Title kinda says all, but Mastodon looks interesting to me… except I don’t know whether I should get one. I keep hearing that it’s “Twitter for saner people.” I guess? I’m fine with Twitter, even if it’s a bit hectic at times. But all the same: I’m just curious about the hype surrounding Mastodon.

  • @throwaway4598085
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    43 years ago

    what’s a good instance for commies?

    I didn’t realize masto was getting popular again.

    • Muad'DibberMA
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      43 years ago

      Unfortunately AFAIK there isn’t a communist one, only anarchist ones.

      • Makan ☭ CPUSAOP
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        33 years ago

        Oof!

        Just as I thought… perhaps I could make one?

        • Muad'DibberMA
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          33 years ago

          You can, its kind of a resource hog, pleroma is better one to host (it can talk to mastodon too). I’m not a big fan of the twitter style of social media tho personally.

          • Makan ☭ CPUSAOP
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            23 years ago

            I hate Twitter, and yet, it keeps me appraised of certain developments, especially in terms of leftism in general.

            Aside from that, there’s also a lot of Chinese pen pals on there.

        • @RandomSovietKid
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          33 years ago

          Please announce it on Lemmygrad if you do, I’d love to sign up on a communist Mastodon instance (I’m not familiar with Pleroma, but if you make one, I’ll look into it).

          • Makan ☭ CPUSAOP
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            23 years ago

            Thanks! Honestly, I’m just sort of getting my feet wet in Mastodon and seeing what to do with it.

      • @NoQuesoPlease
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        23 years ago

        Ahh so anticapitalist.party and radical.town aren’t communist instances?

        • Muad'DibberMA
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          13 years ago

          AFAIK they’re mostly anti-tankie anarchists.

    • Makan ☭ CPUSAOP
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      23 years ago

      Dunno. The options they gave me had an “instance” that appeared to be anarchist, but I’m not sure…

  • @redjoker
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    33 years ago

    It’s federated, so imagine if you could follow Facebook accounts from your Twitter account. Also anyone could set up a Mastodon instance

  • @XiangMai
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    23 years ago

    I generally think it sucks so far but that’s because I’m not a huge fan of the Twitter format and the character limit

    Like it’s not really a platform where you can dig and see old master posts and stuff like that like reddit/chapo.chat and lemmy are

  • @triplenadir
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    22 years ago

    A lot of people use it like Twitter (public posts), but you can also set it up more like Facebook – turn on “Require follow requests” and set default post (toot) visibility to “Followers only” and it’s more like the Farcebook private-by-default.

    Mastodon is part of the same “ActivityPub” network as Lemmy, and there’s some cross-compatibility (so far seems like you can interact with Lemmy posts from Mastodon if you can find them, but the UI is a bit awkward, and I don’t think you can sign into a Lemmy instance with a Mastodon account…)

    • Makan ☭ CPUSAOP
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      12 years ago

      Gotcha. Very interesting! I’ll keep this in mind.