Annika BackstromWelcome to the Fediverse! Get the fuck off mastodon.social as soon as possible
james@annika why? Because a few service hiccups?
@james Because huge servers (10K+ accounts) are bad for the overall health of a distributed network, especially when they have open registration
@annika 💯
And @james I was just responding to a similar question at https://infosec.exchange/@thenexusofprivacy/110641469669726099
The Nexus of Privacy (@[email protected])
@[email protected] Great question. A rew reasons: - mastodon.social's so big that the Local and Federated timelines aren't very useful. - smaller instances (even if they're not special-interest focused) are more likely to have a good community. - many other instances have "silenced" mastodon.social (because of its long history of moderation issues -- or just because of the volume), so people on other instances are less likely to connect with you. All that being said, I wasn't trying to say that mastodon.social was terrible - it's the advice that's horrible. It's just that for most people it's not the best place to start. @[email protected] @[email protected]
@annika that’s fair.
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Ashe@annika That's the plan! I've been working on self hosting a calckey instance, admittedly slowly
EricMEagan@annika im done jumping around. I picked one that worked for me. And now, just like being told to leave twitter, leave facebook, leave insta, and now leave .social.
@EricMEagan do you do things because you're told to do them, or do you do things because on examination, you realise it's what you really wanted
Joethis isn't telling you what to do as in being-the-boss-of-you*
it's life advice, like "don't spit into the wind"
Complaining about this advice has got big shoot-the-messenger energy. *We* aren't the ones who are ruining Twitter right now or posting racist dogwhistle Minion memes on Facebook or whatever the heck goes on in there any more.
do what you want. Stay on Twitter (if you can even log in). Enjoy all that that entails, if that's your thing.
We understand being tired of the churn. Like, seriously.
Most of us aren't in any position to stop the churn, though, and I bet that includes you. We do, sometimes, have *some* choice in how we deal with the churn, though. And that's what this advice is about.
also relevant, courtesy @ifixcoinops, who, coincidentally, is recently migrating away from mastodon dot social
Dan Fixes Coin-Ops (@[email protected])
Content warning: highly unpopular and tbh kinda flat-out grumpy opinion
Dan Fixes Coin-Ops
CoolStar@annika I've been on mastodon.social since 2016... what's the issue with it?
@coolstar Large servers with open registration are harder to moderate due to their size, but also harder for other servers to block because they represent such a large % of users on the network. Having people spread out over more servers is better for the health of the network, and as a bonus you also get more of a community feel from smaller servers.
Aaruni Kaushik
Charlotte Eiffel Lilith Buff@annika Tell the devs to add an account migration feature that actually works then.
Cougar 🇪🇪 🌻@annika Is there any simple way to set up Fediverse webfinger or similar service to use @mydomainname in handle without running dedicated server? I'd like to be part of bigger community than one user but still have the username that I can use forever and move around
njsg@cougar
I've not played with this myself but I think this is what jwz was trying to do in https://www.jwz.org/blog/2022/11/using-your-own-domain-as-a-mastodon-handle/ , so linking that in the hope it is helpful in some way, apologies if it isn't. (The answer there seems to be "no, it will only work as a redirect"?)
I've not played with this myself but I think this is what jwz was trying to do in https://www.jwz.org/blog/2022/11/using-your-own-domain-as-a-mastodon-handle/ , so linking that in the hope it is helpful in some way, apologies if it isn't. (The answer there seems to be "no, it will only work as a redirect"?)
Using your own domain as a Mastodon handle
It seems that if you have /.well-known/webfinger redirect, you become discoverable on Mastodon using your own domain. E.g. following "@[email protected]" will now actually follow "@[email protected]", I think. But is there some way to make that mastodon.social address actually present itself as "@[email protected]" and make that be my canonical address? I would like that address to be the one that ...
@cougar Mastodon itself doesn't support this. The closest you get is a one-way alias on your own domain that points to your account elsewhere https://blog.maartenballiauw.be/post/2022/11/05/mastodon-own-donain-without-hosting-server.html
Woozle HypertwinWhat frustrates me is that it's entirely possible to write an external app to do post-migration. it wouldn't have to run on the same server or even be in the same language (Masto is written in Ruby). I just haven't had time...
(The one catch is that I'm not sure if the API allows backdating new posts -- but that could be ameliorated by adding a header or footer indicating that the post was migrated, and its original timestamp.)
Andy Davidson (@EMF 2474 / BGP4) @andyd Takahē supports multiple domains, I haven't used it yet though
AlienKnight@annika toot.garden has mastodon.social silenced/limited because of the poor moderation, just too many people on it, and too much to moderate. Which sucks, because it makes it harder to find people and content, but it also keeps harassment, spam bots, and other related issues away for the most part
Jimmy Biscuits 🧻@annika but i wanna hear more about American politics!
Matthew 
vermadenWhat happened on 'mastodon.social' instance?
@vermaden there are some good replies from myself and others in the thread https://xoxo.zone/@annika/110643335996961088
Annika Backstrom (@[email protected])
@[email protected] Large servers with open registration are harder to moderate due to their size, but also harder for other servers to block because they represent such a large % of users on the network. Having people spread out over more servers is better for the health of the network, and as a bonus you also get more of a community feel from smaller servers.
Thank You will look into that.