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Nice to know, Mastodon right now is still a completely different platform, it feels more personal, a place where is still possible to discover the interesting h

Nice to know, Mastodon right now is still a completely different platform, it feels more personal, a place where is still possible to discover the interesting hacking project someone is doing on their own and where people have less qualms about posting unpolished/experimental stuff. That's how it should be in our field. It has not been like this on Twitter for... years.

dmitriid 4y ago
> where is still possible to discover How?
- easrng 4y ago
  You discover things when people you follow boost them or (if you're on an instance that's not too big for it to be usable) you see them on the federated timeline.
  - dmitriid 4y ago
    So.. Not so different from twitter then. I see hack projects and experimental things quite often because of the people I follow.
    - toofy 4y ago
      the experience is quite a bit different from twitter. a good mastodon server has mods , admins, and a community who moderate. the signal to noise ratio is significantly better—maybe a decent comparison would be to compare here (hn) and a default sub on reddit with very little moderation—sure, you _can_ find interesting gems of a dialogue on the little moderated reddit sub, but your odds are significantly higher of finding good conversations here on hn. very very different experience.
      - dmitriid 4y ago
        > a good mastodon server has Yes. The problem is finding such a server. And then finding content outside that server.
- Manjuuu 4y ago
  In addition to what has already been said, choose the right instance and explore the WAY SMALLER local timeline. It's a bit hard to find the right instance though.
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- raesene9 4y ago
  You can browse the local timeline from the web interface, which is one way. Assuming you've joined an interest where people who have similar interests hang out that's a good discovery mechanism. Then there's cross-instance #hastag searches which can be used to find things.
jazzyjackson 4y ago
Whatever culture existed on Mastodon will be drowned in the Eternal September to come. Every website feels more personal when there's only 50,000 people there.
- CodeArtisan 4y ago
  You will still find small specialized instances however it get popular globally.
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- piva00 4y ago
  At least it will be more similar to Eternal Septembers on internet forums than whatever happened to centralised social networks. If an Eternal September happens in your instance and you dislike the after-effects you can just... Move without losing much.
  - tasuki 4y ago
    > If an Eternal September happens in your instance and you dislike the after-effects you can just... Move without losing much. This is not obvious to me. Don't you lose a whole lot in that scenario?
kmlx 4y ago
> It has not been like this on Twitter for... years. it has always been like this on twitter. you just need to follow the right folk.
Kye 4y ago
There's a local makerspace that uses PeerTube for its video projects. A lot of it is old public domain movies and stuff inspired by less old things still in copyright. https://vod.newellijay.tv/ https://vod.newellijay.tv/ https://mountaintown.video/videos/local?s=1 https://mountaintown.video/videos/local?s=1 You probably heard about it recently if you subscribe to Tedium: https://tedium.co/2022/10/21/new-ellijay-tv-diy-tv-network/ https://tedium.co/2022/10/21/new-ellijay-tv-diy-tv-network/

dmitriid 4y ago

> where is still possible to discover How?

easrng 4y ago
You discover things when people you follow boost them or (if you're on an instance that's not too big for it to be usable) you see them on the federated timeline.
- dmitriid 4y ago
  So.. Not so different from twitter then. I see hack projects and experimental things quite often because of the people I follow.
  - toofy 4y ago
    the experience is quite a bit different from twitter. a good mastodon server has mods , admins, and a community who moderate. the signal to noise ratio is significantly better—maybe a decent comparison would be to compare here (hn) and a default sub on reddit with very little moderation—sure, you _can_ find interesting gems of a dialogue on the little moderated reddit sub, but your odds are significantly higher of finding good conversations here on hn. very very different experience.
    - dmitriid 4y ago
      > a good mastodon server has Yes. The problem is finding such a server. And then finding content outside that server.
Manjuuu 4y ago
In addition to what has already been said, choose the right instance and explore the WAY SMALLER local timeline. It's a bit hard to find the right instance though.
- deleted 4y ago
  [deleted]
raesene9 4y ago
You can browse the local timeline from the web interface, which is one way. Assuming you've joined an interest where people who have similar interests hang out that's a good discovery mechanism. Then there's cross-instance #hastag searches which can be used to find things.

jazzyjackson 4y ago

Whatever culture existed on Mastodon will be drowned in the Eternal September to come. Every website feels more personal when there's only 50,000 people there.

CodeArtisan 4y ago
You will still find small specialized instances however it get popular globally.
- deleted 4y ago
  [deleted]
piva00 4y ago
At least it will be more similar to Eternal Septembers on internet forums than whatever happened to centralised social networks. If an Eternal September happens in your instance and you dislike the after-effects you can just... Move without losing much.
- tasuki 4y ago
  > If an Eternal September happens in your instance and you dislike the after-effects you can just... Move without losing much. This is not obvious to me. Don't you lose a whole lot in that scenario?

kmlx 4y ago

> It has not been like this on Twitter for... years. it has always been like this on twitter. you just need to follow the right folk.

Kye 4y ago

There's a local makerspace that uses PeerTube for its video projects. A lot of it is old public domain movies and stuff inspired by less old things still in copyright. https://vod.newellijay.tv/ https://vod.newellijay.tv/ https://mountaintown.video/videos/local?s=1 https://mountaintown.video/videos/local?s=1 You probably heard about it recently if you subscribe to Tedium: https://tedium.co/2022/10/21/new-ellijay-tv-diy-tv-network/ https://tedium.co/2022/10/21/new-ellijay-tv-diy-tv-network/