- Nov 2024
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support.signal.org support.signal.org
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Signal allows you to set usernames. They are unique but temporary (and you can have only 1 at a time). User names can be used to connect to you without sharing your phone number. Set an optional username in Settings Profile. They have two numbers at the end (you can set them).
User names can be shared in three ways: - tell someone (and then change it so they cannot communicate it further) - share a QR code - share a unique URL (which does not contain your username in clear text)
Signal can't 'easily' see which phone number has which username. But given a username it can find the associated phonenumber. 'easily' means it can be done though, and thus both ways.
An old username will become available to others after a week, meaning imo they should not contain any identifiable or associative information.
Found this through someone suggesting that sharing your Signal username through Mastodon would allow private msgs. Yes, but the world will know your username, so you're open to all people who might think it fun to msg you.
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- Sep 2024
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techpolicy.press techpolicy.press
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each of these instances will need to comply with a set of minimumobligations for intermediary and hosting services, including having a single point of contact and legal representative, providing clear terms and conditions, publishing bi-annual transparency reports, having a notice and action mechanism and, communicating information about removals or restrictions to both notice and content providers
Revisiting this after 2yrs, now as board member of mastodon.nl, need to read relevant DSA sections again, and think about if/how this applies. The list here as such is almost completely covered by default, except for the reports, which will come as we're heading towards ANBI status anyway.
-[ ] lees DSA met mastodon.nl bril tav kleine platforms #activityclub #30mins
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- Jul 2024
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fossacademic.tech fossacademic.tech
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https://web.archive.org/web/20240725080148/https://fossacademic.tech/2024/02/11/Move-Slowy-Preview.html [[Move Slowly and Build Bridges by Robert Gehl]] is a forthcoming book on 'Mastodon, the Fediverse, and the Struggle for Ethical Social Media'. This post gives summaries per chapter of the draft. Ch1 focuses on Xodus after Musk only. Odd, there are many examples where costs of leaving socmed platforms played a role, which may well be more informative than just n=1. Ch 2 on AP as protocol Ch 3 CoC as a social layer on networked tech (no regard here it seems for the fact that human networks exist outside of tech and span multiple tech platforms simultaneously, and themselves have social norms that guid behaviour regardless whether codified in CoC or expressed in federation choices) Ch 4 on blocking and defederation as a needed safety tool. Socially I think the default might need to be the other way around, federating is the choice, defed the default, as it is how we do it socially irl. We are not unwelcoming to newcomers in a group but we are wary. Ch 5. Who pays for the fediverse infra. Short answer is we all do/many of us do. I pay my own instance, and also contribute hours to the governance of the largest Dutch instance. Good point about people forgetting there are other bizz models for digital media than what centralised adtech kraken do. Ch 6. on eco impact of socmed, and need of awareness what running this stuff costs ecologically. Seems to then pivot to how degrowth and solarpunk people using fediverse tech to interact, which is not the same thing. (It says mitigate, but compared to what, X? ) Ch 7. Threads , or the corp reaction to a growing fediverse. Conclusion, this is where the ethics will be discussed finally.
Forthcoming w Oxford Univ Press. Not sure this is for me, reads like a snapshot with a limited time window in which it might be informative. Perhaps of interest for [[Stichting ActivityClub Bestuur Hoofdnote]].
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www.digitaleoverheid.nl www.digitaleoverheid.nl
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Verbeterpunten zijn onder andere het beperkte bereik van de doelgroep
This reads like classic 'it's not the same as X'. And an overestimation of actual human accounts on X in the Netherlands. Although yes, Dutch accounts on Mastodon aren't many, they are easily found, and interaction is up.
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Dutch public sector has experimented with Mastodon for a year now. Pilot will run until December 2024. Started with 20 entities, now 40 active accounts. Plus is the easy recognition as authentic source (it runs on social.overheid.nl). They will open up to all levels of civil service in 2025. Good development.
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- Jun 2024
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blog.khinsen.net blog.khinsen.net
- Apr 2024
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blog.joinmastodon.org blog.joinmastodon.org
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How does 'we've lost tax-exempt status in Germany' logically lead to 'let's incorporate in the US'? What makes paying tax bad? What about the tax exempt non-profit status in one of the other EU countries (Easy to form, I chair one and am on the board of two others e.g.)? What are the consequences of starting a US entity, how does it affect Mastodon falling within the scope of the Patriot act, what about how every data transaction to a US based entitiy is currently now legally covered in the EU? Which assets fall under the new entity?
