pluralistic.net/2024/11/02/uly…

@pluralistic 's words on Bluesky and #enshittification are, to me, true.

These two paragraphs say everything about why I can't trust Bluesky to always have good intentions:

'But here's the thing: all those other platforms, the ones where I unwisely allowed myself to get locked in, where today I find myself trapped by the professional, personal and political costs of leaving them, they were all started by people who swore they'd never sell out. I know those people, the old blogger mafia who started the CMSes, social media services, and publishing platforms where I find myself trapped. I considered them friends (I still consider most of them friends), and I knew them well enough to believe that they really cared about their users.

They did care about their users. They just cared about other stuff, too, and, when push came to shove, they chose the worsening of their services as the lesser of two evils.'

#bluesky #mastodon #CoryDoctorow

On Mastodon, you never see all replies, especially if you host a small instance.

GoToSocial and IceShrimp.NET do a fetch all replies when you open the detail of a post.

This feature may finally be on its way to Mastodon!

Hoping it gets a UI indicator showing the reply retrieval progress. Right now, that is lacking in other software, you have to refresh the screen after a bit of time has passed and then see them, not ideal.

github.com/mastodon/mastodon/p…

#Mastodon #GoToSocial #IceShrimpNET

Add Fetch All Replies Part 1: Backend by sneakers-the-rat · Pull Request #32615 · mastodon/mastodon

Original PR Here: NeuromatchAcademy#44 Further description here: NeuromatchAcademy#43 I've never made a PR for upstream before, so forgive me if i'm doing it wrong <3 Problem Currently, ...

^GitHub

I love that the first command on the Mastodon "Using the admin CLI" documentation page is the ultimate kaboom command.

#mastodon #mastoadmin

Speaking of #MastoAdmin duties that I'm working on right now, I'm also setting up regular cleanup for my instance.

ultramookie.com/2024/03/mastod…

#mastodon #fediverse

Keeping Mastodon Tidy

Admin’s gotta vacuum sometimes to make things clean.

^{Steve Mookie Kong (ultramookie)}

Reposting my Cheap Bastard's Guide to Monitoring Mastodon since I just launched my own Mastodon instance again and set this stuff up again.

ultramookie.com/2023/03/monito…

#mastodon #mastoadmin #fediverse

Monitoring Basics... On the Cheap

How Mookie does monitoring…

^{Steve Mookie Kong (ultramookie)}

This is a powerful statement from UK journalists and we agree.

X is no longer neutral and no longer a home for journalists.

We are ready to support any and all journalists who make the move to open social networks, now and in the New Social future.

Please, feel free to send journalists or publications our way if they have any questions. Or, if you're a journalist yourself, feel free to reach out.

docs.google.com/document/d/1dF…

#SocialMedia #X #Journalism #News #OpenSocial #Mastodon #Fediverse

Moving Off X: An Open Letter from UK Journalists

Moving Off X: An Open Letter from UK Journalists As UK journalists, we have used Twitter – now X – for many years. It has been a resource for story-gathering, network-building, and a megaphone for getting public-interest stories to a wider audience.

^{Google Docs}

#Mastodon got a lift in sign ups also.

"Month over month, signups were also up by 27% with 90,000 newly registered accounts in November."

This account is one in those 90,000.

techcrunch.com/2024/11/18/mast…

#fediverse #bluesky

Mastodon sees a boost from the 'X exodus,' too, founder says | TechCrunch

Decentralized social network Mastodon is also seeing some uplift from the X "exodus," founder Eugen Rochko shared on the platform just ahead of the

^{Sarah Perez (TechCrunch)}

A downside of fediverse (at the moment) is the wrongly displayed amount of likes/shares (boosts) of a post.

When you want to double check it, click the three dots underneath the post and select 'open in original page'.

It can result in a post showing for example '3 boosts' on your instance into '280 boosts' on the original page.

