Gregory's Server
"How could I ever trust my Mastodon admin with my data? A large company like Twitter is more secure because they have proper procedures in place" A large company like Twitter:
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  @Gargron still not using webpack in my projects, still making web apps that work fine ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ A journalist is asking me how the Indian community of Mastodon is doing after its late-2019 rise to prominence. Unfortunately unless someone here has any numbers I'm going to have to say that I don't know, since Mastodon does not track user locations...
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@Gargron as far as I see, most of them returned back. Some stayed. I took some time exploring the Fediverse[1], and now I'm working on creating a new Mastodon instance. Fediverse is very inspiring! Although I'm sad that this is no news for the journalist. [1] @Gargron most went back to twitter because they lost their audience and the immediate traction they got over there. The Indian community here is very small.
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@Gargron It is funny to me how Twitter just posts merrily about their "new API" like it's the hot new thing when they've systematically burned bridges with every app developer after ruining a flourishing API ecosystem a few years ago
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@Gargron The hubris once you reach a certain size is ridiculous and I would love to sit down in a room with them one on one and ask them "Would YOU use your own product?"  @Gargron Looks like the last remaining functions of Tweedle will stop working. So sad... At least Mastodon is still up. But this is some kind of major issue. I can't resolve DNS to mastodon.social (which still used Cloudflare, my bad), but I also can't resolve DNS to mastodon.online, which uses Exoscale for DNS. Both still work for me from the browser, I think because all the DNS is cached, but god knows what's actually going on with the internet right now.
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I think Exoscale resells DNSimple... Does anyone know if DNSimple somehow uses Cloudflare as well or if it was hit by whatever hit Cloudflare?  @Gargron
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@Gargron wow, music may be a universal language, but the language of musicians is kind of unreachable for me @Gargron I did not expect to watch the entirety of a 33-minute video about The Girl From Ipanema today. Sincere thanks for the extreme left field content. Sometimes I think what could I have done differently to make better use of the opportunities given by Mastodon being in the spotlight in the past. Like I imagine if Mastodon as it is in 3.2.0 was available during April 2017, a lot more people who checked it out would have stayed permanently, probably. It’s kind of frustrating to think about, really.
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  @Gargron nah it’s not the software that keeps me here. It’s the people. The conversations I have here are more constructive and it’s easier to avoid toxic users than any other social network. @Gargron I think it is natural to think about it, but it is not natural to get obsessed with it. I have no idea about the early versions, current situation or who you are, but you have probably learned a lot, even if you are not aware, which will effect your future decisions. (Hope you are a good person with good intentions, *I am being lazy by just assuming based on the code of conduct, which gives me hope, no animal cruelty or any kind of cruelty can be added though) (Sorry for the grammar) Why does Valve feel the need to nerf heroes and items in its summer PvE event. Oh you're having too much fun against an AI? Can't have that!
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"Watch Henry Cavill build a PC very seductively" https://www.pcgamer.com/watch-henry-cavill-build-a-pc-very-seductively/ 👀
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All other companies work with data like "the user scrolled this far, looked at this text for this long, then clicked this button"... I have none of that on joinmastodon.org. I have no clue how people use the site, and there is no way for me to know if the Mastodon servers linked from it receive sign-ups from it or not. That is to say, its design is a blind guess and its effectiveness a mystery. I'm considering consulting with a professional UX designer about it, but I do wonder if they'll be able to do anything without any metrics at all. I have a feeling metrics must play an important role in UX design nowadays... @Gargron I know I had a lot of trouble getting started with Mastodon. I didn't want an instance focused around a specific community or interest, and was looking for something reliable that wouldn't randomly go down or disappear. joinmastodon.org doesn't really have an easy way to search for these criteria, and the only instance I knew of was mastodon.social, but having everyone here kinda defeats the point of a federated network? The hard part of building a federated Vine alternative would be the mobile app itself, with its various video editing tools. As far the server goes, I cannot imagine a simpler implementation. Still I am surprised nobody has even attempted to do it yet @Gargron maybe one of the open source video editors would kick in help in exchange for the video editor being listed as theirs. Or like a small clickaway to their site if you want to edit the video more fully. I think many would be fine with promo of open source as long as it isn't tracking or obnoxious. Maybe even have a config option to hide that message for people who already know about Video Software X and don't want the message in their ui. |
@Gargron interesting read!
@Gargron oh wow, so they bribed a Twitter engineer to get all that juicy data
@Gargron what? Uh.....no.