Mastodon shifts to nonprofit ownership, calls for $5M in donations to expand.

His grand vision remains to leave Mastodon users in control of the social network, making their own decisions about what content is allowed or what appears in their timelines.

I don’t use Mastadon cause I don’t care for micro-blogging, but nevertheless, I like this.

  • I Cast Fist@programming.devEnglish
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    23 hours ago

    Copy-pasting a comment from Aurich (Ars Staffer):

    I set up the Ars Mastodon instance, and speaking as a relatively educated and technically savvy person I found it extremely confusing. And the more I learned later the more I don’t feel remotely bad about being confused, it’s honestly pretty messy.

    I put Ars on the main instance, and I think it was the right call. We’re not going to maintain our own, at least at this time, and trusting a random instance that’s very difficult to vet is kinda sketchy.

    We ran a guest editorial a while back that I think really clearly outlines the various issues:

    https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/06/op-ed-why-the-great-twittermigration-didnt-quite-pan-out/

    But you know, it’s really okay. It doesn’t have to be big, or popular or mainstream. As long as it survives and people like it? That’s good enough.

    I think going into an era of balkanization of social isn’t the worst thing.

    One of my complaints with Mastodon and similars is that you can’t search only for posts of a specific instance, or temporarily mute a single instance from your feed. There’s also some sort of “invisible wall” for Pleroma users (niche of a niche), as their public posts simply don’t show up in public Mastodon searches, though I don’t know whether that’s a problem with Mastodon or Pleroma.

    • Microw@lemm.eeEnglish
      18·
      14 hours ago

      The Mastodon devs have received a grant to work on a search/visibility tool in 2025, so I definitely expect developments there

    • Corkyskog@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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      21 hours ago

      Now I am wondering if there is a way to blast a message out to various micro blog platforms at once. Kind of like Ryan’s Woof idea from the office

      • grysbok@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
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        16 hours ago

        The app openvibe does that for Mastodon and Bluesky. You have to have an account on both, though. I think they’re adding in other services eventually.

      • I Cast Fist@programming.devEnglish
        4·
        20 hours ago

        From my limited knowledge, you’d need one account on each instance and have all of them boosting the original post, which would make them more visible in their local instances.