daveid
Re:Commercial Bank of Ethiopia glitch lets customers withdraw millions
on Tuesday March 19, 2024 @03:06PM (#39759146)
Degefu
Re:Twitter was down
on Thursday July 11, 2019 @04:05PM (#20415257)
No, it's not
Re:Can “Indie” Social Media Save Us?
on Sunday May 19, 2019 @12:49AM (#19951507)
Mastodon is AGPLv3 so there is nothing to buy.
Re:Can “Indie” Social Media Save Us?
on Sunday May 19, 2019 @12:45AM (#19951494)
Most of the time you'd come across a post on a different instance in your home feed which just takes a click to reply to, the same as any other post.
Re:Improving support for adult content on Mastodon
on Monday May 06, 2019 @12:27AM (#19836880)
> Nobody thinks of Mastodons when thinking of any form of communication, but we all hear birds tweeting every day and have been used in real life to send messages
This seems like backwards reasoning. If you named a new platform after pigeons, which were actually used for transmitting information, you'd get critics saying "It's so archaic, nobody has used pigeons for 80 years!" Birds carrying messages is just as "extinct" of a metaphor as Mastodons are as an animal.
Re:Improving support for adult content on Mastodon
on Sunday May 05, 2019 @07:05PM (#19835647)
What's not cute about elephants? Especially fluffy ones?
Re:Trust-Busting as the Unsexy Answer to Google and Facebook
on Monday February 04, 2019 @05:16PM (#19081188)
It's ActivityPub, not OStatus!
Re:Mastodon 2.7: Highlights from the changelog
on Sunday January 20, 2019 @05:43PM (#18956098)
If you decide to change your managed host, you take your domain name and database with you, so outwardly, nothing changes and you lose nothing.
Re:Mastodon 2.7: Highlights from the changelog
on Sunday January 20, 2019 @05:40PM (#18956080)
https://docs.joinmastodon.org/
Linked from the README in the repository you linked.
Re:Ask HN: Did you delete your Facebook account in 2018?
on Sunday December 23, 2018 @07:42PM (#18749453)
Yes, I deleted mine! Deleted my Twitter account too
Re:Deploying Mastodon on Digital Ocean
on Thursday November 15, 2018 @05:24AM (#18458211)
FYI there's a more recent, and much more in-depth official installation manual: https://docs.joinmastodon.org/administration/installation/
The documentation also includes various guides on horizontal scaling, using pgBouncer etc.
Mastodon 2.6: Link verification
Mastodon: An overview of features for dealing with abuse and harassment
Re:OAuth for the Open Web
on Saturday July 07, 2018 @07:19PM (#17481225)
Unless there's gonna be native browser support, the different websites you visit won't be able to know which accounts you've recently used elsewhere.
Re:OAuth for the Open Web
on Saturday July 07, 2018 @06:42PM (#17481077)
OpenID doesn't provide API access like OAuth does, does it?
Re:Why ActivityPub is the future
on Wednesday June 27, 2018 @01:18PM (#17409972)
What would be a better name?
Re:Why ActivityPub is the future
on Wednesday June 27, 2018 @11:20AM (#17408850)
Then your account is gone, but your friends on other servers are still where they were. With backup/import tools you can reconnect with them from a new account easily.
Re:Why ActivityPub is the future
on Wednesday June 27, 2018 @11:18AM (#17408830)
From the thread:
>I don't expect any major changes are needed for compliance, which is why it's been pretty low priority. it's just a matter of getting a document together that better informs admins.
Mastodon has all the features needed for compliance, and does not collect or store any data that's not for its primary purpose.
Re:How to become a successful artist on Mastodon
on Sunday June 24, 2018 @06:09PM (#17388647)
Bug found and fixed and patched!
Re:How to become a successful artist on Mastodon
on Sunday June 24, 2018 @05:42PM (#17388537)
I checked and I noticed that the pictures in the embedded toots don't show up on Chrome. Investigating.
Re:How to become a successful artist on Mastodon
on Sunday June 24, 2018 @05:25PM (#17388471)
Thank you! Hugo is awesome.
How to become a successful artist on Mastodon
How to implement a basic ActivityPub server
What's new in Mastodon 2.4
Re:European parliament committee approves vote on ‘disastrous’ copyrig...
on Wednesday June 20, 2018 @08:27AM (#17354693)
I'm seeing the opposite, as independent platforms like Mastodon won't be able to implement content ID they won't be complying with this new law, which means it'll potentially become legally dangerous to run Mastodon within the EU. It's like the EU parliament is bent on giving all the cards to Google and Facebook and shutting down European competition...
Re:$1M to build decentralized social networks
on Friday May 11, 2018 @12:15PM (#17048520)
I built Mastodon alone for a year for like $600/mo until it got popular. Now I'm getting more ($3k/mo from Patreon) but I don't think I'm even anywhere close to hitting $100k. So it's possible :P
Re:Friendica – A Decentralized Social Network
on Thursday April 05, 2018 @08:18AM (#16764077)
Friendica is part of the fediverse, that is, "federated universe." The model of decentralization is "federation" here. Friendica is interoperable with Mastodon, GNU social, etc.
Re:Be careful what you copy: Invisibly inserting usernames into text
on Wednesday April 04, 2018 @09:42AM (#16754561)
There are more languages in the world than English, not supporting Unicode is not an option for most.
Re:As Facebook Struggles, Rivals’ Leaders Stay Mostly Mum
on Sunday April 01, 2018 @03:13PM (#16729910)
>The elephant in the room is not Facebook.
Can you really say "elephant in the room" in a thread about social media and not mention Mastodon[1]? That's a facebook rival that's not staying mum...