Mastodon
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Have you guys tried Mastodon? What has your experience been like? What do you use it for?
There seems to be broader interest in Mastodon this month as a result of the recent chaos at Twitter.
I've used decentralized social media for many years now because it's good policy as Eben Moglen talks about:
http://old.law.columbia.edu/isoc/eben_moglen_freedom_in_the_cloud.ogv
First I was on identi.ca when it ran the StatusNet software, then later it moved to the pump.io software using the Activity Streams protocol. I still have a presence on the pump.io network but the ActivityPub protocol seems to be more popular currently and I have a presence there too via https://social.bobcall.me/@jxself. There are actually many branches to this, as shown in https://axbom.com/fediverse/ but for some reason the Mastodon software specifically seems to attract a lot of attention. Perhaps because people are unhappy with Elon Musk and not for any "good" reason like freedom, privacy, and autonomy and have somehow started to think of Mastodon as a Twitter replacement, ignoring the other parts of that tree, despite the fact that those things that speak ActivityPub can all talk to each other.
I am a member!
Should I post videos from my Mastodon account, or should I get a
separate PeerTube account? Same with Lemmy, the Reddit replacement.
Just because I can interface with "Reddit" from "Twitter", does that
mean I should?
On Sat, Nov 26 2022 at 07:26:53 PM +0000, name at domain wrote:
> I've used decentralized social media for many years now because it's
> good policy as Eben Moglen talks about:
>
>
> First I was on identi.ca when it ran the StatusNet software, then
> later it moved to the pump.io software using the Activity Streams
> protocol. I still have a presence on the pump.io network but the
> ActivityPub protocol seems to be more popular currently. There are
> actually many branches to this, as shown in
> but for some reason the Mastodon
> software specifically seems to attract a lot of attention. Perhaps
> because people are unhappy with Elon Musk and not for any "good"
> reason like freedom, privacy, and autonomy and have somehow started
> to think of Mastodon as a Twitter replacement, ignoring the other
> parts of that tree, despite the fact that those things that speak
> ActivityPub can all talk to each other.
>
Are Mastodon, identi.ca, and pump.io connected with each other?
PeerTube looks cool; I'll check it out
"identi.ca and pump.io are connected with each other"
In the sense that pump.io is the software that's running on the server named identi.ca ;)
Mastodon speaks a different language and they can't talk to each other. I had heard, some time ago, that there was a desire to update pump.io to also speak ActivityPub but it appears that this never happened.
I have been using Mastodon for years. I use it as a way to pose questions; to see and share news; and to contact certain projects. I have never and will never use Twitter. I don't see the big deal with Elon really. Nobody minded when a bunch of hedgefunds and investment banks were the biggest shareholders and free speech was being stomped on but now when a single billionaire owns it and stomps on free speech people run for the hills.
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