What is Reddit's opinion of
Mastodon?
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It's similar to Twitter, in that people make short posts (500 character max) and reply to people. It's similar to email, in that anyone can run their own server and all the servers talk to each other.
Some people have stopped using Twitter for various reasons, and Mastodon emerged as an alternative.
The main website to look at is probably joinmastodon.org
I guess. I've always assumed it's like getting banned from Reddit, once you get it the first time you're technically not allowed to create any new accounts, so they could ban you on sight. Most people I know have multiple Twitter accounts.
I know we're really supposed to be using Mastodon, because it's decentralized and not run by Nazis and all that, but if no one you know is on a platform, what's the point?
Reddit was open source too, didn't matter... it is still a centralized service, so it will either become nothing and share faith with Voat or become next Reddit and be useless as an alternative.
http://activitypub.rocks is how you solve Reddit problem, Mastodon already is doing that for Twitter, Peertube for Youtube, we need decentralized Reddit based on ActivityPub now, not non-alternative alternative like this.
I wanna bring attention to Mastodon, a federated (like email) social media that is almost identical to twitter in its function.
Mastodon is great because there is no central authority to judge what people can't post on it, just like no one can completely ban someone from using email. If you dislike how all other mastodon servers are run, you can just make your own.
So Trump used the code from Mastodon (which technically is okay as it's a FOSS license), but then claims the code for his shitty version is proprietary (not legal).
I hope Mastodon lawyers up asap.
Also, someone managed to register @donaldtrump: https://twitter.com/MikaelThalen/status/1451017501026885632
And everyone should check out Mastodon: https://joinmastodon.org/ (I have 0 affiliation to them. I just think they should get some traffic instead of Trump's shitty version)
You got me at " no token or monetization scheme " ;-)
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Also, this seems like a good place to chill for PeerTube a decentralized video hosting network based on the Activitypub federation protocol also used in twitter clone Mastodon
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He has a masto account but I don't follow him there because he posts a lot of homestuck shitposts, which he knows
A week ago or so he disappeared and yesterday I decided to take a look at it because I was worried aaaaand... there was a post about it there
We would benefit a lot from a federated reddit alternative akin to Mastodon. Federation would mean there could be instances for other interests, thus not alienating non-leftists as raddle might. It also means decentralisation, thus no corporate bullshit like reddit cashing in on hosting fascist propaganda. Sure, they would be able to host themselves, but the larger net could just cut them off.
Are we being hypocritical by using the greatest communication tool ever created to discuss the subversion of said tool (the internet) into a capitalist hegemony? I'd rather we all use open source, federated services, of course. But I'm going to keep using the walled gardens to spread the word.
seriousposting for a minute, actual software just like twitter that could be hosted and administrated by anyone with the hardware, exists: https://joinmastodon.org/ This is the shit we need to use and make the actual public platform and standard like Email has become.
(((Social Media Corporations))) want nothing more than to be seen as the one and only standard so they can rake in the big data reselling and ad money. Absolutely blackpilling where we're at right now.
Maybe not very helpful, but this is why we need federated, decentralized (maybe even p2p) social networks.
There's been a huge influx of people to Mastodon from Twitter lately, so you might want to give that a shot. There's an instance for artists - Mastodon.art.
And then there's also Pleroma, Hubzilla, Friendica, etc. which can all communicate with each other (and with Mastodon).
If you are sick of Twitter, consider giving Mastodon a shot. It's like Twitter, but it's actually in chronological order. It has a 500 character limit, an option to add content warnings, and an option to add image transcriptions. In my experience, it's also extremely LGBT friendly and well moderated.
The whole thing is open source and there's a bunch of different instances that all have different rules and focuses, along with a timeline of all the instances combined.
Okay, let's take into consideration that Yahoo was once "Google" (YouTube owners), MySpace was once Facebook, and Instagram is now surpassing Facebook. We should also mention that Digg was once Reddit. All of them started out with a few developers working together to take on giants.
The first one off the top of my head though that I really like? Probably Mastodon (2 million users with an open source code base). I think Instagram was two guys. Snapchat started with one. There are literally thousands of social networks coming out with a decent user base.
Centralized service won't ever be private or secure since users can't know for sure what is happening with their data, simple as that. I recommend not wasting money on that Kickstarter and better support ActivityPub federate services like:
or
What is it?
