How Musk Made Vivaldi Build A Mastodon Server... In A Fortnight (Official Mastodon / Fediverse Development Thread)

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Bridgy Fed connects web sites, the fediverse, and Bluesky. You can use it to make your profile on one visible in another, follow people, see their posts, and reply and like and repost them. Interactions work in both directions as much as possible. See the docs for more info.

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Bluesky adds ‘anti-toxicity’ options to limit dogpiling and hostile quote posts

Users can also now hide replies and block list creators.

www.theverge.com

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Bluesky adds ‘anti-toxicity’ options to limit dogpiling and hostile quote posts​

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The app’s 1.90 update introduces new features to help users avoid online harassment.​

By Jess Weatherbed, a news writer focused on creative industries, computing, and internet culture. Jess started her career at TechRadar, covering news and hardware reviews.
Aug 29, 2024, 12:43 PM EDT

If a post is being shared as part of a dogpiling effort, Bluesky users can now limit people from linking to them directly. Image: Bluesky

Bluesky has introduced a bunch of new “anti-toxicity” features that aim to help users protect themselves against harassment and dogpiling. Announced via a recent blog post, version 1.90 of the decentralized social media platform adds tools that can limit exposure to unwelcome interactions with other users, such as an option to detach your post from somebody else’s quote of it.

The update allows users to view all the posts that quote a post they’ve made, then detach their original post so it can no longer be seen beneath the other user’s commentary — preventing readers from seeing it and clicking through to engage. You can already cut off engagement by blocking a quote poster, but detachment offers a less drastic option.

The downside, as Bluesky notes, is that this update lets users who spread dis- or misinformation detach their posts from quote posts that correct it. “To address this, we’re leaning into labeling services and hoping to integrate a Community Notes-like feature in the future,” the company said in the blog. For now, it’s a tradeoff that could mitigate one of the more unpleasant aspects of posting your opinions online.

Version 1.90 of the Bluesky app also allows users to hide replies to their posts and move them behind a dedicated “Hidden Replies” screen, where they can be revisited with less visibility. (Reply hiding has been available on X, formerly Twitter, for years.) Bluesky is also stepping back from promoting every single reply to the “Following” feed; it will now only show conversations that include replies between at least two followers.

Someone chatting some nasty nonsense? Boom — post replies can now be hidden. Image: Bluesky

Thanks to Bluesky’s design, quote post removals and hidden replies are public data, akin to blocking other users. Bluesky says its app won’t list all the quote detachments on the original post, but that data will still be accessible via the Bluesky API.

Additional changes include a new priority filter that lets users only receive notification updates from people they follow, as well as the ability to limit being featured in lists. When a user blocks someone who has created a starter pack or curational user list, they’ll also be filtered out of any of these lists, except for moderation lists that govern muting and blocking.

There’s a good selection of tools here to nope out of mobbing on the platform, but Bluesky says it isn’t done yet — additional changes are being made “to combat ban evasion, botnets, and other forms of toxicity.” The company is planning to share more details about those efforts next week.

 

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Bluesky adds ‘anti-toxicity’ options to limit dogpiling and hostile quote posts

Users can also now hide replies and block list creators.

www.theverge.com

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Bluesky adds ‘anti-toxicity’ options to limit dogpiling and hostile quote posts​

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The app’s 1.90 update introduces new features to help users avoid online harassment.​

By Jess Weatherbed, a news writer focused on creative industries, computing, and internet culture. Jess started her career at TechRadar, covering news and hardware reviews.
Aug 29, 2024, 12:43 PM EDT

If a post is being shared as part of a dogpiling effort, Bluesky users can now limit people from linking to them directly. Image: Bluesky

Bluesky has introduced a bunch of new “anti-toxicity” features that aim to help users protect themselves against harassment and dogpiling. Announced via a recent blog post, version 1.90 of the decentralized social media platform adds tools that can limit exposure to unwelcome interactions with other users, such as an option to detach your post from somebody else’s quote of it.

The update allows users to view all the posts that quote a post they’ve made, then detach their original post so it can no longer be seen beneath the other user’s commentary — preventing readers from seeing it and clicking through to engage. You can already cut off engagement by blocking a quote poster, but detachment offers a less drastic option.

The downside, as Bluesky notes, is that this update lets users who spread dis- or misinformation detach their posts from quote posts that correct it. “To address this, we’re leaning into labeling services and hoping to integrate a Community Notes-like feature in the future,” the company said in the blog. For now, it’s a tradeoff that could mitigate one of the more unpleasant aspects of posting your opinions online.

