early career and fediverse/mastodon starting now

2023-02-09 Thread der.hans via PLUG-discuss
moin moin, How to Navigate the Early Days at Your First Tech Job A brief introduction to #Mastodon and the #Fediverse starting momentarly https://fosstodon.org/@FLOX_advocate@floss.social/109837947330578402 ciao, der.hans -- # https://www.SpirealArray.com https://www.PhxLinux.org

New Video: der.hans: Federated Microblogging with Mastodon, from the July 12th PLUG Meeting

2018-08-13 Thread Brian Cluff
Presented to the Phoenix Linux Users Group on July 12th 2018 by der.hans https://youtu.be/0DpDbhe8g50 Mastodon is a decentralized, open source social network. It implements ActivityPub for compatibility with other federated services such as Plume blog engine, PixelFed picture sharing service

Re: Mastodon

2017-04-18 Thread Matt Graham
far down the list. There are quite a few Francophone communities in this whole Mastodon thing, which seems a bit odd. Liberte, egalite, TCP/IP? :-) -- Crow202 Blog: http://crow202.org/wordpress There is no Darkness in Eternity But only Light too dim for us to see. --

RE: Mastodon

2017-04-18 Thread Matthew Crews
] *On Behalf Of *Anon Anon *Sent:* Tuesday, April 18, 2017 12:25 PM *To:* Main PLUG discussion list *Subject:* Re: Mastodon My limited understanding is - 1. Mastadon is similar to twitter. 2. Diaspora is similar to Facebook. Both are distributed and work in a decentralized manner. However, if

Re: Mastodon

2017-04-18 Thread Anon Anon
retty ingenious. There are currently some kind of fights going on between the #awoo people and I think the French or something but I can't read it all. It's like a little federated community of foreign language filled hate. On Tue, Apr 18, 2017 at 10:58 AM, Matthew Crews wrote: > How is

RE: Mastodon

2017-04-18 Thread Matthew Crews
> I agree in principle, but these platforms are working in conjunction > with governments to suppress views they do no like. So, while > I agree that a private business can run this way they should stop > the pretense of being an open platform. True enough, especially when talking the Middle

Re: Mastodon

2017-04-18 Thread Herminio Hernandez, Jr.
> > Unless the government is somehow involved, Facebook, Reddit, Twitter, etc. > aren't suppressing free speech. They have the right to censor whatever we > say, since it is their network we are using. I agree in principle, but these platforms are working in conjunction with governments to suppre

RE: Mastodon

2017-04-18 Thread Matthew Crews
> I would say it has picked up in popularity for the same reason Gab > and so many others have picked up in popularity. People are > awakening to the fact that twitter and other main stream social > media networks (facebook, reddit) are censoring comments and > we are actively losing our right to f

Re: Mastodon

2017-04-18 Thread der.hans
f the status.net code that used to run identi.ca. identi.ca moved to Evan's new framwork, pump.io. Is Mastadon compatible with GNUsocial? ciao, der.hans On Tue, Apr 18, 2017 at 10:58 AM, Matthew Crews wrote: How is Mastodon different from Diaspora, or for that matter the myriad of ot

Re: Mastodon

2017-04-18 Thread Nathan
On 2017-04-18 11:01, Herminio Hernandez, Jr. wrote: I would say it is a twitter clone. I do not know why it has picked up popularity recently. Ikey over at the Solus project thinks it is a reaction to the fear that Google+ might go away. I would say it has picked up in popularity for the same r

Re: Mastodon

2017-04-18 Thread Herminio Hernandez, Jr.
I would say it is a twitter clone. I do not know why it has picked up popularity recently. Ikey over at the Solus project thinks it is a reaction to the fear that Google+ might go away. On Tue, Apr 18, 2017 at 10:58 AM, Matthew Crews wrote: > How is Mastodon different from Diaspora, or for t

RE: Mastodon

2017-04-18 Thread Matthew Crews
How is Mastodon different from Diaspora, or for that matter the myriad of other, small, social networks not named Facebook or Google+? --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail

Re: Mastodon

2017-04-18 Thread Anon Anon
I like Mastodon. It's a good tool so far if a bit edgy with the hard line 'anarchy' stance some of them seem to be pushing in the user feeds. --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org To subscribe, unsubscribe, or

Mastodon

2017-04-18 Thread Herminio Hernandez, Jr.
So Mastodon has been all the rage recently. Has anyone given it a try? I am on the mastodon.rocks instance --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http