Although Jesse Brown from the Canadian news / podcast company #CanadaLand has said he has no plans to come to #Mastodon I still think it is worth while to give them a plug here.

canadaland.com/

I have donated to this podcast, from almost the beginning. I initially started because I really enjoyed his #CBC radio show (which was unfortunately cancelled)

Show Jesse that Mastodon is worth joining by subscribing & donating:

canadalandnetwork.supercast.co…

#Canada

Canadaland

Trustworthy independent journalism is essential in a functioning democracy. Your support helps us deliver quality reporting, news, and analysis that is free and accessible for all.

^Supercast

Being "inefficient" isn't always a bad thing!

> The incentives are different. […] The inefficiency doesn't matter!

berk.es/2022/11/08/fediverse-i…

#Fediverse #Mastodon

Somewhat agree, strongly disagree with many conclusions.

Single-tenant #instances are a ruthless attack on our planet.

#Mastodon is conceptually flawed with topical communities expressing themselves mainly via a local #timeline. Lists: poorly implemented. Federated #groups: a.gup.pe hacks

Look at the self-descriptions of any instance focused on a large #community, and ask yourself who could afford to *not* register at the *one* place where the *action* is.

@stephenfry @gretathunberg

Tohle jsem pro vás sepsal, abyste věděli, do čeho jdete:

FFFILM: Jak na Mastodon - sociální síť, která je alternativou Twitteru fffilm.name/2022/11/jak-na-mas…
#czech #mastodon

Jak na Mastodon - sociální síť, která je alternativou Twitteru

fffilm, František Fuka, film, premiéry, recenze, Fuxoft

^{www.fffilm.name}

Me, keeping an eye on my task queue as a conversation starts on my latest post 👀

#sidekiq #mastodon #scale #activityPub

Is the fediverse about to get Fryed? (Or, “Why every toot is also a potential denial of service attack”)

ar.al/2022/11/09/is-the-fedive…

CC @stephenfry @gretathunberg

#fediverse #mastodon #stephenFry #gretaThunberg #smallTech #smallWeb

Sure, #Mastodon is growing very popular but it is by far one of the the less efficient and optimized #Fediverse softwares… it is written in #Ruby, whose benckmarks score very low.

If only it was written in #Go…

> But, equally, it also makes the case that a system optimised to host hundreds of thousands of people on a single instance is not also somehow magically optimised to host just one person.

IDK; one of the major backends on the #Fediverse is #Pleroma and its cousins, which despite being more efficient (thus scaling better) than #Mastodon, it's largely used for single-instance users.

What happens when you have your own Mastodon instance (just for you) where over 21,000 people follow you and when you’re following over 4,300 people?

You end up paying ~€50/month for Mastodon hosting 👀

It also opens up interesting questions: what happens when a popular account joins your instance (hint: it will probably cost the instance maintainers quite a bit… I don’t envy the mastodon.nu folks right now).

#fediverse #mastodon

Spouštíme novou veřejnou službu - 🦅 witter.cz 🦅

Witter.cz je server decentralizované sítě #Mastodon otevřený každému kdo chce s respektem k ostatním sdílet, informovat a diskutovat. Bez reklam, sbírání osobních údajů a bez @elonmusk.

About a year ago, I made a simple #Mastodon #Presentation, using @libreoffice

It is on
salsa.debian.org/zleap-guest/m…

If it is useful, please feel free to git clone.

Nový tip je venku, druhý pro #mastodon. Dalo by se napsat, že je o tom jak na Mastodonu dělat #marketing. Zjistíte jak se různé mechanismy liší od jiných sítí a co všechno dělat, abyste měli účet co vám k něčemu bude. Být vidět. Ale, to je taky podstatné, mít co vidět.

365tipu.cz/2022/11/08/tip2285-…

ICYMI, #Mastodon instances can each have a custom set of #emoji.

Here are the ones we currently have.

Our instances updates #customEmoji every few weeks so send a note if you have suggestions.

emojos.in/floss.social?show_al…

This one is for all the new people on #Mastodon: did you know that the #fediverse has more than just a microblogging replacement? And that they can all interoperate with your Mastodon account?

Check them out!

