Mastodon

If you try GNU social and Mastodon I believe with a high confidence that you'll find that Mastodon is a much better execution of the idea. So yeah my goal is for this to be the…

Looks pretty good from what I've seen. Set up an account for my site, posted a few messages to test how it works and found that everything seems pretty much as I'd expect from a…

I like this... especially the private feature!!!!

But that name... "Can you mastodon me?" Ugh. I don't see this going mainstream with a name like this. I don't think anyone at NBC is ever going to say, "let's see what's trending…

I signed up and tried it out. The "Public" thing on the right side apparently can't be shut off. About every third toot has four-letter words. Racism, sexually inappropriate…

This doesn't play nice federating with the GNU Social codebase. Things that should travel across simply disappears. It needs more work.

I would ping you except that your server doesn't talk to Quitter.se while the rest of the GNU Social federation does so just fine. I'm remote-subscribed to people there yet they…

I might be bit dense, but can you browse this thing somehow without first registering?

forgot? people have been asking you for this feature for ages.

Is there some easy way for me to automatically cross-post my twitter posts to Mastodon?

You can browse individual accounts, e.g.: https://mastodon.social/users/Gargron https://mastodon.social/users/Triplefox But there isn't a feed of the public timeline which would…

"GNU social" - good, I like that protocol suite... But how do I discover fellow users to fill my subscription list across different sites ? Can I search across the whole networks…

Discovery: If someone from your instance follows someone remotely, that account is in the instance's database, and can be searched (we have account search). Furthermore you'll…

Are there any docs on how they plan to avoid spam from other federated instances?

I guess that won't really scale if a popular federated server (easy to create fresh accounts) starts attracting spammers?

How many active users ? Like, accessing the platform once a week or more ?

I don't do any real tracking except for login times, so here is the best data i can offer (for mastodon.social exclusively, other Mastodon and GNU social instances are obviously…

Looks pretty good from what I've seen. Set up an account for my site, posted a few messages to test how it works and found that everything seems pretty much as I'd expect from a…

>"GNU Social seems to be catching on a fair bit nowadays, and that feels a lot like this software too." The GitHub page describes Mastodon as "An alternative implementation of…

Is there some easy way for me to automatically cross-post my twitter posts to Mastodon?

You might want to consider using Known ( https://withknown.com/ ) or backing http://micro.blog/ if you want good, cross-network cross-posting.

You might want to consider using Known ( https://withknown.com/ ) or backing http://micro.blog/ if you want good, cross-network cross-posting.

Can you elaborate or provide sources? AFAIK GNU social's current codebase is a merge [1] between StatusNet and Free Social, with StatusNet previously known as Laconica [2] and…