Mastodon is a free/libre, decentralized micro-blogging platform (think Twitter, but better) where anyone can host their own instance with their own moderation.
Aras Pranckevičius (one of the great minds behind the Unity engine) created a Mastodon instance for game developers today, mastodon.gamedev.place.
So it's basically like Twitter but with only gamedev-related stuff. You can see all posts from the instance in the "Local Timeline", all posts from all Mastodon instances in the "Federated Timeline", and all posts from the people you choose to follow in your own feed.
Also, 500 chars limit (Mastodon's relative (orders of magnitude smaller, still significant) success encouraged Twitter to up their own limit recently), and optional content warnings.
We don't really need a blockchain for that. I think Mastodon works well enough for the purpose of mitigating the centralisation issue of social media. You can run your own instance and connect with others on the same network in a federated fashion.
Maybe the Cardano Foundation can run an instance of their own similar to https://bitcoinhackers.org/about
Learn more here: https://joinmastodon.org
Yes! There are many platforms connected together in the Fediverse (Federated Universe). Think of it like emails: multiple platforms (yahoo mail, google mail…), that can communicate together (you can send an email from yahoo to gmail). The platforms use different server software (some use Mastodon or Pleroma, which are similar to Twitter, others use Pixelfed, which is modeled after Instagram…), and it’s all interconnected. You can follow and talk to people on other servers, that use different software.
Check out https://joinmastodon.org/ for more info on Mastodon, there are also a few YT videos about the Fediverse.
I would suggest you look at Sunbeam.city, which is a cooperative, but the registration is closed right now: https://sunbeam.city/about/more
There is also https://social.coop/about/more
The good thing about Mastodon and the Fediverse is that you can join any server and communicate with the others.
Googlesta jo melkein irrottautunut, vihdoin. Vähän kadutti pitkään kun vaihdoin Protonmailiin vaikka niillä kesti käsittämättömän kauan saada kaikki vapaalle lähdekoodille, mutta nyt on vihdoin Android clientinki koodit saatavilla.
Vaihdoin myös Twitterin omaan Pleroma-serveriin. Redditillekin on tulossa parempi vaihtoehto pikkuhiljaa Lemmyn muodossa joten toivottavasti tästäkin tunnuksesta pääsee eroon joskus.
Ehkä pitäisi Fediverse-jutuille ihan oma lankansa, mutta linkkaan tähän nyt kuitenkin vähän self hostaamiseen liittyvää:
https://join.lemmy.ml/ Lemmy, vapaan lähdekoodin federoitu reddit kopio
https://joinmastodon.org/ Mastodon, sama mutta Twitter kopio
The problem with GAB is that it's completely centralized. If GAB does something wrong, leaving means losing access to everything in the GAB network (all the people you like, etc.). I prefer Mastodon (or GNU social), because I can have an account @octodon.social, and follow, talk to, and interact with someone @degoogle.club. If octodon.social messes up, I can pack up and move to a different server without losing any of the people I followed.
In my opinion this kind of stuff shows why we need to have open platforms that aren't owned by corporations. Platforms like Mastodon and Lemmy are developed in the open and they're run by volunteers. This is how the internet was meant to work originally, a lot of individual sites run by regular people as opposed to a couple of megasites run by megacorps. I wrote more on the importance of building out publicly owned platforms here.
>which there’s no alternative which one can provide by themselves.
Found the Luddite:
https://joinmastodon.org/
https://github.com/tootsuite/mastodon
https://apps.nextcloud.com/apps/integration_mastodon
How are you so ignorant and /r/ConfidentlyIncorrect regarding technology?
Para los que decís que no hay alternativas:
- buscador: duckduckgo.com
- email: zoho.eu, protonmail, etc.
- archivos y fotos: Nextcloud
- twitter: mastodon (https://joinmastodon.org/)
- otras redes sociales: cualquier cosa que sea fediverse (https://fediverse.party/)
- chat: matrix.org
Yo las uso, todos los días.
Hoy en dia para lo único que uso Google es para encontrar negocios en google maps y mirar videos en youtube.
Toda mi información la tengo en mi nextcloud (archivos, fotos, contactos, calendario, contraseñas, feeds de noticias y mucho más) y hablo con mis amigos (que han aceptado moverse) por matrix.