#fediverse #mastodon #fedimanual

TIL that some Mastodon servers require authentication even to get a public post by API.

Oh well, more error checking code it is, then :)

#fediverse #mastodon #API #public

Coming soon… Streamiverse.

A curated streaming fediverse post API compatible with the Mastodon API for use in teaching, demos, presenting, etc. Basically, if you were using the Mastodon public timeline API for these use cases before it started to require authentication, this will be a good alternative :)

If you have suggestions for the curated feed, reply to this with links to posts.

💕

#fediverse #teaching #demos #presenting #mastodon #api #streaming #public #posts #streamiverse

While #Mastodon is the giant of the #Fediverse , I am curious if any of the other projects have made better strides with onboarding, moderation, UX and so forth.

How is #Friendica on these issues? Or #Misskey ? Ideally we should have a number of _different_ #ActivityPub -based systems which all compete to make their user experiences better. I mean, isn't tying ourselves too closely to any single platform how we got ourselves into this mess in the first place?

Found 4 new servers and 4 servers died off since 3 hours ago.

22,798 servers checked. 15,820,249 Total Users with 1,096,957 Active Users today. Check out the stats!

New #fediverse servers found:

m.ouo.moe a #mastodon server from Private
social.darksky.app a #mastodon server from Private
uirohompo.com a #misskey server from Private
gts.amd.im a #gotosocial server from United States

Help others find a home, send them to fediverse.observer

micromookie.com was one of my first #Mastodon instances that I brought up and ran -- way back in 2018.

Thank goodness for the @internetarchive. They preserved a bunch of the instance and I'm thankful for that.

web.archive.org/web/2018121523…

#fediverse

mookie kong 🎄 (@mookie@micromookie.com)

161 Toots, 120 Following, 35 Followers · dad, movie watcher, runner, guitarist in training, gamer, engineer of sorts and snarky troublemaker. opinions are my own, there are no endorsements.

^micromookie

STOP #ENSHITIFICATION

Support #Mastodon!

I would like to use Bluesky. They’ve done a bunch of seriously interesting technical work on moderation and ranking that I truly admire, and I’ve got lots of friends there who really enjoy it.

But I’m not on Bluesky and I don’t have any plans to join it anytime soon. I wrote about this in 2023: I will never again devote my energies to building up an audience on a platform whose management can sever my relationship to that audience at will

@pluralistic
#bluesky #x #twitter #facebook #socialmedia #enshitification
doctorow.medium.com/https-plur…

Bluesky and enshittification - Cory Doctorow - Medium

Next weekend (November 8–10), I’ll be in Tucson, AZ: I’m the Guest of Honor at the TusCon science fiction convention. I would like to use Bluesky. They’ve done a bunch of seriously interesting…

^{Cory Doctorow (Medium)}

How much does it cost me to run this single-user #Mastodon instance annually?

$130 - VPS (4x vCPU, 16GB RAM, 200GB Storage, 10TB Transfer)
$12 - Domain
$0 - DNS
$0 - Email
$0 - Monitoring / Alerting
$0 - Observability

Total (Annual): $142
Per Month: $11.83

Not bad, it’s $4 less than #Netflix (without ads) per month. The #Fediverse way more amusing and fun when compared to Netflix.

Divorced Dad Energy Off The Charts

#elonmusk #fediverse #mastodon

Tiny Fediverse Tip to Organize ✊💚:

In the months to come,
it will become increasingly important to organize, and to organize outside of corporate-owned environments.

Here are a few tools you can use to organize through the Fediverse:

Organize Mastodon Groups
(Thanks for this tutorial @FediTips !)
Here's how: fedi.tips/how-to-use-groups-on…

Follow Mastodon Hashtags #️⃣
Here's how: infosec.exchange/@Em0nM4stodon…

Organize Events with Mobilizon
Here's how: joinmobilizon.org/en/

Share Information on PeerTube 📺
Here's how: joinpeertube.org/

Don't give up! Organize! ✊✨

#TinyMastodonTip #Mastodon #Fediverse

How to use groups on Mastodon and the Fediverse | Fedi.Tips – An Unofficial Guide to Mastodon and the Fediverse

An unofficial guide to using Mastodon and the Fediverse

^fedi.tips

This afternoon, an acquaintance joined a Mastodon instance and asked me which "celebrities" are present in the Fediverse, as if it were important to determine the value of a social network based on that.

