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My only mild disappointment is he seems to feel that Mastodon is free of censorship. I've never installed or reviewed configuring Mastodon because my understanding is the someone, somewhere, can somehow interfere with what a user sees in a feed.
Anyone familiar with this? Is it just default install configuration that leads to this behavior?
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> Why don't more people self host / host everything themselves these days in the age of privacy? Because it's a pain in the ass and people don't care enough to. People don't want the fediverse, they want an app. They don't want to know about cloud and infra primitives, they want their photos in their phone and for them to be safe and shareable. They want their iMessages and WhatsApp to JustWork(TM). > How can we make…
Most people would like the privacy, but not the responsibility and concomitant work.
Video played perfectly for me, though I did leave it at 1x because I didn't want to miss anything with his accent. My only mild disappointment is he seems to feel that Mastodon is free of censorship. I've never installed or reviewed configuring Mastodon because my understanding is the someone, somewhere, can somehow interfere with what a user sees in a feed. Anyone familiar with this? Is it just default install confi…
I've also seen the signup page of other instances having dozens of categories of prohibited posts.
Video played perfectly for me, though I did leave it at 1x because I didn't want to miss anything with his accent. My only mild disappointment is he seems to feel that Mastodon is free of censorship. I've never installed or reviewed configuring Mastodon because my understanding is the someone, somewhere, can somehow interfere with what a user sees in a feed. Anyone familiar with this? Is it just default install confi…
This means you tradeoff someone administrating the server and moderating content (shared instances often have a TOS) for full freedom. i.e. If you self host you have full, manual control for better or worse.
Video played perfectly for me, though I did leave it at 1x because I didn't want to miss anything with his accent. My only mild disappointment is he seems to feel that Mastodon is free of censorship. I've never installed or reviewed configuring Mastodon because my understanding is the someone, somewhere, can somehow interfere with what a user sees in a feed. Anyone familiar with this? Is it just default install confi…
It's like email. If you have a server and I have a server we can talk. If one of us uses someone else's server then that server can censor us.
I have a question that I was hoping the video would answer, but I didn't see. The Fediverse is always described with that interconnected diagram where everything talks to each other over ActivityPub. But I never see that in practice. For example: If I have a mastodon.social account, how does that work with pixelfed.social or tube.jenna.net? Do I use my mastodon.social account to sign up to those other services? Or to…
I have a question that I was hoping the video would answer, but I didn't see. The Fediverse is always described with that interconnected diagram where everything talks to each other over ActivityPub. But I never see that in practice. For example: If I have a mastodon.social account, how does that work with pixelfed.social or tube.jenna.net? Do I use my mastodon.social account to sign up to those other services? Or to…
caveat: This only works as long as your instance hasn't de-federated those instances.
Peertube is supposed to be peer to peer but even though there's 8 seeders right now I can't even watch the video...
I'm always curious to see if peertube is going to work but I have to admit it started immediately, said it had 9 seeders, and worked fine. But I wonder how it works after a few weeks when it's not being HN'd and the author isn't seeding it.
Honestly, the peer tube method of storing media is actually kinda nice. Not everything needs to live forever, and it brings back a semblance of privacy.
On the other hand of this, larger companies can pin smaller videos on other instances while supplementing with their own ad supported videos.
This is awesome. Why don't more people self host / host everything themselves these days in the age of privacy? How can we make more people self host their data rather than giving it to corporations? A start might be to tell people to use extensions that are adblockers and to disable javascript on websites and even use and setup pi-holes to take back their data and privacy. There must be more that can be done here bu…
I have a question that I was hoping the video would answer, but I didn't see. The Fediverse is always described with that interconnected diagram where everything talks to each other over ActivityPub. But I never see that in practice. For example: If I have a mastodon.social account, how does that work with pixelfed.social or tube.jenna.net? Do I use my mastodon.social account to sign up to those other services? Or to…
This works because while pixelfed and mastodon and tube.jenna.net display things differently, the things they are displaying are in fact very very similar. Posts by users, consisting of maybe a video, maybe an image, maybe a reference to a post they're replying to, and some text. Ultimately it will be up to the individual implementation what to do with posts that are different enough that they can't figure out a reasonable way to display them.