Mastodon
- Mastodon forms new U.S. non-profitblog.joinmastodon.org Mastodon forms new U.S. non-profit
As part of our commitment to supporting the growth and operational capabilities of Mastodon, we have established a 501(c)(3) non-profit entity in the United States aimed at facilitating our efforts, including being able to receive tax-deductible U.S. donations.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/14961640
> > > We’re excited to announce the Board of Directors governing this newly formed entity: > > > >Esra’a Al Shafei is a human rights advocate and founder of Majal.org > > > >Karien Bezuidenhout is an advocate for openness and supporter of social entrepreneurs. > > > >Amir Ghavi leads Fried Frank’s core technology practices as the co-head of the Technology Transactions Practice > > > >Felix Hlatky has been the Chief Financial Officer of Mastodon since 2020. > > > >Biz Stone is an entrepreneur best known as a co-founder of Twitter, one of the world’s leading social media platforms.
- Whats the state of algorithms on Mastodon?tech.lgbt aaron (@aku@tech.lgbt)
Whats the state of #algorithms on #Mastodon? I understand that algorithms based on engagement are problematic, but scaling posts based on posting frequency could help me not have a feed where some people are drowned out by frequent posters...
Whats the state of #algorithms on #Mastodon? I mean for the feed. I understand that algorithms based on engagement are problematic, but scaling posts based on posting frequency could help me not have a feed where some people are drowned out by frequent posters...
- Lemmy federation
I'm not able to follow lemmy account / community on a 4.2.8 mastodon instace... Are you on the same situation???
4.3.0 nightly seems to working fine...
- BBC extending Mastodon social media trialwww.bbc.co.uk Extending our Mastodon social media trial
An update reflecting on 6 months of our trial in the federated social media space
- BlueskyBridge: Opt-Out is a terrible default and should be reconsideredgithub.com Opt-out is a terrible default and should be reconsidered · Issue #835 · snarfed/bridgy-fed
It should be pretty obvious that a decentralized network that many use specifically to not be connected to centralized networks houses mostly people who do not wish to have their posts bridged to B...
- Every Silicon Valley pundit be likemas.to ploum (@ploum@mamot.fr)
"I’m not on Mastodon because there’s nobody there, there’s not enough users to make it succeed, my whole community is on Twitter and don’t want to migrate and… hey… I now have a #Bluesky account! Please follow me on Bluesky, it’s very cool, it belongs to a billionaire but is decentralised. Or at lea...
- What server should I join?
I'm thinking about joining mastodon, but I don't know what server to go with, and the list of servers seems to have very little information about each. Right now I think I'll open an account on mastodon.social.
I'd prefer a server with a high character limit and that has access to most other servers.
- Why is there Mastodon and Pixelfed?
Why is there #Mastodon and #Pixelfed?
On pixelfed there's only images but you can filter mastodon for images. Why would I make two profiles and when do I post which image to which platform?
- HELP: Fediverse app / network that allows the following?
Hi everyone,
Not sure if it’s possible, but would like to know if there is something like this:
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Can one use just one app / social network to follow the other Fediverse social networks?
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And if so, does any app / social network allow for bulk loading a list of keywords to use for blocking. (Everything seems to allow to only insert one word at a time….???)
Have had other Fediverse social accounts in the past, but the splintering and keywords issue always becomes a mission. Very surprised that even Twitter / X also only allows one word at a time. Instagram, Facebook and Threads allow for bulk loading with commas, which is also great.
Not sure if this is the right place to ask, but assume some of you might be on other Fedi networks as well? ANY help would be greatly appreciated.
NOTE: using an iPhone, so Android apps won’t work unfortunately. :-(
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- Why the Fediverse is not (yet) Billionaire-Proof, or: The 51% Attack for the Fediversefungiverse.wordpress.com Why the Fediverse is not (yet) Billionaire-Proof, or: The 51% Attack for the Fediverse
Definition: A single, abusive entity or a group of abusive entities in the Fediverse has gained so much influence, that they can pull EEE (embrace, extend and extinguish The attack will look like t…
- Embrace, Extend, Enforce (ƎƎƎ): A practical Strategy against potentially abusive Instances like Meta’s Threadsfungiverse.wordpress.com Embrace, Extend, Enforce (ƎƎƎ): A practical Strategy against potentially abusive Instances like Meta’s Threads
TL;DR: The common view on Meta’s Threads is that it will be either all good or all bad, leading to oversimplified and at the end contra productive propositions like the Fedipact. But in reality, it…
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/12225991
> TL;DR: The common view on Meta’s Threads is that it will be either all good or all bad, leading to oversimplified and at the end contra productive propositions like the Fedipact. But in reality, it’s behaviour will most likely change dynamically over time, and therefore, to prevent us getting in a position, in which Threads can actually perform EEE on us, we need to adapt a dynamic strategy as well.
