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I thought the alternative to twitter would be maston[0]. It's 'uncensored' federated twitter clone that anyone can create a node and create a social community o
by wpdev_63 6y ago
I thought the alternative to twitter would be maston[0]. It's 'uncensored' federated twitter clone that anyone can create a node and create a social community of their choosing.
Not sure how "Parler" is going to be better than twitter with a central point of failure. More political fodder I guess.
[0]:https://mastodon.social/about https://mastodon.social/about
- sparkie 6y agoMastadon is not "uncensored" either. They put significant effort into blocking gab when it tried integrating into the fediverse. The only real solution to censorship will be a completely distributed system, where users control their own data and associations, and all communication is peer-to-peer, end-to-end encrypted, with zero middle-men.
- BlueTemplar 6y ago> They put significant effort into blocking gab when it tried integrating into the fediverse. Who is 'they' ? The most used servers ?
- numpad0 6y agoMastodon didn’t work. The architecture couldn’t handle Japanese Twitter migrants overwhelming the network and Gab issues that came later. In current form, it is just an on-prem Twitter clone.
- kemenaran 6y agoAs far as I know, Mastodon is quite active, they’re releasing features and improvements monthly, and the number of active users is still growing.
- input_sh 6y ago> ...and the number of active users is still growing. I use Mastodon and am definitely a fan, but the rudimentary stats we have (https://the-federation.info/ https://the-federation.info/) don't show the growth. The number of monthly active users fluctuates between 400k-500k this entire year.
- eznzt 6y agoIn Mastodon, at least if you want to be part of the "main" fediverse, you have to censor even more people than Twitter.