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In response to "Start at the beginning. What's Mastadon?" by Will Hunting

Mastodon is a software project that aims to be better than Twitter. It's open source. Trump is using it to launch a fascist social network.

Posted by Beryllium (aka grayman) Oct 21 '21, 09:07

Which is fine. Except for the name.

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I decided I had better get a Mastodon account so I could reserve my handle. -- nm - marum scarum Oct 21, 09:12 9
- On which instance? The "truth" instance, or a different one? - Beryllium Oct 21, 09:13 8
  - Ah, I'm seeing that. So far I've joined mastodon.social and democracy.town. How do I aggregate the two feeds? -- nm - marum scarum Oct 21, 09:17 7
    - That I don't know. I just have one, on PHPC social. Maybe it's like multiple accounts in the Twitter app. - Beryllium Oct 21, 09:20 6
      - When I click on "federated," it's tons and tons of posts that never stop loading. It might be the "local" feed, but it's really hard to tell. There's definitely a difference betw local and home. -- nm* - marum scarum Oct 21, 09:28 5
        
        The federated timeline is sort of like an aggregated RSS feed from all the connected networks. Like a firehose. - Beryllium Oct 21, 09:46 3
        
        It helped a lot to restrict it to English. :-) -- nm - marum scarum Oct 21, 10:05
        
        It's difficult to read, though; it keeps jumping. -- nm - marum scarum Oct 21, 09:49 1
        
        That might be a web interface issue. I tried it in the Amaroq app just now and there wasn't any jumping. -- nm - Beryllium Oct 21, 09:56
        
        Ugh, I don't think there's a way to do it. -- nm - marum scarum Oct 21, 09:45
Specifically, trump is violating the AGPL software license to launch his bullshit. -- nm - Beryllium Oct 21, 09:07 2
- Allegedly ;). IIRC there are lawsuits progressing. -- nm* - VMan Oct 21, 09:09 1
  - It's Trump, there are always lawsuits progressing. -- nm - Qale Oct 21, 09:41

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Mastodon is a software project that aims to be better than Twitter. It's open source. Trump is using it to launch a fascist social network.

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