Wallace Rda Controller @wallace@octodon.social
If I die before I woke...
A little indication of just how deep the rabbit hole goes - A republican lawmaker is behind the Red Pill subreddit ๐ http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2017/04/25/the-republican-lawmaker-who-secretly-created-reddit-s-women-hating-red-pill.html
#mastodonmovies
Game of Toots
I am too scared to AFK๐ .
I just received an unexpected guest who was trying to coax me to come out and be social. Tried to explain to him what Mastdon is. Then show him.
Tried to explain to him home timeline and federated timeline. I explained the nice instances vs horrid instances. I prefaced it with a cursory introduction to the culture wars.
Guest promptly left. I think I scared him.
|'m going to go outside now. ๐
Sometimes you end up with a lonely Friday. And sometimes you have to eat a microwave dinner on Fri night. And sometimes the plastic is too hot for your hands to hold on the way out of the microwave. And sometimes you have to regrab mid run to the fringes that hold the film and as you are running to the TV tray saying "fuck fuck fuck" with burning hands, the wind from your sock-footed running cools the tray into a U shape and your food falls out. Didn't teach us that shit on TGIF. But that's life
BREAKING: White guy, can code, in country with social welfare & free uni, devs FOSS app, earns 2,000 dollars p.m. on Patreon mashable.com/2017/04/06/eugen-rochko-mastodon-interview/
What I have learned:
- DMs between Mastodon users are not visible to people outside of Mastodon even if someone on GNU Social or anything else is following both people.
- Unlisted posts don't federate at all, and so are not visible to people on GNU Social or anything else.
- DMs are visible to admins of both the sending and receiving instance, unencrypted.
- A DM sent to a non-Mastodon instance is received as a public post, and there's a disclaimer that warns you of that before sending.
Derp. There is a tab for following your instance's timeline, and for following the federated timeline. Where do I see just a timeline of my followers?
I can see this federation ending either Lord of the Flies-like or by data Goatse.
So you are up against a non-five eyes state Actor, with non-NSA size budget but a decent army of hackers. What protects you better? One or two people running your instance as a hobby, or Zuck?
Mastodon Tools:
Instance Preview Tool: http://www.unmung.com/mastoview
Network Analysis: https://mnm.eliotberriot.com/dashboard/db/mastodon-network-overview
Instance List: https://instances.mastodon.xyz/list
Subreddit:
https://reddit.com/r/mastodon_social
Tampermonkey Script (max column width):
https://userstyles.org/styles/userjs/135501/Mastodon%20AutoResize%20Columns.user.js
(Must edit header to include the url(s) to your instance)
Twitter export:
http://mastodon-bridge.herokuapp.com/
Does anyone have a couch for me to sleep on in Frankfurt tommorow night? #worthatry...
Mastodon, like Twitter but with augmented attention deficit!
Is it just me or does the search button not perform a function most of the time?
