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Re: Mastodon: AGPLv3 FOSS social network server

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Even if you are unconcerned about your soul, morals, or ethics, tech workers at TMTG are surely ending their careers. Who would employ them after that?

Friendly reminder: if you feel passionate and excited about someone else being denied employment, or otherwise punished based on their views, you are likely being manipulated. By caring about those things you care less about demanding a better deal for yourself, and that's exactly what the media wants. USSR was built on that kind of manipulation and now it's coming here.

I personally think a lot of the infighting we see today is largely self-inflicted by the masses on themselves, as opposed to solely due to manipulation by media giants. However, your point still stands.

Humans have a finite amount of attention. If you waste it hating on some other sub-group (regardless of whether or not you're being manipulated), instead of focusing on improving everyone's life, you're not really helping society.

The modern "woke" movement is a great example of this. People are wasting their life playing a hateful privilege points game, and are even arguing that some other people should have their quality-of-life forcibly reduced due to having too much "privilege". Instead, we could be focusing on guaranteeing a decent standard-of-living for everyone, regardless of who you are or what you look like.

Re: Mastodon: AGPLv3 FOSS social network server

#92
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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…

Is there any evidence that supposed beta testers are not receiving the source code?

Re: Mastodon: AGPLv3 FOSS social network server

#93
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Please tell me you're not building Truth. If you are, you should stop right now and consider the effects that your actions will have. No amount of money is worth your soul.

Even if you are unconcerned about your soul, morals, or ethics, tech workers at TMTG are surely ending their careers. Who would employ them after that?

Can you please help me understand why working at TMTG ends someone's career?

Re: Mastodon: AGPLv3 FOSS social network server

#94
Anyone have a tutorial on how to use mastodon as an end user? Are there servers worth joining? Does the fediverse make the server you join irrelevant? Has SDF got an instance? Are there clients people prefer? I'd love an alternative social media platform but when I join them they often end up dead (wt.social, etc)

Re: Mastodon: AGPLv3 FOSS social network server

#95

Anyone have a tutorial on how to use mastodon as an end user? Are there servers worth joining? Does the fediverse make the server you join irrelevant? Has SDF got an instance? Are there clients people prefer? I'd love an alternative social media platform but when I join them they often end up dead (wt.social, etc)

> Are there servers worth joining?

Fosstodon's alright.

> Does the fediverse make the server you join irrelevant?

In theory, yes. But in practice, joining a server means the UI gives you a global feed for that server that you don't otherwise get. And for the niche communities that have a global feed you can keep up with, you want to be able to access that.

Re: Mastodon: AGPLv3 FOSS social network server

#96

People interested in this stuff should check out alternate software as well. Hometown is a fork of mastodon that has a few extra features but one very interesting one in particular: you can post to the local server only, which is an excellent community building feature. There's also pleroma, which I've run and is pretty great and low on resource requirements. And there are tons of other social UX paradigms like link…

Watchlist for ActivityPub applications:

https://git.feneas.org/feneas/fediverse/-/wikis/watchlist-fo...

This is the wide assortment of applications that speak the same common protocol that Mastodon does, as part of an interoperable social cloud. There's a Cambrian explosion of diversity in this space. Let's see more content management systems adopting this system for self-sufficient publication.

Re: Mastodon: AGPLv3 FOSS social network server

#97
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Background: I've been building a growing commercial social network. There are things about what I want to do that made that the better option for what my target market is. With that said, I really like what Mastodon has done and as far as federated and open social networks go (ActivityPub!). It's in a class of its own IMO.

Please tell me you're not building Truth. If you are, you should stop right now and consider the effects that your actions will have. No amount of money is worth your soul.

> No amount of money is worth your soul.

Either you lack imagination, or you're bad with very large numbers.

Re: Mastodon: AGPLv3 FOSS social network server

#98
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I've been trying to set this up for years and it continues to defeat me. Even the Docker method is still fraught. I hope they can dumb it down at some point, or clean up the docker setup. There's a LOT of different frameworks & tooling at play in this ecosystem to debug when things go wrong. But I guess it is close to rocket science.

The go-to managed hosting option is masto.host if you have $7/month and no great urge to run your own.

I used that for a client project. Excellent service.

Re: Mastodon: AGPLv3 FOSS social network server

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Please tell me you're not building Truth. If you are, you should stop right now and consider the effects that your actions will have. No amount of money is worth your soul.

> No amount of money is worth your soul. Either you lack imagination, or you're bad with very large numbers.

Assuming that a soul is something that lasts an infinite length of time, and you value its experience during that time, and its experience cannot benefit from money (or anything exchangeable for money) after some finite period of time, I think that no amount of money is sufficient compensation for losing ownership of your soul.

Re: Mastodon: AGPLv3 FOSS social network server

#100

As much as I'd love to use Mastodon, both times I tried, I got bored and gave up because I couldn't find interesting people to follow. All of the people I do find interesting are only on Twitter.

I really enjoy the scholar.social instance for my particular usecase, but yeah the network effects are real :(
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