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snarfed.org snarfed.org
- Feb 2024
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www.macstories.net www.macstories.net
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according to Kuang, there is no limit to the number of threaded posts you can create at once.
We'll see about that lol.
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- Jan 2024
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streetpass.social streetpass.social
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https://streetpass.social/
StreetPass, a browser extension that leverages rel="me" for compiling a list of potential mastodon accounts to follow as you visit websites.
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trunks.social trunks.social
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https://trunks.social/login
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- Dec 2023
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www.bentasker.co.uk www.bentasker.co.uk
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mastodoncontentmover.github.io mastodoncontentmover.github.io
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mastodon.social mastodon.social
- Nov 2023
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social.coop social.coop
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externalize
And we embark on this voyage in the gravy boat...
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- Oct 2023
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bryanalexander.org bryanalexander.org
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Some numbers on the silos. Any EU/US exodus unnoticable in the bigger scheme of things. Commented on creating vs recreating networks for interaction
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- Sep 2023
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openbiblio.social openbiblio.social
- Aug 2023
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erinkissane.com erinkissane.com
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Constantly being told I was somewhat dim because I didn’t understand how to do things or what the unwritten rules were.
This, I particularly hate and hope desperately I did not contribute to.
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social.bbc social.bbc
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- Jul 2023
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acecomments.mu.nu acecomments.mu.nu
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As Threads "soars", Bluesky and Mastodon are adopting algorithmic feeds. (Tech Crunch) You will eat the bugs. You will live in the pod. You will read what we tell you. You will own nothing and we don't much care if you are happy.
Applying the WEF meme about pods and bugs to Threads inspiring Bluesky and one Mastodon app to push algorithmic feeds.
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blog.joinmastodon.org blog.joinmastodon.org
- Jun 2023
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www.wikidata.org www.wikidata.org
- May 2023
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share-on-mastodon.social share-on-mastodon.social
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https://share-on-mastodon.social/
A really neat customizable "Share on Mastodon" button for your pages or posts.
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urbanists.social urbanists.social
- Apr 2023
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atproto.com atproto.com
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they require the original server to provide a redirect and cannot migrate the user's previous data.
This is... an extremely strange conclusion to come to regarding Social Web account migration, to say the least.
Taking Mastodon as the handy example...
The only reason to use the (extremely competent, bizarrely fast) process of redirection is that one... would like to have the "required" redirect on the original server. If a user intends to move to a different Mastodon instance and does not want to leave a redirect, that step is just... removed from the process.
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tantek.com tantek.com
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andy-bell.co.uk andy-bell.co.uk
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I think I’m not alone that Mastodon is giving me the ick<br /> by Andy Bell
Read at Fri 4/7/2023 8:36 AM
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communitywiki.org communitywiki.org
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wp-community-on-mastodon.wptoots.social wp-community-on-mastodon.wptoots.social
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bird.makeup bird.makeup
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bilge.world bilge.world
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I noticed fairly quickly that the iOS app was a re-branded release of what used to be Mast. My first instinct upon this discovery was to DM Mast's original developer, Shihab Meboob, on Twitter, but frankly, I've already bothered him enough there over the years, so it's understandable that I didn't hear back. When I downloaded the desktop app I found on Roma's web page and noticed its similarity to Whalebird, I decided to use the site's contact form to inquire about what exactly was going on as gingerly as I could. Happily, I received a reply just *minutes- later from Leo Radvinsky, head of Leo.com, “a Florida-based boutique venture capital fund that invests in technology companies:” Hi David, In both cases we funded the original developers of both Mast and Whalebird to create a branded whitelabel app specially made for Pleroma. The idea was to make Roma a cross platform brand/app. It didn't really work out so now we're working on a new app from scratch called Fedi for iOS and Android and releasing that as open source. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.fediverse.app&hl=en*US&gl=US https://apps.apple.com/in/app/fedi-for-pleroma-and-mastodon/id1478806281 I think Roma has been removed from the app stores as it's no longer supported. Let me know if you have any other questions
...coming back to this, now. ...
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The code above is somewhat simplified and missing some checks that I would advise implementing in a serious production application. For example:The request contains a Date header. Compare it with current date and time within a reasonable time window to prevent replay attacks.It is advisable that requests with payloads in the body also send a Digest header, and that header be signed along in the signature. If it’s present, it should be checked as another special case within the comparison string: Instead of taking the digest value from the received header, recompute it from the received body.While this proves the request comes from an actor, what if the payload contains an attribution to someone else? In reality you’d want to check that both are the same, otherwise one actor could forge messages from other people.
