Of course!
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. …
(Excerpt) Read more at fastcompany.com ...
Last I checked, mastodons are extinct.
Why all this? If you want to be on such a forum then why wouldn’t any real conservative go on Truth social?
Echo chambers are useless.
I doubt it. This is just PR trying to pretend it's news.
In 6 months no one will have heard of Mastodon.
"Stop trying to make Fetch happen."
FYI, Truth Social is built on the Mastodon tech.
From the article:
Like the society it contains, Twitter is also a place of abuse and violence, and of hatred and rumor, where the worst of humanity meets to perpetuate the charters of insurrectionist groups and spread fascist lies. The platform banned Trump, but extremist U.S. Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene and others still actively promote their ideologies, and plenty of their supporters have active accounts.
Of course. That’s why I said it was targeting the Twitter mob, for what reasons I cannot fathom except to use the “decentralization” to hide potential terror activities.
Exactly.
“for what reasons I cannot fathom except to use the “decentralization” to hide potential terror activities.”
Yeah, terror activities like being Christian, Conservative, or MAGA... There may come a time very soon where we are going to need this technology ourselves or be cancelled completely from the net by our government. The Communist data oversight and control is coming very soon. You shouldn’t fear or knock what you don’t understand.
Mastodon is not a platform as much as it is an alternate way of creating a separate internet uncontrolled internet. Zeronet is another one I have been playing with recently that is the same, you can even build your own websites in it. They are a p2p blockchain bittorrent protocol where there are no main central servers to go through like we do now. Thousands of personal computers are all tied together in a network eliminating the need for a formal internet infrastructure. And everything is encrypted.
It is actually pretty cool, there is another whole alternative internet on Zeronet. Same protocol but Zeronet is better than Mastodon with easier setup. And now is the time to become familiar with how it works, not after it is too late.
“FYI, Truth Social is built on the Mastodon tech.”
Sure is... I have been playing with Zeronet, which is similar but better.
Snowflake stampede from free speech.
Those terrible mean tweets are coming again!
Bahahaha losers
“Those are false accusations.”
Of course they are... But it is what they are going to roll with and we will be persecuted as such by our government. So my point is we might need this tech to protect ourselves soon.
“If Mastodon is trying to attract the Twitter mob”
And that is what I am explaining. Mastadon is not “Somebody” or an entity like Twitter or Truth Social. They are not an entity so “they” can’t to cover up anything. It is simply a software tool/utility available for everyone to utilize however they like. Using this software groups can set up their very own internet network as they like.
“cover for actual terror, whether by jihadi, Antifa, BLM ad nauseam.”
Trust me... They have the whole .onion darkweb already available for that. Mastadon and Zeronet are not even on their radar for covert communications. They have much more sophisticated methods.
So they claim. But there is always an entity behind non-entities, the latter of which exists to cover the tracks of the former.
Not to mention, Antifa and BLM did not use the dark web to foment their 2020 riots.
“Antifa and BLM did not use the dark web to foment their 2020 riots.”
Cause they were idiots... They played it brazenly stupid using normal channels. The smart ones use the darkweb servers.
They are just software tools that anyone can use to set up their own secure network... Really need to go read this to understand better.
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