What are /r/Mastodon's favorite Products & Services?

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There is no official app for Mastodon. Mastodon is a collection of federated servers that users can access.

A list of popular mastodon clients can be found at: https://joinmastodon.org/apps

There are plenty of resources available on this page to explain how mastodon works: https://joinmastodon.org/

I mean, it takes about 2 seconds to sign up to an instance and you can use the same username, email address and even password on all of them if you like. But you can follow anyone from anywhere in the Fediverse, so your problem is you can't find people who share your interests, right?

You can find people to follow by looking at instances' public timelines on their /about pages or on http://www.unmung.com/mastoview, and you can make a post that says "hey I'm interested in #hashtag, reply if you're into that too, boost to help me find cool people to follow".

Or even do that, but instead of saying you're looking for cool people to follow, say you're looking for an instance that fits your interests.

Edit: Also I wrote this: What is Mastodon and how do I find people? An article with some FAQs woven through it.

Twidere can show you combined Masto/birdsite timeline.

Twitter is a proprietary service with restricted API so it's hard to do what you want inside Mastodon.

If what matters most to you is groups, consider Friendica or Diaspora. I'm not sure how good their compatibility is with Mastodon, haven't really used either, but Friendica advertises support for ActivityPub, the protocol Mastodon uses.

Usually servers running Gab Social or Soapbox, the fork that runs Spinster, advertise that on their about page. It's also quickly visible if you "view source" on their webpage, they'll say something like "To use the Gab Social web application, please enable JavaScript." Fortunately, I just haven't seen that many examples in the wild.

these are the rules to get your server listed on joinmastodon.org. you don't need your instance to be listed there, it will work with fediverse the same as every other instance do. in fact, the most of instances aren't listed there.

JoinMastodon.org is now back up. I wrote to the owner, he fixed it right away.

I really like it the best. I don't want all the servers, just a curated list of recommended servers.

Well, you can host it but you should choose the Pi 4 2GB variant at least, without any other services installed on it. It can be resource hungry. I recommend the docker way, for easier migration and moving if needed. My experience for one user with a fresh installation, it used up about 1150 MB of RAM.

Also if you want to use less resource hungry alternative, you can use Pleroma (also in docker). Pleroma uses 1/3 of mastodon cpu and ram needs.

Pleroma is better for self hosting on minimal servers.

I put together a simpler Docker image that doesn't require any external scripting.

https://gitlab.com/Xyc0/pleroma_docker

You'd be overcomplicating it by trying to adapt this guide. Automating Let's Encrypt is a simple one-line cron job:

/usr/local/bin/certbot renew

Read the man page for cron to see how to run it for the times you want it to run. Likewise, setting up cloudflare is super simple, just next,next,next.

What I would do, is just follow the mastodon docs, then follow the Let's Encrypt docs to get that set up.

Personally, I would skip cloudflare, since having your IP exposed doesn't really mean anything, especially if you're running a webapp exposed to the internet. Putting your Mastodon server in a DMZ will be an order of magnitude more secure than obfuscating your IP with cloudflare, and using cloudflare is putting your instance in their hands, so you might as well be centralizing it, defeating the purpose of federation (Well... If everyone used cloudflare, anyway).

I'm gonna make a blog post about how to find cool people to follow on Mastodon, because it is THE number one problem that new people have. D:

Edit: Done! http://telegra.ph/Finding-people-on-Mastodon---an-article-with-some-FAQs-woven-through-it-04-23

1. The best way to find the right instance for you isn't by user count, as you can contact/follow users on other instances anyways. Start by going to https://joinmastodon.org/communities and go from there.
2. No, there's no API. The instances don't know of each other until they establish contact with User A on one instance following User B on another. This doesn't just hold true for Mastodon, but for all servers in the Fediverse (Pixelfed, Funkwhale, Pleroma, …)

Sorry, but hard disagree. A

> full featured federated social media platform that isn't segregated to several different services that addresses the unique needs of a federated ecosystem

is an oxymoron. If you only have a single platform you're not a federated system anymore, and if you're open for federation you'll always have the possibility of specialized services.

