Yep, I'm EK on mastodon.lol - not posting much but hanging out there frequently.
― emil.y, Monday, 21 November 2022 17:29 (one year ago) link
https://techcrunch.com/2022/11/21/tumblr-to-add-support-for-activitypub-the-social-protocol-powering-mastodon-and-other-apps/?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly9uZXdzLmdvb2dsZS5jb20v&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAATkfHMi1jSTpSQ_PwB9QsQP0qI4VKRXOkTSsbUFPKqLx3TQ5YDzvZ6RVnSPFoBK5sFl3HkTiNvlou_dc4Nzbk39wb9FJMQTnkOZqNJx-0eJ9i_DYeZu8AA5WxrBZP75wVSytaqSlJ80-WnlYzuprY1YZkGK3p45rvpaA8M4fUqn
― | (Latham Green), Tuesday, 22 November 2022 16:38 (one year ago) link
and here comes sic on his fiery steed
― Fash Gordon (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 22 November 2022 16:40 (one year ago) link
I’m @0x00b1 on @fediscience.org if people want to follow me! I think Ned is the only person I’ve found so far.
― Allen (etaeoe), Tuesday, 22 November 2022 17:01 (one year ago) link
Hi there!
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 22 November 2022 17:23 (one year ago) link
Have seen some actual funny toots today
― death generator (lukas), Monday, 5 December 2022 18:22 (one year ago) link
My COmic SAns version of Moby Dick has been well-received on Mastodon
― | (Latham Green), Wednesday, 7 December 2022 18:33 (one year ago) link
lol
👽 @joinmastodon official account has been banned on Twitter pic.twitter.com/qOSe7nRj2W— Alex Barredo 📉 (@somospostpc) December 15, 2022
― mark s, Thursday, 15 December 2022 23:39 (one year ago) link
This guide should just have a link to this thread.
Here's a beginner 's guide to mastodon, the social network Elon Musk doesn't want you to know about, which you might want to use quite soon.https://t.co/o0XjdxS5v1— Jayati Ghosh (@Jayati1609) December 16, 2022
― xyzzzz__, Friday, 16 December 2022 10:48 (one year ago) link
is there an ilx-friendly server?
― Tracer Hand, Friday, 16 December 2022 10:54 (one year ago) link
@TheMoviegoer✧✧✧@d✧✧.commun✧✧✧
But I'd be interested in an ILX-centric server.
― Infanta Terrible (j.lu), Tuesday, 20 December 2022 02:19 (one year ago) link
https://dmv.community/@TheMoviegoeress
Is this better?
― Infanta Terrible (j.lu), Tuesday, 20 December 2022 02:21 (one year ago) link
Yes
― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 20 December 2022 13:02 (one year ago) link
i signed up to a server but i'm on a waitlist and they haven't replied and literally every other server i've tried e.g. mastodon.lol has either removed their sign-up page or also operates a wait list :/
― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 20 December 2022 14:51 (one year ago) link
I see it as a quiet non-replacement for twitter
― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 20 December 2022 14:55 (one year ago) link
the thing that is kind of amazing is how non-commercial it is, at this point at least - not sure if /how that would change
― | (Latham Green), Tuesday, 20 December 2022 17:18 (one year ago) link
Yeah, I think .lol is off-limits for a while. The guy who owns the servers has been overwhelmed.
― emil.y, Tuesday, 20 December 2022 17:21 (one year ago) link
try ravenation.club
― | (Latham Green), Tuesday, 20 December 2022 18:06 (one year ago) link
nicei found one btw
― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 20 December 2022 21:08 (one year ago) link
https://www.ft.com/content/de808736-2e05-4c3b-a53c-55b170ae9efd
Interesting - but can anything gold stay
― | (Latham Green), Friday, 30 December 2022 17:58 (one year ago) link
wikipedia has. in fact i've just sent my annual donation.
― Fizzles, Friday, 30 December 2022 18:37 (one year ago) link
I have read a few pieces pretty critical of their funding drives ie,
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-intersect/wp/2015/12/02/wikipedia-has-a-ton-of-money-so-why-is-it-begging-you-to-donate-yours/
― | (Latham Green), Friday, 30 December 2022 21:19 (one year ago) link
sure, i mean i think the criticisms there are fairly benign, but i get the messaging can be aggressively needy in tone. it was more to your original point – 'can anything gold stay'. assuming that anything needs some sort of revenue to run, and if you don't want wealthy individual philanthropy backing it, or private business owning it, that means donations if the answer is going to be 'yes'. for me, wikipedia remains an extraordinary enterprise from the early days of the internet, extraordinary partly because it exists, but partly too because it's endured – that's the 'gold' part of the equation. it's a resource I use regularly, at least once a week, probably more like once a day, so putting in a yearly donation seems right, ensuring it can can continue to endure – that's the 'stay' part of the equation.
― Fizzles, Friday, 30 December 2022 21:51 (one year ago) link
I too kick a few bucks in Wikipedia's direction every now and then, in gratitude that there's at least one major resource on the internet that's not trying to suck me dry of data in order to enrich some amoral billionaire dickhead.