Se puede hacer, si tanto os molesta que estas empresas tengan vuestros datos.
Mastodon is an open source and community owned social communities network for microblogging, which looks and works rather similarly to Twitter. Here's their site, if you're interested.
Deactivating your account only deprives Twitter of a single point in their social graph. To really hurt them, keep your Twitter, set up a new account on a federated alternative like Mastodon, and use your Twitter account to recruit your friends to switch so they can read your unfiltered toots, without censorship, shadowbanning, or advertisements. Every time you recruit a friend, unfriend that person on Twitter. You'll be recreating your own corner of the social graph on Mastodon while simultaneously working to dismantle Twitter's social graph, connection by connection. Once there's nothing worth reading on your Twitter any more, you'll be ready to cancel.
Why does the state need to get involved when people can just run their own?
Or the state could just spin up their own node, no need to write much code at all.
*shrug*
It's not like the reasoning for it isn't sound. Mastodon is pretty mature and offers a tremendously improved experience over twitter, especially for academic discussions.
This doesn't directly answer your question but a lot of people are pushing for folks to join mastodon instead of using instagram, in response to a lot of different censorship that facebook (instagram's owner) is doing to user posts. It's been affecting a lot of BIPOC, sex workers, and activists, among others.
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/
Edit (just to flesh this out): Mastodon and IPFS paired with memo and BCH are the ingredients for one hell of a global communication network the likes of which we've never seen. Add in some meshnet DISP's and this century could be the dawn of a new golden age in the human experiment.
Would be nice if IOTA was implemented in Mastodon, making it easy to send a tip etc. Mastodon is a decentralized and federated micro-blogging service built on Ruby on Rails, and is quite popular among tech savvy people (first adopters).
> You think me having my own opinion is: Reading comprehension check: I don't think having an opinion is harmful, dangerous or complacent. I think your opinion is, because it leads to bad outcomes. That's a description and unlike your opinion, mine isn't backed up solely by my thinking, but by how there's plenty of cases which show how harmful and dangerous Google and similar companies can be:
Threatening journalism.
Threatening democracy.
Censorship.
Closing the open web.
Software restrictions.
And so forth.
And while it's true Google and co can be useful and easy to use and so forth, my line of thinking would lead to you benefiting from increased choice, if sufficient people think the same way. Whereas yours leads more to going with the flow and being exploited. Compare FB and its data policies with a social media site like this one for example, which respects you: https://joinmastodon.org/#getting-started
If that one got traction, it would help us all. Then we could support systems which are as convenient as Google and FB, but more secure, stable and ethical than both.
Since the article's authors went out of their way not to name the "software codebase program apparently lifted by Donald Trump":
The software Trump ripped off is Mastodon.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mastodon_(software)
/r/Mastodon
Mastodon is like twitter if twitter was owned and governed by the community instead of a sociopath hellbent on monetizing user actions.
My understanding is that it’s a Mastodon instance, which is a more decentralized, federated social media platform. (How social media should run, IMO). People found the test instance and started filling it with shitposts. People also demanded to see the source code, because it’s FOSS. The site was then taken offline.
Regarding the source code thing, some people asked to see the source code for the Mastodon instance they broke into, as Mastodon has a Free Open Source Software license. afaik you only need to provide source code to your end users. Since the people on the site seemingly had to get around a test page, they might not be considered actual intended users with rights to the software, but merely as intruders who violated the CFAA. Once this site is publicly available, they will need to make any source code modifications public too. Until then, unless there’s something I’m not aware of, everything is 100% just partisan noisemaking.
Statut de connexion + chat ---> Reddit est en train de changer fondamentalement
Rajoute que "Online" ça veut pas dire "dispo pour chatter"
P.S. Il manque la fonction upvote mais : https://joinmastodon.org/
Ok, made this for my Bitcoin channel, but it applies to AnCaps as well. Recently switched over to Mastodon, a federated social network that functions like Twitter, and joined a server (instance) run by a fellow Bitcoiner.
Lots of instances out there, that are all connected to one another, with different rules, terms, mod policies, etc. You can't be banned from the entire network, only from specific instances, so you can still participate even if one server decides to shut you out.
Any alternative, even open source and with good intentions will end up like Voat (fail) or like Reddit (succeed, but sell out) as long as it is centralized. The only solution to social media problem we have right now is ActivityPub protocol - federated, decentralized social media, prime example of it is Mastodon (over million users and growing daily).
