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Re: Mastodon: AGPLv3 FOSS social network server

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Post by sitzkrieg »

beware mastodon downloads and mirrors all federated media to instance users, which is whatever, but the admin tools do not correctly keep track of removing old media. hell, if an instance goes offline without nuking itself proper, mastodon will leave all of the media on your drive. it requires a ton of babysitting to run on bound storage, and the issues around this are still open.

i highly highly recommend pleroma over it, it uses 1/10th the system resources and doesn't download federated accounts data locally

Re: Mastodon: AGPLv3 FOSS social network server

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Post by trutannus »

john_moscow wrote: post #47
LeoPanthera wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Even if you are unconcerned about your soul, morals, or ethics, tech workers at TMTG are surely ending their careers. Who would employ them after that?

Friendly reminder: if you feel passionate and excited about someone else being denied employment, or otherwise punished based on their views, you are likely being manipulated. By caring about those things you care less about demanding a better deal for yourself, and that's exactly what the media wants. USSR was built on that kind of manipulation and now it's coming here.

> USSR was built on that kind of manipulation and now it's coming here

Can you link to where I could read up on that? Propaganda tactics are fascinating, and this one is one I never knew about.

Re: Mastodon: AGPLv3 FOSS social network server

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Post by saurik »

betwixthewires wrote: post #79

People interested in this stuff should check out alternate software as well. Hometown is a fork of mastodon that has a few extra features but one very interesting one in particular: you can post to the local server only, which is an excellent community building feature. There's also pleroma, which I've run and is pretty great and low on resource requirements. And there are tons of other social UX paradigms like link…

> ...you can post to the local server only, which is an excellent community building feature.

The idea of building a local community that you have to have an account and associated identity on a specific server to access is the kind of mal-aligned incentive that tends to cause federated systems to become de-facto centralized silos and, eventually, return to the status quo of a controlling oligopoly :(.

Re: Mastodon: AGPLv3 FOSS social network server

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Post by trutannus »

knicholes wrote: post #93
LeoPanthera wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Even if you are unconcerned about your soul, morals, or ethics, tech workers at TMTG are surely ending their careers. Who would employ them after that?

Can you please help me understand why working at TMTG ends someone's career?

I assure you nobody outside America would really care, or know, what that company was.

Re: Mastodon: AGPLv3 FOSS social network server

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Post by nabakin »

debacle wrote: post #72
leppr wrote: post #62

Earlier quoted context omitted.

To learn more about this: https://twitter.com/VValkyriePub/status/1451035108266233863?...

There's no evidence provided anywhere at all that any of these screenshots are of Trump's new platform.

I don't know why you're so unwilling to believe those screenshots are from Trump's social network. Dozens of different people independently posted screenshots of the network, including some trusted reporters. It would be quite a conspiracy to suppose all of them coordinated and lied about those images. Such little to gain. Such massive consequences.

If you need more evidence, here [0] is the archived login page from the mobile version of the site before it was taken down (because it was flooded and trolled). By comparing it visually to other mastodon instances and inspecting the source itself, you can confirm there was a mobile mastodon instance up at the given archival time. Additionally, the press release [1] links to the social media website [2] which links to the app store page [3] which has preview images that are very similar to the images posted on Twitter.

[0] http://web.archive.org/web/20211021014524/https://mobile.tme...

[1] https://thedeskofdonaldtrump.com/announcing-trump-media-tech...

[2] https://www.truthsocial.com/

[3] https://apps.apple.com/us/app/truth-social/id1586018825

Re: Mastodon: AGPLv3 FOSS social network server

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Post by 2pEXgD0fZ5cF »

crate_barre wrote: post #8

Trump’s upcoming social network app is using Mastadon. https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-accused-ripping-code-s... Not trying to get political, but this site is obviously going to be the biggest Mastadon showcase.

> this site is obviously going to be the biggest Mastadon showcase

why?

Re: Mastodon: AGPLv3 FOSS social network server

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Post by crate_barre »

2pEXgD0fZ5cF wrote: post #117
crate_barre wrote: post #8

Trump’s upcoming social network app is using Mastadon. https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-accused-ripping-code-s... Not trying to get political, but this site is obviously going to be the biggest Mastadon showcase.

> this site is obviously going to be the biggest Mastadon showcase why?

The media will cover it.

Re: Mastodon: AGPLv3 FOSS social network server

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Post by [deleted] »

nabakin wrote: post #116
debacle wrote: post #72

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There's no evidence provided anywhere at all that any of these screenshots are of Trump's new platform.

I don't know why you're so unwilling to believe those screenshots are from Trump's social network. Dozens of different people independently posted screenshots of the network, including some trusted reporters. It would be quite a conspiracy to suppose all of them coordinated and lied about those images. Such little to gain. Such massive consequences. If you need more evidence, here [0] is the archived login page from…

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