meta subtoot
seeing folk refer to "the original Mastodon app for "
my froods, the original Mastodon apps were all third-party. the "official" Mastodon apps are recent and not feature complete.
look around the ecosystem a bit - the "official" stuff your brain seeks is centralization talking. we roll differently over here.
I, of course, am the kind of clown that installs Lineage+MicroG and uses F-droid first, but no one will sell me a phone configured that way.
Having run my own test mastodon server, I can tell you that boosting is REALLY important. That's how posts propagate between servers that are not federated together.
I may get a bit technical, and it can be hard to describe but it's something like this:
Let's say that you have 2 servers, A and B that are not connected. They have their own federated timelines that is vastly different.
let's assume they have their users @a@A and @b@B that are mutuals. If user @a@A sees something interesting on theirs federated timeline and boosts it, user @b@B will see that on their own home page. But more importantly server B will now know about and download that post, and everyone else on B server will be able to see that post on their own federated timeline!
And that's why you boost, guys! It helps posts to spread.
Izumi, homeroom teacher and counselor, tries to increase discipline at school, but her meek personality makes this ineffective.
Nano and Hakuse buy snacks.
Izumi falls asleep while proctoring a test. Mai takes advantage of the opportunity to fool around.
Mai teases Yuuko more.
I'm curious, how do you prefer to consume information online?
Would be amazing if you could boost for improved statistical rigour and all that jazz. #poll #content #information
@pee_zombie I'm curious; how much work is it to run this instance, and how much of it is technical vs social?
(Like, managing disk space or memory usage or updates vs responding to reports or whitelisting and blacklisting servers.)
Timeline of a new Mastodon user:
Day 1: this sucks servers are confusing and why is my feed empty
Day 2: why is there no quote tweet this is dumb
Day 3: mastodon better make some changes if it wants to compete with tw_tter
Day 7: hm, people are really nice here
Day 10: loving the no ads and real conversations
Day 15: THE WORKERS MUST SEIZE THE MEANS OF PRODUCTION AND EXECUTE CAPITALISTS