The twitter model is way less popular in here Europe, where we mostly like private, narrow Facebook groups, I wish there were modern social networks that catered to that.
All I know about these is that they were hyped some time ago and never really had an exit from a narrow community, which Mastodon seems to be achieving:/
Federation relays look like a viable and less intrusive alternative to “followbots”, bots that run on a low-user-count server and follow lots of people in order to populate the federated timeline.
The federation relay support and admin CLI seem like nice additions. I’m glad they’re doubling down on Docker support. I installed my instance before that was formalized and when I tried to upgrade to 2.4 my instance basically blew up such that nobody including several of the core devs could figure out what was wrong beyond “Seems like a back end problem.”.
I’ve decided I don’t need to run my own instance and am happily at feoh@cybre.space but making it easy for those who do want to take the plunge is important, so good on them! Overall a super great project and I’m thankful for all the work that’s gone into it. I love the Fediverse and get way more out of my interactions there than on Twitter.
Apologies if off topic, but the increase in interest in Mastodon got me interested in activitypub implementations. Does anyone know where the source is for this test suite? https://test.activitypub.rocks/
I’d love to use it as a baseline to try my hand at implementing some of it, but that website is a bit of a black box.
I used the docker containers and the upgrade was pretty painless. Assets are now compiled into the containers as well.
Federation relays looks like an interesting idea. It seems like it might help more people break away from the big servers.
So they worked on the UI but kept the ultra-narrow columns? So weird. I can’t even read the text the column is so narrow.
Try an alternate UI like pinafore, it has wider columns.
Wow, pinafore is really nice. Will try it out for a couple of weeks.
Yeah, that decision baffles me as well. Added some custom css to firefox to make columns wider.
Different themes have different column width. Try the “Photon” theme, I find it much more usable.
both the glitch-soc fork and the mastodon frontend for pleroma have growing columns… Why they don’t change it for mainline is a mystery.
The twitter model is way less popular in here Europe, where we mostly like private, narrow Facebook groups, I wish there were modern social networks that catered to that.
There is diaspora, friendica, hubzilla…
All I know about these is that they were hyped some time ago and never really had an exit from a narrow community, which Mastodon seems to be achieving:/
Federation relays look like a viable and less intrusive alternative to “followbots”, bots that run on a low-user-count server and follow lots of people in order to populate the federated timeline.
The federation relay support and admin CLI seem like nice additions. I’m glad they’re doubling down on Docker support. I installed my instance before that was formalized and when I tried to upgrade to 2.4 my instance basically blew up such that nobody including several of the core devs could figure out what was wrong beyond “Seems like a back end problem.”.
I’ve decided I don’t need to run my own instance and am happily at feoh@cybre.space but making it easy for those who do want to take the plunge is important, so good on them! Overall a super great project and I’m thankful for all the work that’s gone into it. I love the Fediverse and get way more out of my interactions there than on Twitter.
Apologies if off topic, but the increase in interest in Mastodon got me interested in activitypub implementations. Does anyone know where the source is for this test suite? https://test.activitypub.rocks/ I’d love to use it as a baseline to try my hand at implementing some of it, but that website is a bit of a black box.
Link to sources is right there in the bottom of that website…
Huh! I can’t believe i missed that. Thanks!