It sounds fantastic, what Twitter should've always been. It really makes me wish I was compatible with the whole real-time comms thing. -Dave On 12/24/22 10:12, Dave Shevett wrote:
So, while this is amusing and snarky, folks should understand what mastodon is and how it works. Defederating a server because it has bad users or content is actually a key component of how Mastodon works.
The network isn't completely flat. Unike Usenet, not all content is replicated across all servers (yes, I know some newsgroups can be filtered, that's not what i'm talking about).
Servers / instances are identified by interest, social group, or topic. Some servers attract some really dreadful people. They are defederated / blocked.
It's a very very different model.
On Sat, Dec 24, 2022 at 10:07 AM Dave McGuire via vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org <mailto:vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org>> wrote:
On 12/24/22 02:52, Ethan O'Toole via vcf-midatlantic wrote: >> Huh? Have you actually *used* it? It's 100% about talk, but has >> been abused for media. > > I have helped a friend mount hundreds of 18TB HDDs in sleds for some > Usenet service he does work for. It's pretty wild looking at a wall of > many petabytes of LEDs flashing... thinking.... I wonder what they are > reading on usenet right now.
Pics!
> There is a semi-local hackerspace that launched on the Mastodon during > the great evil Elon revolt, and immediately there was a user backlash > because the network of servers they were on touched a server that had > content the user didn't agree with. It was amusing.
ROFL
-Dave
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-- Dave McGuire, AK4HZ New Kensington, PA