Hilary Baumann 🧪 @hilarybaumann@qoto.org

Mmmm Mastodon is not like a protocol but a platform that uses a protocol. I'm starting to understand.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fediverse

But still ... the username / handle aspect of this is still bothering me. If each instance is just a community, I have a broad range of interests so picking one community for my handle to live in still feels ... odd to me.

Now to go understand the main protocol better... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ActivityPub

#mastodon #decentralizedsocialmedia #activitypub

All metadata gone. Not even the original date.

Verifying authenticity of certain things may prove difficult.

One of the many photos I took at the Kentucky Derby this last year.

Sharing for two reasons:

1) it’s a lovely unique photo of cocktail prep

2) I want to test whether or not Exif location info is properly stripped on upload (and I would prefer copyright metadata not be stripped … I took this photo and it is NOT CC but from what I read all metadata is removed on Mastodon.)

Mmmm Mastodon is not like a protocol but a platform that uses a protocol. I'm starting to understand.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fediverse

But still ... the username / handle aspect of this is still bothering me. If each instance is just a community, I have a broad range of interests so picking one community for my handle to live in still feels ... odd to me.

Now to go understand the main protocol better... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ActivityPub

#mastodon #decentralizedsocialmedia #activitypub

Anyone else thinking what I'm thinking? If #mastodon is like a protocol, why am I tied to a domain name I don't control?

To put it another way, with email servers I can have my own domain name & choose to self host OR use something like Google or Microsoft as my servers.

I have not looked at the code to try and understand it better but that's the one thing I'm really not liking about having to choose a server at the moment.

** It feels like having an aol or gmail or yahoo email address to me. **

And since I run businesses that have to make money I don't quite have time at the moment to self host even just for myself (but I am considering it. Thanksgiving week looks slow...)

#protocols #interwebs

1st post random thoughts:

1. who do you recommend following that I might enjoy reading / following / having conversations with?

2. is there a dark mode on this thing? Or is that a per instance thing and I’ve chosen the wrong one for wanting a dark screen?

3. I am sorry to anyone I have hit follow / unfollow / subscribe on since I don’t know what kind of notifications you got or what level of interaction I was committing to when I did those things.

I really am just diving in here to see what works and what doesn’t… and I hope I don’t end up regretting tagging with the following…

#firstpost #bourbon #wordpress #branding #logo #socialmedia #kentucky #graphicdesign #adobe #illustrator #indesign