- I came across this on Artifactjustingarrison.com Mastodon Is Doomed
Mastodon won't be the next Twitter, and it's not because of Bluesky. The ideals and execution won't scale.
- Block Meta/Facebook from Mastodon
(This is an extended version of one of the most widely re-shared post I have ever written on Mastodon.)
The new "Threads" app by Meta (Facebook) is just the old 4-E strategy strategy to destroy Mastodon:
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Embrace:
(what they are doing now) launch a competing but compatible service with that of Mastodon. The vast majority of users, most of whom don't care about the privacy and intimacy of the Mastodon network, will go with the brand with the most name recognition. The number of users already signed up for Threads shows this to be true.
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Extend:
make their service appear to be better with features like search, which they have the resources to do, but the rest of the Mastodon network does not. Also include features for tracking and advertising, sell this as a good thing, "a better place to grow your personal brand, your business." When people think about joining either Facebook Threads or some other Mastodon instance, which will they choose? "Oh, Threads users can also talk with Mastodon users so they are basically the same? Well, why not just use Threads then?" The one with the most name recognition will always win.
Then comes the blogs and YouTube videos about, "I tried Threads, Bluesky, Mastodon, Pixelfed, each for 1 month, here is what I learned" type videos in which the author decides Threads or Bluesky is best because they have better features and you don't have to decide which instance to join.
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Extinguish:
after attracting a critical mass of users large enough to decimate the user base of the competing Mastodon network, and temporarily making appear to have better features like search, quietly remove compatibility with the Mastodon network.
This might effect only 10% of Mastodon users because the other 90% will be on Threads. Then people will think, "who cares if we lose contact with that tiny minority of old Mastodon users, they should have just joined Threads by now anyways, they still can. It has search, and more people voted for it with their patronage. And you don't have to think about what instance to join, its easier\!"
At this point, people begin to wonder what the point of Mastodon even is.
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Enshittification:
without any real competition to keep people from leaving for an alternative, start exploiting users for more and more content for ad revenue, while also exploiting advertisers with ever-increasing costs of ad revenue, while also cutting costs on the quality of their service until it becomes unusable. But at this point it is too late for Mastodon, the momentum it once had is now long gone and no longer a threat to the Meta corporation. Their investment paid off.
Meta is one of the worlds largest corporations that has made most of its money not just through advertising but from gathering and selling people's personal information. They are scared to death about losing control over the Internet that they had gained over the past 15 years or so, and they are fighting to take that control back for themselves.
We built this, but now a corporation like Meta/Facebook feels they have the right to exploit it for all its riches until it is destroyed. Don't let it happen. Join the Fediblock cause, it is the only way to protect our home-grown community from corporate take-over.
Eugene Rochko thinks Threads is good, he is wrong
Eugene Rochko who developed Mastodon as a Twitter-like app based on the ActivityPub protocol, has a blog post explaining why he thinks federating with Threads is good for Mastodon.
> We have been advocating for interoperability between platforms for years. The biggest hurdle to users switching platforms when those platforms become exploitative is the lock-in of the social graph, the fact that switching platforms means abandoning everyone you know and who knows you. The fact that large platforms are adopting ActivityPub is not only validation of the movement towards decentralized social media, but a path forward for people locked into these platforms to switch to better providers. Which in turn, puts pressure on such platforms to provide better, less exploitative services. This is a clear victory for our cause, hopefully one of many to come.
No, Threads will get people to leave Mastodon in droves. Really all Facebook is doing here is leaching users away from Mastodon. The average user doesn't know or care about the “perks” of non-Facebook Mastodon instances that Eugene is talking about. They will go with the service with the most name recognition every time, rather than trust an independent, small-time instance operator.
