Anyone on Mastodon?
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@TravellinBob , it's in principle the same, only the buttons are diferent and in a diferent site of the page. All buttons say what they do when you hoover the pointer over them. But yes. Mastodon is somewhat strange and not very userfriendly in it's UI.
In the past I use Diaspora, which is very similar to Twitter, also Raddle and Lemmy are fine, similar to Reddit but like Mastodon descentralized an federated. -
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If I go into it through Vivaldi Social and start doing "whatever I like" - and that itself is to me not completely clear: surely there must be some boundaries?
There are, each instance on Mastodon has its own rules, you can read about Vivaldi’s server rules here ☛ https://social.vivaldi.net/about
how can people using Mastodon vis another instance see what I post in the Vivaldi instance? And how can I see what someone posts on another instance in Vivaldi? How can someone elsewhere - for want of a better term- Follow me (and vice versa)?
The different instances are federated and there is a dedicated timeline showing posts from all over Mastodon. You can follow users from other instances by visiting their profile in Vivaldi Social. You can find and follow users and hashtags by visiting the explore tab and searching for that user or hashtag. Posts written by followed users, or posts containing a specific hashtag you follow, will show up in your home timeline.
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@luetage Thanks, that's clearer now, appreciate it. Maybe I'll give it a go......something different to play around with
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@paul1149 Ouch....not nice! I'll take a look at V's instance at some point I think. Thanks!
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@TravellinBob Actually, I've now read the terms at s.V, and they're pretty much what I encountered at the other server. I probably won't be using it much except perhaps for V-related stuff.
Current Vivaldi snapshot.. MX-23 Linux x64, KDE desktop.
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@Pesala said in Anyone on Mastodon?:
They are building a business plan that does not depend on advertisers. Otherwise, they will be in the same boat as the mainstream media.
Agreed.
Problem with advertisers is they start demanding their personal echo chamber of their "approved" subjects and then people.
Happened with AOL, Facebook and Twitter.
Keep advertisers to a minimum then they don't have majority share to dictate to what you do with your product. -
@paul1149 Hi. Interesting perspective, but I have to say I'm not entirely sure I agree with you, tbh. I've just quickly read through the T&Cs as they appear on the Social page and I don't see anything there that is, at least in my view, unreasonable: it all looks pretty much like you would see on any other social media platform, and probably only as effective as the moderators. IMHO they are designed to offer at least some protection from abuse, dishonesty, illegal actions etc that could be harmful to individuals, the community as a whole or the underlying product - which seems perfectly sensible. There's too much bad stuff on sm as a whole, so I see no harm in trying to protect against it. I'm not sure about this entire "woke" and "cancel culture" stuff, too - for much the same reason, plus I think a lot of it is being exaggerated by the press, tv and pressure groups of one kind or another.
But, hey, I'm sure an awful lot of people would disagree with me (as I with them) - it's what makes the world an interesting place, and I wouldn't want it any other way!
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@TravellinBob I would agree that a lot depends on the moderation.
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@Catweazle Since you're checking out MeWe again, here's some interesting news:
https://www.axios.com/2022/09/20/me-we-project-liberty-frank-mccourt
