Notices tagged with mastodon, page 2
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LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1)'s status on Wednesday, 28-Dec-2022 21:20:57 EST LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} https://500ish.com/mastodon-brought-a-protocol-to-a-product-fight-ba9fda767c6a
#Medium link; don't be surprised if it does weird things before showing you the article.
"Mastodon brought a protocol to a product fight"
> Yes, yes, the network is under immense strain as people flee the Elon strain infecting Twitter. But come on, there are folks who really believe this is going to replace, or even stand alongside Twitter, as a massively scaled social network? I call bullshit. While it’s impressive that millions of users have apparently given Mastodon a try, the product is far too slapdash and clunky to keep folks engaged. A lump of coal.
No, it isn't meant to be a #Twitter replacement. Keep your Twitter account until you no longer want it--or the company closes and the site shuts down--you can use Mastodon alongside Twitter.
And the #Fediverse networks are much more than just #Mastodon. Don't think you have experienced the network and all it has to offer if all you've done is briefly tried to use Mastodon, because you haven't experienced it.
> I’ve somehow avoided signing up for the service up until now. Largely because signing up was and is so comically obtuse — pick your server everyone, hope you choose wisely!
Have you not used e-mail? It works the same way. You pick a server, such as Gmail or Outlook dot com, and sign up. Please tell me you realize that the people you communicate with are not all on the same e-mail service that you use.
> But, but, it’s not a product, it’s a protocol. Yeah, that’s a nice thing to say. And to believe in. But I truly believe the ship has sadly sailed for such idealism in this space. Jack Dorsey can talk about how this should have been what Twitter was from the get go until he’s bluesky in the face. It’s just not going to happen. And he’s more to blame for that than most everyone else. As is he for the Elon element of this current equation. But that’s a different story.
Okay, so how about this story: Twitter has only been profitable two or three years of its entire history. Since it started, it has existed by burning through investors' funds. Eventually, with or without Elon Musk's ownership, that runs out. Without such funding, their corporate-centralized ( #corpocentric ) model cannot exist very long. And same for their centralized competitors, such as Post.news, Gab, Parler, and so on. What is left is either #federated or #peer-to-peer approaches, where no single entity is responsible for funding and managing the entire network. So whether it is the #Fediverse ( with #ActivityPub and #OStatus and their successors ) & the Federation ( with #Diaspora ) or #Bluesky, or #Twister, or #NOSTR, the eventual future of #socnets is #decentralized, if not entirely peer-to-peer unless a national government takes over Facebook and Twitter in order to provide effectively unlimited resources. It is the protocol that makes it possible for thousands or millions of instances to displace and replace one big centralized instance.
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LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1)'s status on Sunday, 11-Dec-2022 20:58:05 EST LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} https://prodromou.pub/@evan/109498060348615260
@evan@prodromou.pub @evan@identi.ca ( and formerly @evan@e14n.com ) has said this a few times, but here it is again.
"Every time you post on Twitter, you produce value for the advertisers.
You tell everyone in your network there that it's OK to stay. That you're all helpless to leave.
You tell the people who've lost their jobs, the people who are being hounded and harassed, that they are not important to you.
You know you're going to be ashamed of it later.
Just stop posting.
Do it here, not there. Connect here, not there.
Don't reply, don't like, don't retweet.
Stop feeding your life into the machine."
This was true before Elon #Musk bought #Twitter, but I guess it wasn't as important before.
I don't fully agree, simply because there may be some advantages to many people who continue to use Twitter instead of moving to the #Fediverse (e.g., #GNU_Social, #Mastodon, #Pleroma, #Misskey, #PixelFed, #Lenny / #Lemmy, etc) or they would have moved over already.
Also, because unless one self-hosts one's own presence, an angry instance admin is all it takes to lose all posts and connections and have to start over. Or, if one has contacts on a different instance, then irate instance admins participating in #blockwars (including #fediblock) can separate the person from some portion of their contacts.
So remember, everything that Twitter is or can do to you, your Fediverse instance can also do. Most instances will never do most of those things, but pretending that one is safe here could result in disappointment in the future. -
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1)'s status on Friday, 11-Nov-2022 23:27:04 EST LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} Oh, look! Evan has his own #Mastodon server now. https://prodromou.pub/@evan -
Tantek ()'s status on Saturday, 29-Oct-2022 01:01:00 EDT Tantek #TwitterMigration, first time?
