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by daveid 9y ago
>The elephant in the room is not Facebook. Can you really say "elephant in the room" in a thread about social media and not mention Mastodon[1]? That's a facebook rival that's not staying mum... [1]: https:/&#
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by daveid 9y ago
PeerTube also federates using the W3C ActivityPub protocol, so Mastodon users can follow PeerTube channels and comment on videos as they would respond to other statuses :)
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by daveid 9y ago
TLS is required in Mastodon for all transport. And of course your IP address is not included in any payloads leaving your server. >The average joe expects direct messages to really be private. If they're not, that's bad. Th
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by daveid 9y ago
>Connect to post something without encryption means your location is revealed to anybody observing the network. Where are you taking this from? You think connecting to your Mastodon server you have an account on somehow broadcasts to the
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by daveid 9y ago
>should I be some location and post something, I'd be broadcasting my location, even if that isn't intended Can you tell me how and where you would broadcast your location via Mastodon? There are no geolocation features in Mast
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by daveid 9y ago
>To be fair, at least your connection to twitter is encrypted What!? Are you talking about TLS? Because this is true for Mastodon as well then.
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by daveid 9y ago
I don't know what you mean. Mastodon deletes all the data from the server, and sends out delete payloads to other servers that may have stored copies. If you refer to the fact that some of those copies may remain, then you need to ma
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by daveid 9y ago
Why is Mastodon listed as "does not delete account"? Look under Security -> Delete account
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#DeleteFacebook: Perspective from a platform that doesn’t put democracy in peril(medium.com)
3 points by daveid 9y ago|1 comments
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#DeleteFacebook: Perspective from a platform that doesn't put democracy in peril(medium.com)
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Mastodon 2.3: The Spring Creator's Release(medium.com)
6 points by daveid 9y ago|0 comments
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The Mastodon Spring Creator’s Release(medium.com)
27 points by daveid 9y ago|2 comments
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Replacing the Pillars of the Internet(medium.com)
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by daveid 9y ago
Is this submission flagged off the frontpage?
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by daveid 9y ago
Here is a thread about why Vero is bad: https://twitter.com/_heyheytyler/status/968301107536523265
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Twitter is not a public utility(medium.com)
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by daveid 9y ago
The exact methods of authentication are simply "out of scope" for the ActivityPub standard itself. As far as I understand simply for bureaucratic reasons. In reality there's already agreed upon mechanisms for doing this. Each
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by daveid 9y ago
>for example a ratio of 1 full time CSR (customer services representative) per 1000 users, not the 1 per 20k or worse they are currently trying to do Hey, that's the Mastodon model! Relatively small independent servers with own admi
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by daveid 9y ago
With cryptography.
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by daveid 9y ago
HTTP signatures and LD-signatures serve different purposes. HTTP sigs authenticate server-to-server requests, while LD-signatures allow to forward verified messages in the network. The forwarding part is a good extra for UX purposes but it&
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by daveid 9y ago
Do you want a button pushing clerk to be able to write any message to millions of people over an emergency network? There is so much potential for disaster in that idea. Options is much better. Having the employee type out the predefined me
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by daveid 9y ago
Do you realize the EU was co-created by Britain and many EU laws and regulations were drafted by British politicians as well as voted on by them?
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by daveid 9y ago
The transparency might be a turn-off for individuals. Some artists on Patreon choose to hide the amount they receive altogether.
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by daveid 9y ago
Mastodon uses ActivityPub and has over a million users
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by daveid 9y ago
About a year ago I wrote an essay with this idea [1]. You really don't want your company to be at the behest of facebook/twitter, they can pull the plug on you, change their algorithms, change their rules, force you to pay up, sin
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by daveid 9y ago
Mastodon is a microblogging platform. This does not fit into the format.
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by daveid 9y ago
Mastodon has no home to phone to. You only host your own user's data and the data they request by e.g. following users on other instances. If your users don't follow anyone on the outside, nothing will leave your instance.
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by daveid 9y ago
You've got it a bit backwards, because instances don't connect and have no reason to connect except for following specific people. So you follow someone -> that creates a connection. Not the other way around.
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by daveid 9y ago
Mastodon[1] is European :) [1]: https://joinmastodon.org
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by daveid 9y ago
Reposting from Mastodon: https://mastodon.social/@Gargron/18213943 If you think the only reason to use a self-hosted social network is if you want to circumvent the laws, you're making the same argument as only wa

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