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Mastodon for Metalheads

49 points by stoerfall 8y ago

MindTwister 8y ago
For those reading the comments first, this is not the first Mastodon that came to mind in the context of metalheads. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mastodon_(band) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mastodon_(band)
- atticmanatee 8y ago
  Trap, reading the title that was not what I was expecting. But my guess is that it was intended.
  - laumars 8y ago
    Not intentionally. Mastodon is also a name of a Twitter-like social network. So the title here makes perfect sense for people like myself who hadn't heard of the band with the same name. This is just one of those occasions where name collisions happen through nobodies fault.
    - wfriesen 8y ago
      Metal has quite a few name collisions, but perhaps the most unfortunate is https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isis_(band) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isis_(band)
      - samatman 8y ago
        That’s an unfortunate name collision everywhere. I know three women, all over 30, who chose the name Isis, and a kid who was given it and goes by Tara now.
        hasloi 8y ago
        Isis is also the name of an ancient Egyptian goddess.
        reitanqild 8y ago
        It was also meant to be the name of a major ElementaryOS release IIRC.
        pmyteh 8y ago
        The River Thames through Oxford is locally known as the Isis, so there are dozens of businesses called things like the 'Isis Guest House'. Many of them have rebranded.
        kbenson 8y ago
        I imagine it's a recurring problem. There were probably some people named Hitler in the 40's that faced the same problem. I imagine Adolf too, to a much lesser degree.
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- flattone 8y ago
  Same Oddly was listening to big short soundtrack late last night.
sascha_sl 8y ago
What is this, an ad that's also sort of a wordplay so it's not really an ad?
- runyor 8y ago
  Mastodon is the currently most hippest open source alternative to Twitter. Don't know many of the details tho.
  - stoerfall 8y ago
    Mastodon is a decentralized, free software alternative to Twitter. Also see: https://joinmastodon.org https://joinmastodon.org
    - sascha_sl 8y ago
      No it's not. Mastodon is not Twitter. Mastodon does not compete with Twitter. Mastodon was not meant to replace Twitter. It was meant to replace GNU social. Mastodon is also not the entirety of the fediverse. Join Pleroma. Because it wouldn't eat your RAM and ignore the ActivityPub spec arbitrarily. [1] [1]: https://pleroma.social https://pleroma.social
  - sascha_sl 8y ago
    I knew that, I run one. (Please don't join it.) But I don't randomly post it to HN, and it looks like the author of this post is the admin too.
dgellow 8y ago
For people who aren’t reading the linked page icle and don’t know the expression “metal head”: > A metalhead is a member of the heavy metal subculture.
- Gravityloss 8y ago
  If one thinks metal head is a slang term for robot / AI, one immediately gets a Rudy Rucker short story feeling...
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gfwhukku 8y ago
Another Mastodon instance hosted in Germany with the same copypasted left-leaning AUP[] from all the other Mastodon instances. What's the reason for this to exist when all Mastodon instances are linked to each other and this instance has the same ruleset and is hosted in the same country than the rest of instances? Or maybe I'm misunderstanding the way Mastodon works and instances are not linked? []https://metalhead.club/about/more https://metalhead.club/about/more
- runyor 8y ago
  A little less sceptical but still I wonder about the same thing. If all are connected, why care for which server I connect to? Are there filters between each server? Is my data only hosted in this server and goes down with it when the server hoster decides he invested enough into his hobby?
  - stoerfall 8y ago
    > If all are connected, why care for which server I connect to? Mastodon is like E-Mail: You chose who hosts your profile. YOu can send messages to people on other servers, but still the server which hosts your account, is your "home server": If it goes down, your account/profile is lost. Also choosing your Mastodon server is about your personal interests: Mastodon servers have local timelines, which only show posts by users on the same server. These timelines often are topic related. E.g. on metalhead.club you will find more metal music content compared to e.g. mastodon.social. Mastodon servers / instances group users by interest and still let all Mastodon users communicate with each other. Btw: I don't consider the terms of use "leftist". They are quite neutral and generally "human friendly". Metalhead.club is not political, but the Terms of use try to prevent hate speech.
    - drngdds 8y ago
      >They are quite neutral and generally "human friendly". They are certainly reasonable and human-friendly! But "you shouldn't be xenophobic or transphobic" is still, unfortunately, a relatively left-wing idea. It excludes people who openly hold beliefs that are very popular within the mainstream American right.
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mikece 8y ago
As someone else has pointed out, Mastodon is only one implementation of ActivityPub/OStatus, and arguably not the best (especially if you prefer Elixir/Phoenix, but I digress). Would it be appropriate to request we stop referring to a mastodon (software) instance as anything other than an ActivityPub/OStatus instance? A more terse name would be ideal but naming is hard and I've not had enough coffee to be creative yet today.
- StavrosK 8y ago
  > Would it be appropriate to request we stop referring to a mastodon (software) instance as anything other than an ActivityPub/OStatus instance No. Branding and specialization is important. I mean, you can stop talking about its killer app if you want ActivityPub to die.

