it's not too bad once you stick around for a bitstill it feels there are some learning gap when coming from Twitter, but I'll see what Mastadon has to offer
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Seems like Mozilla.social is up and running, probably still in the works and not opened for public according to some reddit posts, and I don't see a press release anywhere. I didn't try to log in myself.
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Mozilla.social
The social network of the future: No ads, no corporate surveillance, ethical design, and decentralization! Own your data with Mastodon!
I hope Linus' feed is just a constant stream of the 'nvidia, fuck you' clip.
yes, absolutely! that's the only thing that's keeping me on .social, otherwise i would've moved to the MC instance a long time ago
maybe, the unread notifications have a thin blue line on the left side of them
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I don't know how these work but I wonder if some websites can do something to add support to this process without users owning a domain/website, like say someone is on artstation or other portfolio sites, they can verify themselves as the owner of that portfolio account, etc.
everything, like a full mastodon client (that's what Ivory etc. are using)
my gaming news bot is using the API too
no, definitely not new, hahaAh so it was available before? Thought it was something new.
but yeah - it's free, and not limited (like twitter's api was even before the crackdown - that's why every single twitter client sucked balls)
So I know metacouncil hosts it's own instance.
Out of curiosity, what seems to be the cost burden of that on your end? I've been thinking about hosting a private instance for a few friends (like 3 people tops) and was curious if there's really any way to have an estimate on the cost.
Out of curiosity, what seems to be the cost burden of that on your end? I've been thinking about hosting a private instance for a few friends (like 3 people tops) and was curious if there's really any way to have an estimate on the cost.
yeah, absolutely
you can just get the lowest $6 plan from Masto.host - Fully Managed Mastodon Hosting and it will be more than enough for like 10+ people (don't pay any attention to the stats on the website, those are balanced for INCREDIBLY heavy use, lol), and the MC one is running on the $10 plan, lol
Oh ok, that's good to know. Yeah I saw the metrics and was a bit concerned about the costs based on that, but if it's tuned to higher usage stats then it may work out. I'm still shopping options.
I am a bit jealous of Pleroma's reaction emoji feature.
Oh and for context -- it's not that Mastodon.art is terrible, but I find some of the moderation policies to be a bit annoying to deal with since it has put full restrictions on some relatively large instances. Obviously administration is a difficult task, but I think it might be better for me to just migrate to my own instance where I can make these types of choices myself lol.
I am a bit jealous of Pleroma's reaction emoji feature.
Oh and for context -- it's not that Mastodon.art is terrible, but I find some of the moderation policies to be a bit annoying to deal with since it has put full restrictions on some relatively large instances. Obviously administration is a difficult task, but I think it might be better for me to just migrate to my own instance where I can make these types of choices myself lol.
yeah, definitely tuned for EXTREMELY heavy use!
i mean - the gaming news bot is running on the MC server, and i barely get any blips in sidekiq, lol and i definitely didn't have any problems with masto.host so far. Hugo does really awesome job with it, and you can actually just talk to him if something's going on, no need to go through customer support agents or whatever plus - he pretty much always updates to the newest release immediately, which is also niceyeah, i suppose, but at least you can do custom emotes!
yeah, i can totally understand that
and to be fair - the goal of the fediverse is to have lots and lots of small instances, not a few big ones so you're definitely contributing to it going in the right direction plus, you know - you've got full control over everything
Linking to reddit is broken for some reason, but Discourse is adding ActivityPub intergration
meta.discourse.org
Federation support for Discourse
I’m super interested in running early versions on the SocialHub or another Discourse instance. Let me know how I can be of help.
meta.discourse.org
Curious to see how that is used in the real world. But it looks super exciting!Linking to reddit is broken for some reason, but Discourse is adding ActivityPub intergration
Federation support for Discourse
I’m super interested in running early versions on the SocialHub or another Discourse instance. Let me know how I can be of help.
Good on arstechnica. I browsed the comments section/forums on their site not too long ago and they seem like a decent crowd.
People don't seem to realize that it's also their benefit to move off twitter if they actually want any kind of meaningful social interactions with their community, it's more than just posting, getting clicks and "engagement", especially not if you already built a community that will now be overrun by random blue subs, and there's no way for you to moderate/curate your thread, and also impossible to have any good and positive interactions.
