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Mastodon – A Federated Twitter Alternative

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Re: Mastodon – A Federated Twitter Alternative

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Post by camjohnson26 »

DigitalOcean has a one click app that lets you setup a Mastodon instance ridiculously easily. For my own reasons I’m trying to migrate away from Twitter, and have found it relatively easy to sync Twitter profiles with a self hosted Mastodon instance so I can follow the accounts I’m interested in without directly interacting with Twitter. Configuring email sending and DNS is a little tricky, but if you use namecheap and mail gun it’s not too bad.

I routinely on Twitter criticize Musk’s bad behavior and lies about the full self driving product, but semi anonymously since Musk and his fans have a history of doxxing and harassing critics: https://www.inverse.com/article/47461-elon-musk-responds-to-... His purchase of the platform makes me worried that my identity and private messages could be misused, so any alternative is much appreciated.

Unfortunately it looks like Mastodon still hasn’t renamed their “toots” to “posts,” which sadly makes it impossible to recommend to others because there’s no way they’ll take it seriously in the US, due to the double meaning.

Re: Mastodon – A Federated Twitter Alternative

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Post by tdhz77 »

I wish I could be happy to use this, but I’m afraid big tech is just too big for me to jump ship. (Network effect) I’m starting to think that Government should think about breaking up social media sites or highly regulate them. The twitter Elon saga makes me think it will be impossible in the United States.

Re: Mastodon – A Federated Twitter Alternative

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Post by andreyk »

I've used this a bit , but did not stick around due to lack of people i've wanted to follow. Hopefully this will get a lot of people over from Twitter, I'd love to use it instead...

Also, if any HN community member would take it on themselves to create an HN instance (yes, some of us on HN like Twitter), would love to join that.

Re: Mastodon – A Federated Twitter Alternative

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Post by Barrin92 »

tdhz77 wrote: post #4

I wish I could be happy to use this, but I’m afraid big tech is just too big for me to jump ship. (Network effect) I’m starting to think that Government should think about breaking up social media sites or highly regulate them. The twitter Elon saga makes me think it will be impossible in the United States.

>Government should think about breaking up social media sites or highly regulate them

they don't need to do anything that drastic. They literally need to do one straight forward thing. Force Twitter to open up their API and let people build a bridge to ActivityPub.

Hell Elon could do it if he is serious about decentralization.

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