Version 1.90 of the Bluesky app also allows users to hide replies to their posts and move them behind a dedicated “Hidden Replies” screen, where they can be revisited with less visibility. (Reply hiding has been available on X, formerly Twitter, for years.) Bluesky is also stepping back from promoting every single reply to the “Following” feed; it will now only show conversations that include replies between at least two followers.

Someone chatting some nasty nonsense? Boom — post replies can now be hidden. Image: Bluesky

Thanks to Bluesky’s design, quote post removals and hidden replies are public data, akin to blocking other users. Bluesky says its app won’t list all the quote detachments on the original post, but that data will still be accessible via the Bluesky API.

Additional changes include a new priority filter that lets users only receive notification updates from people they follow, as well as the ability to limit being featured in lists. When a user blocks someone who has created a starter pack or curational user list, they’ll also be filtered out of any of these lists, except for moderation lists that govern muting and blocking.

There’s a good selection of tools here to nope out of mobbing on the platform, but Bluesky says it isn’t done yet — additional changes are being made “to combat ban evasion, botnets, and other forms of toxicity.” The company is planning to share more details about those efforts next week.

The social media equivalent to “p*ssy dried up”

 

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Bluesky is finally adding video

Slowly but surely.

mashable.com

Bluesky is finally adding video​

Slowly but surely.

ByShannon Connellan on August 30, 2024

Credit: Bluesky logo / Mashable edit

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Bluesky is finally about to add video.

The decentralised social media platform flagged the coming update on Friday in a post. Bluesky first announced it would be adding video in May, along with DMs.

Bluesky (@bsky.app)

Now might be a good time to announce that our next major app update will have video. 👀 More details soon!

bsky.app

Bluesky didn't specify exactly when the video feature will roll out or what it will look like, promising "more details soon," but in May, the company said "it’s looking like the v1 of video integration on Bluesky will be 90-second clips that you can share on your posts."

Bluesky also announced some "anti-toxicity" features this week, including the ability to detach quote posts, hide replies, and the ability to filter your notifications to only receive updates from people you follow.

Earlier this year, Bluesky added a "stackable approach" for content moderation, which lets users essentially run their own independent moderation services.

In its most recent report, Bluesky says it's sitting at 5.8 million users, offering an alternative for users on competitor X (formerly Twitter). The platform, which was invite-only for its launch, already had 3 million sign-ups before opening up to everyone in February. Meta-owned competitor Threads said at the beginning of August it crossed the 200 million user mark.

TopicsApps & SoftwareSocial Media

 

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Bluesky is finally adding video

Slowly but surely.

mashable.com

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Bluesky is finally adding video​

Slowly but surely.

ByShannon Connellan on August 30, 2024

Credit: Bluesky logo / Mashable edit

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Bluesky is finally about to add video.

The decentralised social media platform flagged the coming update on Friday in a post. Bluesky first announced it would be adding video in May, along with DMs.

Bluesky (@bsky.app)

Now might be a good time to announce that our next major app update will have video. 👀 More details soon!

bsky.app

Bluesky didn't specify exactly when the video feature will roll out or what it will look like, promising "more details soon," but in May, the company said "it’s looking like the v1 of video integration on Bluesky will be 90-second clips that you can share on your posts."

Bluesky also announced some "anti-toxicity" features this week, including the ability to detach quote posts, hide replies, and the ability to filter your notifications to only receive updates from people you follow.

Earlier this year, Bluesky added a "stackable approach" for content moderation, which lets users essentially run their own independent moderation services.

In its most recent report, Bluesky says it's sitting at 5.8 million users, offering an alternative for users on competitor X (formerly Twitter). The platform, which was invite-only for its launch, already had 3 million sign-ups before opening up to everyone in February. Meta-owned competitor Threads said at the beginning of August it crossed the 200 million user mark.

TopicsApps & SoftwareSocial Media

Timing has been in Bluesky's favor as of late

 

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Lemmy - Beginner's Guide for Redditors​

You’ve recently seen a post, comment or message telling you to "try out Lemmy". It sounds interesting but you have no idea where to find it. Googling "Lemmy" gives 50 different sites that all look the same. You go back to the post and find replies mentioning "federation" and "instances". This is the moment you give up due to confusion.

And I agree: discussion around Lemmy IS confusing. However, Lemmy is the best alternative to Reddit if you can get past the onboarding.

