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...yes? That's exactly what's happening. And no one is claiming the government needs to repeal or change any laws and force Elon to do anything, either. They're just leaving.
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#112If 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…
Last time I looked into Mastodon (a couple years ago), I found a small, specific community that piqued my interest. Months later, the owner of the instance lost interest and closed it. In the end I never registered, but, what would have happened if I did and started to use it in my day to day? Would I wake up one day to find out that I no longer have a Mastodon account? I feel the response might be something akin to…
Any techie on HN could run a one-person instance. Mastodon itself is fat, but Pleroma/Akkoma and Misskey are smaller, for instance. I know someone who's writing software for a one-person server in Rust that is intended to deploy as a single binary file.
The problem you describe is real, though, and it's the least friendly thing about Mastodon for new users.
I'd pick a large instance to start with, and move at your leisure.
I'm camped out on a friend's server right now, he said it was strictly for amusement but he's having a whale of a time being a Mastodon admin. When he says he'll definitely give us 2mo notice if he gets sick of it, I know I can trust him on that. That sort of thing.
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#113Earlier quoted context omitted.
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...
I too self host my instance. I opted to use Pleroma ( https://pleroma.social/ ) for a backend to interact with the fediverse because of the easier setup and lower hosting requirements. It’s been working for a few years now and (luckily) I never had major incidents. It’s very refreshing to be in full control of one’s data (compared to the centralised experience with other socials like Twitter and Facebook).
I considered Pleroma, but opted to use Mastodon because DO had a ready-made droplet.
I will likely switch to Takahe (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33731739) as soon as it's a little more ready, for the reasons you describe.
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#114Earlier quoted context omitted.
Can't read it. But I'm assuming it isn't arguing that the government needs to nationalize all social media platforms, repeal Section 230 protections and make content moderation illegal, like half of Hacker News was until Elon took over Twitter, when suddenly they became stalwart supporters of free enterprise.
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Whoa, you can't post like this to HN. Worse, it looks like you've been using this site primarily for flamewar and ideological battle. We ban accounts that do that, regardless of what they're for or against. It's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for.
I don't want to ban you because you've been here for 7 years, but if you keep this up, we'll end up having to—so if you'd please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to the rules when posting, we'd appreciate it.
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#115Earlier quoted context omitted.
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Whoa, you can't post like this to HN. Worse, it looks like you've been using this site primarily for flamewar and ideological battle. We ban accounts that do that, regardless of what they're for or against. It's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for. I don't want to ban you because you've been here for 7 years, but if you keep this up, we'll end up having to—so if you'd please review https://news.yco…
"it looks like you've been using this site primarily for flamewar and ideological battle"
So you can attack my motives at will and I can't protest or I get banned, but if I criticize someone then it's "ideological battle" and "flamewar".
As Mel Brooks says, "It's good to be the King."
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#116Earlier quoted context omitted.
Whoa, you can't post like this to HN. Worse, it looks like you've been using this site primarily for flamewar and ideological battle. We ban accounts that do that, regardless of what they're for or against. It's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for. I don't want to ban you because you've been here for 7 years, but if you keep this up, we'll end up having to—so if you'd please review https://news.yco…
"it looks like you've been using this site primarily for flamewar and ideological battle" So you can attack my motives at will and I can't protest or I get banned, but if I criticize someone then it's "ideological battle" and "flamewar". As Mel Brooks says, "It's good to be the King."
I don't think I said anything about your motives? I'm sure they're good; we just need you to read the rules and follow them. It's not a borderline call to say you've been breaking them.
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
(p.s. I didn't flag your comment. I did unkill it.)
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#117Earlier quoted context omitted.
Last time I looked into Mastodon (a couple years ago), I found a small, specific community that piqued my interest. Months later, the owner of the instance lost interest and closed it. In the end I never registered, but, what would have happened if I did and started to use it in my day to day? Would I wake up one day to find out that I no longer have a Mastodon account? I feel the response might be something akin to…
Any techie on HN could run a one-person instance. Mastodon itself is fat, but Pleroma/Akkoma and Misskey are smaller, for instance. I know someone who's writing software for a one-person server in Rust that is intended to deploy as a single binary file. The problem you describe is real, though, and it's the least friendly thing about Mastodon for new users. I'd pick a large instance to start with, and move at your le…
is the Rust dude on github? I'd like to help
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It would be nice if new users were simply assigned a big, generic server (like in many MMOs) and then later had the option to seek out and find a niche server. The vast, vast majority of new users wouldn't know or care either way.
That's more or less what _happens_; people join mastodon.social and then move.
I can confirm this is what I did. I started on mastodon.social, then eventually moved to a smaller instance when I got jealous of their local timeline. Then I'm now hosting my own server in the closet.