Adam @adam@librem.one

Exactly ten years ago today I wrote this blogpost, in which I advocated for making federated blogs:
https://rys.io/en/92.html

The only way to do that at the time was to use #Friendica or #Diaspora.

This was *before* the Fediverse, *before* Mastodon. Before ActivityPub.

Today, there are ActivityPub plugins for major CMSes; websites are starting to federate.

Both Diaspora and Friendica are still around; the latter is now part of the Fediverse, too.

Ideas behind fedi have been around for ages.

I don’t understand why people think Mastodon is difficult. It seems pretty straightforward, and the separate servers are no biggie. I’m enjoying this fresh start here, like moving to a new apartment!

What are people seeing as approximate server costs for Mastodon instances? Helping some folks think about starting org instances. Let's say a closed instance with around 100 users, with 1000 followers each? #mastodon #meta #fediverse

Looks like today (Friday the 18th of November) is likely Mastodon's biggest growth day ever. Closing in on 200K new users today. https://mastodon.social/@mastodonusercount@bitcoinhackers.org/109366346410120493

Wow, I hadn't refreshed the instances page at https://mastodon.help in a couple of days. I should have grabbed the "before" picture because it was at 3,600! It more than doubled when I reloaded the page.

Anti-mastodon user:
“NO ONE USES MASTODON”

Anti-mastodon user:
“MASTODON CANNOT SCALE AND HAS TOO MUCH TRAFFIC IT CANNOT HANDLE”

starting to get it now. twitter is kinda like Fox news while mastodon is more like pbs, paid for by tooters like you 🫵

Musk

6,904,906 accounts
+9,571 in the last hour
+51,991 in the last day
+412,473 in the last week

@atomicpoet That is very true. Mastodon is gaining popularity throughout Asia & Africa inside many “closed” nations & it might be far larger than what we expected.

I would not be surprised if there are 50 million accounts due to people using Mastodon in China 🇨🇳, Iran 🇮🇷, Afghanistan 🇦🇫, Myanmar 🇲🇲, Sudan 🇸🇸, Mali 🇲🇱, Burkina Faso 🇧🇫, etcetera, anonymously (also potentially defederated) to avoid the watchful eyes of their restrictive governments.

@jonyoder CSS and HTML. Screw the "frameworks".

Just noticed that there's a petition for UK Parliament to get its own Mastodon server. https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/627914 I wonder what the HoC Library/PDS folks think of that.

English translation from #Aurebesh for those that were wondering what was on Cassian Andor's/Keith Seymour's Imperial sentencing slip from Episode 8 of #StarWars #Andor: (from to to bottom)
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NAME:
KEITH SEYMOUR

CRIME:
SUSPECTED FORCE
SENSITIVITY

ASSAULTING AN
IMPERIAL OFFICER

SENTENCE:
TWENTY FIVE
YEARS

People ask, "What can other Fediverse apps do that Mastodon can not?"

A lot!

Here's an example. Let's look at some screenshots of Pixelfed:

1. Photo filters
2. Aspect ratio cropping
3. Options to select your creative license
4. Geo-location tagging

I'd show you more but Mastodon only lets me upload 4 photos to a post while Pixelfed allows for more 😉

Here's why I think the fediverse is important for the climate emergency.

First, because disinformation thrives on big social networks. The fediverse seems more responsive to bad ideas spreading.

Second, because federation is more friendly to cross-border collaboration. Nation-states are very suspicious of media headquartered in a superpower like the US or China, but will probably be more relaxed about federated systems.