This guide aims to bridge the gap between Reddit and Lemmy. It is intentionally written in an order that does not dump everything onto you at once, but instead goes further in depth the further you get. For now, let’s begin with the basics: the registration process.

GitHub - amirzaidi/lemmy: Lemmy - Beginner's Guide for Redditors

Lemmy - Beginner's Guide for Redditors. Contribute to amirzaidi/lemmy development by creating an account on GitHub.

github.com

 

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Mastodon 4.3

Grouped notifications, notification filtering, better onboarding and a refreshed look await in this new release of our decentralized open-source social media software.

blog.joinmastodon.org

Mastodon 4.3​

New safety and discovery tools and a refreshed look​

Eugen Rochko

CEO / Founder

Mastodon 4.3 just landed! If you’re a mastodon.social user, you might have already seen some of this in action as we’ve been gradually rolling out these updates over the course of the last 11 months in nightly releases, but we’re finally making a new stable release available to the community. If you use a different server, you will get access to these improvements once your server operator upgrades.

Notifications​

On Mastodon, your experience depends a lot on the moderation style of the server that hosts your account, but your unique ability to choose a server that suits your needs the best is useless if you don’t have much insight into how moderation decisions impact you. If a moderator decision results in you losing followers, or no longer being able to follow people from another server, you will now be notified and have the ability to export a list of the affected profiles.

Also, if a moderator decision targets your account specifically, you will now receive an in-app notification so you can’t miss it.

We’re also bringing two new major features to help people deal with unwanted attention. Notification grouping has arrived in Mastodon, allowing you to make sense of your notifications even if your posts are going viral. Instead of inundating your screen with hundreds of individual notifications for the same post, you’ll see a summary of how many people boosted or favourited it.

We’re also introducing a brand new system for filtering unwanted notifications. You get to decide what happens to notifications from people you don’t follow, who aren’t following you, recently created accounts, or unsolicited private mentions. You can either send them to the void immediately, never to be seen again, or put them into a special inbox you can peruse when you want.

Design​

One of the ongoing efforts is to make Mastodon easy and delightful to use. We’ve invested a significant amount of money and time into working with professional designers and performing user testing over the last few years, but we really ramped up our efforts in 2023. Mastodon is quite a large application, and our resources remain very constrained compared to our corporate competitors, but we’ve made significant progress on improving the look and feel of Mastodon across the board.

We have redesigned the new post composer to be much more intuitive to use, to make sure you get your post right the first time. Not only does it look better, but you can now re-arrange media you’ve uploaded as you see fit, and see exactly what layout it will be displayed in. We’ve also made content warnings and word filters easier to notice and expand.

Across the web app, our iconography and color palette got a refresh, link previews look even better, and you can now hover over anyone’s name to peek at their profile and quickly follow or unfollow them. We also redesigned all of the “utility” emails (password resets, follow notifications, etc.) as well as the first welcome email to help you identify what’s most important.

Among various redesigned dialogs, new confirmation dialogs for muting and blocking describe exactly what effects muting and blocking will have. If you are about to block another server, we’ll show you exactly how many followers you would lose to help avoid potential mistakes. In the spirit of surfacing product education in more areas, clicking the domain on someone’s profile now brings up information about Mastodon’s decentralized nature.

Onboarding and discovery​

Helping new users get started on Mastodon has been a key focus for us over the past few years. We found that people would skip follow recommendations during onboarding and end up with a boring feed that doesn’t offer anything new for hours or days.

We value the user’s agency over what is shown in the home feed, and pride ourselves on being a reliable platform to keep up with the people you care about without opaque algorithms randomizing which things you see in which order. This presents a challenge when other platforms have created an expectation that the user only has to passively consume what is generated for them instead of actively curating what they want to see.

On Mastodon, you need to follow people or hashtags to see them in your home feed. To bridge the gap for people who fly past the onboarding, we’ve introduced a little carousel with follow recommendations that will appear above the first post older than four hours on the first page of your home feed.

We’ve also significantly improved the system of follow recommendations as a whole, mixing generalized results like profiles popular in your language with personalized ones like profiles that a lot of the people you follow, follow. For added transparency, the reason for the recommendation is displayed along with it.

Helping writers and journalists​

In this version we’re introducing a new way to highlight writers and journalists on the fediverse. By adding a single line to their HTML, publishers can feature the fediverse profile of the page author in the link previews on Mastodon. That way, when lots of different people are sharing the link, or the link is trending in the News tab, you can easily navigate to the author’s fediverse profile and follow them right from within Mastodon to receive future updates. Publications like The Verge and TechCrunch are already using this.

