So! I set up my radio show "Six Degrees of Ohio" on #Calckey . You can find me at: @six_degrees_of_ohio
I have been waiting around forever to get the show set up on the #fediverse and Calckey seems like the way to go. Will start posting soon.
Follow that account of you have any interest in Ohio music.
Every time I use #Mastodon, it's makes me happy. I bet that 90%+ of what's in my feed is stuff I wanted to read. Compare that to other microblogging style sites, where the percentage is much lower. I'm just thankful this platform exists.
i’ve been thinking about #ActivityPub and am going to use this as the start of an ad hoc thread about identity and account portability.
here’s where i think i’ll land:
1️⃣ the Conventional Wisdom conflates #Mastodon features with AP.
2️⃣ the Conventional Wisdom is that AP guarantees a #RightToExit, which it does not.
3️⃣🔥 and a hot take, as a treat: #ATProtocol is currently doing better work building the system that most AP advocates think is being built here.
@austinha You are of course right that "Right to Exit is not an intrinsic feature of AP."
However, perhaps that's an unfairly high bar? Right to Exit can be guaranteed to users legally, much more than it is today (when it's sorta-kinda-maybe guaranteed by the Mastodon Server Covenant). But I can imagine a world where e.g. server admins put up collateral against their promise to uphold Right to Exit. That raises all sorts of issues/questions, but it's not that much of a stretch IMO.
@davidslifka it’s possible that it is an unfairly high bar, but either way, there is a mismatch about what AP guarantees vs. what Mastodon does. if Mastodon’s BDFL, for argument’s sake, starts making decisions that you vehemently disagree with, a lot of people are in for a frustrating time & the lessons of closed social have not been learned.
Okay, I host a weekly radio show on FM radio. I have been trying to figure out where I am gonna host its presence on #mastodon .. but i think i am gonna go ahead and host it on #calckey . now, to figure out which host to pick..
Sad to see people who are LGBTQ leave #Mastodon and join #calckey along with people who are autistic. I am autistic and pro LGBTQ and haven't left mastodon idk why people are leaving https://bz.pawdev.me/notes/9eio6s7dc8
@alfredo_liberal It shouldn’t really make a difference, as far as I know? I think you can see and interact with Mastodon posts via Calckey and the other way around.
If you are kind enough to follow me, I’ll follow you.
If you are kind enough to talk to me, I’ll talk to you.
I’ll boost that may help another or make them happy or laugh or think.
I love it here. ❤️
Maybe I'm having a Mastodon dumb or maybe it's actually a missing feature?
On the official web page. If I go to a user's profile then the Media tab I see lots of pics. I can click on a pic and see it. But it loads without reference to the original post. Is there no way to see what post the pic is attached to?
I'm seeing some wild shit and I really need context!
Good morning and happy Monday all you wonderful people of the #Fediverse.
Per usual, let’s take a moment to grab a #KoffeeWithKyle and chat about our plans for the day ahead. Let me know in the comments.
For me, I’ll be just doing the regular “day job” thing first. After that will probably be some more work on the next feature of #AllThingsTech we’re going to release. Then just chillin.
When I talked to the Pleroma devs years ago on whether they would like to create a distributed actor system out of Pleroma for large instances, they weren't interested.
The GotoSocial devs aren't interested either in enabling building large instances, in this case by scaling out app servers.
There are also projects like Epicyon and snac2 for AP servers with tiny server footprints.
This Fediverse Software Comparison chart from https://calckey.org/#comparison is great. I'd love to see a similar chart for developers. Comparison of API endpoints, OAuth support, etc.
But as that attracts more users, they in turn create pressure on implementing new features and improve the overall experience. See how the stance on quote posts changed over the years on Mastodon.
Some say #Fediverse is like email. But that’s far from the truth. Mail servers don’t usually block entire mail servers. Imagine #Google bans #Yahoo mail because of some spam or problematic emails. That’s how fediverse is. #Mastodon
@paul Exactly. And to make it even worse, some admins import the block list of someone they don’t know, containing hundreds of instances, some don’t even have any specified reason to be on the list.
Maybe some instances deserve to be limited. But that should be done as a last resort. Not something to be done cuz someone else has made a list.
@FinchHaven@hirad err there are way more mail servers out there than Mastodon servers.
Yes spam and malware etc is a problem.
But you don't see mail server admins blocking servers because of a difference of opinion.
As a #socialist I know exactly why freedom of expression is so important - because in the past people like me would be rounded up due to political views.
It's shocking how bourgeois-liberals quickly throw away their alleged principles if someone says something they don't like.
Buongiorno a tutte e a tutti.
Questo account (netico@nebbia.fail) verrà presto chiuso.
Chi si è divertito a leggere i miei post fino ad ora, potrà continuare a farlo seguendo il mio nuovo account (netico@fediverse.midala.net).
Mi sono trasferito su un'istanza non basata su #Mastodon (in polemica con le decisioni prese dal team che ne guida lo sviluppo). Il mio nuovo accesso al fediverso si fonda su #GoToSocial, un software che tenta un approccio minimalista, più nelle mie corde.
Mi dicono dalla regia che non ho messo la '@' davanti al nome utente e che non ho specificato che il passaggio dei follower al nuovo account non è automatico.
Ok. Il passaggio non è automatico!
Chi fosse interessato a seguirmi, dovrà farlo manualmente. Il nuovo account è @netico
Sadly Elaine Moore of the FT is peddling disinformation about #Mastodon while profiling #bluesky:
Mastodon's '[d]ecentralisation means that, unlike Twitter, it cannot be changed by a new owner. But for those of us who are used to being spoon-fed social network set-ups, Mastodon is baffling. Picking a server and choosing an app sounds too much like hard work'.
Baffling? Hardwork? it took me longer to set-up than Twitter.
No, Its really its decentralised non-profit character they don't like!
@ChrisMayLA6 It's not Masto that's confusing, it's the tendency of Masto evangelists to baffle newcomers with technical detail about how it works. All anyone needs to know to start is, "join a random server (you can move later) and start searching for and following hashtags, and others posting under those. There's also a people search so you can find public figures you were following elsewhere. Post stuff, boost stuff, comment on stuff. The rest you'll learn as you go along." Simples.
The only thing we currently don't see on #Mastodon is the media, especially local media. But I kinda don't miss the media being entangled in social media so much. It often doesn't bring any extra value to it now that I think of it.
Seeing the handles like this make me think "oh, they're on Twitter, I wonder what they are doing there" and that's about it. I probably wouldn't follow push-style posts anyway. #SocialMedia#Media
@rolle@taymaz Mastodon should thrive to be something else. I don't think it's going to happen for Mastodon if Bluesky succeeds, which is fine. I have been tracking where media goes, and US media is very eager to do accounts in Bluesky: NPR, Washington Post, The Nation, Time, The Intercept, The Onion... and the list goes on already in Bluesky. It's wild how well they've gotten the US media landscape, even though the app is basically a single broken textarea with glitches.
@taymaz@rolle There is some of "Not Invented Here" syndrome, but Bluesky is also a fundamentally different way to build a social media where all content is searchable and indexable. For this reason, Bluesky can do big-data-firehose that everything is public.
With ActivityPub at the protocol level, it assumes the 1-to-1 connections, this creates a cultural clash where some think it's not okay to index content and make it searchable.
