Mastodon
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Also known as: Mastodon gGmbH
- It’s Not 2006 Anymore; The Useful, Vernacular Institution; What Is Free Our Feeds, Anyway? … IFTAS emerged from the administrators of Mastodon servers needing to work together to deal with issues like CSAM - child sexual abuse material. You have to deal with those …
- Fine, Social Networks; Are you in? … Threads, owned by Meta/Facebook, bootstrapped from Instagram, and with hundreds of millions of users Mastodon, a decentralized open-source social network built on an open protocol called …
- Doing What’s Important; Hidden Reasons; When They Tell You, Etc... … tired? Sad? Spending time there anyway, as well as on Bluesky and Mastodon? Oops, that was long. Sorry. But at least it was a while since the last …
- Context is King; Explicit People Personality Preferences; OS Licensing, but Different … The reply management stickers [1] I made the other day went nuts on Bluesky and Mastodon, they vanished comparatively without a trace on Threads. The argument against these …
- Alt Text; Reply Management Stickers … 1.2 Reply Management Stickers Last Friday I made a sticker to use on Mastodon, which has... kinds of people . Today I made some more and posted them …
- The Great Social Network Heist … Some problems with Mastodon: If I want to offer a managed, hosted Mastodon service, phooey is it difficult. Mastodon doesn’t support multi-homing, so you can’t …
- It’s not a hardware or software problem, dummy … While Twitter continues to implode, Bluesky and Mastodon are busy carving out their niches and Meta storms ahead with Threads, let’s talk about ways people might improve …
- You don’t want an intelligent assistant; Protocols, Not Platforms … Same with Threads, at the point where Mastodon users will be able to read Threads posts. Well, that’s Thursday. How’ve you been? Oh, a quick question …
- Rude; A Financial Services Social Network?; We Should Improve Attribution and Sourcing Somewhat … have no idea they're public..." , Mark Blacknell, 26 October, 2023, Bluesky ↩︎ Tindra: "@danhon on your first point, I…" - Infosec Exchange ( archive.is ), Tindra, 25 October, 2023, Mastodon ↩︎
- Just Put A Fucking Warning Label On It; A Sort Of Qualified Immunity; Doing a Spreadsheets is Coding; Rotate 75 Degrees Around The Vertical … A Proposal for News Organization Mastodon Servers and More ( archive.is ) s13e18: Mastodon, or What Happens When Your Software Has Opinions And Now You Have Choices ( archive.is …
- Five Things From Hallway Track 001: The Cosy Internet … a Mastodon fork Andy Piper , Developer Relations Lead, Mastodon and more tba 003 You Deserve a Union on Thursday 26 October 2023, 2:30pm Pacific | 5:30pm Eastern …
- Mitigation Strategies; The Unbearable Necessity of Portability; Tactical Binding Covenants … Mastodon, the federated social network built upon the ActivityPub protocol (the Mastodon API provides access to an implementation of the ActivityPub protocol), provides for interoperability in the sense …
- Substack's Thin End of the Quora Wedge … Where I ended on the Mastodon thread version of this [1:1] was: Look, there's way more awareness, these days, about the concept of enshittification (though that …
- Sudo Do Me An Ethical Art; Twitter Imploding Was Good, Actually … I noticed that I've spent a little bit more time on Bluesky lately, alongside Mastodon. I've also spent a little bit on LinkedIn recently, thanks to …
- Free-range, Organic, and Natural; The Original Promise … self-hosted networks like Mastodon are an alternative that more people than ever before have experienced. There is more awareness that running these servers and instances in a …
- Answering "Governments should be on Mastodon?", or, A Sort of Amateur Cory Doctorow, and an ending that surprised even me … It's not especially as if the calls are specifically for governments to be on Mastodon (rather, the calls on Mastodon are for governments to be on Mastodon …
- Consensual Hallucination; Hospitals; Warm, Statistically Plausible Generic Platitudes … The lumpiness of Mastodon is by design. Mastodon doesn't have to be good at this . And because Mastodon is so lumpy, it's not great in (excuse …
- Hey, Ease Up; A Load-Bearing If-Statement … But why? , Maura Hohoman, Today, 9 February 2023 ↩︎ ↩︎ Myocarditis and Pericarditis After mRNA COVID-19 Vaccination , CDC, September 27, 2022 ↩︎ Emilia on Mastodon , 10 February, 2023 ↩︎ Elon Musk …
- Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town; Streaks Broken; Aigg on your Face, Big Disgrace … I was thinking about all of the "I tried Mastodon and it was terrible" takes, most recently because Paul Thurrot (née Paul WinSuperSite) wrote that Mastodon Continues to …
