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Re: Mastodon hit 10M users

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Post by LBJsPNS »

realjhol wrote: post #223
LBJsPNS wrote: post #218

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That would seem to be a very easy place to avoid.

How? One's political views are largely an expression of innate personality traits. And, as we have seen, the basket of deplorable includes anyone who is not explicitly left wing.

"the basket of deplorable includes anyone who is not explicitly left wing."

Nah. It tends to include neo-nazis, neo-confederates, racists, sexists, white supremacists, kiddy diddlers, and the like. It's not a particularly difficult group to not be a part of.

Re: Mastodon hit 10M users

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Post by jeromegv »

baxuz wrote: post #209

Can someone please explain how Mastodon is anything else except Reddit with more hoops to jump through? You have users, subreddits (servers), and mods. Except everything is federated, so you also have the overhead of choosing your server or making a ton of alt accounts. Flashback to old MMO times.

Reddit is thread based. This is more like a feed. I see it more like a decentralized twitter than a reddit with hoops.

Re: Mastodon hit 10M users

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Post by LBJsPNS »

ilyt wrote: post #228
LBJsPNS wrote: post #220

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So set up your own instance. With blackjack. And hookers.

"You are only allowed to see who you want to see if you have technical knowledge and money to set up your own instance" is terrible way for social network

So do you regularly allow those who espouse viewpoints you find abhorrent into your living room to rant?

Re: Mastodon hit 10M users

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Post by jeromegv »

jeffbee wrote: post #216
EamonnMR wrote: post #38

Being able to follow just hashtags and users and never getting recommended garbage is very nice. I mostly just use Twitter to follow Dril now.

In what way would that be different from the Twitter "Following" feed?

Lots of spam on twitter nowadays, so following a hashtag might lead to a lot of garbage. And the other difference obviously is ads, you read 5 tweets and get an ad in the following feed.

Re: Mastodon hit 10M users

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Post by jeromegv »

jeroenhd wrote: post #143
seba_dos1 wrote: post #29

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> But the thing is, I just hate the Mastodon UI. Which one?

The Mastodon project only comes with one UI. There are forks and alternatives, and themed instances of course, but those aren't really "the mastodon UI".

It's also an API, there are tons of 3rd party apps available.

Re: Mastodon hit 10M users

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Post by mxuribe »

jokoon wrote: post #155

Who moderates this when content is reported? Can mastodon detect porn automatically and hide it? Anybody can build a social network today, the most difficult task is and always will be moderation.

If you run your own instance of an activityPub server - e.g. mastodon, gotosocial, pixelfed, etc. - for, let's say, yourself or your family, then you will have vastly more capabilities to moderate content (way easier and more reliable than relying on others to do so). If your next question is: why do i have to moderate the content myself? ...Then, your expectations are not aligned with (and/or you misunderstand) the greater fediverse's design. I think the kids would say: "You're holding/using it wrong." ;-)

Re: Mastodon hit 10M users

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Post by jeromegv »

zimpenfish wrote: post #161
numpad0 wrote: post #100

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If GP meant 2nd and 3rd largest instances, Pawoo and mstdn.jp - those are on the https://instances.social/instances.json that is supposed to be the data source, with 839k/338k users with 70M/65M statuses respectively. Along the mastodon.social with 1M users and 53M statuses, the top 3 account for 2.2M or 1/5th of claimed 10M users... But something seems off. "users" key on that .json only adds up to 7816421, not 10M.…

If you only include instances where up = true, it drops to 4.9M.

The up=true label isn't really working, some of those "down" instances are actually up right now.

Re: Mastodon hit 10M users

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Post by cbeach »

I'm probably listed among those "10M users"

I checked out Mastodon for an hour or so, saw less engagement than Twitter, more of an echo chamber, and a generally inferior user experience. Now I don't actively use it.

It's sad in some ways, because I think centralised Big Tech (as a general concept) is undesirable. But to break the network effect, alternatives have to be much better.

Also I'm concerned about Mastodon shared, curated blocklists. People who express unconventional/inconvenient viewpoints will not be safe on a decentralised network that has anti-free-speech, groupthink authoritarian mechanisms.

(Yes, I know I wouldn't be forced to use a shared blocklist on my own Mastodon instance - but the problem is that my instance would be vulnerable to the whims of those who curate shared blocklists).

Re: Mastodon hit 10M users

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Post by [deleted] »

dale_glass wrote: post #236
roenxi wrote: post #208

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> That's not so much problem solving as just obstructionism. Surely there are things to be done that don't depend at all on what the competition is doing. My government have made it very difficult for me to take my own health, retirement savings, home improvement and often financial decisions into my own hands. Typically the way his happens is that some leftist will be responsible although in the case of the financia…

> My government have made it very difficult for me to take my own health, retirement savings, home improvement and often financial decisions into my own hands. > ... > If I am too effective at savings then there will also be attempts to gain control of the savings and funnel them into causes I usually think are poorly chosen Right, that's exactly what I was talking about. We can agree on the surface about some things…

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Re: Mastodon hit 10M users

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Post by jeromegv »

phplovesong wrote: post #92

I applied for mastodon, but never got an confirmation. I think the tech has some serious bugs, and afaict needs polish. When users cant sign up theres red flags going on.

I applied for the web, but I got a 404 error. I think the web tech has some serious bugs and needs polish. In the mean time, I plan not to log to the web and avoid those 404 errors.

Come on, especially on hacker news, you are a tech person, surely you can find out how the other 10 million people created an account. If anything it was in your spam.

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