dielan

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by dielan 8y ago
If you're one of those people reading this and thinking "oh here comes another alternative social media" just stop reading and steer clear. Mastodon is compatible with OStatus used by GNU social servers and Pleroma is basical
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by dielan 8y ago
Either the techbro journalists dont understand that, or they do and know their readers wont understand or care. Most Mastodon articles fail to even explain that its a server software anyone can run and talk about mastodon.social like that i
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by dielan 8y ago
For profit and centeralized. Hard pass. Is this the next Ello?
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by dielan 8y ago
This is exactly the problem that is happening on the big english speaking Mastodon instances and the reason I left mastodon.xyz I went to a GNU Social instance that doesnt block any other servers and its like a whole different network. I pr
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by dielan 8y ago
This is actually a really interesting perspective on Japanese fediverse. The article lacks nuance when talking about the "red" and "blue" sides. Seems like false dichotomy to me.
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by dielan 8y ago
Matrix is my preference for sure. It's fresh and exciting. While XMPP is harder to talk people into trying
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by dielan 9y ago
That's just trading one madness for another. You're missing my point. We should be promoting federation instead of trying to fragment what we have. Othetwise our shared social network will not grow
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by dielan 9y ago
Calm down. You're free to block whatever you want for your instance. That's not my concern. If you want to ban certain politocal alignments or specific opinions then your free to do that as well. I disagree with painting such broa
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by dielan 9y ago
I see you making fun of my post Eugen. https://mastodon.social/@Gargron/99795655453246031 If I'm wrong about any of this tell me. There's nothing inherently wrong with a blocklist, I just don't like them
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by dielan 9y ago
Nothing is stopping you from making a new account but there is no account migration. Assuming you and your instance admin arent bad people (as in, your old account isnt deleted or banned) you can make a new account and put a link to your ol
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by dielan 9y ago
This is where federation wins really. If your mastodon server wont come out of its bubble nothing is stopping someone from making a new server that does. Instances may die, but the social network as a whole never will.
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by dielan 9y ago
Its a recent new server software and client for the StatusNet "fediverse". StatusNet and the protocols it uses are very old, and a small community of users have been there for like a decade. Its a federated social network. It is l
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by dielan 9y ago
I typically just shout into the void and follow most people who engage with my posts. Its a big network out there
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by dielan 9y ago
Lots of people across the fediverse like gaming. You just need to pick an instance that isn't heavy on censorship so you don't find yourself trapped in a small sandbox. Many Mastodon instances suffer from this problem so you might