Introducing Vivaldi Social, your new federated social-networking home

[the1avi]

@crimsonshade: you can migrate your account from one server to another. It'll move your followers, etc. but not your posts.

[treego]

@Ayespy I am talking about Mastodon. I wasn't calculating anything by the way ... good grief! \

I find your tone less than courteous or of good will, also.

[Ayespy]

@treego The rules of various Mastadon servers are adopted by their administrators. There are literally thousands of Mastadon servers, and probably no two have identical rules. Mastadon is not a company. It's a bunch of loosely federated groups of people who use the same server software and the same protocols to associate their content. SO - the server where you attempted to post your content had rules against it, and did not accept it. If you posted it to Gab, you posted it to - what? Mastadon servers under Gab's control. So, yeah, Mastadon is a fraction the size of Twitter, for all that it's a global federation, but size is not the determinant. Individual Mastadon communities decide what to accept or not accept on their servers.

[treego]

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[greybeard]

I have seen no mention of Security at Mastodon as yet.
To all users please be aware there are differences with Mastodon (not that the platform is insecure but the way it works is different than what you might expect) especially with what they refer to as DMs.
Should you mention others in your DM (with their @mastodonName) to a Friend/Colleague all those others will get the DM as if they'd been Cc'd.
There is an excellent podcast (Smashing Security) https://grahamcluley.com/smashing-security-podcast-297/.
They do a much better job of explaining this than I. There is also a post on his blog at (https://grahamcluley.com/)

Stay safe out there my friends.

[Ayespy]

@greybeard Good stuff to be aware of.

[greybeard]

@jon And all Vivaldi users, welcome to Mastodon.
https://mastodon.social/@grey_beard

Have been following an unofficial Vivaldi instance since I joined. Then joined again through Vivaldi. It seems all the new items I've added for V are in both. Should I delete one account?

[Ayespy]

@greybeard Not sure how that works. Mastodon has specific instructions about associating servers, and even about multiple accounts. Their help pages would probably have more info on this than Vivaldi mods would.

[Tams80]

Sounds like a load of jargon to me, for what is essentially a decentralised chat service.

And in that way, it's pretty much Discord but run on private servers. Which makes it... pretty much IRC. Gotta love all these attempts to make the old look new and innovative.

It's therefore really not comparable to Twitter at all, as groups can just close themselves off. The main point of Twatter, sorry, Twitter is to publicly make a clown of yourself, sorry, boast to the entire userbase.

Thankfully, this is all optional. You won't be finding me on your nub, node, or whatever Mastodon call their instances.

I do think you shouldn't be wasting time on it though. There are the forums, and we could do with some touch-friendly UI options on the desktop versions of the browser rather than... this.

[ingolftopf]

@Ayespy
"Banning" a long-time user, with many posts, is never nice and is never done lightly here.

Various options are exhausted beforehand, personal messages, the request to change the post.
There was also a public notice here.
Since most posts are deleted, certainly for good reason, it can only be guessed at.

"Gab" is a clearly right-wing Mastodon instance, which is blocked from almost all other Mastodon instances, for this reason.

[ingolftopf]

There is also a help page:
https://help.vivaldi.com/services/social/getting-started-with-vivaldi-social/

[ingolftopf]

@the1avi said in Introducing Vivaldi Social, your new federated social-networking home:

Since I already have a Mastodon account I assume there's no sense in creating another one on vivaldi.social. Correct?

You can also have multiple accounts on Mastodon.
You would be supporting Vivaldi

[Havokdan]

How do I configure a client/application for android to use?

[ingolftopf]

@Havokdan
First create an account on the browser page, this also works with the Vivaldi.net account, then add it to 'Tusky' (F-Droid), for example.

[ingolftopf]

There is already a lot of life on social.vivaldi.net and the press is already writing.

I just can't find a page where you can see the number of participants in the Vivaldi Mastodon instance.
Does that not exist (yet?)?
There is such a page for many instances

[luetage]

@greybeard You can merge the accounts, see ☛ https://blog.rossgrady.org/migrating-merging-mastodon-accounts/

[luetage]

@ingolftopf By default vanilla Mastodon (pretty much what Vivaldi is using right now), displays the count of active users on its home page. But this is only visible when you are logged out. And it’s not a live count, the server takes some time to update the stat.

[luetage]

@Havokdan The instance works well in the Vivaldi for Android browser. Personally I don’t see a point in installing an app. Anyway, I would wait a few days, from what I could gather users run into issues trying to get social.vivaldi.net to run in their clients, because Vivaldi uses a different login mechanism. You have to first log in on your phone’s browser, then try to make it happen on your client. I believe the team is looking into making this more seamless.

[RiveDroite]

I usually use Tusky for Mastodon and noticed that I can't use the app for social.vivaldi.net, so have been using it in Vivaldi instead and surprisingly the browser performance is pretty great! I don't miss the app at all.

[Havokdan]

@luetage tusky worked, I tried some clients at random, out of the 3 I tested, only tusky worked, I typed in the vivaldi instance, it opened the login page of the vivaldi website and it was ok, at least that's what it looks like, it's my first time in mastodon apps. And the sidebar of vivaldi browser? Do you have a mobile version?