Mastodon

Anyone here who can give me a chaos.social invite? Thanks a lot!

I'm looking for accounts posting random an silly stuff similar to twitter accounts

• fuckedupfoods
• There is no cat in this image
• medieval reactions
• crap taxidermy
• ancient memes
• PunHub

Any kind of light, shitposty, wholesome, meme or pun accounts.

Another day, another absurd melt down at Twitter.

So far, Mastodon has been unable to attract a significant number of high-profile users (politicians, leading thinkers/creators of various fields, celebrities etc). In my lay opinion, it won’t truly replace Twitter unless it does.

But today’s news of rate-limiting and self-DDOSing seems even more insane than before.

Is it having an effect? Are notable public figures moving? Are the numbers up?

I ask this out of genuine curiosity, with no other motive!

When I look at Mastodon posts, I see a decent amount of replies and boosts for popular posts, but not very many stars (see example image). I assumed a star is the same as a like, but I feel not a lot of people star a post, whereas I did see a lot of hearts/likes on Twitter posts. Are they not equivalent?

As far as I know, one of the headline features of microblogging networks is searching and following hashtags. On top of that, Mastodon (like Lemmy) tells users that it's not important what server/instance you join, because of federation.

With Lemmy, I find it easy to search and interact with communities across all the federated instances. Chances are, people on my local instance (even if it's relatively small) will have already interacted with popular communities for a given topic, so they will be easy to discover. However with Mastodon this concept seems totally broken -- when I search a hashtag I want to see everything, and related posts might be spread out over hundreds of small servers for which, apparently, my small server has no content populated. With Lemmy, I understand that content gets populated on my local instance when somebody else on my instance has interacted with it before. I just don't understand how this approach is feasible with for a system like Mastodon. Maybe I'm misunderstanding something, but it seems like the only way to have a reasonable chance of getting decent results for hashtag searches is to be on the biggest server?

cross-posted from: https://beehaw.org/post/636740

That and his previous statements say that he's not in it, good!

Straightforward, but good to know

Tried mastodon some time ago, and it did not stick with me, so I want to try again - since now the fediverse concept is somewhat more clear to me.

So my question is: is there a better server for specifically artist to join or does it matter? Any recommendations?

I set up a personal instance using https://masto.host. It's a small operation that I believe is run by one person. Hugo has been great about responding to my questions.

My instance has only been up for about 3 days and I've exceeded my Media Storage limit twice. The first time, I upgraded to the "Planet" plan which has the added bonus of being more responsive.

This time, I've tried setting my Media Retention Period to 3 days and am hoping that's sufficient.

Do you have any other optimization tips to share? Unfortunately (but also, fortunately), it's a managed service, so I'm limited to only what is available in the Mastodon web interface.

Why does Mastodon censor people worse than Twitter over hurt feelings? It seems multiple servers or instances prefer to ban account for using a bad word, rather than be an adult and let each person decide if they want to engage or not. Even going so far as ban an entire instance from other servers for not being nice.

Twitter users can block someone to not seem them anymore but accounts are not auto deleted because they used a word on a auto ban naughty list.

I personally condemn insulting other people, but in the real world when someone goes outside, nothing can be done about getting mocked or insulted and people have to continue on with their lives. How are people so scared of words and always run away rather than have the confidence to stand up for themself and punch a bully?

Mastodon will continue to stay wholly irrelevant and pointless until people can handle bad words and insults is unavoidable part of everyday life, unless their too scared to ever go outside again and are even scared to read certain words on a screen.

Hello everyone! I've joined an instance of mastodon and when i search other people acc on the fediverse I usually get this. This doesn´t happen in the main mastodon.social. Anyone knows why is that? or how can it get solved. Thanks!

currently I'm following some Lemmy comms on mastodon and my problem is that each comment showed up independently in my feed.

they don't usually make sense on their own and i want to see the original posts only.

but how?

Ever wondered why some links you add to a Mastodon post generate a nice preview card (image + description) and other's don't? Or why a SoundCloud link produces an embedded audio player but Spotify doesn't? This article goes deep into why that occurs.

And - this is my first Lemmy post!

If you are looking for the ElonJet account here it is, you can also follow it from your instance by searching

@elonjet@mastodon.social