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Re: Mastodon for Metalheads

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Post by nindwen »

runyor wrote: post #13
gfwhukku wrote: post #12

Another Mastodon instance hosted in Germany with the same copypasted left-leaning AUP[] from all the other Mastodon instances. What's the reason for this to exist when all Mastodon instances are linked to each other and this instance has the same ruleset and is hosted in the same country than the rest of instances? Or maybe I'm misunderstanding the way Mastodon works and instances are not linked? [] https://metalhead…

A little less sceptical but still I wonder about the same thing. If all are connected, why care for which server I connect to? Are there filters between each server? Is my data only hosted in this server and goes down with it when the server hoster decides he invested enough into his hobby?

In addition to the other replies: one big draw of specific servers/instances is the local timeline, a feed of every post on a server. While you can connect to anyone, discovering new people is much easier on the same instance. For this reason people prefer small, specific instances.

The Mastodon culture is also fairly opposed to large instances. Mastodon.social (the "flagship") is widely criticised for allowing itself to grow much larger than other instances. The community prefers small, homely intantances, median size is probably about 500 users, like this one. This may seem weird to outsiders, but instances like this one are one of the main draws of Mastodon.

Re: Mastodon for Metalheads

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Post by [deleted] »

laumars wrote: post #6
atticmanatee wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Trap, reading the title that was not what I was expecting. But my guess is that it was intended.

Not intentionally. Mastodon is also a name of a Twitter-like social network. So the title here makes perfect sense for people like myself who hadn't heard of the band with the same name. This is just one of those occasions where name collisions happen through nobodies fault.

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Re: Mastodon for Metalheads

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Post by laumars »

drngdds wrote: post #20
stoerfall wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> If all are connected, why care for which server I connect to? Mastodon is like E-Mail: You chose who hosts your profile. YOu can send messages to people on other servers, but still the server which hosts your account, is your "home server": If it goes down, your account/profile is lost. Also choosing your Mastodon server is about your personal interests: Mastodon servers have local timelines, which only show posts…

>They are quite neutral and generally "human friendly". They are certainly reasonable and human-friendly! But "you shouldn't be xenophobic or transphobic" is still, unfortunately, a relatively left-wing idea. It excludes people who openly hold beliefs that are very popular within the mainstream American right.

No, it's not. It's asking you to simply not post nasty stuff. It doesn't mean you have to embrace other cultures, sexualities or whatnot. It doeesn't even mean you have to like them. It just means keep any nasty comments about such things to yourself (or go say it elsewhere).

It's a really sad time for humanity if common courtesy is now considered "left-wing".

Re: Mastodon for Metalheads

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Post by nerdponx »

drngdds wrote: post #20
stoerfall wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> If all are connected, why care for which server I connect to? Mastodon is like E-Mail: You chose who hosts your profile. YOu can send messages to people on other servers, but still the server which hosts your account, is your "home server": If it goes down, your account/profile is lost. Also choosing your Mastodon server is about your personal interests: Mastodon servers have local timelines, which only show posts…

>They are quite neutral and generally "human friendly". They are certainly reasonable and human-friendly! But "you shouldn't be xenophobic or transphobic" is still, unfortunately, a relatively left-wing idea. It excludes people who openly hold beliefs that are very popular within the mainstream American right.

As a society I think it's a good thing that we are increasingly stigmatizing open bigotry.

Re: Mastodon for Metalheads

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Post by reitanqild »

samatman wrote: post #9
wfriesen wrote: post #8

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Metal has quite a few name collisions, but perhaps the most unfortunate is https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isis_(band)

That’s an unfortunate name collision everywhere. I know three women, all over 30, who chose the name Isis, and a kid who was given it and goes by Tara now.

It was also meant to be the name of a major ElementaryOS release IIRC.

Re: Mastodon for Metalheads

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Post by wolco »

drngdds wrote: post #20
stoerfall wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> If all are connected, why care for which server I connect to? Mastodon is like E-Mail: You chose who hosts your profile. YOu can send messages to people on other servers, but still the server which hosts your account, is your "home server": If it goes down, your account/profile is lost. Also choosing your Mastodon server is about your personal interests: Mastodon servers have local timelines, which only show posts…

>They are quite neutral and generally "human friendly". They are certainly reasonable and human-friendly! But "you shouldn't be xenophobic or transphobic" is still, unfortunately, a relatively left-wing idea. It excludes people who openly hold beliefs that are very popular within the mainstream American right.

Off topic but is transphobic a word the way it is being used. Shouldn't it be trans-a-phonic. Transphobic sounds like being afraid of vampires..

Re: Mastodon for Metalheads

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Post by sascha_sl »

runyor wrote: post #14
sascha_sl wrote: post #4

What is this, an ad that's also sort of a wordplay so it's not really an ad?

Mastodon is the currently most hippest open source alternative to Twitter. Don't know many of the details tho.

I knew that, I run one. (Please don't join it.)

But I don't randomly post it to HN, and it looks like the author of this post is the admin too.

Re: Mastodon for Metalheads

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Post by gfwhukku »

laumars wrote: post #24
drngdds wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>They are quite neutral and generally "human friendly". They are certainly reasonable and human-friendly! But "you shouldn't be xenophobic or transphobic" is still, unfortunately, a relatively left-wing idea. It excludes people who openly hold beliefs that are very popular within the mainstream American right.

No, it's not. It's asking you to simply not post nasty stuff. It doesn't mean you have to embrace other cultures, sexualities or whatnot. It doeesn't even mean you have to like them. It just means keep any nasty comments about such things to yourself (or go say it elsewhere). It's a really sad time for humanity if common courtesy is now considered "left-wing".

>It doesn't mean you have to embrace other cultures, sexualities or whatnot.

The rules literally say:

>You shall Fight racism and discrimination

Which, on my book, is left wing. (And open to be arbitrarily enforced. How do I prove I've been fighting discrimination?)

Re: Mastodon for Metalheads

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Post by sascha_sl »

stoerfall wrote: post #17
runyor wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Mastodon is the currently most hippest open source alternative to Twitter. Don't know many of the details tho.

Mastodon is a decentralized, free software alternative to Twitter. Also see: https://joinmastodon.org

No it's not. Mastodon is not Twitter. Mastodon does not compete with Twitter. Mastodon was not meant to replace Twitter. It was meant to replace GNU social. Mastodon is also not the entirety of the fediverse.

Join Pleroma. Because it wouldn't eat your RAM and ignore the ActivityPub spec arbitrarily. [1]

[1]: https://pleroma.social

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