We’ve also put a fresh coat of paint on our website embeds. You’ve always been able to embed a Mastodon post on your own website, but we’ve made them look a lot better and gave them a more graceful fallback when the source is slow to load or no longer available. Of course, the dialog for embedding a post now looks a lot better as well, offering a simple click to copy button. Keep in mind that you can only embed posts that are public!

What’s next?​

Now that 4.3 is done, our focus for the next release will be on implementing the highly requested features of quote posts, as well as the ability for server operators to subscribe to managed blocklists, which along with our new initiative of pluggable fediverse discovery providers should make running small and medium-sized fediverse servers much more viable; and with Ghost entering the fediverse, further improving how long-form content from other fediverse platforms is displayed within Mastodon.

We are extremely grateful to everyone who supports Mastodon through Patreon, our 501(c)3 in the US, and other means. Unlike our competitors, we don’t take venture capital, don’t sell ads and don’t sell your data. While other social media platforms have teams of hundreds of engineers working on them, we operate on less than 500K USD annually with a team of only 4 full-time employees, and a number of contractors. If you’d like to see the pace of development increase, please consider chipping in so we can hire more people!

 

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Mastodon’s founder cedes control, refuses to become next Musk or Zuckerberg

Mastodon shifts to nonprofit ownership, calls for $5M in donations to expand.

arstechnica.com

Mastodon’s founder cedes control, refuses to become next Musk or Zuckerberg​

Mastodon shifts to nonprofit ownership, calls for $5M in donations to expand.

Ashley Belanger – Jan 13, 2025 3:21 PM |

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Credit: SOPA Images / Contributor | LightRocket

Mastodon announced Monday that it's shifting its structure over the next six months to become wholly owned by a European nonprofit organization—"affirming the intent that Mastodon should not be owned or controlled by a single individual."

This takes control of the social network away from its previous "ultimate decision-maker," Eugen Rochko. As founder, Rochko initially took the reins to ensure the decentralized platform would never be for sale and "would be free of the control of a single wealthy individual." His grand vision remains to leave Mastodon users in control of the social network, making their own decisions about what content is allowed or what appears in their timelines.

The news comes after leaders of other social networks, like Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk, have sparked backlash over sudden changes to popular apps like Facebook, Instagram, and X (formerly Twitter). For years, Musk has drawn criticism for changing Twitter's hate speech policies through his X rebranding. And more recently, Zuckerberg this month defended Meta's decision to relax hate speech policies (permitting women to be called "property" and gay people to be called "mentally ill") by calling bans on such speech "out of touch with mainstream discourse."

Mastodon is hoping to provide an alternative social network for users who are potentially frustrated with their lack of control over their timelines and content on other networks.

But to achieve the "envisioned independence" for all users, Mastodon's structure needed to "evolve," the blog said, "as the community grew" to about 1.5 million monthly active users in 2023. Remaining headquartered in Europe primarily, Mastodon's day-to-day operations will be managed by the new European not-for-profit entity, "establishing a new legal home for Mastodon."

The user experience on Mastodon won't be affected much by the transition to a nonprofit owner, Mastodon said. But "changes are definitely in the pipeline."

Mastodon appears to be betting that even more users will seek alternative social networks in the future as popular apps enact unpopular policies. The blog discussed progress on a "privacy-respecting search tool" that could be used to explore the entire Fediverse, a collection of independent social media networks that Mastodon connects to. That could make it possible to discover more content without depending on a "For You" algorithm mining user data.

And perhaps in a nod to Meta's recent changes, Mastodon also vowed to "invest deeply in trust and safety" and ensure "everyone, especially marginalized communities," feels "safe" on the platform.

To become a more user-focused paradise of "resilient, governable, open and safe digital spaces," Mastodon is going to need a lot more funding. The blog called for donations to help fund an annual operating budget of $5.1 million (5 million euros) in 2025. That's a massive leap from the $152,476 (149,400 euros) total operating expenses Mastodon reported in 2023.

Other social networks wary of EU regulations​

Mastodon has decided to continue basing its operations in Europe, while still maintaining a separate US-based nonprofit entity as a "fundraising hub," the blog said.

It will take time, Mastodon said, to "select the appropriate jurisdiction and structure in Europe" before Mastodon can then "determine which other (subsidiary) legal structures are needed to support operations and sustainability."

While Mastodon is carefully getting re-settled as a nonprofit in Europe, Zuckerberg this week went on Joe Rogan's podcast to call on Donald Trump to help US tech companies fight European Union fines, Politico reported.