Have posted notes at https://tantek.com/ since 2010, syndicated tweets & an #AtomFeed.
Added one .htaccess line, thanks to #BridgyFed, if you use #Mastodon, you can follow my #IndieWeb site:
@tantek.com@tantek.com
Which demonstrates both the redundancy & awkwardness (it’s not a clickable URL) of such @-@ (AT-AT) usernames.
Like why make me type or show “@tantek.com” twice like that?
Why can’t Mastodon follow a username of “@tantek.com”? Or just “tantek.com”?
And either way expanding it internally if need be to the AT-AT syntax.
Why this regression from what we had with classic feed readers where a domain was enough to discover & follow a feed?
Also, why does following show a blank result?
Contrast that with classic feed readers which immediately show you the most recent items in a feed you subscribed to.
Lastly (for now), I asked around and no one knew of a simple public way to “preview” or “validate” that @tantek.com@tantek.com actually “worked”. You have to be *logged-in* to a Mastodon instance and search for a username to check to see if it works.
Contrast that with https://validator.w3.org/feed/ which you can use without any log-in to validate that your classic feed file works.
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Apollo Lemmon (apollo)'s status on Thursday, 12-Sep-2019 13:24:55 EDT Apollo Lemmon Mastodon & SeizeMeans.com
Since the middle of last year I've had a Mastodon instance at SeizeMeans.com. I didn't feel I should make it open to anyone else until I put together a Code of Conduct, but today I finally pieced one together. SeizeMeans.com is a Mastodon instance open to communists, socialists, anarchists and fellow travelers.
https://apollolemmon.com/2019/09/12/mastodon-seizemeans-com/
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Bob Jonkman (bobjonkman)'s status on Sunday, 30-Dec-2018 20:26:33 EST Bob Jonkman Making !GNUsocial work with #ActivityPub is the right thing to do, but I'm not sure that removing OStatus is. Does #Mastodon allow transport protocols to be added as plugins? -
Doug Webb (douginamug)'s status on Friday, 28-Dec-2018 07:46:43 EST Doug Webb #ExtinctionRebellion session @ #35c3 is FULL! One third of the people sitting on the floor 😂
Amazing to see a room full of hackers excited to join the cause. There's enthusiasm to help non-techy people switch to #signal, #mastodon & #nextcloud ⚡ 💻 🌐
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morganth (morganth)'s status on Thursday, 20-Sep-2018 20:37:18 EDT morganth I should probably explain that hashtag, #foak. Back in the Usenet days (I know, I’m old), we used “FOAK” in subject lines to designate a fact-based question we were looking for an answer to. The idea was that Usenet contained so many knowledgeable people that we were collectively the Font Of All Knowledge.
I’d love it if that caught on as a hashtag here; I’d really enjoy following the tag and seeing if I could answer any of the questions.
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switching.social (switchingsocial)'s status on Friday, 13-Jul-2018 12:55:04 EDT switching.social TIL if you want to subscribe to a #Mastodon account via #RSS or #Atom, just add .rss or .atom to the end of their profile page's address.
For example:
Profile page:
https://mastodon.at/@switchingsocialRSS feed:
https://mastodon.at/@switchingsocial.rssAtom feed:
https://mastodon.at/@switchingsocial.atom#News #Feeds #NewsFeeds #FeedReaders #NewsAggregation #Aggregation #ReallySimpleSyndication
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MMN-o ✅⃠ (mmn)'s status on Sunday, 26-Nov-2017 05:11:37 EST MMN-o ✅⃠ Holy crap there's a bunch of commercial crap pouring from #Mastodon. What do people think this is, a market place?! Person-to-person sales are capitalism too, remember. -
Timur Demin (tdemin)'s status on Saturday, 11-Nov-2017 07:33:30 EST Timur Demin Looks like I'm abandoning on my #Mastodon account. I've migrated back to #Twitter since it introduced the #280characters limit. And yes, there are better clients than Mastodon now has. #TweetDeck is not as good as Mastodon's web client, but in general it's OK.
Maybe I'll be back at some point.
