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by toofy 4y ago
yes. of course i have. maybe we're talking past each other, i dont know, but... what im trying to say, again, is that their panicking is entirely unfounded. whether you create your account at mastodon.social, fosstodon.org, mastodon.on
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by toofy 4y ago
> The key phrase in your statement is "on a friends invite server." why is this a key statement? my point is that being on a friends server hasn't altered the experience at all. i migrated to my friends server a couple da
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by toofy 4y ago
yeah, ive been screaming for a while that our biggest failure in f/oss has been how little weight we give to UX. and particularly how little we court the UX community. the UX folks ive spent some time talking to just haven't see
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by toofy 4y ago
im still confused about The Terrible Time people are having here... for example. if i want to search for @johnnydick@head.com... i do that, and click follow. thats it. i click follow. like, where are you guys having so much trouble with thi
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by toofy 4y ago
if mastodon continues with the growth and hits some kind of critical mass, im sure eventually most people will end up on a few concentrated servers. that just makes sense for people who aren't interested in minutia and want details abs
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by toofy 4y ago
> Mastodon does not have nearly the same level of portability and ownership. how so? its just a protocol, just like email. which concerns do you have that it is not as portable as email?
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by toofy 4y ago
yeah, the panic people are putting forward about server choice is really strange. my account is on a friends invite server and 99% of the people i follow and interact with are on all kinds of other servers. my timeline is almost entirely
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by toofy 4y ago
> ...woefully complex...in for more pain. this is incredibly incredibly hyperbolic if ive ever seen hyperbole. i just migrated my account the other day (i wanted to move onto a friends server) and it was absolutely not "woefully com
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by toofy 4y ago
the experience is quite a bit different from twitter. a good mastodon server has mods , admins, and a community who moderate. the signal to noise ratio is significantly better—maybe a decent comparison would be to compare here (hn) and a d
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by toofy 4y ago
> What if you join on "gaming" and it turns out the admin of "gaming" is a huge d-bag and all the other instances decide to not federate with "gaming" ? Will you have to recreate your entire account? no, you
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by toofy 4y ago
no, i find it weird too lol. however, remember how many people used to so confidently say things like, “i will never use the word tweet. i’m an adult with an adult voice!” if Mastodon catches on, it’ll just naturally fall into vernacular ju
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by toofy 4y ago
there are six million users now, not six hundred thousand.
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by toofy 4y ago
i have a suspicion that much of what he’s doing is just chest thumping for his new fan base, “look at how i do whatever i want. i behave how i want. they can’t stop me, i’m The Strongman!” just red meat for that particular crowd who worship
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by toofy 4y ago
maybe there are different signup processes on different servers or something? for me it was enter an email address, username, and password?
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by toofy 4y ago
> And he doesn’t even take it that well. no, he really doesn’t. he very publicly blocked the ceo of an advertising company when they attempted to—professionally and politely—explain to elon what some of their concerns were. it’s unreal
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by toofy 4y ago
i think you’d find that the vast majority of the time people are removed from spaces due to behavior, not beliefs, despite their personal conspiracy delusions that it’s belief. as i mentioned above, people who think it’s oppressive when the
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by toofy 4y ago
> but how would you go about categorizing ideas into those that are worthy of equivalency and those that aren’t? obviously this is one of the most complicated questions that would require actual libraries full of books and experienced ac
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by toofy 4y ago
> Because people have specific interests they want to pursue and engage with other enthusiasts, without being inundated with other crap. i suspect this is exactly what the comment you're replying to means. i too have a problem with
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by toofy 4y ago
my suspicion is “the censors” are highlighting how elons actions are proving in real time that they’ve been correct all along: that the “free speech absolutist” position has always been detached from reality. he is, as we speak—and will con
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by toofy 4y ago
> due primarily to badly managed nationalized health and social care. i’m not so sure this is because of socialized medicine considering how often american hospitals run into capacity issues and the general state of wreckage that is US h
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by toofy 4y ago
so the new boss doesn’t actually believe in the ideology he loudly preaches?
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by toofy 4y ago
by canceled you mean, people would have used their own free speech to say stuff he didn’t want to hear. and then he would have published his books.
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by toofy 4y ago
as someone who has been significantly involved in open source projects and contributing to hosting for various projects for years, “control” and “notoriety” are rarely what people are getting lol.
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by toofy 4y ago
using pieces that work well and that users enjoy doesn’t preclude you from also doing other things differently. just because hacker news has usernames, comments, and voting, that doesn’t mean it’s “trying to be reddit” there are countless l
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by toofy 4y ago
it’s not “advertised” as a twitter _clone_, it’s just being talked about as an alternative. whether or not it fits what people are looking for, it’s being compared to twitter because it’s been pretty clear for a few years, even prior to the
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by toofy 4y ago
my guess is this will absolutely happen over time. whatever forms will be similar to libera being the logical irc network for open source projects channels. if you’re a science org, you’ll just naturally join $science_instance. it’s still
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by toofy 4y ago
they didn’t say “X should be removed” did you respond to the wrong comment?
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by toofy 4y ago
> It seems counter-intuitive to moderate based on “which server user is from” too it sounds like the exact answer to me. just like massive chunks of our infrastructure blacklists entire domains because their admins are overly friendly to
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by toofy 4y ago
my guess is it’s the same rewards that drove people to run usenet servers, bbs servers, irc servers, forums, countless open-source projects, and whatever other non-centralized platforms flourished in the past and present.
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by toofy 4y ago
a bit of a tangent, but, this “digital commons” marketing strikes me as a bit hilarious. there is nothing “commons” about a privately owned space owned by a billionaire. and even worse, elon is trying to make us believe one can meaningfully

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