daveid

No, it's not

Mastodon is AGPLv3 so there is nothing to buy.

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.

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 pigeons, which were actually used for transmitting information, you'd get critics saying "It's so archaic, nobody has used pigeons for 80 years!" Birds carrying messages is just as "extinct" of a metaphor as Mastodons are as an animal.

What's not cute about elephants? Especially fluffy ones?

It's ActivityPub, not OStatus!

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.

https://docs.joinmastodon.org/

Linked from the README in the repository you linked.

Yes, I deleted mine! Deleted my Twitter account too

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, using pgBouncer etc.

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.

OpenID doesn't provide API access like OAuth does, does it?

What would be a better name?

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.

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 features needed for compliance, and does not collect or store any data that's not for its primary purpose.

Bug found and fixed and patched!

I checked and I noticed that the pictures in the embedded toots don't show up on Chrome. Investigating.

Thank you! Hugo is awesome.

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 within the EU. It's like the EU parliament is bent on giving all the cards to Google and Facebook and shutting down European competition...

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

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.

There are more languages in the world than English, not supporting Unicode is not an option for most.

The elephant in the room is not Facebook.

Can you really say "elephant in the room" in a thread about social media and not mention Mastodon[1]? That's a facebook rival that's not staying mum...

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IPSbNdBmWKE

PeerTube also federates using the W3C ActivityPub protocol, so Mastodon users can follow PeerTube channels and comment on videos as they would respond to other statuses :)

TLS is required in Mastodon for all transport. And of course your IP address is not included in any payloads leaving your server.

The average joe expects direct messages to really be private. If they're not, that's bad.

They're not "really private" in Twitter DMs and Facebook Messenger and PMs on phpBB and Discourse forums, they were not "really private" in ICQ, AIM and XMPP (unless you installed the OTR plugin on the last one). E2EE is cool but most private messages on the internet do not use it and they are still called things like "private" and "direct".

Connect to post something without encryption means your location is revealed to anybody observing the network.

Where are you taking this from? You think connecting to your Mastodon server you have an account on somehow broadcasts to the whole network?

should I be some location and post something, I'd be broadcasting my location, even if that isn't intended

Can you tell me how and where you would broadcast your location via Mastodon? There are no geolocation features in Mastodon.

It needs to be encrypted, too, because it's the reasonable expectation when private messages and followers-only messages exist.

Has anyone attempted to encrypt a message to 64,000 recipients yet? I don't think restricting a message to followers is an applicable model for e2ee. Direct messages yes, I can see the point in that.

I don't know what you mean. Mastodon deletes all the data from the server, and sends out delete payloads to other servers that may have stored copies. If you refer to the fact that some of those copies may remain, then you need to mark all services as not allowing account deletion because Google may have caches of indexed profile and post pages.

Why is Mastodon listed as "does not delete account"? Look under Security -> Delete account

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