I'm finding Mastodon a lot easier to understand having I've realized that it's just blogs. Everyone gets a little blog, on their own server or someone else's. Following someone is pretty much subscribing to their feed. You can even roll your own implementation from scratch.
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Mastodon’s Decentralized Design: Promoting Instance Diversity Over Centralization
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The interesting thing about that is they don't WANT to get huge – http://
mastodon.social is run by the Mastodon org as a reference implementation, but they're very invested in getting people to use other instances instead, hence the directory on https://
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AGI Film Music Verse: Transformative Economic Value Generation
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AGI Film | AGI Music | AGI Verse AGI will likely generate transformative economic value. 1). AGIFilm.eth
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3). AGIVerse.eth https://
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MONTREAL.AI: Winning the #AGI Race #AGIFilm #AGIMusic #AGIVerse #MontrealAI -
Federated Social Networks: Reconsidering the Cost-Benefit Analysis
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I thought that the massive usability cost and governance complexity of a federated social network wasn't worth it… until a narcissist billionaire bought my favourite online hangout on a whim, and now the costs of federation are looking pretty good to me!
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Federation Exceeds Expectations Despite Usability Challenges
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I think one reason I'm so impressed is that I understand how much of a negative impact federation has on usability (a reason I didn't think it would work and never signed up before) and as a result it's wildly exceeding my low expectations
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Thousand tiny servers bloom: Mastodon financial sustainability model
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That's another reason why I'm optimistic: may a thousand tiny servers bloom Mastodon users seem to get that they should open their wallets – there are no ads so it's pretty clear that people need to help financially support the servers they are using – or volunteer time, or both
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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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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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NeurIPS 2022 Research Asset on Blockchain
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NeurIPS.Crypto Asset: https://
opensea.io/assets/matic/0
xa9a6a3626993d487d2dbda3173cf58ca1a9d9e9f/85236298060416470676056917210060248218208711908924985904219618869194675364809
… #NeurIPS #NeurIPS2022