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One particular choice of Mastodon is that pretty much everything federates all the time. Some local instances try to create a sense of local community, but othe
by NelsonMinar 4y ago
One particular choice of Mastodon is that pretty much everything federates all the time. Some local instances try to create a sense of local community, but other than the local timeline page you might as well be anywhere.
Hometown is a fork of Mastodon that adds a "local only" post feature, posts that deliberately do not federate. I think it's an interesting experiment. https://github.com/hometown-fork/hometown https://github.com/hometown-fork/hometown
- account42 4y ago> One particular choice of Mastodon is that pretty much everything federates all the time. Some local instances try to create a sense of local community, but other than the local timeline page you might as well be anywhere. In theory. In practice, this is the norm: https://mastodon.social/about/more https://mastodon.social/about/more https://wiki.todon.eu/todon/domainblocks https://wiki.todon.eu/todon/domainblocks https://toot.cafe/about/more#blocked-instances https://toot.cafe/about/more#blocked-instances The latter doesn't even bother labeling the instances they don't like as "Hate Speech", apparently free speech is enough.
- NelsonMinar 4y agoI wasn't thinking of the isolated little hate communities when I said "pretty much everything". Truth Social is another isolated little community based on Mastodon, for that matter.