Running a server for other people is definitely not a responsibility to be taken lightly! This post really influenced my thinking about that https://
ashfurrow.com/blog/mastodon-
technology-shutdown/
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Server Administration Responsibility in Decentralized Technology
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Mastodon Moderation Scale and Server Covenant Standards
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My hunch is the Mastodon moderation scheme should scale well – there have been alt-right Mastodon instances for years now (Gab and Truth Social both use it) and most of the reputable servers just straight up block them See also the Mastodon covenant: https://
blog.joinmastodon.org/amp/2019/05/in
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Mastodon Moderation Strategy: Six Years of Careful Platform Governance
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Depends on your server and who you follow: I've had no problems at all but I'm not exactly in a demographic that gets harassed first! They've been thinking about moderation carefully for 6 years. This interview with the founder has useful thoughts on that https://
time.com/6229230/mastod
on-eugen-rochko-interview/
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Mastodon API reveals follower activity timestamps via toot history
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I actually think it IS possible to figure that out on Mastodon – there's an API that returns a list of your followers that includes their last_status_at timestamp (so not their last browse activity, but last time they tooted) https://
docs.joinmastodon.org/methods/accoun
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Mastodon Privacy: No Analytics Tracking Implementation
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There is genuinely no way of telling – Mastodon not only avoids implementing those kinds of analytics, it puts rel="noreferrer" on links so external analytics tools can't see it either
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ActivityPub recognized as essential protocol for decentralized networks
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And thank you very much for your many years of work on ActivityPub, it appears to be exactly what we need right now!
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Overnight Success: Years of AI Product Refinement by Early Adopters
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Yeah it absolutely feels like one of those overnight successes that was many years in the making – the sharp edges have clearly been smoothed off by a whole generation of early adopters already, it's really slick
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Elon Musk Twitter Acquisition Speech Moderation Problems
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That was quoting @reckless in this fantastic article https://
theverge.com/2022/10/28/234
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Debirdify Tool Maps Twitter Users Migrating to Mastodon
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OK, debirdify is very neat. Ran it against my own Twitter account just now and it found 341 people I follow on Twitter who are now advertising their identities on Mastodon
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Mastodon Server Moderation and Harmful Content Federation Blocking
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Since I'm running my own Mastadon server I can block federation with any server I come across that is a home to unmoderated harmful content