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Mastodon's founder has a vision to democratize social media

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Re: Mastodon's founder has a vision to democratize social media

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Post by nemo44x »

SQueeeeeL wrote: post #80
qualudeheart wrote: post #68

Predictions: Mastodon becomes platform for technically minded center left. Tribel Social becomes lower brow left version of Parler. Twitter loses customers to aforementioned platforms but survives.

I feel like most people I know on the left have essentially abandoned social media as inherently unproductive and instead gather in local group chats which can only be found by being active in a community. So the only people who will really be hanging around are probably techno optimists

That’s pretty much what their opposition wants. Previously they controlled what was allowed to be said on the mainstream platforms and that was influential. Scattering off to 1000 different Balkanized ghettos puts them back on the margins. This was what happened to the far right already.

Re: Mastodon's founder has a vision to democratize social media

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Post by nemo44x »

twmiller wrote: post #65
throwawayacc4 wrote: post #61

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My observation is that the modern leftt wing social media user only thrives when there are 'conservative Nazis' around that they can piss off. Hence Lemmy, Tumblr, Mastodon, etc. being largely failures. They all miss the key ingredient that the left wingers need to really get their endorphin hit: people to virtue signal over. We can both play this game but I don't think it's particularly helpful. One could say Elon i…

I think you're only half wrong here. The difference is that you can virtue signal to people inside of your own crowd without much consequence, but if you seek to offend them, they kick you out. There's definitely (a lot of) virtue signaling going on in the fediverse, for what it's worth. And I really don't see people on the left getting the same sort of kicks out of pissing people off that people on the right seem to…

I’m just grabbing my popcorn and can’t wait to watch the inevitable splits. Each of the communities will split into 2, will split into 2, etc. They just can’t help themselves.

Re: Mastodon's founder has a vision to democratize social media

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Post by xaduha »

DavidSJ wrote: post #132
allan-a wrote: post #79

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Just a small note, you can't really choose wrong because you can participate across the fediverse, with other "servers", and even non-mastodon federated social media. However if it irks one to join a specific community, there does exist general purpose instances.

If I can’t choose wrong then why am I forced to choose at all? The user experience doesn’t add up.

Who should decide it for you then? Did someone mention blockchain already?

But seriously though, if you start to make it more distributed than it already is it will look even less like Twitter.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tox_(protocol)

Re: Mastodon's founder has a vision to democratize social media

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Post by killing_time »

baq wrote: post #112
detaro wrote: post #87

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Just from a quick look, no claim to completeness, intentionally including also small ones: https://fediscience.org/ https://vis.social/ https://mstdn.science/ https://astrodon.social/ https://mapstodon.space/ currently not taking signups: https://scholar.social/ https://scicomm.xyz/

How do I follow a server with an account on a different server? I don’t want to register on multiple servers since it’s a hassle…

It's pretty straightforward: you either click on their profile or (if you know someone's username@server via some other medium), search for them on your 'home' server and you'll see their profile. Then just click the 'follow' button.

Under the covers this sets up the federated follow relationship, but the UX feels the same as following someone on twitter.

There is one slightly more complicated scenario; if for some reason you're exploring a different server and find someone there you want to follow. In that case you still click the follow button but have to provide _your_ username@server string which triggers the necessary back-and-forth to get the follow relationship set up.

Re: Mastodon's founder has a vision to democratize social media

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Post by arjvik »

DavidSJ wrote: post #132
allan-a wrote: post #79

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Just a small note, you can't really choose wrong because you can participate across the fediverse, with other "servers", and even non-mastodon federated social media. However if it irks one to join a specific community, there does exist general purpose instances.

If I can’t choose wrong then why am I forced to choose at all? The user experience doesn’t add up.

If there's no wrong answer between Gmail and Outlook, why must you choose one of them?

Re: Mastodon's founder has a vision to democratize social media

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Post by themitigating »

Karunamon wrote: post #85
themitigating wrote: post #32

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How was the moderation unfair?

Allowed to tweet things that are objectively against the rules if they politically lean a certain way. Outsized attention given to harmless shitposting at Hollywood actors while Iranian terrorists are allowed to post propaganda unchecked despite reports. Selective application of rules against things like "hacked content" used against certain politicians and organizations with certain political leanings but not others…

Do you have proof of this?

Re: Mastodon's founder has a vision to democratize social media

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Post by xaduha »

baq wrote: post #112
detaro wrote: post #87

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Just from a quick look, no claim to completeness, intentionally including also small ones: https://fediscience.org/ https://vis.social/ https://mstdn.science/ https://astrodon.social/ https://mapstodon.space/ currently not taking signups: https://scholar.social/ https://scicomm.xyz/

How do I follow a server with an account on a different server? I don’t want to register on multiple servers since it’s a hassle…

It's federated, you don't need to register on multiple servers.

Re: Mastodon's founder has a vision to democratize social media

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Post by baq »

detaro wrote: post #117
baq wrote: post #112

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How do I follow a server with an account on a different server? I don’t want to register on multiple servers since it’s a hassle…

not sure what you mean by "follow a server"? You can interact with/follow people on other servers from yours.

That’s the thing, I don’t really want to find people to follow, I guess? Not out of band at least. First I need to find a few of their posts. How do I do that?

Re: Mastodon's founder has a vision to democratize social media

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Post by baq »

killing_time wrote: post #145
baq wrote: post #112

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How do I follow a server with an account on a different server? I don’t want to register on multiple servers since it’s a hassle…

It's pretty straightforward: you either click on their profile or (if you know someone's username@server via some other medium), search for them on your 'home' server and you'll see their profile. Then just click the 'follow' button. Under the covers this sets up the federated follow relationship, but the UX feels the same as following someone on twitter. There is one slightly more complicated scenario; if for some r…

That makes sense, but my case is before I know who to follow. Is there any way to explore what’s going on on a server? Like browsing a news group on Usenet or checking a subreddit before subscribing?
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