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Adam  

@blaine @astro We do have another federated form of messaging that's already built into Mastodon and every electronic device on the internet. It's called email. Just add autocrypt, TLS & DANE for full encryption, right? No need to reinvent email yet again; just upgrade it a little more. Throw a form into the user profile, done! It's possible to put a chat style UI on it, too.

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@benpate @blaine @signalapp It does require Signal's centralized servers, they refuse to federate so they can maintain control, they require phone numbers that can be used for relationship mapping, and they're no longer fully open source. Bad idea to put personal communications in the hands of a single entity.

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Christel van der Boom  

Just discovered #ThickTrunkTuesday on Mastodon, and it’s joyful and wholesome.

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Phil Shapiro  

Ask your public library if they have any workshops/trainings on Mastodon. They probably don't, and probably should. If you feel comfortable, offer to teach such a workshop. It's one way of thanking all the hard working administrators in the Fediverse.

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Adam  

@jperlow Can you believe Gopher is still around though? Browsing through that with Lynx in a command line is kind of fun!

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@shanselman I only have notifications on for work email, personal (no spam friend/family only) email, and phone calls. It's beautiful!

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Dan Luu  

One of the things that's made it easy to find communities whose discussion I want to see is the linear feed. This is a stark contrast to new social apps I've tried, e.g., Clubhouse, where my feed is dominated by high engagement stuff I don't want.

I understand why companies push that stuff; looking at Twitter's experiments, you get more growth/$ when you switch users who've chosen linear timeline back to ranked timeline.

Fundamentally, this is why most apps don't even offer linear timeline.

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Adam  

@Raspberry_Pi@raspberrypi.social @petestevens @beasts THAT'S the article I've been looking for y'all to make. NICE!!

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Remember when we could create movies on a phone using voice recognition?

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fenarinarsa :pokeball:  

I see that #Hive is trending so I tried it and so far it's quite unfinished and suspicious.
- There's no web version (a big no for me)
- The app forbids to use or post media unless you give access to ALL your media on iOS. This is a HUGE red flag to me.

(on iOS, when an app asks for a media, you can give it only a selection of media to avoid hack/download of all your media library (you now, privacy etc). Hive doesn't accept that and asks for all access)

Also no 2FA, no DPO (so not GDPR compliant for privacy)...

Just for you to know.

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Thunderbird: Free Your Inbox  

Did you know that #Mastodon supports #RSS feeds?

That means you can follow your favorite people and topics right inside of Thunderbird!

→ Just add ".rss" to the URL ←

For example, our Mastodon URL "mastodon.online/@thunderbird"

becomes

"mastodon.online/@thunderbird.r"

What about #hashtags? YEP!

Let's look at #OpenSource. From our instance, it is: "mastodon.online/tags/opensourc"

So, we just append .rss and it works!

"mastodon.online/tags/opensourc"

REALLY useful if you don't want to miss a thing!

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Adam  

@atomicpoet Agree. Do you know about FirstNet in the USA? It's more of just a network, but I kept saying they should have some kind of comms server in the command center instead of sending everything to a satellite. pocketnow.com/this-firstnet-te

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Adam  

@xabean @signalapp Or make an instance on the Signal domain instead of using someone else's.

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@vector1dev@mstdn.starnix.network Exactly! Or we could use email with upgraded encryption like TLS/DANE & autocrypt, right? bookofadamz.com/the-smartest-m

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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.

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@ben Wow, nice! Now we need that Wordpress plug-in to to get some comment/follow features.

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blaine  

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 Migration  

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.

#twittermigration #NewUsers #Welcome

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Jonah Aragon  

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!

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Adam  

@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.

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