It kind of amazes me that we still use Twitter
there are already decentralised alternatives like Mastodon but people still insist on using censored and filled with ads Twitter
There are many! :)
No censorship! A server prohibits free speech? Just switch your complete profile to a new one.
Only interested in a specific topic? Join a mastodon server with a topic. https://joinmastodon.org/communities
Are you a data privacy focused human being? Communicate with the whole Mastodon Network without sharing your personal data with it.
Currently living in a shitty country wich blocks sites like Twitter? Much fun trying to block the whole Mastodon Network.
Not a single point of failure. It's impossible to shutdown Mastodon. As long as a single person hosts a server it's online.
Neither ads or personal data collection stuff.
I'd really prefer that social media companies not be considered arbiters of truth, but I understand why they did it, I guess. If I ran a social media server (like a Mastodon instance, everyone go check out https://joinmastodon.org/), and someone posted info that I thought was literally dangerous to people's health, I'd be hard pressed to not remove it.
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.
Following the link from /u/shak3well, there's a tool to search all Mastadon servers and there I found an LGBTQ mastadon. Maybe that's one that fits?
There's sometimes some debate if poly people are lgbtq, but there's also quite some overlap between lgbtq and poly people.
I've seen comments here referring to Mastodon ( joinmastodon.org ) as an alternative. It's not perfect (in that it's structured differently and is very moderated in some servers), but it's worth a try.
Why the hell are you recommending gab over other alternatives? You're just preying on this situation as an opportunity to plug people into a service with an alt-right userbase instead of a left-leaning service.
Gab does not at all address the root of the problem.
Gab is another proprietary service run by a corporation that will put their interests before the users simply because decision-making power is concentrated in this corporation.
It's closed-source; you don't know what the platform actually does, and you don't know who has control over their centralized servers, or what they will do with them.
<strong>Use Mastodon.</strong> It's free, open-source, and allows decentralized servers to federate.
Twitter is all about pushing ads and trying to find ways to monetize their users. They have over 3k employees, and I have no idea WTF they're doing to be honest. The site has terrible performance, and it's buggy as hell. If you look at the source for the page, it's downright nightmarish. They keep adding shit like moments that nobody wants or ever asked for, while ignoring actual user requests like the ability to edit tweets.
I started using Mastodon recently, and it's just a better experience all around. The core functionality of Twitter is not that hard to implement,. If you're not trying to monetize, then you can provide a much better experience for the users.
Personally, I'd really like to see the internet go back to being a distributed system where anybody can run a server and interact with people, as opposed to current centralized model where a few sites dominate all the social media.
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.
> How about MPs post their views on a dedicated website, where individuals are required to provide real name etc
Sounds like a fantastic idea, wouldn't require too large an investment given that the software already exists and is used by millions.
Dette er veldig viktig! Protokollen som brukes mest for dette i dag er ActivityPub (protokollen er den underliggende teknologien som gjør at man kan prate sammen, litt slik som HTTP er protokollen som bla gjør at mange forskjellige nettlesere alle kan lese forskjellige nettsider), og den mest kjente plattformen som bruker det er Mastodon, som ligner på Twitter. Men det er også mange andre, som Pixelfed, Pleorama, Write.as osv, som alle sammen kan snakke sammen.
Jeg har prøvd å forklare dette, og hvorfor det er så viktig, på en minst mulig teknisk måte i en bloggpost her, om noen vil lære mer: https://blogg.forteller.net/2011/think-internet/
It exists! Check out Mastodon: https://joinmastodon.org/
and its not hate speech and illegal stuff as some people think. Decentralised social media platforms attract a more progressive and tolerant kind of crowd from what ive seen.
Better yet, Alex Jones could create a Mastodon/Pleroma/GNU Social instance for the InfoWarriors, so anyone can follow him without censorship.
Seconding the Mastodon recommendation. I use it regularly, and even run my own instance. The members of the community are very friendly and the decentralized nature is a big bonus.
The statuses on Mastodon are 500 characters, instead of Twitter's 140, so it should be a viable alternative to Facebook, assuming their main feature is longer statuses. I haven't really used Facebook so I can't say for sure.
It also has granular (per-post) privacy settings, so you can only post to your followers if you want. You can also set your account to require approval for people to follow you.