- Biblically Accurate AI, or, Hey ChatGPT, Bury This News For Me … The procurement offices of all 50 states shortly follow." Me, on Mastodon , 29 January, 2023 ↩︎
- Your Timeline needs a DJ; Enough … Sorry, this is going to be another Mastodon-adjacent thing, again. Simon Willison is just the nearest, to-hand person with an example of complaining that overnight, their …
- Building and Documentation; Making New Mistakes; Eternal Tumblr; Governance in the Early Days of a Better Nation … BookWyrm (Goodreads-ish) and Mastodon posts. There's an aside here, which is that, like I said, Mastodon is an application that sits on top of the ActivityPub …
- Some Combination of Efficiency and Expediency … Jan Lenhardt wrote a very humble (in my opinion too humble) write-up of his searchtodon search experiment for ActivityPub/Mastodon networks. Caught my attention because: this is …
- Substack; The Health Technology Surveillance Complex … Then, as a bonus, and realizing that this idea has all of its "Oh, Mastodon is so hot right now" tinted glasses on, Substack also could spin up …
- Success Criteria; Chat … 1.1 Success Criteria Another thing that stuck in my head from Tim Bray's essay about search on Mastodon [1] was his section on success criteria. Here …
- It was only a receipt; It's a social problem, not a technology problem; Stupid smart lights … 1.2 It's a social problem, not a technology problem Tim Bray has an excellent essay summarizing the state of play around search in Mastodon(sorry), which …
- Universal Basic Compute … What would make this different from existing ad-funded, free-at-the-point-of-consumption publishing services like Blogger, or Wordpress, or, well, Twitter? Or Mastodon? Wouldn't …
- The Careless Conversation; The Shape of Things … I am still thinking about Mastodon, the thing that is not Twitter that might be the thing after Twitter, but if it isn't the thing after Twitter …
- Colliders; Speedrunning; Benevolent Dictators Have Significant Failure States; Verification Deserts; The Inflationary epoch … Mastodon is the least-bad network and service, so it will "win" Mastodon.social is the least-bad service, so it will continue to "win" Mastodon.social will …
- Just Because We Can Doesn't (Necessarily) Mean We Should: Mastodon and Social Networks Edition … A Proposal for News Organization Mastodon Servers and More s13e18: Mastodon, or What Happens When Your Software Has Opinions And Now You Have Choices Imagine Majel Barret saying …
- Mastodon, or What Happens When Your Software Has Opinions And Now You Have Choices … what Mastodon instance should I be on? am I on the wrong Mastodon instance? what's the deal with all these Mastodon instances? what am I seeing here …
- A Proposal for News Organization Mastodon Servers and More … 1.0 Some Things That Caught My Attention 1.1 A Proposal For News Organization Mastodon Servers Well, it happened [1] , I guess, so here's the inevitable …
- It's not a place, it's what's in-between; Twitter will be unbundled … This isn't "move from Twitter to Discord or Slack or Mastodon" because those are different things, definitely Discord and Slack are different things than "a giant undifferentiated …
- The One With The Uneven Mid-Season Two-Parter … This is part of the reason why Mastodon instinctively appeals to me, over our current divine-right, monarch-based networks in Facebook and Twitter. With something like Mastodon …
- Firebreak Protocol … A lot of it has to do with the resurgence of interest in Mastodon and the weak signal of a sort-of exodus from Twitter, and that a …
- Probably Not Gutless … 1.0 Things that have caught my attention 1.1 But really, social media I wrote before that I have Thoughts about Mastodon and they are more along …
- Change your organization, or change your organization … the Jurassic Park Common User Interface Crichton designed for the book. * Back to Mastodon, JP ( http://vectorpoem.com ) wrote an amazing videogame prompt : “Nobody knows why these specific …
- Judge social networks not by their DAUs but by the content of their CEO’s character … I continue to have thoughts about Mastodon. We’ll see if those surface. 1.0 Things that caught my attention 1.1 The basket of goods You’ll …
- We need to talk about algorithms … I got into an argument - and am happy that I just decided to walk away instead of further engaging - with someone on Mastodon about opinionated software and the …
- Stages of Transformation … my head at the moment: * "algorithms" * culture * networked software as material, so what are the material properties of Mastodon? which I'll hopefully splurge out sometime. Best, Dan