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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@bjmendelson Nah, Signal is no longer open source (closed source spam component), requires your phone number (major privacy issue), doesn't allow you to run your own server and doesn't federate. Then there's the crypto coin scam. It's just another centralized dictatorship designed to collect & abuse users instead of empower them.
@ben Wow, nice! Now we need that Wordpress plug-in to to get some comment/follow features.
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It is profoundly intellectually lazy and offensive to the soul to think that the sum total of human expression could ever be mediated by any single entity.
I built the foundations of Twitter with my bare hands and watched in awe and sadness as it grew into a cynical temple of ego.
I delight in its destruction. We're better off here.
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Mastodon Day
Friday November 18, 2022 - An Incredible Day In Internet History
You were here.
It started with the Twitter lockout. 10,000 new users an hour. Almost a quarter million migrated to Mastodon in one day. The servers struggled. Remarkably, admins all over the world built up capacity in real time. New users were patient. The system held.
It's running better now. There will be more hard days ahead, but people powered social media has arrived.
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woah, have you guys heard of this “Twitter” site? it’s this place where you can look up anyone you know and find out their Mastodon address!
@ginnyhogan@mstdn.jp Always save your passwords and login info in an encrypted password manager. KeePass is my favorite since there's a large ecosystem of client apps, sync options, and plugins.
@WalterShaub@journa.host Why are you not verified on your website though?
@EricCarroll Oh, I didn't hear that. I was going by this: https://mastodon.social/@Gargron/107837713886536075 But that was a while ago.
@EricCarroll Maybe if they change it so it does federate someday, they'll be pre-blocked?
@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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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.
DMs don't work, so don't bother.
Joined Apr 2019