Some critics suggest the recent policy changes on Meta platforms were intended to win Trump's favor, partly to get Trump on Meta's side in the fight against the EU's strict digital laws. According to France24, Musk's recent combativeness with EU officials suggests Musk might team up with Zuckerberg in that fight (unlike that cage fight pitting the wealthy tech titans against each other that never happened).

Experts told France24 that EU officials may "perhaps wrongly" already be fearful about ruffling Trump's feathers by targeting his tech allies and would likely need to use the "full legal arsenal" of EU digital laws to "stand up to Big Tech" once Trump's next term starts.

As Big Tech prepares to continue battling EU regulators, Mastodon appears to be taking a different route, laying roots in Europe and "establishing the appropriate governance and leadership frameworks that reflect the nature and purpose of Mastodon as a whole" and "responsibly serve the community," its blog said.

"Our core mission remains the same: to create the tools and digital spaces where people can build authentic, constructive online communities free from ads, data exploitation, manipulative algorithms, or corporate monopolies," Mastodon's blog said.

 

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Decentralized Instagram alternative Pixelfed launches mobile apps | TechCrunch

Pixelfed, a decentralized alternative to Instagram, has launched its official mobile apps. The service today runs on the same ActivityPub protocol that

techcrunch.com

Decentralized Instagram alternative Pixelfed launches mobile apps​

Sarah Perez

8:00 AM PST · January 14, 2025



Pixelfed, a decentralized alternative to Instagram, has launched its official mobile apps. The service today runs on the same ActivityPub protocol that powers open source X alternative Mastodon, YouTube competitor PeerTube, and other decentralized social apps, now including Meta’s Threads and Flipboard (plus its newer app, Surf), that are part of a growing push toward a more open social web known as the fediverse.

Pixelfed was originally developed in 2018 by Daniel Supernault, who also recently created the federated TikTok rival Loops. Similar to Instagram, Pixelfed allows users to share and explore photos and videos and send direct messages to others. However, very unlike Instagram, Pixelfed is ad-free, open source, decentralized, and defaults to chronological feeds — which are its selling points to users.

At a time when people would rather join another Chinese app than return to Meta if TikTok’s ban is upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court, Pixelfed’s apps stand a better chance at success as users try to distance themselves from Meta’s (no longer fact-checked) social media.

To get started with Pixelfed, users can choose to join one of the community’s servers or self-host a Pixelfed instance, as with other federated apps.

Image Credits:Pixelfed

Prior to Pixelfed’s mobile app debut, people could use Pixelfed via the web or through third-party mobile apps like Impressia. Now, the service offers its own official mobile apps for both Android and iOS, following their earlier beta tests.

The Android Pixelfed launched just ahead of Tuesday’s iOS app, and it only took two days to reach 10,000 downloads, Supernault noted on his Mastodon account. The app is also now the No. 1 Social app on Google Play in a number of markets, including the U.S.

He also said that 11,000 new users joined one of the top Pixelfed instances, pixelfed.social, over the past 24 hours. That server alone has seen more than 78,000 posts on Tuesday alone.

The Pixelfed apps are free to use and do not collect any user data.

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auto redirect to posts on external mastodon instances.

How to Update the Userscript​

1. Open Your Userscript Manager:
   • If you are using Tampermonkey, open the Tampermonkey dashboard.
   • If you are using Violentmonkey, open the Violentmonkey dashboard.
2. Edit the Existing Script:
   • Find the script named "Mastodon Redirect Auto-Redirector".
   • Click on "Edit" to open the script editor.
3. Replace the Script Content:
   • Copy the updated script code provided above.
   • Paste it into the script editor, replacing the existing content.
4. Save the Script:
   • Save the changes to the script.

How to Test the Updated Userscript​

1. Navigate to a Mastodon Redirect Page:
   • Go to any Mastodon instance redirect page that contains /redirect/ in the URL.
2. Check the Console for Debugging:
   • Open your browser's developer console (usually by pressing F12 or right-clicking and selecting "Inspect").
   • Go to the "Console" tab to see the debug messages.

Example Debug Output​

If everything works correctly, you should see output like this in the console:

Mastodon Redirect Auto-Redirector started.
Attempting to find redirect link...
Redirect link found: [URL]https://example.social/@user/1234567890[/URL]
Redirecting to: [URL]https://example.social/@user/1234567890[/URL]
If no redirect link is found initially, you'll see:

Mastodon Redirect Auto-Redirector started.
Attempting to find redirect link...
No redirect link found. Retrying in 1 second...

