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What I'm wondering is does Mastodon and the like fit with Europe's GDPR?
Discussed here: https://github.com/tootsuite/mastodon/issues/7280
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Re: Twitter suspended our Open Data project's account and wiped all our followers
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Twitter has hundreds of times more accounts. It depends on the audience, everyone's mileage may vary, so on and so forth, but as a general rule of thumb, if you're drawing from a pool that's 300x bigger, it's going to be easier to get orders of magnitude more followers. This is not Mastodon's fault; network effects are what they are. Having said that, anecdotally I find it very hard to get people outside of a relativ…
So to break things down as I think we're partially of the same view: 1. To start with the end, nobody's suggesting they're exclusively on Mastodon (which is not the only Fediverse tool, there are others), and they absolutely should syndicate far and wide. However, posting to Mastodon/Pleroma/Whatever first and syndicating the content elsewhere means that if this happens again, they don't lose tweets. 2. Drawing from…
We may not be on the same page, but we're probably at least on adjacent pages. :)
I should be clear that I like Mastodon despite all my complaints -- it's just that I often feel as if I like it more in theory than practice. I've had better luck with Micro.blog, which is a different approach to the same problem (i.e., own your own content), built on top of webmentions and syndication feeds. But I'm not sure it's really a better approach, just different.
Re: Twitter suspended our Open Data project's account and wiped all our followers
#153Earlier quoted context omitted.
So to break things down as I think we're partially of the same view: 1. To start with the end, nobody's suggesting they're exclusively on Mastodon (which is not the only Fediverse tool, there are others), and they absolutely should syndicate far and wide. However, posting to Mastodon/Pleroma/Whatever first and syndicating the content elsewhere means that if this happens again, they don't lose tweets. 2. Drawing from…
We may not be on the same page, but we're probably at least on adjacent pages. :) I should be clear that I like Mastodon despite all my complaints -- it's just that I often feel as if I like it more in theory than practice. I've had better luck with Micro.blog, which is a different approach to the same problem (i.e., own your own content), built on top of webmentions and syndication feeds. But I'm not sure it's reall…
Oooh Micro.blog looks interesting. Is it open source?
Re: Twitter suspended our Open Data project's account and wiped all our followers
#154Earlier quoted context omitted.
We may not be on the same page, but we're probably at least on adjacent pages. :) I should be clear that I like Mastodon despite all my complaints -- it's just that I often feel as if I like it more in theory than practice. I've had better luck with Micro.blog, which is a different approach to the same problem (i.e., own your own content), built on top of webmentions and syndication feeds. But I'm not sure it's reall…
Oooh Micro.blog looks interesting. Is it open source?
I don't think the timeline bits are, although I think it's under consideration. (Sorry for being extremely fuzzy there.) I know you don't actually have to pay for hosting with them, which I don't think they do a great job of communicating yet -- a hosted Micro.blog is actually just Jekyll with a web front end, and there are people using their own Jekyll setups, or WordPress, or a few other solutions. (I'm pretty sure the timeline is actually built on top of JSON Feed and webmentions.)