That's one of the reasons I'm paying $9/month for my Mastodon hosting provider – I see it as similar to running your own email server or website hosting
DECENTRALIZED AI
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Mastodon APIs: First Technical Discovery and Learning
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The Mastodon APIs are pretty fun, here's my first TIL
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Running Mastodon Server on Masto.host for Nine Dollars Monthly
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Mastodon verification using rel=”me” links explained
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The way Mastodon handles verification is smart: it uses rel="me" links and shows verified links on your profile page with a green background https://
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Self-hosting servers for sustainable long-term viability
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Yeah ongoing sustainability of servers is why I chose to self-host, I only have to worry about moderating myself!
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Mastodon Decentralized Server Model Easier Cheaper Healthier Community
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… which is SO MUCH easier and cheaper if you are running a server with only a few hundred active users Mastodon has been around for 6 years at this point and from dipping in over the past few days seems to be the opposite of a toxic environment – they're doing something right!
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Mastodon’s Decentralized Moderation Approach and Server Governance
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Mastodon seems to me to have thought very hard about this stuff: like Reddit, they outsource most decisions to the individual servers and provide a deep level of moderation tooling Each Mastodon server will have to handle the nightmare described in that article independently
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Federated Networks: Challenges in Decentralized Architecture
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Yeah there's a very significant cost of having it federated across independent servers – clicking "follow" on another profile behaves in a surprising way, and there's not yet a good option for global search outside of a single server I'm impressed at how well it DOES work though
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Mastodon Exceeds Expectations After Six Years Development
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I had low expectations of Mastodon and it has massively exceeded them – it's had six years to iron out the kinks, I was surprised qnd impressed when I set it up yesterday
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Mastodon niche communities independent from tech discourse
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(I've not made the plunge into a Mastadon yet but learning that there are fascinating, active, niche communities there completely independent from talk about tech is the thing that could convince me)