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We need to read the Signature header, split it into its parts (keyId, headers and signature), fetch the public key linked from keyId, create a comparison string from the plaintext headers we got in the same order as was given in the signature header, and then verify that string using the public key and the original signature.
```ruby require 'json' require 'http'
post '/inbox' do signature_header = request.headers['Signature'].split(',').map do |pair| pair.split('=').map do |value| value.gsub(/\A"/, '').gsub(/"\z/, '') # "foo" -> foo end end.to_h
key_id = signature_header['keyId'] headers = signature_header['headers'] signature = Base64.decode64(signature_header['signature'])
actor = JSON.parse(HTTP.get(key_id).to_s) key = OpenSSL::PKey::RSA.new(actor['publicKey']['publicKeyPem'])
comparison_string = headers.split(' ').map do |signed_header_name| if signed_header_name == '(request-target)' '(request-target): post /inbox' else "#{signed_header_name}: #{request.headers[signed_header_name.capitalize]}" end end
if key.verify(OpenSSL::Digest::SHA256.new, signature, comparison_string) request.body.rewind INBOX << request.body.read [200, 'OK'] else [401, 'Request signature could not be verified'] end end ```
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docs.joinmastodon.org docs.joinmastodon.orgSecurity1
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whalebird.social whalebird.social
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https://whalebird.social/en/desktop/contents
Whalebird is a Mastodon, Pleroma, and Misskey client for desktop application
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joinmastodon.org joinmastodon.orgMastodon1
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Because I'm always forgetting them, and they're annoying to look up, my user ID's for:
- mastodon.social: 17545
- hcommons.social: 109429840453119702
Also the permalink URL formats for reposts/links https://instance.org/@screenname/postID#reposted-by-userID
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bavatuesdays.com bavatuesdays.com
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paulstamatiou.com paulstamatiou.comMastodon1
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mastodon.art mastodon.art
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https://mastodon.art/@fediblock
I boost everything from the #fediblock hashtag that isn't noise, reruns, or user-level. Do your own homework beyond that.
<small><cite class='h-cite via'>ᔥ <span class='p-author h-card'>@welshpixie@mastodon.art</span> in "If you're an instance admin/mod struggling to keep up with the fediblock tag, @fediblock is a 'curated' version that filters through the trolling/misuse of the tag and repeat entries, and only boosts the actual proper fediblock content. :)" - Mastodon.ART (<time class='dt-published'>01/05/2023 11:17:52</time>)</cite></small>
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counter.social counter.social
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https://counter.social/index.html
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500ish.com 500ish.com
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Mastodon Brought a Protocol to a Product Fight
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andysylvester.com andysylvester.com
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toots with replies (https://zirk.us/@bsigmon/with_replies.rss)
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docs.google.com docs.google.com
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Lists of Fediverse projects, details, follow lists, etc.
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sampsyo.github.io sampsyo.github.io
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https://sampsyo.github.io/emfed/
A JavaScript project for embedding Mastodon feeds into webpages.
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- Dec 2022
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followgraph.vercel.app followgraph.vercel.app
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https://followgraph.vercel.app/
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benlog.com benlog.com
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we need to consider how the architecture might make the UX suck.
Architecture can make UX suck.
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my strong sense is that we’re currently papering over major UX problems that are linked to core architectural properties.
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arstechnica.com arstechnica.com
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Tom MacWright, a software developer in Brooklyn, has firsthand experience with the pitfalls of ActivityPub. As an experiment, he tried to turn his photo blog into an actor that could be followed by users via their Mastodon accounts. It worked in the end—and you can search for @photos@macwright.com from your Mastodon instance to follow his photography—but it wasn't easy.
Example of how ActivityPub standards don't work in practice, in part because Mastodon is an 800 pound gorilla which actively flauts or adds their own "standards".
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gitlab.com gitlab.com
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https://gitlab.com/soapbox-pub/soapbox
Soapbox, a front end product running Mastodon.
