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Bye, Twitter. All the cool kids are migrating to Mastodon.
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Well, will you at least send a warning toot before you shit?
Amazingly bad name and it'll sink quicker than a lead balloon set off the Titanic but the principle is sound.
Huw_Dawson
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Plus the folks on other nodes.
Basically, Mastodon is a distributed *set* of social networks that can federate - think like each node is a country, and the overall Mastodon group is the EU. The EU sets the overarching rules - the code - which the countries run their own governments on.
I had a go making my own node and it's pretty easy.
Of course the big issue would be that you're incurring server costs!
But someone here could set up a GAF one. Or someone in the FGC could set up one for fighting games. And because they're federated nodes, an account on one is able to pull in tweets/"toots" from any other user on any other node, as far as I can see.
Another analogy: it's like Twitter (the overall microblogging concept) and Reddit (subreddits with their own moderation teams, rules and communities) had a baby.
Slack.
Dwight Schrute
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More like twitter and diaspora* which had exactly the same concept.
Huw_Dawson
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Or quite a few other tools these days.
Sabertwo Tiger!
Smh
natsuyasumi
Member
Many of the people I like to interact with are already established there. Queers and outcasts are making it awesome so far. And the fact that the founder actually cares about moderation and harassment.
It's hard to say if this will last as sort of a high signal-to-noise twitter for a limited crowd or if increasing popularity will sour the appeal to same.
It's hard to say if this will last as sort of a high signal-to-noise twitter for a limited crowd or if increasing popularity will sour the appeal to same.
Shadax the wizard
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TeamLeftMatch
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A deleted/bad toot should be called a shart. Aside from having more characters will this really attract anyone? Twitter itself is loosing money so is there a market for this.
DerangedHermit
Member
The only good thing to have come out of this..
CassidyIzABeast
Member
Toot? Already a bust.
BY YOUR POWERS COMBINED, I AM CAPTAIN PLANET
RedSparrows
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ronaldthump
Member
Soo.... what's happening with this? No one's on it? I just posted my first toot.
FIXED
Hydrargyrus
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Bye cool kids!
Robot Pants
Member
Was waiting for this to show up
LMAO
ShemhazaiX
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Surely the better idea would be to create a twitter that welcomes neo nazis and supremacists so that you pull all the racism into its own bubble away from the people who don't care enough and are having opinions swayed by all the fake news and right wing memes and shit.
It doesn't work. /pol/ is a good example.
Aztechnology
Member
Lol I was going to day I can't possibly use something that calls messages "Toots" but this picture may have brought me around.
I still won't and don't use Twitter for anything but announcements either, but it made me crack a big grin
ronaldthump
Member
The app - tusks by which you use Mastadon wants you to enter an instance.
This stuff is so unuser friendly.
It should just be : userid/name + login like every other app out there.
This stuff is so unuser friendly.
It should just be : userid/name + login like every other app out there.
It can't be though, because every instance can have it's own set of usernames, so your username on one instance can be hijacked by another user on another instance. Who might say all sorts of things you disagree with. And would rely on the general public being smart enough to notice the instance name of the user, which is obviously not going to happen.
I have to be honest, I think the entire service is pretty badly thought through from a pov of how it scales and obvious abuse vectors. And loses some of the good stuff about Twitter in the process, it's pretty much impossible for good content to go viral to the same extent.
natsuyasumi
Member
The apps are third party. Find a instance that appeals to you and use its website interface to sign up. Pretty simple.
My facebook time has decreased exponentially since trying Mastodon (I was already long-weary of Twitter). The people and vibe on Masto are fantastic.
My facebook time has decreased exponentially since trying Mastodon (I was already long-weary of Twitter). The people and vibe on Masto are fantastic.
wesleyshark
Banned
How many times will people try to make a twitter replacement
Lol at the people talking about the vibe on a service that's just starting. There's always a nice vibe on services with tiny userbases, because they are just self selected friends talking to each other. It can't last. Either the platform stagnates and dies, or it grows and the societal groups that hate each other come into contact.
If I was unemployed I'd totally set up a consultancy this week which charges brands to squat their name on every Mastodon instance though, as a service. For three weeks that'll be a goldmine.
If I was unemployed I'd totally set up a consultancy this week which charges brands to squat their name on every Mastodon instance though, as a service. For three weeks that'll be a goldmine.
natsuyasumi
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So cynical.
Mastodon is being designed to discourage and prevent abusive behavior like you describe. There are already several 4chan-like Masto instances full of racism and other garbage but they were near-instantly blacklisted by more respectable instances. Currently a non-problem.
I'm sure Masto will have growing pains but there is a lot of potential to be excited about.
Mastodon is being designed to discourage and prevent abusive behavior like you describe. There are already several 4chan-like Masto instances full of racism and other garbage but they were near-instantly blacklisted by more respectable instances. Currently a non-problem.
I'm sure Masto will have growing pains but there is a lot of potential to be excited about.
show me your skeleton
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this ivory leg is what propels me.
ronaldthump
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so people can have the same username across instances? wtf.
but you there's so many instances and if the usernames can be the same across them and overlap, then there's no value.
AuthenticM
Member
I like this.
There are lots of companies who might just want to make sure nobody else is squatting their name on each instance, just in case, or to prevent someone using it for fraudulent/PR unfriendly purposes.
The entire reason custom top level domains in URLs happened is because ICANN's members saw the ability to make a huge quick buck for exactly the same reason.
natsuyasumi
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The other thing worth mentioning about hateful users is that each instance is run by its admin, who can moderate the instance as they see fit (like the dude here who owns/runs NeoGAF).
A nicely admined instance goes a long way toward keeping everyone happy and free from the jerks. This would be impossible on Twitter, with the nature of its monolithic service throwing everyone into one large (cess)pool.
A nicely admined instance goes a long way toward keeping everyone happy and free from the jerks. This would be impossible on Twitter, with the nature of its monolithic service throwing everyone into one large (cess)pool.
And that's why the service fails, ultimately. It's too fragmented and there's never going to be a coherent single proposition. You'll never be able to go "did you see that thing on Mastodon" to your friends. You'll never be able to search Mastodon to find out what's going on with that news thing in real time.
Snowman Prophet of Doom
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Service is way unnecessarily confusing and fragmented, will not take off like Twitter has.
natsuyasumi
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My experience so far suggests otherwise re: your two criticisms above.
My preferred instance is connected to close to 100% of other existing instances at the moment. Users can and do use Twitter-style tags and RT ("boost"). Memes are propagating rapidly across connected instances. Doesn't seem terribly fragmented?
The search feature seems pretty strong, actually. Searching for tags, user names, and text fragments from specific posts I wanted to find have all worked great so far, and that's across instances, not just local.
Your comments make it seem like you're not actually using Mastodon but instead coming up with objections based on how you imagine it will play out.
AuthenticM
Member
Can we make a Neogaf instance?
NOLA_Gaffer
Banned
Wake me up when WUPHF is launched.
Is there a place I can buy this online or am I still required to track down individual comic books at stores?
Is there a place I can buy this online or am I still required to track down individual comic books at stores?
Elaugaufein
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Valtýr;233868842 said:
Because it's not really a 1 for 1 replacement for Twitter at all. Its goals are different. But someone needed an article.
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