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- gigglesupstairs 3y agoInteresting, they also have a live web version at: https://mozilla.social/ https://mozilla.social/ albeit not available (for login) at my location just yet. I can see the whole website with live feeds though thankfully. Mastadon feeds are already available in "federated" section which is quite nice. Mostly UI seems to be a twitter clone, which is great as a starting point for inviting new users. It has a dark mode and a separate mode to hide chrome and fluff called "zen mode". Yay!
- zeraphy 3y agoThey're using a fork of Elk, an amazing mastodon client, which works really well as a PWA btw
- maelito 3y agoMy daily mastodon client. No need for an app on my phone, same interface on big or small screens. Almost perfect.
- NoraCodes 3y agoThe spelling is "Mastodon", like the extinct megafauna. The client also displays other ActivityPub feeds.
- echelon 3y agoIt's still a horrible name. Doesn't roll off the tongue, unfamiliar to a broad audience, connotations of extinction. And don't even get me started on "toot".
- NoraCodes 3y agoI won't, since instances like mastodon.social have been using "post" for over a year now. Personally I think "toot" is perfectly fine; no sillier than "tweet".
- corobo 3y agoTweet is a noise birds make when they're talking to each other Toot is a fart
- djbusby 3y agoHorns toot. One can toot their own horn even.
- echelon 3y agoIt's ambiguous and overloaded. Even if you explain to users (a situation you should never find yourself in), they'll still subconsciously maintain the overloaded meaning.
- righthand 3y agoYes how will people ever wrap their heads around it? Those poor stupid users…
- corobo 3y agoYes but as arses tooting is funnier that interpretation will always take precedence At least it's not as bad as Bluesky's skeet, I'll give it that E: returning from a rabbit hole. Looks like Mastodon retired toot back in 2022 anyway (and skeet was never officially sanctioned by Bluesky) The toot is moot.
- kristianp 3y agoDon't forget X's xeets!
- masto 3y agoNot to mention people abbreviate it as "masto", which just sounds stupid.
- echelon 3y agoI really hope Mastodon is just a stepping stone and evolutionary dead end. The "federation mods are all powerful" is another step in the wrong direction. Reddit mods revel in the control they wield, and we've already seen this happening in the Mastodon ecosystem all over again. BlueSky's protocol will allow end users to subscribe to the moderator(s) they want without having to worry about choices being made for them carte blanche by online dictators lording over their fiefdoms. The internet bred the worst kind of power structures. We're sliding backwards with these platforms that enable and empower useless middle managers.
- izzydata 3y agoSo far Mastodon has been reasonable, but I've personally seen another federated Reddit clone Lemmy fell down this Rabbit hole. The two "biggest" instances admins are all power hungry and like to bully users to exert their authority. The people who always end up as admins and power moderators on these sites are absolutely the ones who should not have it.
- mariusor 3y agoI know this is probably not what you want to hear, but you just need to search for the right instance. You must treat the fediverse the same way as your neighbourhood not a club. You should not go to the most glamourous instance, but find one that has people that share the same values you do.
- brnt 3y agoWhat I'll say to that advice is that it boils down to self-bubbling, which isn't what some want, and not what most need.
- izzydata 3y agoAll instances combined of Lemmy is already small. If 99% of the traffic of the all instances combined come from 2-3 instances and all of it is run by terrible people then I don't really see how going somewhere that has a handful of active people is a solution. Honestly that particular federated experiment has failed which is fine. More will pop up.
- politelemon 3y agoDoes 'federated' section get decided for everyone on that server, or can people on that server choose which other servers to get items from?
- jayveeone 3y agoMozilla is very invested in the success of Threads-to-Mastodon so I'm sure they'll allow federation.
- sp332 3y agoAs a user, you can mute entire servers if you want to. The admins can also block servers for all users. The list of blocked servers does not seem to be visible from https://mozilla.social/about https://mozilla.social/about
- nanna 3y agoIf only Mozilla would create an RSS reader, or bring it back to Firefox. That would be a game changer. People are growing sick of social media and RSS is surging again. What we need is an advert free cross platform Foss client of the quality that Mozilla are uniquely situated to deliver.
- remram 3y agoPersonally, I wouldn't use that unless it synced between my desktop and mobile. At that point it might as well be a webapp... Currently using FreshRSS and happy with it. Granted, the fact that it installs on a server means it's not for general use though.
- rthkljlkrj 3y agoFirefox already does some syncing. If they added rss, it's likely that they'd add it to the syncing (as optional).
- lolinder 3y agoFirefox Sync would work perfectly for most users, without the need to spin up a server or host data on the cloud.
- joecot 3y agoThat could keep track of feeds you're subbed to, but the problem is keeping track of which posts you've already read. Once you're having to sync all of that, it might as well be a web app.
- lolinder 3y agoWhy? Firefox Sync already syncs my browsing history, bookmarks, and tabs frequently enough that it appears to be real time from my perspective. What is different about an RSS feed's "read" log?
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- shimonabi 3y agoCan someone send me an invite code? shimonabi@protonmail.ch
- rglullis 3y agoIt's just the same as any other Mastodon server, and the client is just a custom version of elk.zone.
- maelito 3y agoNo. This is what I read when trying to create an account. > Mozilla.social is invite‑only > We're limiting our network size while we build the platform. > Do you have an invitation code? You'll need it to complete your sign-up!
- rglullis 3y agoIf you want to signup especifically to mozilla.social server, sure you will need an invite. What I am saying though is that you can get an account at any other server and still talk/follow people from mozilla.social.
- jacooper 3y agoThings don't like bright for mozilla.social >Chief product officer Steve Teixeira notes in the report the rapid growth of AI and social networks, although warns that Mozilla.social is unlikely to move beyond the experimentation phase in 2024. https://www.theregister.com/2024/01/02/mozilla_in_2024_ai_privacy/ https://www.theregister.com/2024/01/02/mozilla_in_2024_ai_pr...
- proactivesvcs 3y agoI wonder if this is meant to be read as "it'll still be experimental this year", as opposed to "it will not survive this year."
- sherr 3y agoI don't really use social media (no Facebook, twitter etc.) and have not kept up well with the various new technologies and terms in the field (e.g. mastodon etc.). But I use Firefox and like Mozilla so I am interested in what this is. But to the untrained eye, what is it? It looks a bit like Twitter. I think the information shown via the small "About" link (bottom right) should be more prominent on the main page. At least some of it - to explain what this site is.
- rglullis 3y agomozilla.social is a deployment of a Mastodon server. Anyone with a mozilla.social account can communicate with the wider "fediverse". For the frontend, they are using a customized version of a web client called elk.zone, which is open source and indeed made to look at lot like Twitter.
- jm4 3y agoIt looks like Mastodon.
- amelius 3y agoWhat protocol is it based on and where is it documented?
- omoikane 3y agoSee also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34073877 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34073877 - Mozilla to explore healthy social media alternative (2022)
- DavideNL 3y agoNote that this is not "MozillaSocial" as the title suggests, but it links to the Github repo of `mozilla-social-android`, the Android app. https://mozilla.social/ https://mozilla.social/
- nikolay 3y agoIf a Mozillian here could please send me an invite at my email address, which is my username here at hey dot com. Thanks!
- theanonymousone 3y agoThey should name it Mozial.
- methou 3y agoThey would do any thing other than helping servo development.