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Re: Mastodon: AGPLv3 FOSS social network server

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Mastodon recently hit 1 million active users. It has about 2.89 million total users among 3,400+ servers. https://fediverse.party/en/mastodon

Are they including Gab users in the MAU count?

No, since Gab does not federate with mainline Mastodon instances anymore.* I'm not sure if Gab discloses its stats the same way other instances do.

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25715513

Re: Mastodon: AGPLv3 FOSS social network server

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I really wanted to like it, but it's just so difficult to actually find people and content, considering you can only search for hashtags and all...

Check out https://communitywiki.org/trunk/ and https://sizeof.cat/post/mastodon-accounts/.

Re: Mastodon: AGPLv3 FOSS social network server

#83
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Honest question: There is a lot of talk about Truth Social violating the AGPL license. If it it a work in progress and not yet public, do they need to share their source code, or do they need to share it once they launch?

If Truth Social is running Mastodon-based code on a server, even if it is a private beta, the source code needs to be made available under AGPLv3 to anyone who can access the service. > d) Convey the object code by offering access from a designated place (gratis or for a charge), and offer equivalent access to the Corresponding Source in the same way through the same place at no further charge. You need not require r…

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Re: Mastodon: AGPLv3 FOSS social network server

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Mastodon has a "profile move" feature that moves all of your followers (on instances that support the protocol) to your new account. However, it will not move your toots (posts). All of your account data can be exported, and everything except for toots (and media) can be imported. https://docs.joinmastodon.org/user/moving/

Post is called a toot? Tf

Long story short: Eugen didn't know toot had another meaning in some places. Toot is the sound a mastodon makes.

Re: Mastodon: AGPLv3 FOSS social network server

#85

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Mastodon has a "profile move" feature that moves all of your followers (on instances that support the protocol) to your new account. However, it will not move your toots (posts). All of your account data can be exported, and everything except for toots (and media) can be imported. https://docs.joinmastodon.org/user/moving/

Post is called a toot? Tf

Yup -- either the devs don't know what that means in English slang, or they have a very juvenile sense of humor.

Either way, that alone seems like it would present a pretty serious obstacle to anyone taking Mastodon remotely seriously.

Re: Mastodon: AGPLv3 FOSS social network server

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Mastodon has a "profile move" feature that moves all of your followers (on instances that support the protocol) to your new account. However, it will not move your toots (posts). All of your account data can be exported, and everything except for toots (and media) can be imported. https://docs.joinmastodon.org/user/moving/

Post is called a toot? Tf

They recently stopped calling them toots (I liked the absurdity of it personally). Don't think that decision has made it through to the UI yet though.

Re: Mastodon: AGPLv3 FOSS social network server

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Trump’s upcoming social network app is using Mastadon. https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-accused-ripping-code-s... Not trying to get political, but this site is obviously going to be the biggest Mastadon showcase.

It's a fork that violates the GPL and is already being filled with troll posts despite not officially being launched. It's not going to last, just like the other 2? 3? attempts.

Re: Mastodon: AGPLv3 FOSS social network server

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There are lots of files at the root level, which means I have to do 5/6 complete scrolls to get at the beginning of the readme. I see this pattern a lof with Go project. I've always wondered if it has an impact on the popularity of the project. If anybody from Github is reading this, that could be a blog post idea. Something like an invisible pixel at the top of the readme, and the number of top level files + directo…

There's a way too hard to notice Readme link on the sidebar of repositories with the file. It's right between the tags and license.

Re: Mastodon: AGPLv3 FOSS social network server

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Post is called a toot? Tf

Yup -- either the devs don't know what that means in English slang, or they have a very juvenile sense of humor. Either way, that alone seems like it would present a pretty serious obstacle to anyone taking Mastodon remotely seriously.

I'd argue that is a benefit. Imagine if people took Twitter and the Twitverse less seriously

Re: Mastodon: AGPLv3 FOSS social network server

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To learn more about this: https://twitter.com/VValkyriePub/status/1451035108266233863?...

There's no evidence provided anywhere at all that any of these screenshots are of Trump's new platform.

There were dozens of people who created accounts and were generally trolling the new platform. They didn't lockdown the mobile site (https://mobile.tmediatech.io/) which let people register accounts and post to the platform. The links / screenshots are definitely to his site.

https://www.dailydot.com/debug/trump-truth-media-platform-sh...

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