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MMN-o ✅⃠ (mmn)'s status on Sunday, 22-Oct-2017 10:37:36 EDT MMN-o ✅⃠ It is also thanks to Evan that !ostatus hade a platform in #identica to strive on, which turned into StatusNet which is today !GNUsocial and was the network which #Mastodon could bootstrap off and to this day federates with. -
MMN-o ✅⃠ (mmn)'s status on Monday, 11-Sep-2017 04:50:08 EDT MMN-o ✅⃠ @oxenfree @cybermeow @elizafox @cyberpotato @cajun @thatbrickster @lain @heluecht
Hi, I'm @mmn, maintainer of GNUsocial. I reacted when it was written that "many people on gnusocial are angry" and wish to say that !GNUsocial has only love and appreciation for #Mastodon and #ActivityPub.
I believe cooperation is important for libre software and the federated social web. I believe our plural and diverse community should embrace and encourage contributors and development. Any progress we want to make - regardless of anyone's preferred technology - is impeded by hostility and empowered by friendship.
So I want to say thank @cwebber @gargron et al. for all the hard work you actively put into ActivityPub. It's awesome that so many users get in touch with !fs via open protocols. -
MMN-o ✅⃠ (mmn)'s status on Tuesday, 05-Sep-2017 18:37:58 EDT MMN-o ✅⃠ @cwebber The only reason !GNUsocial doesn't have #ActivityPub yet is because I have a fulltime job and noone else has been up for the task .]
Though I'm pretty sure it'd still just be the 100% public parts of AP that would be used/promoted, as I'm pretty much convinced there's no such thing as privacy in the social sphere anyway and anyone using "private" communication in an environment like !GNUsocial or #Mastodon is fooled either by the platform, the administrator or other users. (anything accessible via a web browser isn't made for privacy) -
MMN-o ✅⃠ (mmn)'s status on Sunday, 13-Aug-2017 12:13:00 EDT MMN-o ✅⃠ @patrickme !GNUsocial is another piece of software entirely that has some features that #Mastodon lacks and vice versa. -
Eugen (gargron)'s status on Sunday, 06-Aug-2017 18:04:34 EDT Eugen #Mastodon v1.5.1 is a really small patch release that fixes a rather important regression in 1.5.0 that (to my knowledge) affected primarily GNU social accounts https://github.com/tootsuite/mastodon/releases/tag/v1.5.1
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MMN-o ✅⃠ (mmn)'s status on Monday, 10-Jul-2017 15:01:30 EDT MMN-o ✅⃠ PS, that server is (at least to search engine caches) a #Mastodon instance ,) -
Former Bob Jonkman -- Please use the new server at https://gs.jonkman.ca (bobjonkmanformer)'s status on Tuesday, 04-Jul-2017 21:58:46 EDT Former Bob Jonkman -- Please use the new server at https://gs.jonkman.ca I'm perfectly happy that #Mastodon exists, and if it implements #ActivityPub in a future version, more power to it. And if it drops #OStatus support, well, that's what forks (or reimplementations) like #Mastodon are for. But don't blame #GNUsocial developers for not following #Mastodon's road map for the future. -
Former Bob Jonkman -- Please use the new server at https://gs.jonkman.ca (bobjonkmanformer)'s status on Tuesday, 04-Jul-2017 21:48:50 EDT Former Bob Jonkman -- Please use the new server at https://gs.jonkman.ca The big thing that's prevented me from even trying #Mastodon is the lack of support for !Fedgroups. And that's not a wrongful implemenation of #OStatus; I believe #Fedgroups are implemented as a specific client behaviour, nothing to do with OStatus. -
Former Bob Jonkman -- Please use the new server at https://gs.jonkman.ca (bobjonkmanformer)'s status on Tuesday, 04-Jul-2017 21:46:06 EDT Former Bob Jonkman -- Please use the new server at https://gs.jonkman.ca How well known is it amongst #Mastodon users that their privacy features don't really work outside of their own instance? Perhaps some admins know, but much of the flaming is coming from people angry that #GNUsocial doesn't follow the privacy conventions of #Mastodon. But being angry that the #GNUsocial developer(s) aren't creating the same illusion of privacy is really misdirected anger.