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I liked Mastodon when it first came out. But nowadays it’s seems to be more like a Left wing version of Gettr. Wouldn’t use either.
by coffeeblack 4y ago
I liked Mastodon when it first came out. But nowadays it’s seems to be more like a Left wing version of Gettr. Wouldn’t use either.
- saboot 4y agoWe're more polarized now compared to when mastodon, and twitter, were first introduced. I'm convinced making a twitter clone is going to be impossible as most people are seeking to sort themselves into ideological buckets at the outset.
- DoItToMe81 4y ago[flagged]
- coffeeblack 4y agoYup, federation can only work if the parts actually connect to one another. Isn’t Trump’s TruthSocial build on some federated protocol too? But if you connected your node to it, everybody else would shun you.
- jeroenhd 4y agoTrump's twitter clone has disabled federation as far as I'm aware.
- DoItToMe81 4y agoIf I recall correctly, it was initially built on a relicensed version of Mastodon, with federation disabled. No idea what's going on with it now, or if it was even legal to do so with Mastodon's AGPL license.
- jeroenhd 4y agoI don't think it's even relicensed, they pretty much just stole the code as far as I'm aware. From what I've read (I can't even reach the service as a foreigner) it's not even built on a recent version of Mastodon.
- Barrin92 4y agothe single largest Mastodon instance is Japanese if I'm not mistaken, and overall it is significantly less US centric than Twitter. Among the top 15 I count about five Japanese ones, an Italian, French and German one and two dedicated to sex and tech workers. Substantially less US centric than mainstream media, including Twitter which bombards you with US politics even if you are like in my case, German.
- est 4y agoYou mean Mastodon.social the instance not Mastodon the protocol right?
- coffeeblack 4y agoThe dominant Mastodon instances all seem to align ideologically and ban any node that deviates from that ideology.