> This article doesn't even establish whether a commercial license to Mastodon (which would render the AGPL moot) had been obtained by Truth Social or not.
AFAICT no such license exists.
https://joinmastodon.org/sponsors - "Mastodon is free, open-source software. There is no advertising, monetizing, or venture capital. Your donations directly support full-time development of the project."
Looks like a pure FOSS project to me.
Its a misconception that a decentralised platform is a lawless place. There are rules and there is moderation but they can differ per 'instance', the people creating new ''instance' set the rules. Check out their explainer vid here if you are interested. https://joinmastodon.org/
It is a similar misconception that centralised social media platforms are safe and peaceful places because of their moderation.
Hm, admittedly I haven't tested Mastodon but was doing some research on it. From their front page on joinmastodon.org they had a link to this blog post, Cage the Mastodon
>Another feature that has been requested almost since the start, and which I keep rejecting is quoting messages. Coming back to my disclaimer, of course it’s impossible to prevent people from sharing screenshots or linking to public resources, but quoting messages is immediately actionable. It makes it a lot easier for people to immediately engage with the quoted content… and it usually doesn’t lead to anything good. When people use quotes to reply to other people, conversations become performative power plays. “Heed, my followers, how I dunk on this fool!” When you use the reply function, your message is broadcast only to people who happen to follow you both. It means one person’s follower count doesn’t play a massive role in the conversation. A quote, on the other hand, very often invites the followers to join in on the conversation, and whoever has got more of them ends up having the upper hand and massively stressing out the other person.
They may have backtracked on their position but it sounded like it was a core tenet of their philosophy. At any rate, I agree with their position on it as far as that blog post goes.
I'd recommend looking into Lemmy because it's federated, meaning you can set up separate instances that interface with each other (and your particular instance can block out any instances with bad actors).
Federation, like with the Twitter alternative Mastodon is the way of the future and a way to get back to a more decentralized, equal internet.
(Also, while I'm plugging, check out https://switching.software/)
Mastodon is a pretty good alternative to Twitter if you don't want to deal with all the hate speech that goes unpunished on a day to say basis.
I can personally recommend nulled.red as an instance. It's run by a trans woman so you can be sure that hate speech won't be protected there but there's tons of instances out there so just check through the list on the link above if you wanna join.
Come to Mastodon! It's essentially Twitter but, in my opinion, significantly better. It's not technically a space specifically for trans people, but there is a massive trans user-base there.
The biggest advantages of Mastodon over Twitter are that moderation is handled much better, character limits are higher, there are no ads, everything is open source, and there is a proper system for content warnings.
It kind of works like email. There are a ton of domains, called instances, that are interconnected. You sign up for one instance, and from there can interact with users from any other instance. Different instances have different rules, but every English speaking server I've seen has rules against any form of bigotry, and many of them specifically ban Nazis and TERFs. Unlike Twitter, those rules are actually enforced, too.
It's a free and open source project for decentralized social networking (so there is no one "mastodon.com" like Twitter where everything goes), platform's similar to Twitter, whose network's made up of freely associating "instances" of Mastodon platforms, to simplify. Each instance has its own moderation, rules, and philosophy/focus/etc. mastodon.social is currently the flagship instance.
Most of the people who migrated to Masto (primarily mastodon.social) were leftists frustrated with Twitter, including myself. Twitter still has its place, though, unfortunately.
Open source (ideally libre, but open source sounds better) is good because it means people can simply fork the project if the current development goes in a bad direction.
For example a lot of people disagree with how twitter is being handled, but there's nothing they can do except move to another platform. Now if you look at Mastodon instead, there are tons of servers for different kinds of people, with different rules on what's allowed and what isn't, and some of them even have modified interfaces and extra features (this would not be possible if it was proprietary).
I've thought about this a lot, trying to figure out how to make something like Diaspora or Mastodon work. They're both sort of confusing from an end-user perspective, as users are forced to choose "instances" of the network to live on, which is just completely different from the single-instance approach that Facebook grew on.
One thought I had is that people could start making more "local" instances of the social network, where instead of having 500 friends (400 of which you never talk to), you just have a family social network, where your immediate and extended family can join up with. Maybe friends could jump on as well, but that's where it starts getting tricky, because now you, as a user, have to "join" multiple instances, which is a lot of friction to deal with. So you'd need a way to have a single sign-on that let you jump around to these different instances, and a top-level dashboard that just sort of pulled from all of them in some way.
