Hmm, I wonder if we would be better off if the default #Mastodon mobile app randomly selected a server to join for nontechnical users that met certain conditions like: being behind a CDN, is accepting sign ups without manual approval and agrees to give users three months notice before shutting down so they can migrate accounts. That would help with decentralizing the #fediverse
Question to #Mastodon#Admin people: How much resources do you need for a decently operating instance? How much CPU, RAM, disk space? Thinking about spinning up my own server but I'm really perplexed. Thanks! // CC @admin
"... there’s a growing set of people who will tell you the future isn’t #Mastodon but what it represents: a scaled #ActivityPub-based social platform." Indeed, nicely stated by The Verge.
@J12t Great article. There is a lot to be said about giving "control back to users, making sure that the social web is bigger than any single company."
Hey @Gargron, the #Mastodon app recently started to suggest mastodon.social to new users by default. This will inevitably make mastodon.social bigger than it already is. 🙁
This will undoubtedly contribute to #centralization and is very concerning when it comes to the health of the #Fediverse. 😨
@Wuzzy@Gargron I think the suggestion to offer a random instance from the list of those that closely follow Mastodon Server Covenant was pretty darn straightforward, and it will be a shame if the official app, of all things, would not merge it - or at least revert this centralizing change.
Drawing preemptive lines in the sand is not conducive to a healthy #fediverse. In fact, it could very well be its downfall. Large scale separation is antithetical to the social fabric of the world wide web.
Can we take a breather here?
Hostile VC takeovers are very far down the list of problems facing our nascent community of fedizens. Onboarding and retention on the other hand is easily in the top 3.
We need:
Account migrations
Account aliases
Account sovereignty
@maegul@feditips critiques are perfectly fine. Divisive antagonisms however are not, especially when done in a reactive manner that doesn’t allow room for civilized discourse.
I’d like to see a culture of curiosity and questioning ahead of outrage.
Audon is a great real-time audio streaming service for the #fediverse! Think Spaces or Clubhouse, and you pretty much got it. You create a room for audio, where other people can listen to you, or just give them the role of speaker as well.
You can easily log in with your fediverse (Mastodon/Calckey/Pleroma) account, create a room, share the link, and you're ready to go!
Audon makes good use of the social graph of your fediverse account as well. You need to sign in to listen in on a room, and that means that there is a lot of different privacy settings available for the room. Like, you can have a room with only your followers, or only the people you follow. See the screenshot for all the available options.
(new blogpost) A time will shortly be upon us when we must decide, make a choice about how we might want our interweb to look and be in the near future and beyond. I think it boils down to a single catch-all choice: who owns the content and interactions of the Internet. ...
I am contemplating the idea of starting a #pixelfed instance. I thought if it in the past, but it seemed so cumbersome that I gave up. Mastodon felt easier and since I started to use containers (k8s), it is even better - a breeze to upgrade.
Has things change? Has Pixelfed became easier to deploy and admin?
In the beginning of 2010 I was registered to over 150 social media sites. The rise of the social media were exciting times. There were rarely any algorithms, no TikTok, no Instagram for Android, no ads on Twitter.
However, over the years everything went to shit. The social media sites died one by one and couple of the dominating players slowly shifted to platforms where your data was no longer yours, where you were the money machine. The sad thing is, most of the people didn't even notice this change.
I've been using #Reddit more. I loved StumbleUpon.
I have spent more time on my @Flipboard#Android app now that you can use it as a #Mastodon client. At least an hour a day. I used to do my Flipboard reading on the weekends. It's the 4th most used app on my phone now.
@rolle I complained and blogged about the change from conversations to hashtags in 2007, as well as about the emerging cult of personality, the idealising of million follower accounts. I was way ahead, with my criticism. I saw the flaws decades before others.
Fixing the last small bugs before we open up our #Mastodon instance for testing in the coming days. Results finally aggregate nicely just like in the Twitter version (see the photo).
Oh, and Murmel is Mastodon too! Feel free to follow @murmel_social for upcoming updates.
@ivan18rod Ohh if you want to federate with the fediverse you must use the ActivityPub, Nodeinfo and Webfinger standard.
The api provided there is to create alternative client for the misskey software.
This documentation from maston: https://docs.joinmastodon.org/spec/activitypub/
seems pretty clear to me but I encourage you to read the specs as that are the standard: https://www.w3.org/TR/activitypub/
@pad Let me clarify. My projects uses adapters to connect with a certain software on the fediverse. I have the Mastodon adapter, and I am trying to build a Misskey adapter, but I don't know how the API is structured.
Truth is nobody knows how to build a good social network. #mastodon isn’t perfect, and obv isn’t for everybody. No wonder new attempts at (presumably) novel social network architectures attracts interest. #bluesky