Additional Tips​

• Ensure the Page is Fully Loaded: Sometimes the redirect link might not be available immediately when the script runs. The retry mechanism helps mitigate this.
• Check for Multiple Redirects: If the page has multiple redirects, ensure the script is targeting the correct link.
• Inspect the Page Structure: If the script still doesn't work, inspect the HTML structure of the redirect page to ensure the selector .redirect__message a[href] is correct. The structure might vary between different Mastodon instances.

// ==UserScript==
// @name         Mastodon Redirect Auto-Redirector
// @namespace    http://tampermonkey.net/
// @version      1.1
// @description  Automatically redirects to the target URL on Mastodon redirect pages
// @author       Kimi
// @include      */redirect/*
// @grant        none
// ==/UserScript==

(function() {
    'use strict';

    console.log('Mastodon Redirect Auto-Redirector started.');

    // Function to find and redirect to the link
    function attemptRedirect() {
        console.log('Attempting to find redirect link...');
        const redirectLink = document.querySelector('.redirect__message a[href]');

        if (redirectLink) {
            console.log('Redirect link found:', redirectLink.href);
            console.log('Redirecting to:', redirectLink.href);
            window.location.href = redirectLink.href;
        } else {
            console.warn('No redirect link found. Retrying in 1 second...');
            setTimeout(attemptRedirect, 1000); // Retry after 1 second
        }
    }

    // Start the redirect attempt
    attemptRedirect();
})();

 

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Daniel Supernault (@dansup@mastodon.social)

"pixelfed is doomed because of the network effect" "nobody will ever use this" "he thinks he can take on Instagram" You have to be crazy to think you can compete with Instagram, even crazier to work on it for 7 years, just waiting for that moment The moment when people see the value in what...

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Spoiler: full text & large images

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@dansup@mastodon.social
"pixelfed is doomed because of the network effect""nobody will ever use this""he thinks he can take on Instagram"You have to be crazy to think you can compete with Instagram, even crazier to work on it for 7 years, just waiting for that momentThe moment when people see the value in what you've been building for so longNever let them win, keep building. If nobody thinks they can compete with IG, nobody willIt only takes one crazy dreamer, and people like you

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@oblongs_appeal_0l
@dansup I think they underestimate how much people hate big tech enshytification.

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@avoidtheories
@oblongs_appeal_0l @dansup 100%. What's great about Pixelfed is that it doesn't have the same aspects that Instagram has. It's nice to be able to see videos, pictures, but pictures are what Instagram was originally for and this goes back to that root. I recently posted a photo of my food and I'm happy with that. I relied too heavily on Stories feature for that and lost the permanence.

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@max@leipzig.town
@dansup Sometimes I think the Fediverse is like Noah's Ark.

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@kaffeeringe@social.tchncs.de
@dansup "Start small" - one of the wisdoms of #Ikigai. The Power of Starting Small

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@pixeldorf@mstdn.social
@dansup Why you deleted Accounts (~6 years old) without any comment? Or a way to export his data? Does not seem very trusting

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@f@ieji.de
@pixeldorf @dansup It is federated! Use another instance or host your own. Do you really think one man can host for everyone and for free? If there's no activity on an account, admins will delete it for sure.

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@dansup
@pixeldorf they deleted their account, not me lolthey even tried to blame me, when I have the proof they did it themselves.But you believe everything you see, without asking questions, a dangerous precedent that i'm sure you agree is wrong.

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@pixeldorf@mstdn.social
@dansup that's why I'm asking... but ok

10/17
@dansup
@pixeldorf you mentioned "doesn't seem very trusting" but you believed the lies, despite my proof. It's not a good look, I'm trying to raise funding for a better social media landscape, and his actions is causing confusion.But ok.

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@pixeldorf@mstdn.social
@dansup Yes, it just didn't seem trustworthy. That's why I asked.You told your facts and it's good.

12/17
@juergen@bruckner.email
@dansup well, Pixelfed has now successfully proven the opposite And the success story continues

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@koshdim@infosec.exchange
@dansup ig works on ads, how pixelfed is going to cover it's costs?

14/17
@f@ieji.de
@koshdim @dansup Multiple people hosting multiple instances/servers. This is called decentralization.

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@pixelfedfans
@dansup

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@Invictvs@indieweb.social
@dansup keep going!!!

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@powerword@friendica.world
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