I told him that the most important user in the Fediverse is him. Just as it’s you, reading this. Someone who has decided to interact with others freely. Who has chosen to trust their administrator (or create their own instance) more than they trust those who run traditional, monolithic, centralized social networks.

So, I want to thank all the friends of BSD Cafe, whether local or not, for being here and making this place what it is. And I thank all my friends in the Fediverse, who make my timeline lively, interesting, intelligent, fun, and thought-provoking - every day, at any time.

#BSDCafe #Mastodon #Fediverse #SocialNetworks #SocialMedia #Community #Trust #OpenSource #DigitalFreedom #JoinTheFediverse

Notes on starter packs: what I like about Mastodon (and previously on Twitter to some extent). I like the community building as an active process. That is, discovering people by reading hashtags and interacting with them (or hoping to learn from them). This is an active process, which runs counter to the parasocial influencer stuff you get elsewhere. In this context, people are free to follow, but not free to expect interactions with me if they are not constructive.

#mastodon #socialmedia

Until those that I interact with here on the #Fediverse all leave for #Bluesky, I really don’t care how fast Bluesky is growing.

The people I follow and those that I have chance encounters with on the Fediverse are awesome.

Y’all keep on being you. This place is most excellent!

#Mastodon #GoToSocial

On #Mastodon there are now
333 verified accounts from #news organizations in
21 languages and on
110 instances.

138 were active today.

Some accounts, that were active today are
@contreattaque (FRA)
@bz (GER)
@Mediagazer (ENG)
@Bellingcat (ENG)
@BleepingComputer (ENG)

Find the whole list on:
➡️ docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d…

Built by @mho

#MastodonMigration #SocialMedia #Fediverse #Media #Press #Newspaper #TwitterMigration #Newstodon

Verified Media on Mastodon

^{Google Docs}

We’re getting it wrong when we tell folks that #Mastodon is just like “Old #Twitter”. If you want that, that’s #Bluesky. Mastodon is a different kind of place.

This is a more intimate community that discourages “influencing” because there’s no profit motive for eyeballs. The microblogging approach may look similar to Twitter but the way the communities form and conversations evolve is fundamentally different.

It’s no uptopia; we’ve got a shitload of work to do to make it safer.

#Fediverse

Found 11 new servers and 17 servers died off since 7 hours ago.

22,786 servers checked. 15,820,249 Total Users with 1,092,709 Active Users today. Check out the stats!

New #fediverse servers found:

michaelbarrett.ghost.is a #ghost server from United States
faewild.space a #wordpress server from Private
sok.egois.org a #gotosocial server from Indonesia
share.slowte.ch a #mastodon server from Switzerland
friendica-opbdq-u25735.vm.elestio.app a #friendica server from Germany
www.radiofreetokyo.com a #mastodon server from Private
gondor.middle-earth.site a #mitra server from France
misskey.uiro.dev a #misskey server from Private
aifriends.happyorigin.org a #misskey server from Private
biketoot.com a #gotosocial server from United Kingdom
sharkey.pupbrained.xyz a #sharkey server from Private

Help others find a home, send them to fediverse.observer

I find it utterly unfair that Bluesky is now booming, the press is talking about it a lot, while Mastodon _is_ decentralized, older, provides more features, and is based on standards. Why people keep rejecting these techs? Why the choice is rarely made in favor of simple, standard-based, open, community-driven solutions?

This isn’t my project but I think it is an interesting question. What makes these solutions appealing or not?

#mastodon #bluesky