In fact, Diaspora and/or Mastodon might already do this, but the fact that it's so convoluted that I don't even know shows how messy of a problem this potentially is. One single instance is ALWAYS going to be the easiest path (but also the most dangerous to privacy).
Not exactly. Truth Social is using a twitter-like platform called "Mastodon". Mastodon uses the AGPL 3.0 license, which requires anybody who makes modifications to open source libraries make those changes available to the public. Truth Social has not done that, and seemingly has no plans to.
In response, a non-profit agency called Software Freedom Conservancy issued a statement that if this wasn't corrected within 30 days, they would sue.
So it's not quite that he stole it. It's more that he is reneging on a deal, which is an incredibly Trump thing to do.
Fediverse has various servers like Mastodon to get on. You might want to choose as per your interests as well. https://joinmastodon.org/communities
Also, for the time you might want to use a twitter client to avoid the needless frills you get. Twidere and Fritter(no login) can be among your choices.
- 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.
- 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, …)
Anything listed at https://joinmastodon.org/communities/lgbt is probably fine. Or, join one of those communities and ask, since that list is definitely not exhaustive - you'll almost certainly get helpful responses. I'd list a few, but that'd probably count as blowing up the spot. piss.restaraunt (from the post) is unfortunately unavailable and probably shut down; sometimes that happens.
The solution is open-source and decentralized/federated services. /r/privacytoolsIO and /r/degoogle are some really good resources to get you started. Consider dropping Facebook/Twitter for Mastodon and YouTube for PeerTube. Use Signal for messaging with friends. There are so many great solutions out there to start moving away from centralized/closed solutions that use your data to enrich themselves, and toward open solutions that you have much more privacy and/or control with.
this is good! just as important is the server and backbone you use to run the email server. Also, consider Mastadon which is a federated distributed social network. they would have a nearly impossible task of censoring mastodon.
Parler is fundamentally no better than Twitter/Facebook/Reddit. Another oldschool centralised social media company, with a pretty unpleasant userbase and owners too.
It's easy to run your own mastodon server nowadays though. Distributed social media is just common sense at this stage. Placing your trust in one authoritarian government/corporation or another is naive.
Come on... of course it is time to replace Facebook and the others. There are multiple initiatives in that respect.
But of course Tutanota should not do this. They are a tiny tiny tiny company, and encrypted email is a completely different thing from social networks devoted to free speech. You can't do everything.
Tutanota is not Father Christmas ! Don't ask them for too much !
That isn't really the point of decentralized services and many decentralized services are moderated. It's up to the owner of a specific instance whether they want to moderate it or not. The point of decentralization is freedom and to some extent privacy, not a removal of moderation. Mastodon is a great example of this, some servers like are moderated heavily and will remove posts or users who break the rules, while others like are much less strict.
The only way to prevent any moderation at all would be if everyone had to download all or part of the content on the server all the time in order to use it, like seeders and leechers on torrents. Otherwise, the maintainer of the server can always control what is on there.
Mastodon is a new social network, it's meant to be an alternative to Twitter with better ways to moderate trolls. I haven't used it but it's gotten a lot of press in recent weeks.
Bold move. I've contemplated doing the same. TBH if he feels this way about Facebook he should do the same with Twitter. Give Mastodon a try! It's a decentralized twitter-like that is open source, has no owners, no ads, built in harassment protocols, and doesn't collect your data. Give it a shot! Its new, and a little rough around the edges (and has some unfortunate terminology - ie they call tweets "toots"), but I love the concept behind it
People should try Bitchute, there's plenty of firearms content over there. The site isn't perfect, but the more it gets patronized the more it will improve. YouTube user Styxenhammer666 says he just broke 1 million views on his Bitchute channel and he's doing 2A advocacy vids.
Regarding contributing to content creators, you can send them tips directly right in the video player, or people can do like Cody Wilson and set up direct payments using cryptocurrency. This allows you to send creators money directly and avoid anti-free-speech middlemen.