Found via this user's instance: https://social.arinbasu.online/notice/AR6oc4sUUpwBPfApHs
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docs.joinmastodon.org docs.joinmastodon.org
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macwright.com macwright.com
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docs.joinmastodon.org docs.joinmastodon.org
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h3poteto.github.io h3poteto.github.io
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bavatuesdays.com bavatuesdays.com
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docs.joinmastodon.org docs.joinmastodon.org
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themarkup.org themarkup.org
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fedifollow.glitch.me fedifollow.glitch.me
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For following my WordPress website from the Fediverse: https://fedifollow.glitch.me/follow?account=%40chrisaldrich%40boffosocko.com
<small><cite class='h-cite via'>ᔥ <span class='p-author h-card'>codefoodpixelsLuke Bonaccorsi</span> in Luke Bonaccorsi: "Because sharing follow links i…" - Indieweb.Social (<time class='dt-published'>12/22/2022 11:41:16</time>)</cite></small>
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help.micro.blog help.micro.blog
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https://help.micro.blog/t/whats-the-difference-between-micro-blog-and-mastodon/1395/2
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www.washingtonpost.com www.washingtonpost.com
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/12/17/how-to-join-mastodon/
Mastodon makes the front section of the Washington Post!? Twitter is in trouble...
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connect.oeglobal.org connect.oeglobal.org
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FOSSDLE Commons (new OER Foundation project) https://social.fossdle.org/ 4 OERu https://mastodon.oeru.org/ 6 Open EdTech https://openedtech.social/ 8 Fossodon (open source) https://fosstodon.org/ 1 Wikis World (wiki enthusiasts) https://wikis.world 1
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infosec.exchange infosec.exchange
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https://infosec.exchange/@atax1a/109400028861061670
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jasontucker.blog jasontucker.blog
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https://jasontucker.blog/14183/mastodon-indieweb-and-the-fediverse
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www.justingarrison.com www.justingarrison.com
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www.movetodon.org www.movetodon.org
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What a lovely looking UI.
The data returned will also give one a strong idea of how many of their acquaintances have made the jump as well as how active they may be, particularly for those who moved weeks ago and are still active within the last couple of days. For me the numbers are reasonably large. 860 of 4942 have accounts presently and in scrolling through it appears that 80% or so have been active within a day or so regardless of account age.
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Although there is no server governance census, in my own research I found very few examples of more participatory approaches to server governance (social.coop keeps a list of collectively owned instances)
Tarkowski has only seen a few more participatory server governance set-ups, most are 'benevolent dictator' style. Same. I have seen several growing instances that have changed from 'dictator' to a group of moderators making the decisions. You could democratise those roles by having users propose / vote on moderators. It's what we do offline in communal structures.
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Mastodon is a sustainable, healthy network that reached – before the migration begun – an equilibrium of around 5 million overall, with half a million active users. So why does it need to grow further? Because millions more people need access to healthy, just, sustainable, user-friendly communication tools. Hans Gerwitz described it as seeing the network’s growth as “souls saved,” instead of “eyeballs captured.”
An eye-opening metric. 'souls saved' vs eyeballs. As in, the number of people with access to a community values reinforcing platform. Vgl [[EU Digital Rights and Principles]] and [[Digital Services Act 20210319103722]] more geared to things that aren't specifically aimed at the culture of interaction, but at things that can be regulated (in the hope that it will impact culture of interaction).
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elk.zone elk.zone
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https://elk.zone/
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snarfed.org snarfed.org
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social.yesterweb.org social.yesterweb.org
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https://social.yesterweb.org/explore
A mastodon instance for the OG web and design folkx.
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discourse.joinmastodon.org discourse.joinmastodon.org
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Forks that do have a custom limit usually expose it as the max_toot_chars field in /api/v1/instance
https://discourse.joinmastodon.org/t/get-character-limit-from-instance/3643/2
Appending
/api/v1/instanceto a Mastodon instance will return a lot of interesting data about it and how it's set up.
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hcommons.social hcommons.social
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For those of you wondering if hcommons on mastodon has taken measures to ward against the sort of meltdown the server had a few weeks ago, there's a update from one of the admins: https://hcommons.social/@kfitz/1094609
https://hcommons.social/@amisamileanded/109466986626984098
Apparently sometime within it's first month of existence hcommons.social had a server meltdown of some sort. The admins addressed and hardened their set up.
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blog.netnerds.net blog.netnerds.net
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blog.jonudell.net blog.jonudell.net
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certain classes of Mastodon page have corresponding RSS feeds, and wondered if the tag pages are members of one such class. Sure enough they are, and https://mastodon.social/tags/introduction.rss is a thing.
Mastodon has RSS feeds available for tags!
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blog.maartenballiauw.be blog.maartenballiauw.be
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https://blog.maartenballiauw.be/post/2022/11/05/mastodon-own-donain-without-hosting-server.html
Basic instructions for using your own website to point to your Mastodon account (on another server).