Example? If SMTP weren't an open, federated service (although it never was called that) you wouldn't have the opportunity to run either Sendmail, Postfix, or MS Exchange, and I doubt you'd have a Chat service like Delta Chat on top of it.

Also, the Fediverse isn't just Mastodon, Friendica, and HubZilla. You'd have to add the functionality of PeerTube (YouTube), Pixelfed (Instagramm), FunkWhale (Spotify), WriteFreely (Wordpress), … and have it accessible enough that people are still willing to run their own instance, and make sure that you have enough developers to keep up with any security issues that will arise.

Trouble ahead...

> Gargron, who created Mastodon (the software Gab is going to fork), is already encouraging app developers to blacklist Gab's domain from their Mastodon readers. He will also no doubt enforce the requirement that Gab make any changes they make in the Mastodon code public.

> It's likely that Apple and Google will demand Gab be blocked by all apps.

> https://gab.com/judgedread/posts/Mkp5SXRvK05Ib3h6Sk1oSzI2eHE2UT09

Thank you. u/da_peda I can learn more about Fediverse from your comments.

https://joinmastodon.org/communities is useful but it just shows part of this network. Maybe the Mastodon network needs more ways to help users find topic and users\ instances that they are interested in.

Exactly. joinmastodon.org is just a directory that's rapidly becoming irrelevant. Make your own directory. Anyone trying to be the gatekeeper open Internet protocols is not only foolish but deserving of scorn. The Internet routes considers censorship to be damage and routes around it.

The closest I can get to that is an iMac running Ubuntu 22.04 LTS (which may not really be that close) and still don't get this issue (struggling to find somewhere to upload the screenshot I've taken)

I see you have posted on r/ProtonVPN already and been directed to Proton support (which despite many people complaining about I've only had good experiences with).

I'd suggest a clean session and then send the logs to them to take a look - sorry i can't be of more help on this.

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Very close now! My current draft is available on the "beta" version of my blog. I would very much appreciate any feedback/thoughts on how I could do better justice to this work.

neutral? You mean the one where you can have your own opinion and do not have to subscribe to what ever the "liberal" mob demands you to convert to?

Only one I know, with large (actually, the largest) number of users, is gab.com

They are doing a major update and migration right now because mastodon code turned out to not perform at all, when traffic gets serious.

I edited my post to clarify that I only gave my personal impressions on finding information. No FUD intended. Thanks for the links, will have a look!

I thought that Mastodon was a protocol as well, considering that they have an "apps"-page with the headline "You can use Mastodon with any of these apps"

But there's a central list of servers

https://joinmastodon.org/communities/general

An aggregator for that list, this would serve as a window for the 90% of visitor who never log in. Similar to how most reddit user never even log in. It's wasteful to turn them away.

This subreddit aligns itself with the principles set aside in the joinmastodon.org server covenant and the Mastodon project code of conduct in its moderation stance. This is not welcome discourse here.

Lol what kind of shitty "article" is that. A wild mix of tech journalism and cryptocurrency-pyramid-scheme. It's also not a comprehensive review, many things crypto are praised while most stuff is dismissed with one sentence.

"Mastodon - Not a fan of the small hub like setup where you in these echo chambers like Hubzilla, Diaspora, Gnusocial, and more - https://joinmastodon.org/ "

Mastodon is really large and it's easy to follow a wild diverse crowd, from commie to ancom, if you wish. What you aren't a fan of is that Mastodon doesn't involve cryptocurrency, which is the good part of it.

Mod here.

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In case it's not clear, the people who moderate this sub aren't the people who run joinmastodon.org. We are volunteers who happen to like Mastodon. If you want to know what the authors of the Covenant intend, you'll have to ask them.

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Also, please be aware your comments are treading close to rule 3. We haven't locked this thread yet because conversation is germane to the Mastodon social network but we're keeping an eye on it. If you have to argue "How is that statement sexist?" (or racist, or transphobic, or whatever) you aren't helping convince anyone of your good intentions.

To be clear... PeerTube is to YouTube as Mastodon is to birdsite. It is a federated video sharing platform. The joinmastodon.org list doesn't list specific video creator instances, but you might be able to find something based on the type of content you dig.