If you're into tech, Mastodon and its actual implementation and all the details about it are a great opportunity to learn about details on scale problems and nice little tricks.
Would definitely recommend giving hosting a go if you have time and are interesting in learning more.
Who knows, you might even end up wanting to contribute?
🧵 Si vous êtes inscrits sur les instances mastodon.social ou mastodon.online (que j'appellerai dans ce thread "S&O"), il va falloir qu'on parle, pour votre bien, avant que ça ne dérape.
Et si vous arrivez depuis peu sur Mastodon, je suis désolé pour ce qui suit (mais il y a une solution).
Voilà : votre instance se fait de plus en plus invisibiliser/bloquer par d'autres instances. Ce qui signifie que vous perdez progressivement accès à vos voisins.
Quoi ? Mais pourquoi ?
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Hey, friends: If you're still on mastodon.social or mastodon.online, you're about to lose track of weirder.earth, and other servers to follow soon. It's for the safety of our comrades: this is the quieter, kinder part of the fedi where we walk away from instances that can't or don't control harassers.
I know a lot of you still on mastodon.social and .online are newcomers who landed there because so many other instances have closed to new accounts. Please take this time to explore the fediverse and find somewhere with more reliable moderation. The move-instances tool works pretty well these days!
In retrospect, quote rt was probably the worst thing that happened to Twitter.
We used to being able to simply RT, and that would usually make people share stuff that interested them or that seemed interesting to them.
But with quote RT, we collectively started quoting twits to mock them for fake internet points. This small change drove a lot of the negativity on the platform and I wish we never get this on @Mastodon itself.
We can't remove negativity, but we can not give it a platform.
Taking the mastodon opportunity to try and make some changes, hopefully sharing more positive things in general.
I keep seeing people say Mastodon is nothing like Twitter. And they’re right.
Mastodon is an echo of the old internet, it’s decentralised, chaotic. What you get depends on your sysadmin. You can’t search, everything has to be shared to you by a human. Networks split apart and rejoin. What you see is your unique connection to it.
Is this good? Maybe. But for me that’s the internet I grew up with. No algorithms, no targeted adverts, just human interaction, and it was glorious.
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