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https://thenewstack.io/devs-are-excited-by-activitypub-open-protocol-for-mastodon/
Good general overview of ActivityPub and Mastodon.
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www.manton.org www.manton.org
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Describes how to move from a Mastodon account to micro.blog. also provides details about "move" activity in ActivityPub.
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https://www.manton.org/2022/12/02/moving-from-mastodon.html
Details for moving from one instance to another.
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meso.tzyl.nl meso.tzyl.nl
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fasiha.github.io fasiha.github.ioYoyogi1
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https://fasiha.github.io/yoyogi/
Yoyogi is an alternate Mastodon reading interface that shows messages by author / thread and not as the traditional timeline.
Similar to Pinafore
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kinlane.com kinlane.com
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I have 17K followers
People talk about their huge follower counts on Twitter, but seem to discount the number of bots, inactive accounts, and other cruft that make up that number.
Most people moving to Mastodon are reporting much more honest, human, and warm engagement on the platform over their experiences on Twitter.
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dolphin.town dolphin.town🐬 Town1
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https://dolphin.town/about/more
A social media service for dolphins where you can only send messages with the letter "e".
compare with https://oulipo.social/about which elides the letter e
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scripting.com scripting.com
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Last night I posted a message to both Mastodon and Twitter saying how great M's support for RSS is. Apparently a lot of people on Masto didn't know about it and the response has been resounding. And the numbers are very lopsided. The piece has been "boosted" (the Masto equiv of RT) 1.1K times, yet I only have 3.7K followers there. Meanwhile on Twitter, where I have 69K followers, it has been RTd just 17 times. My feeling was previously that Mastodon was more alive, it's good to have a number to put behind that.
http://scripting.com/2022/12/03.html#a152558
Anecdotal evidence for the slow death of Twitter and higher engagement on Mastodon.
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tldr.nettime is an instance for artists, researchers, and activists interested in exploring the intersections of technology, culture, and politics. It has grown out of nettime-l, one of the longest-running mailing lists on the net — in particular, on the 'cultural politics of the internet'.
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escapingtech.com escapingtech.com
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Most Mastodon servers run on donations, which creates a very different dynamic. It is very easy for a toxic platform to generate revenue through ad impressions, but most people are not willing to pay hard-earned money to get yelled at by extremists all day. This is why Twitter’s subscription model will never work. With Mastodon, people find a community they enjoy, and thus are happy to donate to maintain. Which add a new dynamic. Since Mastodon is basically a network of communities, it is expected that moderators are responsible for their own community, lowering the burden for everyone. Let’s say you run a Mastodon instance and a user of another instance has become problematic towards your users. You report them to their instance’s moderators, but the moderators decline to act. What can you do? Well a lot, actually.
Accountability economy
Assuming instance owners want their instance to thrive, they are accountable to the users—who are also donating funds to run the server. Mastodon also provides easy ways to block users or instances, and if bad actors start populating an instance, the instance gets a bad name and is de-federated by others. Users on the de-federated instance now have the option to stick around or go to another instance so they are reachable again.
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https://www.downes.ca/post/74564
Stephen Downes is doing a great job of regular recaps on the shifts in Twitter/Mastodon/Fediverse lately. I either read or saw all these in the last couple of days myself.
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shkspr.mobi shkspr.mobi
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g13g.blog g13g.blog
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https://g13g.blog/2021/03/16/get-your-blog-posts-on-mastodon/
I should write some documentation up for this.
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andy-bell.co.uk andy-bell.co.uk
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https://github.com/mwt/apfollow/
Code and buttons for creating ActivityPub Follow me interface
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odd.blog odd.blog
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Matthew Thomas has created a remote follow tool called apfollow, with source available. This creates a page where you can follow a Mastodon account by entering your own details in a box and it redirects you to your home server to do the follow. Here’s a link to follow my Mastodon.ie account.
This looks cool.
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docs.google.com docs.google.com
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A list of congress members on Mastodon.
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Literature, philosophy, film, music, culture, politics, history, architecture: join the circus of the arts and humanities! For readers, writers, academics or anyone wanting to follow the conversation.
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hcommons.social hcommons.social
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hcommons.social is a microblogging network supporting scholars and practitioners across the humanities and around the world.
https://hcommons.social/about
The humanities commons has their own mastodon instance now!
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ooh.directory ooh.directory
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https://ooh.directory/blog/2022/first-two-days/
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dougbelshaw.com dougbelshaw.com
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techpolicy.press techpolicy.press
