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There is a clear line between the cultural factions on Mastodon:

Community Groups vs Broadcast Social Media.

This tent has to be big enough for both. Thankfully, the protocols support this. @darius's Hometown fork of Mastodon is even better than Mastodon for small community groups (but still federates where you need it!)

We need a Mastodon fork (or AP server) that works more like Twitter, for more broadcast orientated individuals and organizations.

The Protocol Labs Research account shared a video clip of me presenting an #IPVM update at #PLSummit

Mostly me channeling @expede on building the “HTTP of Compute”

We’ve got several other @fission presentations to share from #labweek22 in Lisbon, will be up soon!

https://twitter.com/ProtoResearch/status/1593698557571129344

Food for thought...

Think of Mastodon social media the same way you think about email.

Imagine if schools, governments and companies had there own instances. Mastodon could replace how email is used in many situations and could become a default communication method for group interactions. You'd have your work masto and your personal masto, just like email. Every entity would own its own data.

#twittermigration #mastodon #future #fediverse

I don't want to just be posting about numbers like a clock, but the 2 million mark of monthly active users across the network is a pretty big deal. This is going big numbers! Shout out to all the server operators who are absorbing this wave.

Here's your irregular reminder that:

Twitter was a multi-billion dollar company with thousands of employees.

Mastodon is a niche hobbyist product run by volunteers

The fact that we're being seen as a viable alternative to them is an admission that a federated, decentralized future is not only possible, but desirable.

Mastodon is not one thing, or one place. It's a network of many things and many places. We don't have a spokesperson (I mean, there's me. I'm the official spokesperson for 💯 of the fediverse, but beyond me there is no spokesperson) we don't have consensus on moderation or blocking or tools or what is good and what is bad. Some of us are professional SREs and Sysadmins, some of us aren't. Some of our instances have been around for 5+ years, some won't be here in six months.

And that's good! All of it, every last bit of it is good.

We're wrestling power away from the billionaire class, in real time, and reclaiming it for the People.

HEY HEY FRENZ on mastodon.social! You may want to MOVE to a new instance, very soon.

Why?

Mastodon is a bunch of islands that can talk to each other. The smaller and more spread out we are, the easier things are to moderate. Horizontal scaling FTW!

All of you who fled that one site 🐤 ended up at mastodon.social for likely a few reasons. It was obvious, it was big, and it's where you saw a bunch of folks going.

But it has a long history of being poorly moderated, which means a LOT of instances are silencing or blocking it. Which means you're on the big island that SEEMS like it's "where everyone is", but in fact, it's a giant island unto itself (momentarily trending toward turning into a post-bird-site echo chamber), and huge swaths of the Fediverse don't talk to it, or even see it.

If you want the quality of interaction (and moderation!) Mastodon is known for, move thy funky buns to a smaller instance of cool folks you enjoy.

#feditips #fediverse

Yes donating to the admin is nice, but have you considered we can use this energy to build institutions for actual user power?

Large scale user unions which fund the systemic development and sustainability of this environment? That fund moderation labor across the network?

Democratic institutions that can push back simultaneously against Big Tech, BDFL like Mastodon and misguided legislation to regulate the internet?

Umbrella organizations that can shield users from arbitrary abuses of instances and simultaneously assist teams running instances with legal issues, know-how, funds and best practices?

We're currently only scratching the surface of what federated social networks can be and we need to be way more ambitious.

I think that I’ll post this here for those who haven’t seen it.

It involves one of a “class” of patterns made of #dodecagons which can be pretty much split into a snub square tiling and its dual cairo-type tiling

#CairoTilings #snubSquareTilings #mathart #mathsart #polygons

turning a big dial taht says "Autovacuum" on it and constantly looking back at PgHero for approval like a contestant on the price is right

Carefully rebuilding the social network connections like...

Anyone maintaining a Mastodon instance and losing sleep over the Great Migration should read this excellent technical discussion of the matter: https://nora.codes/post/scaling-mastodon-in-the-face-of-an-exodus/ This is also a really good description of the sort of problems we're confronting with the backend of hcommons.social (and some of the things we've tried), if you're interested. Good times are ahead, though! We have a dev instance that is a lot more powerful than the one that is running right now.

tweetarchive-to-sqlite: a short hack to transform the tweets.js file into an SQLite Database

https://github.com/skglas/tweetarchive-to-sqlite

Discussions: https://discu.eu/q/https://github.com/skglas/tweetarchive-to-sqlite

#lisp #programming

nothing I aspire to more than "finally finding a label I identify with". I think if this happened i would be immediately fulfilled + all my problems solved. discovering the inner truth of my soul on a forum >>>

Sometimes I see posts on here like “mastodon is too serious and businesslike, it needs more selfies and shitposts” and I’m like are we even using the same website but then I remember we very literally are not