mastodon instance which happened to host elonjet's account. Presumably direct links to the subreddit would be banned, whereas reddit as a whole would be fine.

Re: Twitter Suspends @Joinmastodon

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Post by ruminator1 »

none_to_remain wrote: post #40
Sithwuth wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Curious as to how many people manage to sign up for email addresses across a variety of providers despite all that decentralised server nonsense.

In practice we don't see situations arising where Yahoo users can't send email to Gmail users because the boss of Gmail doesn't like that that the boss of Yahoo allows Fastmail users to send email to Yahoo users

This right here is my primary problem with Mastodon. Its ripe for drama like this. The amount of glee I saw in the older users their about defedrating felt really unsettling. "If X company comes we will defedarate them" "If X celebrity comes we will defedarate them".

Re: Twitter Suspends @Joinmastodon

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Post by scrollaway »

Sithwuth wrote: post #20

If you're thinking of trying Mastodon, I would recommend joining an interest-specific or locality-specific server rather than one of the general purpose servers, because the local community is likely to be stronger and more engaged. You can always jump ship later if you find it's not your thing Some examples: - https://fosstodon.org for FOSS - https://infosec.exchange for infosec - https://sfba.social for the bay are…

Im very surprised that, among techies, there aren't more people running their own instance as a solo user, so that they can own the entire username including the domain name.

It's what I did for myself (Follow me! @jerome@leclan.ch), following Simon Willison's post: https://til.simonwillison.net/mastodon/custom-domain-mastodo...

Re: Twitter Suspends @Joinmastodon

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Post by lapcat »

none_to_remain wrote: post #40
Sithwuth wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Curious as to how many people manage to sign up for email addresses across a variety of providers despite all that decentralised server nonsense.

In practice we don't see situations arising where Yahoo users can't send email to Gmail users because the boss of Gmail doesn't like that that the boss of Yahoo allows Fastmail users to send email to Yahoo users

This isn't true. In fact we do see email providers getting blocked, mainly because of spam or other unwanted emails being sent from a provider.

https://www.google.com/search?q=why+is+gmail+blocking+my+ema...

Re: Twitter Suspends @Joinmastodon

#45

Post by Fordec »

hoppoy wrote: post #29

My main problem with Mastodon is it's such a tiresome monoculture of opinion. So many people with the pretty much the same politics, biases, grievances as everyone else. Any server that dissents too much from this gets a fediverse block. The whole thing is just so tedious. I don't know about the rest of you, but I enjoy reading opinions from people I have nothing in common with in terms of world view, and whom I vehe…

He says on HN.

Re: Twitter Suspends @Joinmastodon

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Post by chadlavi »

hoppoy wrote: post #29

My main problem with Mastodon is it's such a tiresome monoculture of opinion. So many people with the pretty much the same politics, biases, grievances as everyone else. Any server that dissents too much from this gets a fediverse block. The whole thing is just so tedious. I don't know about the rest of you, but I enjoy reading opinions from people I have nothing in common with in terms of world view, and whom I vehe…

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Re: Twitter Suspends @Joinmastodon

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Post by tedunangst »

dmatech wrote: post #11
minimaxir wrote: post #5

Banning ElonJet was already a cheat, so I'm extremely curious how this is one is justified.

It linked directly to ElonJet's account there and invited people to join and follow this account. That's probably what did it. https://web.archive.org/web/20221215174053/https://twitter.c...

Can I post a tweet linking to a news article that links to their mastodon account?

Re: Twitter Suspends @Joinmastodon

#48

Post by lapcat »

scrollaway wrote: post #43
Sithwuth wrote: post #20

If you're thinking of trying Mastodon, I would recommend joining an interest-specific or locality-specific server rather than one of the general purpose servers, because the local community is likely to be stronger and more engaged. You can always jump ship later if you find it's not your thing Some examples: - https://fosstodon.org for FOSS - https://infosec.exchange for infosec - https://sfba.social for the bay are…

Im very surprised that, among techies, there aren't more people running their own instance as a solo user, so that they can own the entire username including the domain name. It's what I did for myself (Follow me! @jerome@leclan.ch), following Simon Willison's post: https://til.simonwillison.net/mastodon/custom-domain-mastodo...

"Notice: due to the recent influx of traffic, new subscriptions are closed." https://masto.host/

"hi! there's been a huge wave of new members and new instances recently, and that's a Lot of work. i am tired and especially won't be very available in the next months for health reasons, so i won't be accepting new instances for a while." https://fedi.monster/

"Due to overwhelming demand, registrations are currently closed." https://cloudplane.org/

Re: Twitter Suspends @Joinmastodon

#49

Post by davidgerard »

none_to_remain wrote: post #40
Sithwuth wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Curious as to how many people manage to sign up for email addresses across a variety of providers despite all that decentralised server nonsense.

In practice we don't see situations arising where Yahoo users can't send email to Gmail users because the boss of Gmail doesn't like that that the boss of Yahoo allows Fastmail users to send email to Yahoo users

yes we do. remember when Yahoo email to mailing lists went straight to GMail spam for a while because GMail didn't like how Yahoo managed its headers?
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