• Facebook replacement: Friendica
• Instagram replacement: Pixelfed
• YouTube replacement: PeerTube
• Spotify replacement: Funkwhale
• MeetUp replacement: Mobilizon
• Reddit replacement: Lemmy
• Podcasting replacement: Castopod
• GoodReads replacement: BookWyrm

Castopod | Your Free & Open-source Podcast Host

Castopod is a free and open-source hosting platform made for podcasters. Engage and interact with your audience whilst keeping control over your content.

^castopod.org

Twitter alternativa #mastodon
joinmastodon.org

Discord alternativa #revolt revolt.chat/

co ještě potřebujeme? #foss

Mastodon - Decentralized social media

Learn more about Mastodon, the radically different, free and open-source decentralized social media platform.

^{joinmastodon.org}

Consider this the #mastodon missing-toot-#timeline-#cheatsheet
(not mine, and I whish I'd seen it earlier when I did).

BTW if you're looking for a simple and imho intuitive #androidclient @Tusky really nails it!

“Mastodon’s new sign-ups include some Twitter users with big followings, such as actor and comedian @kathygriffin, who joined in early November, and journalist @mollyjongfast, who joined in late October.”

#TwitterMigration
#Fediverse
#Mastodon

cnn.com/2022/11/05/tech/mastod…

RSS fans!

You can get RSS feeds of any specific tag in fedi.directory by adding /feed/ to the end of the tag's URL.

For example the tag for "Gardening" is at the URL:

fedi.directory/tag/gardening/

...so if you wanted to use RSS to track all new gardening accounts, the feed would be:

fedi.directory/tag/gardening/f…

When new accounts are added to tags you follow like this, they will appear in your RSS feed.

#RSS #Fediverse #Mastodon

Fedi.Directory

Interesting accounts to follow on Mastodon and the Fediverse

^{fedi.directory}

I think just maybe something is happening here on #Mastodon, something much bigger than the April influx. The server has really slowed down, and I'm getting an occasional error page. Massive influx of new users from the bird site perhaps?

#TwitterExodus #TwitterExit

Mastodon: Die Mythen und Zweifel der Twitter-Community.

To-do für euch: Auf den Teilen-Button klicken! 😉

kuketz-blog.de/mastodon-die-my…

#neuhier #mastodon #twitter

Mastodon: Die Mythen und Zweifel der Twitter-Community

Nachdem Elon Musk Twitter übernommen hat, erfreut sich das #Fediverse und insbesondere #Mastodon einem regen Zulauf. Das schmeckt einigen Twitter-Nutzern offenbar überhaupt nicht und sie…

^{Kuketz IT-Security Blog}

Are you using Mastodon through a computer?

Do you wish there was a multi-column TweetDeck-style interface?

There is! It's called the "advanced web interface" and you can activate it any time you want. It lets you add many specialised columns, subscribe to hashtags and all kinds of stuff suited to large wide displays.

Log into the website, go to Preferences > Enable Advanced Web Interface, tick the box and click "Save Changes".

(To restore the default single column interface, do the same thing but untick the box instead.)

This used to be the default interface on Mastodon, and very old articles about the platform will have screenshots of the multicolumn interface.

#MastoTips #Mastodon #TweetDeck #FediTips #Interface

@Gargron I disagree somewhat; yes, scaling well is an L for decentralization, but it is a W for the freedom of hosters.

What if you want to use #Mastodon to host your own centralized platform? #TruthSocial is a good example of this; #Trump aside, it's awesome that you can use #Mastodon to both be part of a huge network, make your own network, or make a standalone social site.

Woot?

#mastodon #bug #amazing_ux #ux

PS. This isn’t some new revelation; I’ve been advocating for this from the start :)

mastodon.social/@aral/2160843

#mastodon #federation #decentralisation #centralisation #design #singleTenant #SmallWeb

Optimising #Mastodon = designing flows that encourage people to leave mastodon.social for other instances, not accepting any more new members on mastodon.social, and making design changes that limit how much a single instance can scale.

A single instance that can scale to host hundreds of thousands (if not millions) of people, is not a design success in decentralisation, it’s a design failure. (It’s a design success in #BigTech.)

CC @Gargron

#decentralisation #centralisation #federation