― Zelda Zonk, Friday, 30 December 2022 22:15 (one year ago) link
it's an interesting dilemma - I am happy the Internet Archive is so steadfastly non-profit. There are so many people who are willing to work for free because they believe in something. Much money to be made in things like Chat GPT but then some impertinent upstart offers a free open source version. I have donated this year to internet archive and probably will to my mastodon instance
― | (Latham Green), Tuesday, 3 January 2023 15:38 (one year ago) link
so have i got this right?
home: just people i followlocal: everybody on that serverfederated: everybody on that server plus everybody they follow
― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 3 January 2023 23:07 (one year ago) link
two months from now i'll come back with another extremely basic question, fyi
no this is helpful, speaking as someone who is not yet on it
― sleeve, Tuesday, 3 January 2023 23:10 (one year ago) link
home and local: yes that's right federated is all posts on all servers that your server has sight of (though maybe that's effectively the same as what you just said)
― mark s, Tuesday, 3 January 2023 23:25 (one year ago) link
just got a reply from chris 'blondie' stein.yeah, i aint leaving 'don.
― mark e, Thursday, 12 January 2023 19:13 (one year ago) link
also, i genuinely enjoy the low level laid back vibes of the place ..
A distinct plus
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 12 January 2023 20:18 (one year ago) link
I only wish more people I know were using it!
― | (Latham Green), Thursday, 12 January 2023 21:16 (one year ago) link
People don't want to log off.
Mastodon is civil, respectful, supportive, and terminally boring. It lacks jouissance - the horrible but compelling excesses which drag us back here day after day.— Tom O'Shea (@DrTomOShea) January 12, 2023
― xyzzzz__, Friday, 13 January 2023 13:08 (one year ago) link
"that's why YOU say Doctor o shay!" - Local Merchant
― | (Latham Green), Friday, 13 January 2023 15:27 (one year ago) link
yeah, enjoying the slower more laid-back aspect of Mastodon, I'm actually considering posting some stuff on there (something I don't do on twitter, where it just seems like any comment I would make would just get lost immediately).
― silverfish, Friday, 13 January 2023 15:54 (one year ago) link
I'm a bit short on free time atm, but I was looking at how to integrate ILX w/ActivityPub. It doesn't seem like a perfect fit, tbh, but it's interesting to think about. I'd be happy to partner with someone who knows how to set up a Mastodon instance as well so long as I never have to say toot
― stet, Monday, 13 February 2023 13:33 (one year ago) link
also I know why people are precious about it, but I really really wish the fediverse had search
"It’s also facing new competition from established names: Meta has said it’s working on its own decentralized social network, code-named P92, which will reportedly connect to ActivityPub. And Twitter’s co-founder and former CEO Jack Dorsey is getting ready to unveil Bluesky, a decentralized social media app that will come with a new protocol of its own."
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/apr/18/mastodon-users-twitter-elon-musk-social-media
― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 18 April 2023 10:02 (one year ago) link
Promising:
https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2023/05/a-new-onboarding-experience-on-mastodon/
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 1 May 2023 17:28 (one year ago) link
Twitter’s co-founder and former CEO Jack Dorsey is getting ready to unveil Bluesky, a decentralized social media app that will come with a new protocol of its own.
I was wondering what had happened to stevem
― Covfefe and TV (ken c), Monday, 1 May 2023 17:52 (one year ago) link
i always said stevem had a protocol all his own, nice to see it confirmed
― Tracer Hand, Monday, 1 May 2023 23:46 (one year ago) link
Although I have been lukewarm about Mastodon so far, it did enable me to purchase a piece of musical gear this evening for which I've been hunting around for a while.
― Muad'Doob (Moodles), Thursday, 4 May 2023 02:29 (one year ago) link
Gave up on mastodon after the server I picked to stump up on just disappeared one day taking my account with it.
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Thursday, 4 May 2023 02:54 (one year ago) link
It's a party 24/7 over at ravenation.club
― Muad'Doob (Moodles), Thursday, 4 May 2023 03:24 (one year ago) link
i haven't used any of these apps but mastodon strikes me as sort of being the dc++ to twitter's napster
mind you i never used dc++ either
― Kate (rushomancy), Thursday, 4 May 2023 03:37 (one year ago) link
I have no idea what dc++ is but you're probably right
― Muad'Doob (Moodles), Thursday, 4 May 2023 03:52 (one year ago) link
So anyone signing up/coming back over or are you all friends of Jack's now? I don't think I will ever sign up for bsky, the slower pace of life on Mastodon is suiting me nicely.
― emil.y, Saturday, 1 July 2023 21:53 (ten months ago) link
I'm no friend of Jack. I have the occasional flash of "should I get an account there so no one else gets the user name I use everywhere on the internet?" but that's a key motivator in geting you to join a social media site anyway, right?I had some problems with the instance I was on so I jumped to one of the big servers. I miss the previous one - it was Los Angeles-themed which made the Local timeline worth checking out. Anyway, I'm here now: https://mas.to/@quartzcity
― Elvis Telecom, Saturday, 1 July 2023 22:20 (ten months ago) link
i moved my bots over, just in time, but haven't picked a server for my main account yet.
― koogs, Sunday, 2 July 2023 00:48 (ten months ago) link