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Meanwhile, I can see this very Mastadon post with no login just fine. And the interface is not trying to assault me. It loads quick. ...Seems like a better pr
by brucethemoose2 3y ago
Meanwhile, I can see this very Mastadon post with no login just fine.
And the interface is not trying to assault me. It loads quick.
...Seems like a better product than Twitter for a public feed.
- bboygravity 3y agoMost of the rest of the world doesn't agree.
- p0pcult 3y ago[dead]
- teawrecks 3y agoAlso most of the rest of the world doesn't use Twitter (I'm seeing about 240M total users?). The ones that do use Twitter do so because of a significant amount of money going into marketing Twitter's platform. Conversely, relatively nothing goes into pushing people to use mastodon. It can only take off if it really does prove, not just useful, but more useful than a centralized version that's got money behind it.
- Brybry 3y agoWhat microblogging service does most of the rest of the world use? Weibo? Telegram channels?
- antiframe 3y agoI imagine 'none'. With Twitter, the most recognized micro logging site in the world only has 240M of the worlds population, I conclude micro logging isn't popular worldwide.
- Shared404 3y ago> What microblogging service does most of the rest of the world use? Most of the world doesn't.
- hengheng 3y agoThe rest of the world uses WhatsApp Status. Twitter is for those who hand in their sanity in pursuit of an audience.
- dopa42365 3y agoTwitter is basically a platform for social media managers, no one uses it to stay in touch with their 20 friends. Memefied prnewswire. This "famous person/brand posts something medium witty 10 times a day, urge to consume intensifies" thing isn't that popular worldwide.
- kfrzcode 3y ago[flagged]
- amelius 3y agoI'm sure the loads are not comparable.
- paradaux 3y agoEqually, neither is the budget. Load isn't an excuse.
- hinata08 3y agoIt withstands being one of the first link on HN, and it still loads comfortably. For a personal website, that's a great performance.
- WJW 3y agoHN traffic is not nearly the DDOS people make it out to be. I made it to spot #2 once and that was a few dozen hits per second at most. Maybe not something to serve with wordpress from a raspberry pi, but hardly apocalyptic levels of traffic.
- hparadiz 3y agoWordpress on a raspberry pi will handle static, properly cached content just fine.
- distantsounds 3y agoprevious HN articles linking to instances has caused them to become overloaded. this instance just seems to know how to handle it
- vGPU 3y agoHN itself is run on a single server. So long as you’re not running something bloated or trying to host on a DSL connection, you’ll be fine.
- brucethemoose2 3y agoDoesn't really matter if it works? And if some massive org needs bandwidth for posts, can't they host their own public instance? I'm sure many organizations would prefer that over being at Twitter's mercy.
- pronik 3y agoEarly days of Twitter were just like that. Mastodon hasn't had the time to go to shit yet.
- Macha 3y agoThe point of it is that it isn't a company but a standard, so if one instance owner goes crazy and patches ads in you can move to another (or your own) and keep your network
- 0xblinq 3y agoSorry if this is a dumb question, I’m still new to it. Wouldn’t you have the same problem as with an email address? I mean, your handle or whatever it is called would still point to that instance/owner right? Or is there some kind of “DNS” or registry so you can move your handle to other instances?
- Macha 3y agoYes, you can use your own domain as a handle even if you're relying on someone else's server for hosting. It's sadly a little more complicated than DNS though: https://blog.maartenballiauw.be/post/2022/11/05/mastodon-own-donain-without-hosting-server.html https://blog.maartenballiauw.be/post/2022/11/05/mastodon-own...
- egypturnash 3y agoYou can transfer your account to another Mastodon instance, yeah.
- vidarh 3y agoAssuming the old instance doesn't just totally shut down, you can trigger a "move" process that makes your followers automatically re-follow your new address. On top of that, you can host your own webfinger alias, as sibling suggests, which lets you have an unchanging address that forwards to your current server. But note that accounts follows URI's not the handles, so you still need the move process to migrate existing followers. It's not by any means perfect, but it's improving (e.g. the move process is relatively new) and probably will keep improving.
- redox99 3y agoOn Mastodon simply discussing certain topics will get you banned, and instances that don't ban those users get defederated. I prefer Twitter in the sense that it's more laissez faire in terms of what kinds of speech get you banned.
- golergka 3y agoCan I read more about this? What topics are banned?
- LeoPanthera 3y agoWhen they say "banned", they mean "if I say grotesquely offensive things, other people will chose not to listen". You know, just like in real life. There are plenty of instances that allow abhorrent content, if that's what you want, but you can't force others to receive it.
- meepmorp 3y agoSome people confuse the freedom of speech with the right to be listened to.
- golergka 3y agoIn twitter, people can choose not to follow or mute you on individual basis, that's basically what “not listening” means. Banning somebody means preventing other people from listening to them, so it's not the same. Maybe it works different on Mastodon?
- sph 3y agoIt's MastOdon, not MastAdon.
- revskill 3y agoNo difference to me.
- ComputerGuru 3y agoMastodon absolutely does not load quickly. I clicked the link and saw the followup tweet/post/whatever for a couple of seconds before it reflowed and showed me the actually linked tweet in a smaller body font. The had to wait longer for the whole thing to finish loading. There is a ton of unnecessary JS bloat on the linked site.