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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 remram »

Vaslo wrote: post #215

My anti-tech wife looked at this for 5 minutes and was horribly confused. Her friends all feel the same way - why can’t they just sign in and see all the people they want to see? What is an instance, why cant the instance be just one? Which one do they join? They all went back to Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.

> why cant the instance be just one

> They all went back to Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram

Do they not have the same problem with those 3 instances, each with their separate networks and separate user handles?

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Post by dustymcp »

kzrdude wrote: post #35
cratermoon wrote: post #18

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I wouldn't say "most". According to that site, of the 4880 instances list, 1909 are close and another ~300 are invite-only. > it's expensive to run this As the hype about Mastodon spiked after Musk bought twitter, I looked at it to see if I could set up an instance, just to experiment. I'm an experienced programmer and systems administrator. After perusing the requirements and installation process, I decided that it…

It's much more than running the service, the instance owner is the moderator of that instance basically, if nobody else fills that role. Lack of moderation will eventually kill an instance (other instances will blacklist it, if it is seen as a safe haven for whatever they don't want to see).

who is they ?

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

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Post by kzrdude »

dustymcp wrote: post #282
kzrdude wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's much more than running the service, the instance owner is the moderator of that instance basically, if nobody else fills that role. Lack of moderation will eventually kill an instance (other instances will blacklist it, if it is seen as a safe haven for whatever they don't want to see).

who is they ?

In this sentence "other instances will blacklist it, if it is seen as a safe haven for whatever they don't want to see", _they_ refers back to _other_instances_ (individually, i.e. they make independent choices)

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Post by saurik »

kaba0 wrote: post #277
woah wrote: post #248

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Also as I said in my comment, the people who want Trump banned do not want to prevent themselves from seeing his tweets, they want to prevent other people from seeing his tweets. This is what Mastodon prevents. If they just didn’t want to see the tweets themselves, they can block him.

Well, maybe because it is the best for everyone to not see posts which has the potential of armed resurgence against the democratically elected officials against the country, also known as a coup, especially not from a traitor with connections to Saudi Arabia and Russia? And I’m not even from the US, but the country’s fate with the biggest military is insanely important to anyone who shares this planet.

Again... The point of the person you are responding to wasn't to really defend whether the idea of unbanning Trump was good or not: it was to demonstrate how ridiculous it is to explicitly move to a decentralized solution like Mastadon if that's your concern.

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Post by mariusor »

Vaslo wrote: post #215

My anti-tech wife looked at this for 5 minutes and was horribly confused. Her friends all feel the same way - why can’t they just sign in and see all the people they want to see? What is an instance, why cant the instance be just one? Which one do they join? They all went back to Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.

Instead of trying to sell them an alternative to Twitter, maybe try to sell them a prettier email provider.

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Post by Robotbeat »

mcv wrote: post #273
kevin_thibedeau wrote: post #113

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Heroes don't generally make libelous pedo accusations against people who are trying to do good things.

Lots of people seem to want to see Elon (or any famous person) as either a hero or a villain, but the reality is that most people are a bit of both. They do both good and bad. I appreciate Musk for making electric cars sexy, making space flight cheaper and less wasteful, and making lots of solar panels. I don't like him picking stupid internet fights or occasionally going mad with power. It's a mix.

90% of the stupid stuff that Elon has done (that we know about) comes from his interactions on the toxic social media platform, Twitter. He’d be better off deleting his Twitter account and moving to Mastodon. Or just off social media altogether.

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Post by Matumio »

detaro wrote: post #87
earthscienceman wrote: post #77

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What's the community of academics? I haven't joined Twitter specifically because I think it's a horrible medium for communicating science or meeting with academics. Can you point me there?

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/

A notable recent addition, https://sigmoid.social/ for machine learning stuff. (Just a few days old, 3k users.)

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

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Post by 35amxn35 »

unconed wrote: post #208
tedunangst wrote: post #169

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Live and learn? It astonishes me that people would get so worked up about the possibility that somebody somewhere is posting and you might not see it. Guess what? They're already posting today and you're not seeing their posts.

You don't see the risk of outsourcing your reach to a rando admin, who may have started their instance out of protest reasons, in a highly contentious, politicized climate? There are people right now having tantrums because they want their one-sided censorship back, and indeed, that's what's behind this latest drive to promote mastodon all over the place. Nothing has actually changed on Twitter except the bluechecks'…

You're completely right, but you'll have a hard time finding common sense in HN. Go to 4chan if you want a real conversation.
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