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
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Mastodon Moderation Strategy: Six Years of Careful Platform Governance
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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://
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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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MidJourney Improvements Show Rapid Generative AI Progress
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The pace of change in generative AI, as reflected in my viral tweets. I just took a bunch of AI art prompts I had used in various tweets over the past two months (one from just a couple of days ago) & put them into the newest version of MidJourney. Higher quality, less weird.
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Human verbal communication exchanges at 39 bits per second
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We exchange verbal information with each other at 39 bits/second.
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Human Sensory-Motor Processing Bandwidth and Perception Delays
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Human sensory-motor processing seems to operate at 10 bits/second. It takes 1/3 of a second before our brain registers how heavy an object we are lifting actually is, replacing the less accurate judgement we had previously made just by looking at the object.
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Elon’s Twitter suspensions drive users to Mastodon platform
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Every time Elon suspends an account for making fun of him, another mastodon account gets its wings (@katecrawford@mastodon.social)
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AI Pub Aspires to Akhaliq’s Level of Twitter Usefulness
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AI Pub reaching for that @_akhaliq level of usefulness on AI twitter 🙂