Mastodon: AGPLv3 FOSS social network server
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#2Mastodon recently hit 1 million active users. It has about 2.89 million total users among 3,400+ servers.
Re: Mastodon: AGPLv3 FOSS social network server
#3Title needs a correction. It is AGPLv3, not GPLv3.
I suspect this was posted today because Trump's new social network was outed as using Mastodon, likely illegally.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/5dgm5k/truth-social-is-masto...
Re: Mastodon: AGPLv3 FOSS social network server
#4Title needs a correction. It is AGPLv3, not GPLv3. I suspect this was posted today because Trump's new social network was outed as using Mastodon, likely illegally. https://www.vice.com/en/article/5dgm5k/truth-social-is-masto...
TIL about the AGPL license, thx for the tip.
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#5Background: 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.
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#6How do things stand on account portability? If I sign up at a mastodon server, build an audience and network there, but later if the server admin changes its policies in unfavorable directions, can I migrate to a new server with all my contacts and reputation intact - even without the old admin's cooperation?
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#7There 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 + directories, and see if there's any correlation.
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#8Trump’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.
Re: Mastodon: AGPLv3 FOSS social network server
#9Background: 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.
Re: Mastodon: AGPLv3 FOSS social network server
#10How do things stand on account portability? If I sign up at a mastodon server, build an audience and network there, but later if the server admin changes its policies in unfavorable directions, can I migrate to a new server with all my contacts and reputation intact - even without the old admin's cooperation?
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.