Introducing Vivaldi Social, your new federated social-networking home

[jon]

Vivaldi Social, our Mastodon instance, is your gateway to reliable, big-tech-free social networking

Click here to see the full blog post

[DoctorG]

@jon Nice, i guess some regular users waited very long to get this platform.

Well, Ruarí already introduced the eppearance of those Mastodon elefants (see below).

Look Ma! … Mastodons!

— A little catch up – Vivaldi Browser snapshot 2839.3

[DoctorG]

@jon And next? Matrix or Jabber/XMPP (with End-to-End encryption) for chat?

[Catweazle]

@jon , I've already an account on Mastodon. One user also suggested MeWe, which is also an excellent platform that protects privacy and is easier to use than Mastodon, which has a somewhat more complicated learning curve. My account there is https://mewe.com/i/zergrush

[admm]

https://social.vivaldi.net/@admm

[DoctorG]

https://social.vivaldi.net/@DoctorG registered since a few days ago

[Catweazle]

Shared on Lemmy

[Aaron]

https://social.vivaldi.net/@aaron

[Ruarí]

For those that do not like watching videos or just hate my voice (like me). Here is a transcript

[Ruarí Mumbles] "…would be hilarious" (someone in the background laughs)

[Ruarí sits at a desk with a blue background and a macOS computer beside him]

"Shall I just talk?"

[Vivaldi Social intro screen, featuring a blue version of the Vivaldi logo. Below it states "Powered by Mastodon" with their logo]

[Back to Ruarí sitting at the desk]

"Hi everyone, my name is Ruarí and I am from Vivaldi. And today, I just wanted to get together to give you a really exciting announcement. I am sure a few of you are on Twitter, and you have heard some news and some issues. And people may have talked about the word Mastodon."

[Blue screen showing the Mastodon logo]

"So Mastodon is an open social network."

[Back to Ruarí]

"Where everyone can kind of contribute. And we decided to start an 'Instance'."

[Vivaldi Browser displaying content from social.vivaldi.net]

And what that means for our Vivaldi users is, they can just go ahead, log in right away—use the login they already have—and be part of this wider community. And if you are not with us that's fine, you can sign up as well. It's open to everyone!

[Back to Ruarí]

And we really love this idea because it brings us back to the roots of the web, where everyone is an equal and people are not "monitored and checked and so on" [a clarification appears on screen the means monitoring in the "profiling" sense as done by "Big tech" where you data is used and sold—the instance will be moderated]. So come and check us out at vivaldi.social.

[End Screen featuring a blue version of the Vivaldi logo and the word "Vivaldi" in caps]

[TheQuantumAlpha]

Will you allow open thoughts?
To add up, Mastodon is extremely hostile to anyone with slight conservative views that even twitter allows.

I don't think Mastodon is secure, from a cybersecurity standpoint either

I find this decision appalling.

[TheQuantumAlpha]

@Catweazle I love mewe!

[Semenov-Sherin]

You should not copy data from you forum. Mastodon and Vivaldi's forum are the different things, and they should works with different nicknames and different avatars.

[jon]

@doctorg: , I think our focus at this time is on the launch of Vivaldi Social. Whether to do more on chat in the future, we will leave that decision for later.

[RiveDroite]

This is very cool! It did confuse me at first because I tried to create a new account for it, until I realized all I had to do was login using my existing Vivaldi account!

[FallCheetah7373]

thanks for joining the fediverse!

[treego]

Hmmm ... I like a different social network.

[AryanDevasagayaum]

@jon: I love this progress! Breaking from big tech, creating our tiny Hobbit house. Now what will it be next? Our own productive suit (aka a Vivaldi version of word, excel etc... Maybe Libreoffice can jump in)

[PC64]

looks good!

[kbirger]

Where can I see which mastodon servers yours is federated with?

[treego]

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