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Relay nodes are safe, exit nodes require special care. There’s a guide of you’re interested. You basically need a dedicated server with a understanding hosting provider and you will be contacted by law enforcement sooner or later. They usually go away after they learn it’s a dead end

Seriously. For a federation protocol it’s completely busted. For the number of users they have it should be way way more common already but it’s just not because they built it bad. They aren’t making any serious technological innovations, I tend to view their Federation is just a marketing point because it doesn’t seem to function anyway like that in practice. You can self host an activity pub-based service and it just works, you can do it on a $5 VPS and it just works fine no problem

Twitter, the inventor of the hashtag, seems to have softly destroyed it by way of the promoting anyone who uses them because I guess they’re not good for advertisers or something? All the bad assumptions get carried over that we’re going to have to slowly work our way through. I’m not going to place any High Hopes on Blue Sky because I know I’ll just be disappointed but we can Implement basic features and make them not blow just fine and then leave them in the dust

That’s how I feel too. It’s really limits the ability to actually carry on a conversation. The one thing I will say is that a focus on people other than the focus on content gives a different sort of vibe which is situational useful

Although as a format that kind of sucks. It’s not terribly useful for anything more than promoting your blog post or what have you and when you have Nazi seig heiling all over the place it becomes completely unusable

10,000 characters seems good. You want something that most people will never feel constrained by because that allows you to make actual posts. People should not have to comment on their own Post 10 times to express a coherent thought

The original reason was so that you could fit an entire tweet into a text message because that’s how you are supposed to interact with it when twitter first launched and they doubled it later. Having a character one with that short is it strongly discourages any sort of long-winded explanation or coherent thought. Do you feel like you either have to a bridge what you’re saying to fit the sharply artificial character limit or you have to replace yourself over and over which is somehow a thing that’s except it is normal this might be crazy. Thankfully Macedon has always allowed you to set a custom limit and most are very large these days. I think 10,000 characters is a decent default. One of the good things about Ray’s I always allowed roughly that much text which means that you only ever had to replace yourself if you were well and truly effort posting, or that one time someone posted the entirety of John galt’s speech as an epic shit post. This is one way we can beat the corporations and it’s as simple as editing a single config file

I fully expect them to go the way of the others into time it’s just halfway usable for the moment and it’s what’s absorbing Twitter refugees. We should always keep in mind that any usability is temporary

That’s why I don’t have ill will for people for having a non cybertruck Tesla unless you can tell it’s new. But if you don’t have an anti elon sticker I’m starting to side eye them

He really should bring back blogging and that shit was awesome

The cost per terabyte is why hard disk drives are still around. Once the cost for the SSD is only maybe 10% higher is when the former will be obsolete.

We should never be afraid to denounce bigotry. Fuck these people

Welcome over! How’s the experience so far?

The more I see the less I want to go back.

They’re getting so shit people will have no choice. They’re already leaving one alienated group at a time

A small friend group is best suited for chat programs (discord et al.) But if you want to expand the group a mastodon server is a good idea

Pretty much. I should be able tobmake friends with any human on earth with an internet connection. That this is still hard is something we need to fix

We do need better onboarding. I wonder if you could make an equivalent of the “discovery” feed that wasn’t abusive to the user

Their moderation has been garbage lately. They’re wrongly banning people for things they didn’t do. It’s just premusk twitter at this point. The real fediverse is a better vet medium and long term

It seems like we have a problem where there’s too much money at the top of society that’s trying to chase returns that can’t exist because there’s enough money at the bottom to buy products, so it just gets invested in bad ways. This will probably continue until they waste enough for their own money on bullshit that they no longer have it