Personally I'd like to see totally decentralized peer-to-peer social media with no central authorities that can ban content they dislike, but that will come soon enough. I would say that in response to calls for legislation against the current social media sites that if we do that it will kill the incentive for developers to create better options, and although it might provide a solution in the short term new problems will crop up in the future which will require more government intervention. If you're a skeptic of government like I am then asking the government to regulate the internet isn't a good option. The best thing to do is to migrate to more decentralized platforms and promote them.
Also have a look at Mastodon for an example of a fairly decentralized social networking platform.
So the gov are going to run a couple of Mastodon, GNU Social or Diaspora* nodes are they?
People should run their own social media and free themselves from the machinations of the corporates (Google, Facebook etc) and those of the government.
After re-reading OP's question, I realize it's probably the opposite of what they are looking for. I was kind of focused on the humhub+wiki alternative. But it's going in the opposite direction they want from a complexity standpoint.
It is indeed a decentralized facebook clone. You stand up a hub for your group/community. Each person has an identity that they call a channel. This is like a facebook page. On it you can post status updates, run a forum, a wiki, etc. Hubs can be federated (share status updates/content) together: your woodworking club can federate with another woodworking club or a ham radio club. It can also federate with other social networks like mastadon (federated twitter clone) and friendica.
Your identity is nomadic. At any time you can download your entire channel and upload it to a different hub. So if you build up on one hub and they start talking about shutting down, you can move to another one or spin up your own. This is a reversal from most federated services where you are username@server and if you move to a different server, you have to start over and reconnect with everyone you knew. Here, you just migrate and carry on.
https://joinmastodon.org is basically a mix of Twitter social Dynamics and IRC independence. Sex workers have Switter.at which we formed in response to FOSTA. The larger community has embraced is, but because Twitter hasn't banned many of us YET, Switter remains a backup option to Twitter.
Discord seems just as likely to get shut down as well. Like AJ, in a multi-platform sweep.
Mastodon could be a good solution. Host on your own server. Can't be pulled. Full control.
I forgot those integrations usually have permission to post content or follow random people for you... been staing out of social media (other than Reddit and some decentralized and open source ones like Mastodon) for a while now.
use mastodon instead - it's a decentralized version of twitter w much better moderation
basically each server has diff moderation policies, you pick the server/set of rules you like
Hm, this is unfortunate. I mean I've got a fairly new account but that's because I'm trying to be more privacy-conscious which means, like you said, scrubbing & deleting accounts. I understand though, and actually appreciate it (it shows you care, I think?)
what kind of tools are you missing on site?
ot: i don't know if it's up to you, but have you considered making a mastodon account for ~? i see a twitter link but i think mastodon (or pleroma) has a way better alignment with ~'s values as far as i can tell. also i might just be pleading for that because i've got a mastodon account but not twitter. (lastly, if this is being considered, might i suggest the mastodon.technology instance; it has a few official accounts on there already & might make it easier to settle)
Pels que no ho coneixeu encara, Mastodon es una xarxa tipus Twitter, però federada. Això vol dir, que podeu tenir una compte al servidor que volgueu (podeu buscar més servidors a https://joinmastodon.org tot i que mastodont.cat es el de casa ;) ) i això no impideix que podeu seguir/retooteja gent d'altres servidors. ¿Preguntes?
I mentioned Switter because it's a) it just happened b) it's great example how free software and decentralization can empower opressed or underprivileged communities, there is plenty of instance to pick from https://joinmastodon.org
I hate that I’m stuck using twitter because it’s where my friends and peers are. Mastodon is so much better in literally every way but people just refuse to migrate. It’s really infuriating.
Edit: I should have linked https://joinmastodon.org/
What is it?
Mastodon is a free/libre, decentralized micro-blogging platform (think Twitter, but better) where anyone can host their own instance with their own moderation.
Aras Pranckevičius (one of the great minds behind the Unity engine) created a Mastodon instance for game developers today, mastodon.gamedev.place.
So it's basically like Twitter but with only gamedev-related stuff. You can see all posts from the instance in the "Local Timeline", all posts from all Mastodon instances in the "Federated Timeline", and all posts from the people you choose to follow in your own feed.
Also, 500 chars limit (Mastodon's relative (orders of magnitude smaller, still significant) success encouraged Twitter to up their own limit recently), and optional content warnings.
Since Mastodon isn't run by a single centralized service, there are many communities (called "instances") that you can join. Think of it like email, you sign up for an account on one of these communities so your username ends up looking like username@somecommunity. These communities or instances federate with each other to share messages and posts so that you can follow and talk to people on other communities no problem. Each community has its own moderation policy and (human) moderators.
