Pitch The custom emojis that are solved as pictures should have the option to enter an alternate text for screen readers. Motivation From the perspective of the accessibility the custom emojis are ...
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.
Every time I post something that gets lots of engagement, I essentially end up carrying out a denial of service attack on myself. What does this say about the design of Mastodon and ActivityPub and the future of the fediverse?
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.
Krásné středeční #dobre_ranko přátelé #mastodon Už se nám naše instance opět trošičku rozrostla. Některé účty znám ještě z dob, kdy jsem začínal s Linuxem. Tak užívejte pohody ve světě #fediverse a #opensource
> 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).
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.
Witter.cz je otevřený každému kdo chce s respektem k ostatním sdílet, informovat a diskutovat.
Bez reklam, sbírání osobních informací a sledování uživatelů.
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.
Mastodon je v určitých ohledech podobný Twitteru, ale pokud ho chcete využít pro zviditelnění (sebe nebo svého projektu), tak je tam pár rozdílů. Vkládejte příspěvky je vcelku jasná věc, bez toho to fungovat nebude.
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?
Castopod is a free and open-source hosting platform made for podcasters. Engage and interact with your audience whilst keeping control over your content.
“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.”
Just got #Mastodon setup on my @purism Librem14 with #QubesOS. I am liking #Whalebird as the local client personally. Yes this is basically my daily driver when I don’t use the Pop!_OS desktop and also what a bit more security. now to back it all up. #cybersecurity #linux
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?
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…
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.
One thing that is needed is a beginner-level #tutorial on the subject of "dealing with the #hosting industry." I don't know the ins and outs of procuring any kind of hosting other than #LAMP stack, which, as far as I know, won't accommodate #Mastodon.
@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.
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.)
Resources #Mastodon instances need to run are not free. If we users want to keep the network the way it is, we need to take responsibility for that.
That's why I did my humble part today and made a contribution to my instance: liberapay.com/FLOSS.social Thank you, @downey, for running it! It's a reliable instance with a friendly community which I enjoy using every day.
FLOSS.social was launched on 1 April 2018 as a Mastodon instance for people who care about, support, or build Free, Libre, and Open Source Software (FLOSS). Of course, …
Mastodon doesn't always pull in up-to-date profile info.
If you see a blank avatar, or if you just want to make sure you're seeing someone's up-to-date profile info, do this:
1) Right-click on their avatar or username. 2) Choose "copy link address" or similar. 3) Click in the Mastodon search box and paste the link. 4) Press enter. 5) If there's a new avatar or display name, it will update when the profile appears in the search results.
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ICYMI, #Mastodon instances can each have a custom set of #emoji.
