Katherine Alejandra Cross@emilygorcenski I have two accounts right now. One here on the "general" (read: English-speaking) instance, and one on an Israeli/Hebrew-speaking instance. No-one will *prevent* me from writing Hebrew here, but I'm sure many people will see my posts in the local feed and go "Why is he writing this here?". There might be a soft push for "English on main" with other languages confined to localized instances.
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The drift of Musk's approach to Twitter is far-right, even at its most haphazard and skill-less.
Being a contrarian and going "well actually, maybe this could be good because <insert leftist theoretical argument here that bears no relationship to material realities on the ground>!" is not spectacularly useful. And quite unwise.
You do not, under any circumstances, have to "hand it" to Musk.
Ok, now I see that this is actually already supported. Fantastic!
The auto-translate bit would by a nice-to-have. Now I want to be able to be able to filter by other criteria as well.
The auto-translate bit would by a nice-to-have. Now I want to be able to be able to filter by other criteria as well.
Right now Mastodon allows setting language filters on public timelines. I would love to see it in the main home timeline as well, and allow setting it on an individual user that I'm following as well, perhaps even with a "Show/hide/auto-translate" setting per-user per-language. This will make multilingual people feel more comfortable mixing languages freely knowing that their followers have the power to auto-hide "noise" they can't understand, or even have it automatically made accessible.
@emilygorcenski I think the core issue here is that the Twitter migration is forcing the #fediverse to answer a lot of important questions *fast*. Like "how can I be a part of multiple communities", aligned by language, or topic, or voice, but without creating segregation or balkanization.
ðĒPeople like to compare Mastodon with email,: a distributed, federated communication network based on open protocols and message exchange.
However, what doesn't often get mentioned is that from the moment the internet became widely available, email was always commercial. At first you got it as part of your ISP's connection package. Then from ad-based email providers. Then from datamining ad-supported centralized services like gmail or hotmail. Self hosting was never a universal solution.
However, what doesn't often get mentioned is that from the moment the internet became widely available, email was always commercial. At first you got it as part of your ISP's connection package. Then from ad-based email providers. Then from datamining ad-supported centralized services like gmail or hotmail. Self hosting was never a universal solution.
Susan PotterEmoji HTTP status codes (circa 2020 pandemic despair)
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According to my Slack message to myself I did this during the COVID lockdowns in spring 2020.
@adamhjk Well, this current boost is exposing the limitations of the original architecture, so its exactly the right time to extend it. I completely agree with you that the p2p architecture is extremely wasteful in large scales, not only in storage and network connections. Not as a slight to the designers or implementers (as you said in the OP), but Mastodon simply wasn't designed for such a scale: https://nora.codes/post/scaling-mastodon-in-the-face-of-an-exodus/
@adamhjk I think a relatively scalable model that would still allow for smaller-scale governance is to have "relay" servers that function as centralized transports for many instances. They can deduplicate and cache, especially for popular accounts, and allow the leaf instances to focus on serving their users, not talking to every single server out there.
@shengokai And part of the problem is that many people here don't want to solve that problem. They *don't* want a twitter migration. They *don't* want to make the Fediverse an alternative to Twitter/FB for the general public. They're content with it being a little niche for themselves where they can heap abuse upon the unwashed masses. Which is a shame, IMO.