Mastodon

[ursus arctos]

Kiwi Farms, formerly known as CWCki Forums (/ˈkwɪki/ KWIH-kee), is an Internet forum that facilitates the discussion and harassment of online figures and communities. Their targets are often subject to organized group trolling and stalking, as well as doxxing and real-life harassment.[2][3][4] These actions have tied Kiwi Farms to the suicides of three people targeted by members of the forum.[15]

[Hot Pepsi]

Oh God.
How could something so awful have such a pleasant name?

[The Awesome Berbaslug!!!]

https://www.cjr.org/analysis/journal...ot-into-it.php

An article about that story

[Levin]

I've finally signed up ( @pallasathena@vivaldi.net ) because Vivaldi made it easy to do, although I am a bit worried my Mastadon account is now linked to my browser account. But it's a step. And I think a necessary one, Twitter might not fall over but it's not a place to be.

Even if I still think this...

https://twitter.com/TygerbugGarrett/status/1594397156621680641?s=20&t=9wlbmeoC0Lp_Nutz5X0i4Q

[Snake Plissken]

You can move servers away from Vivaldi - you lose your posts, but can export and import your followers.

I've gone almost cold turkey on Twitter - checking in on the club hashtag every couple of days. I feel a lot better mentally for not being sat in front of the anger firehose.

[ursus arctos]

The quality of the adverts on Twitter has fallen off a cliff

[Jobi1]

I've gone almost cold turkey on Twitter - checking in on the club hashtag every couple of days. I feel a lot better mentally for not being sat in front of the anger firehose.

I was basically doing that too, but obviously the #ycfc hashtag hasn't exactly been all 'kumbaya' in recent weeks, so I'm increasingly not even looking at that either.

[Snake Plissken]

The quality of the adverts on Twitter has fallen off a cliff

I read that Apple pulling its advertising was $48m, which is peanuts for them but 4% of Twitter's revenue. I wonder what consideration of the reaction of an openly gay CEO with deep pockets Musk gave before unblocking the far-right hate machine.

[Levin]

My favourite thing so far is how in the Mastodon app, toots take up the full width of the screen with the avatar in the header of the toot. Unlike Twitter, which reserves a column on the left solely for avatars (and ads, who get to be full width)

[Guy Profumo]

Has anyone got it to work yet?

(e.g. search for usernames / people / IDs to follow?)

[DCI Harry Batt]

It sounds too much like hard work, to me. If anyone ever comes up with a simple and short set of instructions to make it work well, I might have a go. Otherwise nahh.

[Guy Profumo]

It sounds too much like hard work, to me. If anyone ever comes up with a simple and short set of instructions to make it work well, I might have a go. Otherwise nahh.

This

Can you include me in when the "Dummies Guide" is produced


And I mean a dummies guide which says,

- create and confirm userid

- search for other users either based on published name or confirmed Id via alternative channel

- click follow

- that's it!

[Levin]

The hardest part is finding a server and getting the account setup. Once I got over that it's been pretty much like Twitter.

There is a tool that looks at your twitter follows and checks their profiles for mastodon links and allows you to download a file to upload to Mastodon. I don't know if that's still going to be working after last night though.

This is the tool, it also shows you what instances the people you follow on Twitter are using and if they have open registration

[Guy Profumo]

So how do you make it work?

i.e Search for people to follow?

There is, for example, no "search" icon

[ursus arctos]

It is manifestly not made for you

[caja-dglh]

The quality of the adverts on Twitter has fallen off a cliff

Have they lost the chumbox stuff? That would be an incredible turn of events.

[ursus arctos]

No, it has become more chumboxy

[ursus arctos]

BTW Mastodon Search

Desktop: Upper left corner of home page
Android: Magnifying Glass icon at bottom of home page
Apple: Magnifying Glass icon on left edge of home page

[caja-dglh]

No, it has become more chumboxy

I was going to say, when taboola won't give you money for adverts you might as well shut up shop.

[diggedy derek]

The hardest part is finding a server and getting the account setup. Once I got over that it's been pretty much like Twitter.

A mention of setting up a server would usually reduce me to rocking back and forth in the corner, but the total time it took me to get Mastodon running was probably five minutes max.

So far, it's not perfect, but I'm glad I didn't let a tiny amount of set up time discourage me.

[Snake Plissken]

I'm ukplissken on mastondon.org.uk - it's a good server, but I'm not sure whether it is currently open for signups.

[Jobi1]

I'm enjoying mstdn.social as a server. It is pretty big numbers wise, but mostly seem decent, and the admin seems well on top of things. As I posted up thread, I had been thinking of switching to another server more specific to my interests once it all settled down a bit, but actually I'm quite enjoying the one I'm on so will probably end up just staying there. The FediAct browser extension is also really handy – means you can go on the site of a different server and interact without having to faff around with multiple logins.

In general, for help and guidance, I've found following the person who does the https://fedi.tips/ website really useful.

[Snake Plissken]

mastodon.org.uk is open for signups again. Small community, but the local feed seems friendly enough.

toot.wales seems to be a thriving community of Cymru-based people.

[Levin]

This is a neat idea for until organisations move to Mastodon.

It's over subscribed, but it creates a bot that mirrors a twitter account

It's designed for information accounts, like those US weather warning Twitter feeds.