gargron

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by gargron 5y ago
Yes, the objects are notes, but the verb is create. That being said, I don't see why the underlying terminology which is essentially more like a programming language keyword has to seep through to the UI.
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by gargron 5y ago
I am not a native English speaker, even if I am flattered that nowadays you can't tell
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by gargron 6y ago
See also when the Matrix client Element was removed in a similar fashion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25964226 I think it would be best to rename this submission to "Tusky (Mastodon app) suspended from Google
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by gargron 6y ago
"Safer social media experience" refers to user safety, i.e. moderation and safety tools like content warnings, phrase filters, mutes, blocks, and the various quality of life improvements to those features.
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by gargron 6y ago
Diaspora is not part of the fediverse and never has been. Diaspora is federated but has always used their own, separate protocol.
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by gargron 6y ago
> Contrasted with facebook (or a twitter with groups), if you join a group of motorcyclists, there's little to no risk that you'll be excluded from the Scooter group of-which you're already a member because a few bikers go
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by gargron 6y ago
Mastodon scales horizontally until PostgreSQL becomes the bottleneck: https://docs.joinmastodon.org/admin/scaling/
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by gargron 6y ago
Mastodon is decentralized because there's no central server or authority in the network. Anyone can run a server. Whoever runs a server, has control over that server, such as deciding what moderation policies to enforce and who to prov
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by gargron 6y ago
That account was created in October 2016 and deleted by its owner in 2019. Since we don't keep personal data of deleted accounts I cannot tell you who it was but I am 99.999% sure it wasn't actually Donald Trump. Both deleted and
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by gargron 6y ago
Confused because I thought Stripe Billing referred to the Customer Portal functionality and some advanced Stripe Checkout features like customer-facing promotional codes. I thought subscriptions were part of the core Stripe functionality. C
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by gargron 6y ago
> Mastodon, instead, has an extra layer between your network and the whole world: messages from people on your server. This is called the local timeline This is oddly phrased and does not correspond to technical reality. Mastodon is a sy
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by gargron 6y ago
But it's not like that, you don't need to create a separate account on every single one. You can follow any account on any server/community from just one account. That's the big difference/selling point. It's t
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by gargron 6y ago
Subway Tooter does not come with any pre-filled servers, let alone problematic ones.
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by gargron 6y ago
Mastodon is aimed at the average person. Knowing how to sideload apps should not be a requirement for using it.
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by gargron 6y ago
I don't think it's at all surprising that there is no relation between tech stack and business success. End-users don't care if you use a single PHP file or a Go binary, they never get to see that anyway. So I don't real
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by gargron 6y ago
Language detection is more accurate on longer texts, short messages have a lot of false positives and many English loan-words would only worsen the situation indeed.
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by gargron 6y ago
It's a whole package, a default user interface is bundled with the server. If you want to learn what Mastodon is, check out https://joinmastodon.org
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by gargron 6y ago
Correct, we're on good terms.
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by gargron 6y ago
It does work but not 100% which makes it feel like it doesn't. Language detection is very far from totally accurate (we use the CLD3 library), so sometimes it gives the wrong language. People can also just select which language they po
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by gargron 6y ago
Some of them are, some are not, as an end-user you don't know and it doesn't matter for the argument: That's over 2,000 organizations providing a Twitter-like service.
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by gargron 6y ago
>> Were there 100 different Twitter-like companies >... they would all be bankrupt. Huh? There's over 2,000 Mastodon servers doing just fine
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by gargron 6y ago
Do you want something that works well for millions of real users or do you want something that's simple to implement for hobbyist developers? I personally don't even think that ActivityPub is that difficult to implement, I've
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by gargron 6y ago
Paying customer of Fastmail for 6 years. It's great.
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by gargron 6y ago
I'm not aware of one. Unfortunately any server not requiring e-mail confirmation for sign-up would be overrun by spammers (we don't want to add CAPTCHAs because 1) they are unpleasant for real humans and 2) they require loading ex
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by gargron 6y ago
Very few people actually want to filter through the unadulterated garbage of the internet on their own. What you want to do on social media is like, read the news, talk to friends, or promote your work. You probably don't want to spend
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by gargron 6y ago
This work-in-progress feature is meant to replace the current DM system. The Olm library is being used in production by Matrix, although I believe app developers could use the libsignal library in their apps all the same. Please mind that n
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by gargron 6y ago
Paywall?
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by gargron 7y ago
I never said end-users should care that it's decentralized and open source. I am mentioning it because we're on HN, a tech-oriented website. The selling point of the fediverse is the governance model and sustainability, and the wa
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by gargron 7y ago
The next generation of social networks is already here. It's decentralized and open-source. Mastodon, Pleroma, PeerTube, loads more, all part of the same network, the fediverse.
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by gargron 7y ago
Mastodon launched in November 2016 and fully switched to ActivityPub in October 2017.

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