Posted on 10/29/2022 11:02:05 AM PDT by Olog-hai
Now that Elon Musk’s Twitter takeover is complete, many people are suddenly turning to Mastodon in their hunt for alternative venues for tweet-like social media consumption.
Mastodon hews close to Twitter’s overall style, with “toots” instead of tweets and “boosts” instead of retweets, along with mentions, hashtags, and a chronological feed. The key difference is that Mastodon has no ads, no creepy data mining, and no centralized ownership.
It can be a little tricky to set up, though, and you may quickly discover that its attempts to clone Twitter are at odds with its decentralized nature. But don’t let that discourage you from giving it a try. […]
If you want to help Mastodon shake its ghost town reputation, you’d better start contributing—ideally by posting about things other than Elon Musk and Twitter. …
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Yep, that is it. You have to go get a namecoin ID. I haven’t got that far yet myself. Didn’t have anyone there I knew to play with. But somewhere there is a directory of sites. Go check that out, some cool stuff, free movies and such.
“ZeroSites” is the directory.
Yeah, sorry. I wasn’t responding to you in particular. Just the thread in general.
This mastodon software, which has been around about 7 years, is not so much ‘decentralization’ as ‘federalization.’ You can create your own site using this but allow access to other sites also using the same software in a confederation of nodes.
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