Threads is just Facebook with ActivityPub compatibility and extended Facebook's ads and tracking. The goal is to pull people away from decentralized networks and back to being under their control. Then the network effects Eugene is talking about will kick in, but moving people away from Mastodon and toward Threads.
History repeats itself again
We have seen all this before. Google did something similar when they first embraced support for the open and federated XMPP protocol in their Google Talk (GChat) app, and exactly the situation I described above happened. Eventually Google shut it down, and started calling the original XMPP apps "unauthorized third-party apps," although in fact Google was itself originally a third-party to the existing XMPP services that existed before GChat was invented.
People can and do still use XMPP, and I would encourage you to use it as well for video/voice/text chat. But all that momentum and popularity was extinguished, and was never really regained, at least not in the 9 years since Google extinguished it. So Google was successful in destroying a community of federated services using a popular communication protocol that made it difficult for Google to track and control people on the Internet.
We know for sure what Facebooks goal is not: they do not want to do something good for the various communities of people that have organically sprung-up around Mastodon and the other ActivityPub-based federated social networks. Mastodon does not need to make this mistake with Facebook Thraeds.
Mastodon and ActivityPub are important
Mastodon became most popular in the wake of Elon Musk buying out the Twitter corporation. Calling himself a "free speech aboslutist," which sounds as though he believes everyone should have a voice online no matter how unsavory that voice might be, quickly proved to be anything but a proponent of free speech, quietly censoring his critics and the political groups he hated, while giving a voice to everyone else, including (seemingly enthusiastically) giving a voice to racists and hate speech.
This happens every so often, although not always with the amount of drama churning around a single central figure such as Elon Musk. People see how dangerous it is that the communities we form over the Internet can only actually exist at the whims of an impersonal corporation that might at any point go insane and destroy their communities. When an Elon Musk event happens, then the problem becomes clear to everyone: they had been putting their faith into a monarch and/or despot like Twitter, and now it has turned against them.
The solution to this is, and always has been, the democratic approach, which in this case is Mastodon. Do not allow any one authority to have aboslute control over the plane of existence. Allow people to opt-in, and give them a say in how their community is run. Trust that people are smart enough to understand what is in their own best interest, and allow them to make their own decisions and cast their own votes. This is how ActivityPub and Mastodon work. But if a democracy is not careful, it can easily be overwhelmed and elimitated by the well-equipped armies competing for their resources.
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- If becomes thread-like, I'll leave social network forever. I'm done with meta wanting to control everything, chiefly the freedom of speech in a network used to communicate. I mean, really?
If @mastodon becomes thread-like, I'll leave social network forever. I'm done with meta wanting to control everything, chiefly the freedom of speech in a network used to communicate. I mean, really? The upsidedown World.
- Drivers of social influence in the Twitter migration to Mastodon - Scientific Reportswww.nature.com Drivers of social influence in the Twitter migration to Mastodon - Scientific Reports
The migration of Twitter users to Mastodon following Elon Musk’s acquisition presents a unique opportunity to study collective behavior and gain insights into the drivers of coordinated behavior in online media. We analyzed the social network and the public conversations of about 75,000 migrated use...
- A new Type of Mastodon Signup that gives people a sense of Agencyfungiverse.wordpress.com A new Type of Mastodon Signup that gives people a sense of Agency
TL;DR: The current Mastodon-signup is only removing the confusion of users on first glance, because it either hides the server-choice altogether, or leaves them with a choice that is impossible to …
cross-posted from: https://feddit.de/post/6792877
> TL;DR: The current Mastodon-signup is only removing the confusion of users on first glance, because it either hides the server-choice altogether, or leaves them with a choice that is impossible to make at this point of their Mastodon-journey. Instead, it should introduce them to decentrality on a lower scale, with a handful of handpicked servers to choose from, such that the decision makes sense to them and shows them the merits and fun of the concept instead of scaring them away. Ideal would be to give them a sense of agency. Then, chances are higher that they consider migrating again in the future and eventually internalize it as a permanent option of the digital world.
- Check out my other social media pages, need to add Mastodon!!
Check out my other social media pages, need to add Mastodon!!
Can i post xxx videos on here, or nah?
