Mastodon/Fediverse - Voxelmanip Forums

ROllerozxa	ROllerozxa	Posted on 2022-11-05 12:14 Link
Posts: 259 Joined: 2022-06-04	Mastodon is a federated alternative to Twitter. It's not controlled by any corporate entity, you aren't the product when using the service, and anyone can start their own instance and federate with the rest of the network. I'm over at the Fosstodon instance, @ROllerozxa@fosstodon.org. I've had it for a while but I really should be more active on it.

luatic	luatic	Posted on 2022-11-05 12:41 Link
Posts: 43 Joined: 2022-06-16	Why should you be active on it? I don't like the "short message" format at all.

Compa	Compa Banned: Unacceptable behaviour	Posted on 2022-11-05 19:10 (edited 2022-11-05 20:11) Link
Banned: Unacceptable behaviour Posts: 184 Joined: 2022-06-28	For once I agree with luatic - Mastodon is a horrendous piece of software, Pleroma is actually a better alternative and integrates with the same network of instances (colloquatively referred to as GNU Social, after the original successor to StatusNet).

ROllerozxa	ROllerozxa	Posted on 2022-11-05 20:21 Link
Posts: 259 Joined: 2022-06-04	Posted by luatic Why should you be active on it? I don't like the "short message" format at all. Well I see it as being a more public and permanent platform for things I would normally send in Discord channels that gets forgotten quickly. I guess Pleroma as a software seems to be lighter than the Mastodon software but... I don't run my own instance, so that's kinda moot. Â¯\_(._.)_/Â¯

Compa	Compa Banned: Unacceptable behaviour	Posted on 2023-07-02 08:18 (edited 2023-07-02 08:19) Link
Banned: Unacceptable behaviour Posts: 184 Joined: 2022-06-28	I guess it's just interesting to me that Twitter and things clearly made in its likeness are the only social media platform male nerds really use, whereas all other social media platforms are mostly dominated by more ordinary people, sex being irrelevant. (For arguments sake Reddit and Discord do not count in this argument, the former is commercialised bulletin boards and the latter is commercialised IM) Tumblr was somewhat an exception, but much of its culture never really spilt out of there until circa 2014/2015, even then it was mostly just schoolgirls messing around, rather than 'serious' internet addicts for the most part making up much of the user base as far as I'm aware... (could be wrong on that, given a lot of Jul/Kafuka members were also on Tumblr, but were occupying a totally different space to the casual schoolgirl crowd like my sister back then)

ROllerozxa	ROllerozxa	Posted on 2025-05-16 18:44 Link
Posts: 259 Joined: 2022-06-04	Since I started this thread some things have happened. (For one, @luatic has gotten onto Mastodon ) The "normies" seem to have all skipped Mastodon and instead moved to Bluesky. I also registered onto Bluesky and tried to post on it recently but can't seem to really wrap my head around it. It seems to be a continuation of the Twitter "scream into the void and get interactions from bots" kind of thing, while on Mastodon the concept of the local instance feed means I have gotten to interact, follow and be followed by a lot of interesting and real people. (I even found love on Mastodon... But that has since broken down unfortunately) I've had some personal concerns with Fosstodon's moderation (or lack thereof) over the years after I first registered on there from the invitation of someone. But I didn't want to rock the boat on that until everyone else found out what I knew for a long time that Fosstodon is rotten from the ground up. So now I am on Hachyderm. Unfortunately posts don't migrate on Mastodon when moving instances so my great post history is still on Fosstodon, which is likely going to disappear once the new staff team realise the shitshow they have inherited.

olive	olive	Posted on 2025-05-17 17:31 Link
Posts: 61 Joined: 2022-06-29	My main problem wish Mastodon is that it becomes a quick time drain I need to go and prune who I'm following, as over time it became chocka with people who post often, and people who post more jokes/sillies than genuine things… meaning it was more than I could ever hope to keep up with, a similar issue to how Twitter was. Being able to turn off a person's boosts appearing in your global feed is really handy though, I wish on their profile page they were seperate too. Anyway! I've been at olive@tech.lgbt for a while.