#UnpopularOpinion Running your own #Mastodon instance really isn’t that big a thing. If you can work with WordPress — you’re set, IMHO. Book your instance as a service, so you don’t have to care about the complicated parts. I am a happy and proud customer of @mastohost. Do it for yourself and, say, max 5 friends or family members. I guess I or @aral should write a blog entry on how we work with our small instances to show you it’s really not magic.
I llavors on estría la descentralitzacio a #mastodon No, no es bona idea aplegarse a una instancia, la ideia es que cadascú tingui la seva propia al final.
It's really quite easy to migrate to a different #Mastodon instance.
Just moved from mastodon.social to indieweb.social and it took minutes to export and import my follows, blocks, bookmarks and mutes.
And then a few minutes more to set up an alias to retain my followers.
It's not yet possible to migrate old posts of course, but this has never been an issue for me since I regularly archive posts anyway as I don't need my interactions here to be permanent.
I’ve been pretty critical of calls for mass-defederation for political or structural reasons, but I 100% understand the mods who pledge not to federate with Meta.
Facebook, on their best day, is the tobacco industry of the internet. Anybody wants to ban them in this space gets zero pushback from me.
We, the moderation and administration of tech.lgbt, are signing the Anti-Meta Fedi Pact in fellowship with our peer communities. (https://vantaa.black/pact)
There is over a decade of precedent that Facebook will not have users' best interests as their guiding principle but rather profit margins, if it joins the Fediverse.
We at tech.lgbt have long held the belief that corporation owned instances are a threat to the core of the Fediverse: freedom for users to be themselves and to be a part of their communities. The 2010s saw the loss of online freedom when the majority of the Web was consolidated into a few destinations, and Facebook entering here could lead us back to centralization. Furthermore, NDAs for server admins will constrain our sovereignty online by binding us legally from disrupting their business.
We are not products. We are people, and we do not welcome Facebook in this space.
If your instance admin is speaking favorably about #facebook joining the #fediverse, get out now before they start feeding your data to the company partly responsible for overturning several elections (by violating data privacy laws with impunity). The company that demonstrates a clear conservative bias with every act.
Looking for a safer instance? Try this list of spaces with admins of integrity.
🔥 We are excited to let everyone know that our full website is now live!
We hope this will be an easy way for new users to get started with #Mastodon & join the wider #Fediverse & an organizing hub to build & spread a better, more open social web of ALL fediverse offerings.
THREAD: I made a series of images for an Instagram post I made about migrating to the fediverse. I figured I'd share with anyone else who wants to use, so I included some blank template versions too. DM if you'd like the Adobe Illustrator file so you can make your own edits. And please,comment if I got anything wrong so I can correct it.
AT protocol was obviously not ready for a #RedditMigration, it’s not even ready for federation, and is years behind #ActivityPub.
Bluesky might be okay if you just want pre-Elon Twitter and to watch the old Twitter royalty do their thing. But it is not equipped to handle a variable use cases that can only happen through federation.
A group of over 40 European organisations have recently released a statement calling for the EU to set up a European Public Digital Infrastructure Fund.
They call for this fund to support Digital Public Spaces, that are, among other things, based in FOSS, and ensure privacy by design. The statement gives three examples: #Mastodon, #PeerTube and #ActivityPub, stating that they would benefit from such a fund to further flourish.
Mastodon is experiencing a pretty significant surge in new users today. Probably because of people leaving Reddit and establishing themselves on the #Fediverse.
#Reddit immigrants welcome to open distributed social media! It is a really good idea to create a #Mastodon account in addition to a #kbin or #Lemmy account to enjoy the full suite of capabilities available to you here.
Tuvimos un pequeño inconveniente con el certificado SSL del sitio que ya fue solucionado, a las 16hs hacemos esa paradita de mantenimiento #uruguay#mastodon#mantenimiento
Hoy a las 16hs UY (UTC-3h) haremos una pequeña tarea de mantenimiento en la que estaremos offline durante unos 3 a 5 minutos #mastodon#uruguay#undernet#mantenimiento