Life is Tetris @tetrislife@qoto.org

Moving to the Fediverse, however, is a whole other ball game, and people should know what to expect: it’s a work-in-progress, but one that is built, owned, and managed by us.

11/11

You'll never see Romulans posting on mastodon because they are enemies of the federation

If there's one piece of advice I'd give the newbies still pouring in by the day, it's this;

Post!

You don't have to be a passive audience for celebrity accounts. Reply to random conversations and crack jokes, express yourself however you see fit (with respect and care for others of course). This place is here for you to share, as much as it is for anyone else.

#FediTips

Here is something I really need to say. Or, rather, repeat.

Please lend me your attention for a while.

SDF Mastodon is a FREE service, run by volunteers on their spare time.

If you come here only to advertise some service and mindlessly post, post, post, about that service without ever interacting intelligently... You are not going to have a good time.

If you are an artist, writer, etc, then promoting yourself and your art is OK, in moderation. Relentless self promotion is annoying.

@dnkrupinski Never underestimate the impact of capital on a system that has inherent economies of scale and network effects. It happened with the web. No reason why it can’t happen with the fediverse unless we’re all diligent in resisting it from the very start.

Biology Professor Paul Knoepfler on Mastodon:

“Some servers seem to function much better than others. Certain servers also have more problems. It seems that many servers require applying to be in them, which seems weird to me.”

https://www.infoworld.com/article/3680450/what-open-source-gets-wrong-with-mastodon.html

I don't mean to be rude Paul, but these are just realities that corporations have burnt millions of dollars hiding from you. So they can domesticate you, farm you for data, and sell you to advertisers. If that's ok, go on back to Melon Husk.

@godpod "Dump Musk for the Tusk."

I love that, I really do.

"Systems that run forever self-heal and scale" by Joe Armstrong (2013)

#erlang

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNICGEwmXLU

I don’t really have any idea, but if I was to advocate anything, it might include features that augment their offline world, that focus on creating vs. consuming and strengthen community values, character and mental health. @strypey

@EndlessMason You, as a consumer would not trust paid email more than unpaid, but if spammers, who send millions of emails, and expect a very small return rate, had to pay, there would likely be fewer of them, or it might stop being lucrative at all.

@strypey We as yet have no micropayment architecture wired into the net. Maybe building one is too much effort, but it would buy a lot (pun intended).

Playing football in thick fog against a team of clowns. Luckily, I can see the funny side.

I guess these are the same idiots who complain about #China polluting the #environment… in the process of manufacturing *our* goods.

Are people who have never even lived there, let alone understand cultural nuances, really so arrogant and stupid to get onboard with criticising #Qatar?

🙄

Another question regarding the Fediverse: "Would politicians, press, higher learning, celebrities actually ever be bothered to self-host an instance and pay someone to maintain it?"

Again, Automattic answers that question.

What do all those institutions use for their websites? Self-hosted WordPress sites.

Who runs it? Someone they pay.

Self-hosting and maintenance can not only be normalized -- people would probably be happy to do it.

Why do I compare Automattic to Big Social? Because Automattic:

1. Builds social media products
2. Has achieved significant market share
3. Makes money

Whenever people ask me about a potential model for the Fediverse, I point to Automattic.

They're no flash in the pan. They've existed for ~20 years.

Those looking for a more bounded social network experience than what's offered by Mastodon and another existing fediverse software, might be interested in the work being done by the #Bonfire project:

http://bonfirenetworks.org/posts/introducing_boundaries/

#ActivityPub

@freemo Thanks for thinking it through. I'm regularly gladdened that I stumbled into this server instead of another.

@JoshuaACasey Agreed, especially when the system makes it so easy for individuals to block. You onnly need to block servers not people and you address mostly all bad actors.. so a dozen or two blocks and an individual is good. There is no NEED for a master block list forced upon them because the block lists are so manageable.

Moreover users can just import the blocklist as a CSV, so it literally takes a few seconds.

@tetrislife @camerondotca @albinanigans @mergerson Because every place here is _not_ equal?

Mastodon started out as an overwhelmingly white space, and this is still an apt description. Structural racism _will_ flourish in such a space, even with good intentions - and "good intentions" shouldn't be assumed.