Eugen RochkoI was a bit worried that the Kotaku article made Mastodon sound like an insular closed club, but judging by all the new sign ups there's probably no better way to make people want to sign up than to suggest that something is exclusive...
CarHauler@Gargron I found this on Google+ it was in my feed. I'm not understanding the "federated" part. I went to look for other sites, and it looks like you have to go through the signup process all over again for each site? How is that "Federated"?
Chris (moving to jade.moe)@carhauler @Gargron that's a bit of a misconception. You typically only need an account on one instance. Then, the instance you are on can talk to other instances.
For example, I am not on mastodon.social, or using the Mastodon software at all. Instead I host another federated software called Pleroma. Via federation instances of different software send events to each other and receive events. So I can see and respond to you, and you can see and respond to me even though we are on different sites.
For example, I am not on mastodon.social, or using the Mastodon software at all. Instead I host another federated software called Pleroma. Via federation instances of different software send events to each other and receive events. So I can see and respond to you, and you can see and respond to me even though we are on different sites.
@brainblasted @Gargron So what level of "sysadmin" do you have to be in order to create your own?
@carhauler @Gargron depends on how you want to set it up. There are services like masto.host that can host for you, or one-click installs, and you can set stuff up manually. Manually requires some knowledge of SSH, HTTPS, maybe git, database software, and how to build the respective software.
@brainblasted @Gargron I'm a one click install kinda sysadmin. Think I'll try that route. Thanks for the help and I will call on you when I get after it.❤️