Mastodon is indeed great, setup my own private instance for me and a few friends a few days ago. (still use my main mastodon account on mastodon.social though)
I hope Mastodon catches on to prove that Federation can beat Centralization.
Nice writeup, but once again rebrands the existing fediverse as the “Mastodon network”, which it isn’t. The microblogging network that Mastodon is a part of is not called ‘Mastodon’. People aren’t ‘on Mastodon’ just like they aren’t ‘on Outlook’. The network itself is usually called the fediverse and there are at least 5 different popular implementations that participate it in it.
No it’s not, BUT there is an effective line of demarcation between Mastodon and the rest of the fediverse because some parties blacklist others for various reasons.
Mastodon instances generally all interoperate.
So while I take your point I can forgive the author for being a bit overly general.
Awesome write up.
I wonder whether per user/device decentralization (scuttlebutt) or per instance/server decentralization (mastodon) is better for me. Per user seems simpler, like just a personal database of your tweets you can share with others. But you need to manage storage for your database, which can be too much for some people and make mastodon style seem more attractive.
I’ve been using Mastodon for a while now, and it’s been really great in my experience. I would really love to see more efforts that help move the web away from being centralized by a few large companies.
I have been really loving Mastodon. It’s still small enough that people watch the federated timeline, and when I ask a question people are interested in, it actually sparks conversation, rather than feeling like I’m shouting into the void like on Twitter.
Also the signal/noise ratio is much better over there, the community is much more diverse, and generally more technical.
The other day I ended up in conversation with someone about Xerox Alto and the fate of object orientation in modern GUI environments.
Mastodon is indeed great, setup my own private instance for me and a few friends a few days ago. (still use my main mastodon account on mastodon.social though)
I hope Mastodon catches on to prove that Federation can beat Centralization.
Nice writeup, but once again rebrands the existing fediverse as the “Mastodon network”, which it isn’t. The microblogging network that Mastodon is a part of is not called ‘Mastodon’. People aren’t ‘on Mastodon’ just like they aren’t ‘on Outlook’. The network itself is usually called the fediverse and there are at least 5 different popular implementations that participate it in it.
No it’s not, BUT there is an effective line of demarcation between Mastodon and the rest of the fediverse because some parties blacklist others for various reasons.
Mastodon instances generally all interoperate.
So while I take your point I can forgive the author for being a bit overly general.
Awesome write up. I wonder whether per user/device decentralization (scuttlebutt) or per instance/server decentralization (mastodon) is better for me. Per user seems simpler, like just a personal database of your tweets you can share with others. But you need to manage storage for your database, which can be too much for some people and make mastodon style seem more attractive.
I believe in federation, not P2P. http://beza1e1.tuxen.de/federation_future.html
p2p may one day come up with solutions to those problems, but today federation is much better in pretty much every possible way.
You can just run your own private instance, although mastodon is a bit heavy.
Maybe there should be lobsters instance?
Lobstodon!
You could just about get the current lobste.rs codebase talking OStatus (to federate comments here to the fediverse)…
I’ve been using Mastodon for a while now, and it’s been really great in my experience. I would really love to see more efforts that help move the web away from being centralized by a few large companies.
I have been really loving Mastodon. It’s still small enough that people watch the federated timeline, and when I ask a question people are interested in, it actually sparks conversation, rather than feeling like I’m shouting into the void like on Twitter.
Also the signal/noise ratio is much better over there, the community is much more diverse, and generally more technical.
The other day I ended up in conversation with someone about Xerox Alto and the fate of object orientation in modern GUI environments.