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by daveid 10y ago
Discovery: If someone from your instance follows someone remotely, that account is in the instance's database, and can be searched (we have account search). Furthermore you'll see their posts in a real-time public timeline if you
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by daveid 10y ago
I don't do any real tracking except for login times, so here is the best data i can offer (for mastodon.social exclusively, other Mastodon and GNU social instances are obviously excluded but should count towards your question because o
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by daveid 10y ago
There's also a way to run an S3-compatible file storage server on your own VPS or hardware, thus avoiding S3 costs altogether. The project's name is Minio [1]. Finding that out has saved me a lot of money. I've written up a s
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by daveid 10y ago
Thanks for the shout out! Mastodon is a FOSS alternative to Twitter, with a focus on UX. Github: https://github.com/Gargron/mastodon/ Screenshot and demo video linked from the README
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by daveid 10y ago
Mastodon [1][2] [1]: https://mastodon.social [2]: https://github.com/Gargron/mastodon Disclaimer: I'm the developer
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Show HN: Find Twitter friends on Mastodon(mastodon-bridge.herokuapp.com)
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by daveid 10y ago
If you are concerned about the direction Twitter is going, I recommend checking out alternatives. There is a community-owned "Twitter", it is called the fediverse and it consists of projects like GNU social and Mastodon [1] (My
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by daveid 10y ago
You might enjoy my https://github.com/Gargron/mastodon
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by daveid 10y ago
Yes, you could do that. It would be like crawling the web and the task would probably require equivalent resources depending on how big the whole known network is.
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by daveid 10y ago
Google closed it down. Like it also did with Google Reader and eventually XMPP federation for Google Talk (now Hangouts). Google developed a lot of cool tech for federation and the open web (some of the protocols my project and GNU social u
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by daveid 10y ago
Mastodon uses redis sorted sets and publish/subscribe for timelines and real-time message delivery respectively. And for background processing. It's not easily replaceable, plus it's a super lightweight dependency and a lot o
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by daveid 10y ago
Thank you! The Mastodon team is just me though!
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by daveid 10y ago
Right, I'll get on fixing the styles for that. The error messages are a bit close to programmatic at the moment, 404 means user hasn't been found, 422 (unprocessable entity) means validation error (like if you submit empty status
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by daveid 10y ago
This isn't a startup, it's an open-source project. Most likely the Twitters and Facebooks will win, but people should have a viable choice... Plus this is an incredibly fun project to be working on, to be quite honest.
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by daveid 10y ago
I'd love to write an app client for it eventually.
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by daveid 10y ago
Here is my profile: https://mastodon.social/users/Gargron I also made a demo video (linked in the README): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YO1jQ8_rAMU I realize that a public timeline would be a good a
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by daveid 10y ago
As the other poster pointed out, I was heavily inspired by TweetDeck which I've been using for 6+ years. And yes, I agree that's a nice suggestion, user/content discovery is definitely a big area in which this can be improved
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by daveid 10y ago
It's early in development so I haven't gotten to an admin UI to moderate content yet, but blocks are already implemented. Edit: If you look at the github issues, I have a couple of features queued up for dealing with abuse.
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by daveid 10y ago
I can't speak for Diaspora but Pump.io, GNU social and Mastodon don't need bridges, the users are actually equal.
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by daveid 10y ago
ActivityPub is a successor to ActivityStreams/Salmon which Mastodon and GNU social are currently using. At least with these it's not really a xkcd/927 situation.
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by daveid 10y ago
To be honest I perceive decentralized and federated as synonyms.
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by daveid 10y ago
That's fine as long as they're compatible with each other, isn't it? Different software, same social network.
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by daveid 10y ago
Mostly correct but it does not use Jabber/XMPP, it uses a set of procotols like Webfinger (account resource discovery), Atom/ActivityStreams, Salmon (remote account notifications) and PubSubHubbub (follower update notifications)
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by daveid 10y ago
1. You can either run it yourself or find an instance run by someone else (e.g. my flagship instance mastodon.social). This is similar in principle to GNU social, Diaspora and XMPP. 2. Users belong to a certain instance and can be addressed
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by daveid 10y ago
If you don't know anyone you can follow on it yet, you can start with me: Gargron@mastodon.social Also if you have any questions feel free to ask!
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by daveid 10y ago
Short answer: The sidebar has a form at the bottom where you can enter a username@domain to follow them. For that method, you have to know the user in advance, realistically atm you can browse the public timelines on quitter.se and quitter.
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by daveid 10y ago
GNU social [1], Mastodon* [2] There is a set of standartized web protocols called Webfinger, ActivityStreams, Salmon and PubSubHubbub which allow websites to interact with each other as a sort of decentralized/federated Twitter (this i
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by daveid 10y ago
It's AskHistory, not AskForPersonalAnecdotes. History has the advantage of multiple personal anecdotes being cross-checked and compiled into a more or less reliable account. A personal anecdote may be interesting but not representative
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by daveid 11y ago
Campaign to challenge the law: https://aktion.digitalcourage.de/civicrm/petition/sign?sid=2...
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by daveid 11y ago
I think Markov chains would be a bad idea for the use case of passwords because some words always follow certain words.

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