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Mastodon

• nvr219 10y ago
  Has anyone here actually used this?
  • col_rad 10y ago
    I signed up yesterday. Looks like Twitter but is decentralized like Email. There are already a lot of people there (~56k [1]), Brendan Eich for example [2] and it seems to grow fast. Hope this works out. Would be a great way to move away from the social platform silos Tim Berners-Lee mentioned.[3] [1]https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/000/162/638/original/7cc9bfbdcc7fb8a0.jpg?1491353145 https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/000/16... [2]https://mastodon.social/@BrendanEich https://mastodon.social/@BrendanEich [3]https://www.technologyreview.com/s/604052/webs-inventor-tim-berners-lee-wins-the-nobel-prize-of-computing/ https://www.technologyreview.com/s/604052/webs-inventor-tim-...
  • alex_duf 10y ago
    I am, it's mostly a technical audience right now, but a couple of journalists and popular icons are joining. Dan Harmon (Community, Rick and Morty) https://mastodon.social/@danharmon https://mastodon.social/@danharmon Grahan Linehan (IT Crowd) https://mastodon.social/@glinner https://mastodon.social/@glinner Plus a few french youtube icons and FOSS people as well. There's a big LGBT community Also, I'm here: https://mastodon.xyz/@alexduf https://mastodon.xyz/@alexduf
• xrd 10y ago
  I wish I could understand from the readme if this is somehow P2P or if it requires a server or even mapping a domain in DNS. They state it avoids the problems of centralized solutions without saying how that happens for a layman.
  • detaro 10y ago
    It's federated: There can be many servers run by different people, and you can communicate with/follow/... people across servers with an account on any of them. (initially you only see what people post on the "home" server your account is on, but if someone on it follows somebody on another one, the server starts pulling what they write in)
    • platz 10y ago
      And then is that remote user seen by all by default? Seems like most users would never be aware of other modes even if a few folks add remote users for their own consumption
      • detaro 10y ago
        Yes, there is a "federated timeline" that shows all messages the server knows about, from all sources.
  • alex_duf 10y ago
    Yeah, they should use emails to explain it. Emails are federated and everyone understands it. Somehow because this is new it looks harder to understand.
• detaro 10y ago
  Show HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13303346 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13303346 Recent article discussing it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14034674 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14034674
  • alex_duf 10y ago
    also: http://www.theverge.com/2017/4/4/15177856/mastodon-social-network-twitter-clone http://www.theverge.com/2017/4/4/15177856/mastodon-social-ne... and: http://mashable.com/2017/04/04/mastodon-twitter-social-network/#uMabyS0LdiqW http://mashable.com/2017/04/04/mastodon-twitter-social-netwo... and: https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/mastodon-is-like-twitter-without-nazis-so-why-are-we-not-using-it https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/mastodon-is-like-...
• h2onock 10y ago
  I've just signed up for this, I love the idea!
• amelius 10y ago
  Where are the requirements/features of this system documented?
  • alex_duf 10y ago
    do you mean hardware requirements? Features are... the same as twitter, but on a federated network instead of a centralised one