Should I leave Twitter for this? Looks so good.
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Mastodon’s 2 Year Anniversary
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#12What Mastadon servers do folks here frequent? Which ones are worth your time?
sunbeam.city a solarpunk instance.
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#13What Mastadon servers do folks here frequent? Which ones are worth your time?
https://ruby.social is geared towards Rubyists but by no means is it restricted to only that topic.
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#14It doesn't seem like a lot has been accomplished since launch.
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#15I currently run my own Mastodon server, and wrote some scripts if you want to run your own on Vultr: https://github.com/sumdog/bee2/ I'm really glad I set this up. Mastodon is an interesting platform; like one big lopsided chatroom. You do have to follow a lot of strangers to get started (unless you can convince a bunch of your friends to join). People also go pretty ban crazy on there. I've been called a "Nazi stoog…
Running your own instance ensures that the idiot admin of the instance isn't gonna ban you, but other instances can choose not to federate with you.
Running your own instance appears to be the only way to have a permanent identifier, no?
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#16Aren't these all vanity metrics? [1] Features are swell, and registered users are nice, in that it indicates somebody was at least curious. But how many of those 1,627,557 registered users are, say, active at least once a week for the last 3 months? What's the NPS of Mastodon users after 7, 30, and 90 days?
I'd love to see them succeed. But I think it's dangerous for programmers to focus on building a thing rather than serving their users.
[1] This isn't a slam; it's a technical term from Eric Ries: http://www.startuplessonslearned.com/2009/12/why-vanity-metr...
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#17I currently run my own Mastodon server, and wrote some scripts if you want to run your own on Vultr: https://github.com/sumdog/bee2/ I'm really glad I set this up. Mastodon is an interesting platform; like one big lopsided chatroom. You do have to follow a lot of strangers to get started (unless you can convince a bunch of your friends to join). People also go pretty ban crazy on there. I've been called a "Nazi stoog…
On bans, there are frequent waves of new users who migrate away from Twitter to mastodon because they're told that mastodon has instances that are more suited to their personal (typically) political inclinations, and that the other side isn't permitted here and that discussion is more reasoned.
It's not really true. What really happens is that people are told that mastodon is the land of milk and honey, and people of all stripes migrate over, and continue to clash. Mastodon brings better tools to deal with it, but the same people import the same negative behaviours but end up on instances that typically reinforce their beliefs.
I really hoped that mastodon would be better, but it's really the same noise as twitter but worse - people end up on hyper-polarised instances where war is waged with blocks, bans, and federation filters. At least on twitter you have to share a home with people you don't agree with, here you can build all the walls you want to isolate yourself from anyone who doesn't completely agree with you.
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#18I personally find Twitter’s centralization, despite the obvious inherent downsides, to be its defining feature. To be able to have a real-time feed of everything that is being tweeted by anyone in the world on a given keyword or topic is really amazing, as well as the (reasonable) certainty that I’m following/tweeting at the “real” @celebrityaccount. Otherwise, I’d be happy to stick to blogging and Google searches. T…
Even though Mastodon is decentralized, the interface has a federated timeline that shows toots from all instances that the server federates with. I have found this to feel similar to a centralized, real-time stream of posts like Twitter.
The user can still follow hashtags/keywords from most of the users out there. Many of the more popular instances do not federate with a few of the more toxic, anything-goes servers, so the federated timeline won't be completely universal. While that might be true much of the stuff posted on those instances being censored wouldn't be tolerated on a platform like Twitter anyway.
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#19I personally find Twitter’s centralization, despite the obvious inherent downsides, to be its defining feature. To be able to have a real-time feed of everything that is being tweeted by anyone in the world on a given keyword or topic is really amazing, as well as the (reasonable) certainty that I’m following/tweeting at the “real” @celebrityaccount. Otherwise, I’d be happy to stick to blogging and Google searches. T…
Even though Mastodon is decentralized, the interface has a federated timeline that shows toots from all instances that the server federates with. I have found this to feel similar to a centralized, real-time stream of posts like Twitter. The user can still follow hashtags/keywords from most of the users out there. Many of the more popular instances do not federate with a few of the more toxic, anything-goes servers,…
I don't think searching works properly as it only searches posts your instance knows about.
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#20I currently run my own Mastodon server, and wrote some scripts if you want to run your own on Vultr: https://github.com/sumdog/bee2/ I'm really glad I set this up. Mastodon is an interesting platform; like one big lopsided chatroom. You do have to follow a lot of strangers to get started (unless you can convince a bunch of your friends to join). People also go pretty ban crazy on there. I've been called a "Nazi stoog…
On bans, there are frequent waves of new users who migrate away from Twitter to mastodon because they're told that mastodon has instances that are more suited to their personal (typically) political inclinations, and that the other side isn't permitted here and that discussion is more reasoned. It's not really true. What really happens is that people are told that mastodon is the land of milk and honey, and people of…
Mastodon IS better ... at not stuffing ads in my face. So it's not the same noise as Twitter, in that I don't have to share a home with a billboard in every room.