49 points by stoerfall 8y ago

For those reading the comments first, this is not the first Mastodon that came to mind in the context of metalheads. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mastodon_(band) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mastodon_(band)

atticmanatee 8y ago
Trap, reading the title that was not what I was expecting. But my guess is that it was intended.
- laumars 8y ago
  Not intentionally. Mastodon is also a name of a Twitter-like social network. So the title here makes perfect sense for people like myself who hadn't heard of the band with the same name. This is just one of those occasions where name collisions happen through nobodies fault.
  - wfriesen 8y ago
    Metal has quite a few name collisions, but perhaps the most unfortunate is https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isis_(band) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isis_(band)
    - samatman 8y ago
      That’s an unfortunate name collision everywhere. I know three women, all over 30, who chose the name Isis, and a kid who was given it and goes by Tara now.
      - hasloi 8y ago
        Isis is also the name of an ancient Egyptian goddess.
      - reitanqild 8y ago
        It was also meant to be the name of a major ElementaryOS release IIRC.
      - pmyteh 8y ago
        The River Thames through Oxford is locally known as the Isis, so there are dozens of businesses called things like the 'Isis Guest House'. Many of them have rebranded.
      - kbenson 8y ago
        I imagine it's a recurring problem. There were probably some people named Hitler in the 40's that faced the same problem. I imagine Adolf too, to a much lesser degree.
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flattone 8y ago
Same Oddly was listening to big short soundtrack late last night.

sascha_sl 8y ago

What is this, an ad that's also sort of a wordplay so it's not really an ad?

runyor 8y ago
Mastodon is the currently most hippest open source alternative to Twitter. Don't know many of the details tho.
- stoerfall 8y ago
  Mastodon is a decentralized, free software alternative to Twitter. Also see: https://joinmastodon.org https://joinmastodon.org
  - sascha_sl 8y ago
    No it's not. Mastodon is not Twitter. Mastodon does not compete with Twitter. Mastodon was not meant to replace Twitter. It was meant to replace GNU social. Mastodon is also not the entirety of the fediverse. Join Pleroma. Because it wouldn't eat your RAM and ignore the ActivityPub spec arbitrarily. [1] [1]: https://pleroma.social https://pleroma.social
- sascha_sl 8y ago
  I knew that, I run one. (Please don't join it.) But I don't randomly post it to HN, and it looks like the author of this post is the admin too.

dgellow 8y ago

For people who aren’t reading the linked page icle and don’t know the expression “metal head”: > A metalhead is a member of the heavy metal subculture.

Gravityloss 8y ago
If one thinks metal head is a slang term for robot / AI, one immediately gets a Rudy Rucker short story feeling...

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gfwhukku 8y ago

Another Mastodon instance hosted in Germany with the same copypasted left-leaning AUP[] from all the other Mastodon instances. What's the reason for this to exist when all Mastodon instances are linked to each other and this instance has the same ruleset and is hosted in the same country than the rest of instances? Or maybe I'm misunderstanding the way Mastodon works and instances are not linked? []https://metalhead.club/about/more https://metalhead.club/about/more

runyor 8y ago
A little less sceptical but still I wonder about the same thing. If all are connected, why care for which server I connect to? Are there filters between each server? Is my data only hosted in this server and goes down with it when the server hoster decides he invested enough into his hobby?
- stoerfall 8y ago
  > If all are connected, why care for which server I connect to? Mastodon is like E-Mail: You chose who hosts your profile. YOu can send messages to people on other servers, but still the server which hosts your account, is your "home server": If it goes down, your account/profile is lost. Also choosing your Mastodon server is about your personal interests: Mastodon servers have local timelines, which only show posts by users on the same server. These timelines often are topic related. E.g. on metalhead.club you will find more metal music content compared to e.g. mastodon.social. Mastodon servers / instances group users by interest and still let all Mastodon users communicate with each other. Btw: I don't consider the terms of use "leftist". They are quite neutral and generally "human friendly". Metalhead.club is not political, but the Terms of use try to prevent hate speech.
  - drngdds 8y ago
    >They are quite neutral and generally "human friendly". They are certainly reasonable and human-friendly! But "you shouldn't be xenophobic or transphobic" is still, unfortunately, a relatively left-wing idea. It excludes people who openly hold beliefs that are very popular within the mainstream American right.

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mikece 8y ago

As someone else has pointed out, Mastodon is only one implementation of ActivityPub/OStatus, and arguably not the best (especially if you prefer Elixir/Phoenix, but I digress). Would it be appropriate to request we stop referring to a mastodon (software) instance as anything other than an ActivityPub/OStatus instance? A more terse name would be ideal but naming is hard and I've not had enough coffee to be creative yet today.

StavrosK 8y ago
> Would it be appropriate to request we stop referring to a mastodon (software) instance as anything other than an ActivityPub/OStatus instance No. Branding and specialization is important. I mean, you can stop talking about its killer app if you want ActivityPub to die.