Like I mentioned before, it's a good way to curate their audience/followers, I remember some sites tweeted about moving to mastodon and all the users are just being shit to them in the replies, you don't need/want these people following you. People who are already big on social media should at least try moving away from it, otherwise they're just clinging on dumb big numbers like other grifters on the platform.
People also need to think about why a platform is harmful, and give support to the proper ones and not just jumping on some random internet bandwagoning.
People don't seem to realize that it's also their benefit to move off twitter if they actually want any kind of meaningful social interactions with their community, it's more than just posting, getting clicks and "engagement", especially not if you already built a community that will now be overrun by random blue subs, and there's no way for you to moderate/curate your thread, and also impossible to have any good and positive interactions.
Like I mentioned before, it's a good way to curate their audience/followers, I remember some sites tweeted about moving to mastodon and all the users are just being shit to them in the replies, you don't need/want these people following you. People who are already big on social media should at least try moving away from it, otherwise they're just clinging on dumb big numbers like other grifters on the platform.
People also need to think about why a platform is harmful, and give support to the proper ones and not just jumping on some random internet bandwagoning.
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Not sure if you guys are also following the BlueSky developments, but I really have mixed feelings on the whole thing.
One half of me, having known that BS was in development for a while, is happy that it essentially vindicates what many of us were clammering about in terms of the federated internet being a radical new direction for the internet and an ideal future for social media services. Another half of me, however, doesn't fully believe that BS will really have any instances at all since it all seems very "proof of concept' and the details around when and how to run your own instance is very cryptic.
I don't really think we can trust Jack Dorsey to follow through since I don't really get trustworthy vibes from him or his partners at Twitter.
One half of me, having known that BS was in development for a while, is happy that it essentially vindicates what many of us were clammering about in terms of the federated internet being a radical new direction for the internet and an ideal future for social media services. Another half of me, however, doesn't fully believe that BS will really have any instances at all since it all seems very "proof of concept' and the details around when and how to run your own instance is very cryptic.
I don't really think we can trust Jack Dorsey to follow through since I don't really get trustworthy vibes from him or his partners at Twitter.
Jack Dorsey is a weird libertarian tech bro.
Remember, the big conceptual difference between Bluesky and the Fediverse is Dorsey has a profit motive.
Profit motives always lead to centralisation and closing things off.
Remember, the big conceptual difference between Bluesky and the Fediverse is Dorsey has a profit motive.
Profit motives always lead to centralisation and closing things off.
we absolutely cannot! not even for a millisecond
and from what i've seen bluesky will add blocks (doesn't even have that yet) but they will be PUBLIC, and won't have DMs (at all), etc. etc. etc. - just one massive shitshow
Lol Twitter post about mastodon in a mastodon thread.
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Mozilla’s setting up shop on Mastodon and trying to reinvent content moderation
Mozilla.Social isn’t worried about censorship or free speech — it’s much more interested in being a safe place to be.
Few quotes, more in link. Curious to see their approach, harassment is still major problem that I feel like people still like to ignore on social media.
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I hope they can do it rightMozilla’s setting up shop on Mastodon and trying to reinvent content moderation
Mozilla.Social isn’t worried about censorship or free speech — it’s much more interested in being a safe place to be.www.theverge.com
Few quotes, more in link. Curious to see their approach, harassment is still major problem that I feel like people still like to ignore on social media.
Mozilla Social Private Beta Launch | The Mozilla Blog
The internet isn’t just about browsers. Browsers are a critical part of the human experience on the internet and will always be core to our work at Mozil
blog.mozilla.org
yeah, still pretty much the same as before
but they are still trying to figure out how to do it - but no one knows how long it'll take, sadly
I've seen people be pissed that Meta will embrace ActivityPub, what I don't get is why that would be a bad things?
But they can do that as it is. even without embracing it. Using it in their own stuff is only good I think. Decentralised communication is the goal, but that means even shady shits like Meta use it.because of what facebook does with data
Kind of agree. It certainly is a poke in the eye of closed social.
Plus if an instance (or series of instances) doesn’t trust Meta, just defederate it.
I do think that Meta embracing activity pub is a bit of a mixed bag.
However, I prefer to look at this glass-half-full: I think it's a sign that activitypub is actually to some degree catching on.
However, I prefer to look at this glass-half-full: I think it's a sign that activitypub is actually to some degree catching on.
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