SiddharthWhat is the advantage of a federated network (like
@Mastodon) over centralised networks (like
@TwitterOffical)?
@Mastodon) over centralised networks (like
@TwitterOffical)?
Does this make it any easier for the governing team to control the sanity, reduce the toxicity and prevent the platform from enabling bigotry? - or are those functions of only the makers' politics?
Can one be part of multiple instances? For instance, can we make a separate instance exclusively for Left Mastodon and be part of both?
Rate@dearthofsid it does say so. I added an instance in my account. It seems to work
@RateUnrate How do you add instance?
@dearthofsid if you’re making one for Left, I’d love to join (if that’s okay)
Guneet Narula@RateUnrate @dearthofsid there are some cool leftie instances out there, todon.nl is one of them
@guneetnarula how to join?
@dearthofsid you are already part of it in a way. you could make a new account there, but instead you can see what's happening in its public timeline here https://todon.nl/public and follow users with your account here. So your home feed here will be full of toots from todon.nl users.
@guneetnarula @dearthofsid btw, have you guys noticed this thing where you follow someone the grey icon turns blue, you across down and it turns grey again? Meaning it just unfollowed someone on its own? So weird
@guneetnarula @dearthofsid I tried following you, Guneet, it’s just automatically unfollowed multiple times
@guneetnarula @dearthofsid okay this is *just* happening with your account. Have you set it up like that or something?
@RateUnrate @dearthofsid hey, no this is not an account settings issue. Happened with me too. I think it is because most instances of mastodon run on different servers that are not super powerful/expensive, and all apps are third party too, some communication between apps and servers breaks down sometimes.