Adam @adam@librem.one
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Designer & web developer since the mid 1990's starting on the DEC intranet. User experience consultant since 1998. Photographer since 1995. Tech journalist since 2002.
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@EricCarroll @djvanness @AnkurFactorial The way I understand it, Trump removed the federation capabilities on Truth Social. It's Mastodon with a Soapbox front end. https://pocketnow.com/trump-truth-social-network-removes-most-freedom-friendly-features-fediverse/
@herchenroder Nice to meet you too! I was on the ASP/SQL Server side around the turn of the century. Trying to get better typography controls into CSS standards these days: https://bookofadamz.com/css-needs-better-typography-controls/
@fxshaw There are some bots that publish news through ActivityPub, so you can follow those... or make more bots that publish news links.
@canrith@corteximplant.com @fxshaw Yeah, an RSS reader is great! You can follow Fedi accounts using RSS, too.
@benthepcguy You can change the code in your server to tell people whatever you want in terms of follower count: https://infosec.exchange/@xpn/109371536418521307
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"Mastodon is just like email."
Like email? So I use Microsoft Outlook?
"Use WHAT"
(Tools -> Account Settings -> RSS Feeds -> New -> https://mastodon.social/@Gargron.rss)
Like email? So I use Microsoft Outlook?
"Use WHAT"
(Tools -> Account Settings -> RSS Feeds -> New -> https://mastodon.social/@Gargron.rss)
@zhuowei Haha! Awesome!
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Bit of fun this weekend by looking at how Mastodon actually works under the hood. The "federation" part is really interesting, but also highlights how other servers may not be trusted.
Take for example this user (should be cached on infosec.exchange):
If you click on the user via the web interface, you'll see that the account has insta-influencer status, without all the shit-posting and self-meme'ing..
This is of course is all by design, as part of ActivityPub. When we reference another account on another server, the "federation" part of the protocol kicks in and requests information on the account. This means that on the server we control, we can set as many followers as we want (as well as post count and basically anything else we want) by returning a "totalItems" value of 99999999 in the followers ActivitySteam JSON.
tl;dr, Factor in trust of servers when using Mastodon (and stop using follow count as a metric!)
@pre @atomicpoet Ooh, can we feature-request an "Additional CSS" field in the preferences for each person's profile? :)
@themarkup Fedilab, Librem Social, or just the web app.
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A fav/like on Mastodon is like sending a personal "Thank you" note to the author. A Boost is like telling all your friends "Look at this!" #FediTips
@shanselman Hahaha!
@shanselman Maybe internet trolling does benefit society sometimes after all!
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Evolution doesn’t look how it’s depicted in pop culture. We often picture the famous “March of Progress” illustration where a series of apes stand in line leading to a modern human.
But evolution is not linear. It branches and branches. Divides in some places and recombines in others. #science
Image: @keesey
@JeriLRyan Don't forget to verify yourself by copying the link to your profile into your website. Here's my set of other tips: https://bookofadamz.com/understanding-mastodon-the-fediverse-and-why-you-should-migrate-from-twitter/
The only messaging protocols that are not designed to screw over their users are XMPP, Matrix, Briar, Bitmessage, and Email. https://bookofadamz.com/the-smartest-messaging-method-is-not-a-segregated-mess-of-whatsapp-signal-telegram-sms-slack-teams-facebook-instagram-wechat-etc/
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For those wondering, Mastodon contains no “web3” or crypto technology, and significantly predates any of that. The technology deployed here is primarily ActivityPub, which has roots in tech like RSS and PubSubHubbub.
It is noteworthy that “web3” designs are absent from the Twitter emigration discussion; that’s because it’s a scam and not fit for purpose.
The minute people start talking about adding crypto to the fediverse, run. That’s not what this is about and violates its spirit and design.
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Twitter users are all like “I don’t know if I can trust a bunch of career sysadmins and network engineers to run their own Mastodon instances” — meanwhile Elon is just running around the Twitter data center going “what’s this button do?”
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Designer & web developer since the mid 1990's starting on the DEC intranet. User experience consultant since 1998. Photographer since 1995. Tech journalist since 2002.
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