It feels weird to be on the Mastodon beat now because is it really a "beat" or a "thing"? I do think there are a lot of interesting lessons about communities and centralization/decentralization though
I don't think anything about Mastodon a deal-breaker right now, it's just not totally convenient and I think has to evolve. Interested in watching where it goes
Also also: If you claim to care about free speech you should also care about the basic principle of voluntary association, and thus people not wanting to hear or propagate your speech. *For any reason.* Defederation is a *basic requirement* for free speech to exist on Mastodon as anything other than a recapitulation of the worst corners of the internet.
Mastodon politics, safe spaces, and breaking the federation for fun and profit.
https://blog.xomg.net/mastodon-politics.html
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now that infosec twitter is here, my colleagues are going to have to come and join me inside furmageddon
Hello friends, I'd just like to interject here for a moment.
Eugen needs money to live, and mastodon.social has server expenses, but money doesn't write code by itself. There's still 183 open issues on the Mastodon project github.
https://github.com/tootsuite/mastodon/issues
Writing a code patch to fix a problem or work in a feature helps not just mastodon.social, but also everyone else running Mastodon, too, and you'll have @Gargron's gratitude, and all the other devs' too.
Love, Trev
Ok guys, very funny.
lol 4 CPUs at 100% on the app server
Mastodon's federation introduces UX challenges.
One that worries me a lot is about message forgery. Anyone can forge a twoot, even cross-server.
Whereas Twitter Inc might be trustworthy enough to not forge transcripts. Anyone can run a Mastodon server and might want to abuse it to influence people (see Russian troll campaigns).
Should Mastodon "home servers" cryptographically sign updates? Should there be end-to-end signatures? Anyone has thoughts on this?
@Mastodon liking the spirit of your app, the night-blue design, & 500 char limit is a breath of fresh air!
That said, 1st major suggestion:
Could you please fuse the Notifications column with the (half-empty) status box/search/menu column? (or otherwise allow width drag/rearrangement of columns)
That way we'd get to see 2 useful width timelines on a 1200px or similar laptop screen. Right now readability is poor. Thx.
Any way to rearrange the layout (not counting browser plugin manipulations...)? This 4 column thing on desktop can prob use some serious work before it becomes usable/readable?
setting up my mastdn/octodon :joy:
