Meanwhile, I can see this very Mastadon post with no login just fine. And the interface is not trying to assault me. It loads quick. ...Seems like a better product than Twitter for a public feed.
It's MastOdon, not MastAdon.
Twitter Is DDOSing Itself
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#182This is why you always use exponential backoff.
This is why you SHOULD always use exponential backoff. ;)
There may exist valid reasons in particular circumstances to ignore a particular item, but the full implications must be understood and carefully weighed before choosing a different course.
(thanks RFC 2119)
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#183Earlier quoted context omitted.
When someone says, "certain topics will get you banned" that doesn't make me judge the platform, that makes me judge the person. People are going to assume it's something you don't want to name, if you won't name it.
Come on, in a lot coastal discourse it is practically taboo to mention vanilla opinions that are held by 70+% of the population. Mastodon instances are largely moderated by people from the other 30%. You are free to judge if you want. But don't pretend this is a violation of publicly accepted morals in the 1st world.
> vanilla opinions
Like what?
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#184This is interesting. Judging from the screenshot, a huge amount of GET /TweetDetail is generated which triggers some rate limiting, as shown by the 429. If this is indeed due to the recent decision to enforce authentication for all API calls, it means the curlprit may actually be the API gateway or something similar downstream. Also, this behavior seem to never stop, which isn't what one would expect from an exponent…
Could someone report the error at press@twitter.com and see what they think about it?
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#186It's not a self ddos if twitter isn't going down. You can see in the video twitter is properly handling the load and is returning HTTP 429 when the client is sending too many requests. Hitting the rate limiter or requesting a post is light weight. It's not like it's spamming login requests which require a lot of resources due to key stretching.
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#187Earlier quoted context omitted.
When someone says, "certain topics will get you banned" that doesn't make me judge the platform, that makes me judge the person. People are going to assume it's something you don't want to name, if you won't name it.
I'm LGBT and my spouse is trans. I don't believe you should silence anti-trans rhetoric. I believe you should engage it. The ability for /r/conservative to ban my counter arguments is just as harmful as Mastodon shutting down the anti-trans positions. Conversation is what moves us forward and is how we find commonality. I grew up religious and conservative. I changed a lot of my viewpoints through friendly conversati…
I'm a fifty-something trans lady and I am just fucking tired of trying to change viewpoints. I just want to live my life and talk with my friends without some butthead coming in and telling me I shouldn't exist, I get enough of that by checking the news lately.
If you have the energy to politely engage people who think of you as a child molester who should be shot on sight, great! Go for it! But I have done that, and I am tired, and I do not want to do it any more. I run a Mastodon and I just want it to be a space to talk to my friends and maybe make some new ones, and thus, I block the fuck out of places I do not expect to get anything but hate from.
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#188Earlier quoted context omitted.
The point of it is that it isn't a company but a standard, so if one instance owner goes crazy and patches ads in you can move to another (or your own) and keep your network
Sorry if this is a dumb question, I’m still new to it. Wouldn’t you have the same problem as with an email address? I mean, your handle or whatever it is called would still point to that instance/owner right? Or is there some kind of “DNS” or registry so you can move your handle to other instances?
Let’s say that I want to move my @ploum@mamot.fr account (my real Mastodon account) to another server, let say "writing.exchange".
1. I create an account @ploum@writing.exchange on writing.exchange.
2. I go to mamot.fr and, in the settings, I enable migration to @ploum@writing.exchange.
3. I go to writing.exchange and, in the settings, I start the migration from @ploum@mamot.fr.
All my followers and following are automatically transfered. For them, it is transparent. They still follow me on my new account without them being even notified.
Of course, you need cooperation from mamot.fr. If mamot.fr decide to close your account, you can’t migrate it.
But it works well, I’ve used it myself. It is really great and allows people to do "server hoping" to join a community that fit better their need.
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#189Earlier quoted context omitted.
Early days of Twitter were just like that. Mastodon hasn't had the time to go to shit yet.
The point of it is that it isn't a company but a standard, so if one instance owner goes crazy and patches ads in you can move to another (or your own) and keep your network
The problem there is that there's nothing stopping the crazy instance owner from retaliating by "defederating" your own instance and cutting you off from your network.
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#190I think we're about at the point where the people who predicted chaos at twitter after Elon basically fired most of the experienced engineers have been proven correct. The duct tape is all coming apart at the seams now. It isn't quite as decisive as a submarine imploding, and ceasing to exist, but it has turned into a brightly burning tirefire.
25 years of products being honed for shareholder value, instead of customer or user value. We may be at peak consumer tolerance for anti-pattern, in-app purchase, subscription-model, ad-packed, data-siphoning, dopamine driven, gated experiences.
> We may be at peak consumer tolerance for anti-pattern, in-app purchase, subscription-model, ad-packed, data-siphoning, dopamine driven, gated experiences.
As much as I want this to be true, I think this sentiment is really only popular on tech-savvy forums like HN. Most people don't use ad blockers, and I've had people get mad at me when I suggest that they do (directly in response to something where they are complaining about ads).