- Get Out of the Nest! Drivers of social influence in the Twitter migration to Mastodoncommunities.springernature.com Get Out of the Nest! Drivers of social influence in the Twitter migration to Mastodon
Elon Musk's purchase of Twitter on October 2022 triggered a mass exodus to Mastodon, the largest decentralized online social network. This is a unique example of collective behavioral change that is documented through large-scale digital traces, and can teach us a lot about how people coordinate.
- David Revoy made a picture...
> The recent excitement surrounding Thread's arrival on the Fediverse is concerning. To understand why this is not a good idea, consider their economic interest in harvesting data, their poor moderation, and their manipulations. Nothing good can come from their federation. Don't roll out the red carpet for them.
https://framapiaf.org/@davidrevoy/111579524478265691
- Eugen's post about Threads integration
I totally agree with him. This will bring more people to the fediverse once they realize they can interact with their friends on Threads
- Threads testing mastodon integrationwww.threads.net Mark Zuckerberg (@zuck) on Threads
Starting a test where posts from Threads accounts will be available on Mastodon and other services that use the ActivityPub protocol. Making Threads interoperable will give people more choice over how they interact and it will help content reach more people. I'm pretty optimistic about this.
- Mastodon contact form
is there some API or other mechanism that allows me to create a contact form on my site and have the messages delivered to my mastodon inbox?
- The new Mammoth app is a much simpler take on Mastodonwww.theverge.com The new Mammoth app is a much simpler take on Mastodon
Mammoth is definitely one of the best-looking fediverse apps you’ll find.
- New website: Mastodon Most Followed - Track the top 10,000 mastodon accounts by most followersmost-followed-masotodon-accounts.stefanhayden.com Mastodon Most Followed
Top accounts acrosss the Fediverse as tracked by @mostFollowed@mastodon.social
- Improving the quality of conversations on Mastodon - Mastodon Blogblog.joinmastodon.org Improving the quality of conversations on Mastodon
In our most recent Mastodon for Android release, we’re testing a new feature aimed to curb unneccesary negativity that comes from being on the Internet.
- [\#mastodon](https://mastodon.social/tags/mastodon) app widgets on iOS don’t work as they should [#bugreport](https://mastodon.social/tags/bugreport) [@mastodon](https://lemmy.ml/c/mastodon)
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\#mastodon app widgets on iOS don’t work as they should #bugreport @mastodon
- Why is there a little lock on the boost button on my post?
I'm new to Mastodon and still working stuff out.
- does anyone know what happened to cryptodon.lol
i guess i just experienced one of the biggest downsides to the fediverse that people have been talking about. instance suddenly disappeared with no warning. i guess i've lost my follow list
- Weird behaviour in the app
When I select to log in to my account, I get sent to a page with which I log in. After that, it doesn't switch back to the app, but it saltays within that website page and goes into the -change the password- section. Does this happen because I have not yet been accepted on the server (as stated in the yellow box)?
- Why do usernames of accounts you visit sometimes include your username?
I recently suggested Mastodon to a friend and she is using it on IOS. She sent me a picture of her visiting an account and the name shows as @username@herusername@mastodon.social
This doesn't happen for all accounts and I personally never noticed it. Is this a bug or is it supposed to be that way ?
Edit: She is using the "official" Mastodon app
- i love your slogan, but so far the site seems boring asf [@mastodon](https://lemmy.ml/c/mastodon) will check back in a few years
i love your slogan, but so far the site seems boring asf @mastodon will check back in a few years
- Followgraph for Mastodonfollowgraph.vercel.app Followgraph for Mastodon
Find people to follow on Mastodon by expanding your follow graph.
Followgraph looks up all the people you follow on Mastodon, and then the people they follow. Then it sorts them by the number of mutuals, or otherwise by how popular those accounts are. It then shows the list with Mastodon links to follow them.
- Mastodon List Bot: A tool to auto-curate lists and experiment with alternative home feedsgithub.com GitHub - untitaker/mastodon-list-bot: Generate "programmatic" lists in Mastodon
Generate "programmatic" lists in Mastodon. Contribute to untitaker/mastodon-list-bot development by creating an account on GitHub.
- Well well well What do we have here Hi [@mastodon](https://lemmy.ml/c/mastodon) Here we Go
Well well well What do we have here Hi @mastodon Here we Go