daveid

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by daveid 7y ago
No, it's not
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by daveid 7y ago
It's an odd page that doesn't offer any solutions or calls to action... But "own your platform" is basically the principle of Mastodon [1], where you don't have to sacrifice the idea of "reach" because all
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by daveid 7y ago
Mastodon is AGPLv3 so there is nothing to buy.
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by daveid 7y ago
Most of the time you'd come across a post on a different instance in your home feed which just takes a click to reply to, the same as any other post.
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by daveid 7y ago
> Nobody thinks of Mastodons when thinking of any form of communication, but we all hear birds tweeting every day and have been used in real life to send messages This seems like backwards reasoning. If you named a new platform after pig
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by daveid 7y ago
What's not cute about elephants? Especially fluffy ones?
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by daveid 8y ago
It's ActivityPub, not OStatus!
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by daveid 8y ago
If you decide to change your managed host, you take your domain name and database with you, so outwardly, nothing changes and you lose nothing.
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by daveid 8y ago
https://docs.joinmastodon.org/ Linked from the README in the repository you linked.
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Why does decentralization matter?(blog.joinmastodon.org)
57 points by daveid 8y ago|15 comments
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by daveid 8y ago
Yes, I deleted mine! Deleted my Twitter account too
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by daveid 8y ago
FYI there's a more recent, and much more in-depth official installation manual: https://docs.joinmastodon.org/administration/installation/ The documentation also includes various guides on horizontal scaling,
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Mastodon 2.6: Link verification(blog.joinmastodon.org)
9 points by daveid 8y ago|0 comments
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Mastodon: An overview of features for dealing with abuse and harassment(blog.joinmastodon.org)
27 points by daveid 8y ago|1 comments
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by daveid 8y ago
Unless there's gonna be native browser support, the different websites you visit won't be able to know which accounts you've recently used elsewhere.
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by daveid 8y ago
OpenID doesn't provide API access like OAuth does, does it?
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by daveid 8y ago
What would be a better name?
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by daveid 8y ago
Then your account is gone, but your friends on other servers are still where they were. With backup/import tools you can reconnect with them from a new account easily.
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by daveid 8y ago
From the thread: >I don't expect any major changes are needed for compliance, which is why it's been pretty low priority. it's just a matter of getting a document together that better informs admins. Mastodon has all the f
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by daveid 8y ago
Bug found and fixed and patched!
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by daveid 8y ago
I checked and I noticed that the pictures in the embedded toots don't show up on Chrome. Investigating.
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by daveid 8y ago
Thank you! Hugo is awesome.
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How to become a successful artist on Mastodon(blog.joinmastodon.org)
56 points by daveid 8y ago|11 comments
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How to implement a basic ActivityPub server(blog.joinmastodon.org)
23 points by daveid 8y ago|2 comments
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What's new in Mastodon 2.4(blog.joinmastodon.org)
2 points by daveid 8y ago|0 comments
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by daveid 8y ago
I'm seeing the opposite, as independent platforms like Mastodon won't be able to implement content ID they won't be complying with this new law, which means it'll potentially become legally dangerous to run Mastodon with
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by daveid 8y ago
Side note: PeerTube is part of the same federated network as Mastodon. You can follow Blender's PeerTube account from Mastodon by entering @blender@video.blender.org into the search bar and clicking follow on the result!
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by daveid 8y ago
I built Mastodon alone for a year for like $600/mo until it got popular. Now I'm getting more ($3k/mo from Patreon) but I don't think I'm even anywhere close to hitting $100k. So it's possible :P
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by daveid 8y ago
Friendica is part of the fediverse, that is, "federated universe." The model of decentralization is "federation" here. Friendica is interoperable with Mastodon, GNU social, etc.
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by daveid 8y ago
There are more languages in the world than English, not supporting Unicode is not an option for most.

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