I listen to a lot of podcast audio. Every year it blows my mind that I listen to almost a month of audio. It has definitely been one of the defining features of my life for the past several years.
@freemo Oh, very cool. Looks like they're currently closed to new instances, but good to see people are already doing this.
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@acjay you mean to spin up your own instance... check out masto.host
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i’ve been trying to figure out a way to articulate something that i keep seeing on here (and other places to a limited extent, but mostly here) the idea that ppls perceptions of the internet changed bc of big walled platforms like facebook or twitter,
but im not sure if that’s ACTUALLY the case or if what those platforms actually did was make the aspects of the internet most ppl find confusing, like servers, more accessibility to ppl who now feel lost
How long until there are dead simple Mastodon-instance-as-a-service providers? Does this already exist?
@emaytch Yup. Moxy Marlinspike wrote what I consider a seminal essay on this here: https://moxie.org/2022/01/07/web3-first-impressions.html
@cbyrd01 I don't know if it would be a good thing or not for the Fediverse, but I can see how both companies might see it being in their interests, in the same way as hosting email.
@sparky_005 @Patricia I think we're about to see a giant experiment in decentralized community play out in real time.
I understand the history of Mastodon has had a lot of politics with instances deciding who to federate with. But the number of voices is way greater now. It seems to me that the instance level is to blunt of a tool and too beholden to admins.
@mguhlin @debirdify AWESOME, will try
How long until Google and Microsoft launch their own Fediverse instances and give people one-click opt-in to a Mastodon-like experience?
If ActivityPub is basically an email-like protocol, then hosting someone's Fediverse identity is pretty similar to giving them an email account, right?
Any reason to think this is a bad idea for them (other than the moderation problem)?
Criticism of the Fediverse & the federation model
@AvengingFemme I agree. It's kind of funny that I saw this immediate after posting this https://qoto.org/web/statuses/109378321764008693
Is there a concept of communities, independent of instances?
Instances seem to coarse-grained.
Hash tags are kind of close, except there's no ability to moderate a hash tag.
@debirdify Also, it would be cool to be able to filter out people I already follow on Mastodon.
I just discovered that in the Notifications tab, I can turn off the "Play Sounds" and keep Favorites out of my notifications. Love this. I think the dopamine rush of new likes and counters is one of the harmful things from a lot of commercial social media.
@debirdify Is there a good way to auto-follow everyone found by Debirdify from a given Mastodon account? That would be super helpful. Not sure if Mastodon has a good way to import follower lists or an API that can be used to create new follows on an account (with the appropriate auth controls).
Although I decided not to actively participate on Twitter after the Elon purchase, I still spend a lot of time lurking Twitter, because it very efficiently serves up stuff I find interesting and informative.
But I've replicated a sizable portion of the people I followed there on here, I think that it's very likely that Mastodon can supplant that for me. Hopefully with improvements.
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A thread from a former Twitter designer and longtime Mastodon user that raises an important point: for most people, algorithms are good.
They make reading more enjoyable. They help users discover new and/or important content that would've been overlooked or never seen in a chronological timeline.
IMHO, there's a huge unmet need for not just one algorithm, but customizable algorithms with adjustable factors.
@birdsnfrogs Oh man, my memories of that end-of-the-world sequence are so vivid
@triketora I'm not well versed in this yet, but isn't the idea of the Fediverse that different services that decide to federate can pull in content from other apps? If so, I can see this cross posting problem potentially improving, if more services adopt it.
But I might not know what I'm talking about.
@lucifargundam I'm somewhat of a keyboard nerd, but I don't build my own. I have a Moonlander keyboard with Drop + Matt3o MT3 Susuwatari sculptured, spherical keycaps and Zilent V2 silent tactile switches.
I also preorded a Dygma Defy...because one multi-hundred dollar keyboard just isn't enough, is it?
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