This is a page maintained by the developers of the software of Mastodon, and can help you find an instance!
There's alternatives to Twitter. Things like Mastodon allow people to set up communities tailored to interests without heavy handed moderation, censorship, and toxic individuals. I've only used it for Open Source related stuff but I am sure there must be writing communities using it.
There's also sites like scribophile.
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.
If i had kids i would set them up with mastodon and forbid the use of toxic and predatory mainstream social media. I can't believe people let their kids use that shit unsupervised.
There's some really good decentralized social networks that have been around for years. Mastodon for one. But crypto should probably have a decentralized social site that lives on a blockchain. There are some projects being actively worked on in that space. Steemit for example. Flow is a work in progress on IOTA. It's really just down to adoption and migration. The spaces are out there. Twitter is just popular and people tend to flock to where their voice will be heard by most people.
Why don't you guys start a WSB Mastodon? No one would be able to ban it even if they tried since it's decentralized. In my opinion, there should be a plan in place to move towards an uncensorable platform.
Let's scale this without any threat of censorship!
Here's more about Mastodon:
> Should I investigate?
Yes.
Short version, it's distributed social media. Sometimes called Mastadon because (I think) they're an instance of the fediverse.
Fediverse gets a bad rap at times because you often hear about the most unpleasant users. You may have heard of Gab which (I believe) is basically "Alt Right Twitter". I think they have now forked away completely from Fediverse, so they're their own thing, but since anyone can set up a Fediverse server, you will end up with all kinds of servers.
Fediverse servers can communicate with other servers, but they can also block other servers.
Instances I'm aware of:
https://joinmastodon.org https://spinster.xyz https://gleasonator.com
The large social media sites are garbage, but the Fediverse is where it's at. There are numerous projects in this vein, but Mastodon/Activity Pub standard has taken off more than most. It is like Twitter, but allows one to run your own server more like email (you can communicate with people that are not on your same email/ Mastodon service provider).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fediverse
They have a list of public servers you can join here:
Or, you can run your own server (if you can run a basic RoR setup), or you can opt for a managed server of your own control. There are several managed Mastodon hosts, which I will not single out for promotion.
I run my own Mastodon instance (~200 people) that is largely about whitewater in the Rockies, but obviously the topics vary widely as that topic is only relevant 4 months of the year.
>...Arguably a more successful platform for the Alt Reich than than Twitter
Shout out to Mastodon, btw. Twitter is a cesspool and should be abandonded. Mastodon is soooo much nicer, with nice people and a nice atmosphere, and we really should be on there instead of Twitter.
If you really need another good reason to join, then, in the words of Shonalika: >"Mastodon isn't really favoured by Nazis and remains a largely Nazi-free zone."
And if that's not enough to convince you to join, then I don't know what is.
Oh, and they also have content warnings for posts. Which is really nice for those who need to avoid personal triggers.
> Now it's just a limited series of walled-garden social platforms with people screaming as loudly as possible to get ad-money.
But it doesn't have to be this way. You might be interested in joining a Mastodon instance (or any Fediverse server). I haven't been on in a while, but I think Fedi is probably our best hope for the future of the web.
There's a drive to create an open-source internet for this very reason, in order to de-monopolize the hold that private corporations have over channels of information. Wikipedia is by far the biggest example of what an open internet can be. You've also got Mastodon as an alternative to Twitter, Peertube as an alternative to Youtube, etc.
Another way around it is to create decentralized meshnets, such as the one in Havana.
The sooner people shift en masse to opensource social networks like disapora/mastodon the better
Hate is profitable for companies like facebook and they will not go after their income source.
There are some attempts to make a fully distributed social media platform. Check out https://joinmastodon.org/
The idea is that there isn't a single set of servers like facebook. Anyone can create their own node and join the network.
a more general social network might do the trick. I haven't investigated the alternatives in a while - Mastodon seems to be the leading candidate for self-hosted social media, but it probably lacks some of those features (calendar etc.).
I haven't looked at Diaspora lately but they were in the conversation for a while.
When people stop watching and reading corporate news our owners will come up with even more ways to censor and silence dissent on social media. We need decentralized open source networks, so we aren't at their mercy.