#mastodonservers — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #mastodonservers, aggregated by home.social.
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@alelazic @altmetric.com and how can we push altmetric.com to consider Mastodon ?
Sending massively requests for this to their email address ?
How does this work on the API side ? Could some #Mastodon programmers propose them how to do this ? Would this need searching for doi's ? Which would be only possible on #MastodonServers allowing full text search ?
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Ich wusste ja gar nicht, dass die @tu_muenchen eine eigene #MastodonInstanz hat 🎉
direkt erst mal allen TUM Studierenden erzählen die ich kenne!🚀#MastodonMigration
wird Zeit dass die #LMU und vielleicht die #HM nachziehen :D#LudwigMaximiliansUniversität #TechnischeUniversitätMünchen #TUM #HochschuleMünchen #Mastodon #MastodonServer #MastodonServerWahl #MastodonServers #unPlugTrump #Fediverse #SwitchToFediverse #Studenten #Studies #Studium #Universität #Universitäten #FediverseMigration
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If you think about changing instances: in the @fedilab app, you can follow any instance, so you can stalk if that's a good instance for you.
Click a users profile, click the 3dots on the top right and click Follow Instance
#mastodonserver #mastodonservers #serverchange #servicepost #mastodon #fedilab
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What are some primarily English speaking servers you recommend? #SERVERS #MASTODONServers #MASTODON
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I seem to be the only active person on this Mastodon server so I think I should probably move. Thinking ravenation.club might be the best option, seeing as I make music. Anyone care to chime in? #mastodonservers #music #Ravenation
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Looking for input! Thanks for any help! I don't like the 500 character limit for posts on my server. I've resisted the idea of moving because I like it here, but almost every day I fight with this restriction. Character limit isn't usually in server descriptions, so I don't know where to go. I don't really want a single theme server, prefer something more general. Any ideas? #CharacterLimit #Fediverse #Suggestions #Servers #MastodonServers
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I just want to praise and thank @admin and the rest of the volunteers at https://typo.social for hosting one of the few Mastodon instances with more than 1,000 users and 100% up time.
(There are fewer than 150 of these large and stable servers, according to @TheKinrar’s tool: https://instances.social/list/advanced#lang=&allowed=&prohibited=&min-users=1001&max-users=)
Typo.social also has excellent security scores. A+ from https://cryptcheck.fr/help and B+ from https://observatory.mozilla.org/analyze/typo.social
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Okay, so just saying theoretically you could use your Mastodon instance as free cloud storage for photos and Video. There's no way this would be ethical but it is probably possible #mastodonfeatures #Mastodon #mastodonservers
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Having signed up to this server because a friend was on it, I realised it's not the best fit for me: not entirely unsuitable, but there could be better. Several attempts to choose another have left me utterly befuddled and in need of guidance. Suggestions sought. Please help?
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Great time to remind people that our very small and relatively new #GamingServer has room for roughly 70 new members. If you're part of the latest #TwitterMigration, please consider us.
:mastodon: #MastodonServers
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seems like a cook mastodon srv for following journalists
https://journa.host/public/local
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So, I've been thinking of setting up my own mastodon server. It would be for only me and a few close friends in the www.PotholeStudios.com gaming community.
However, I seem to be running into a few snags.
1. I only have access to Windows server. No Linux. As I have other server software for some games that only run on windows server.
(I have a 1U Rack Server in my home office with plenty of performance to spare, running windows server)2. Everybody's favourite, Dynamic IP.
(Router does have the ability to use DynDNS and/or NO-IP)3. I do have a domain name, but I'd probably have to use a subdomain such as social.potholestudios.com or mastodon.potholestudios.com so how would I link a subdomain like that to a server on a dynamic IP through GoDaddy using DynDNS or No-IP?
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4. No money to buy another server or cloud storage.5. Once had a Linux server. Debian 5 has put me off Linux for life. Never again.
:::END EDIT:::So, the question is, is it possible to run a Mastodon server with these limitations?
#mastodondev #mastodon #mastodonhelp #mastodonadmin #mastodonapi #mastodonquestions #WindowsServer #mastodoninstance #mastodonserver #mastodonservers #mastodoninstances
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Which mastodon is best for programmers?
#mastodon #fosstodon #techhubsocial #nocsocial #fediverse #mastodonservers
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@scottjenson I would say it’s highly subjective as to what constitutes a ”well run instance,” but there are plenty of lists out there for people to find servers with which they might self-identify.
#Mastodon does have a learning curve but it’s not insurmountable with a little patience.
One example of many: https://coxy.co/mastodon/
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You can interact with people from across the #Fediverse whatever instance you’re registered on, so this isn’t a strong reason to switch after you’ve joined. But if it’s difficult to find people to follow, consider migrating to one of the more populous servers (though not .social or .online, which are already oversubscribed and have moderation and performance issues).
For philosophers, this may be somewhere like zirk.us, fediscience.org, or science.social, where there are lots of other humanities researchers and great content.
For those with an already established following, including those imported from #Twitter, consider setting up on one of the smaller instances. It’s important to build up new forums and communities—which is why I’m championing http://fediphilosophy.org!
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Not having a good day getting onto Mastodon today. Couldn’t get on for hours and when I do I keep getting a lot of 525 internal server errors messages. Same last weekend. I’m #Conflicted if I should move instances because I’ll lose all my posts. Any reason I wait?
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Is er ergens een up-to-date serverlijst beschikbaar met voor .nl relevante servers? De officiele lijst is nogal... kort? #mastodon #mastodonhelp #mastodonservers
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CW: Ugly Privacy Realities
So if you opened this, I am going to assume you want to read about #MastodonPrivacy issues and form your own opinion on whether these things are a concern or not.
So the #fediverse we have going on is a very cool system, so much potential. However, it comes with some worrying #privacy issues, one of which I will outline here quickly. Lets get to it.
Each #mastodon server has a set of public API's, that anyone with a browser/curl/what ever can get to. One of those is /api/v1/instance/peers - this is a list of all the other #mastodonservers that it connects to. It's often over 10k or more on many servers. Each of those, should you be able to connect to it, has it's own peers list, and before you know it, you're 7 degrees into a massive graph of #mastodonservers. Sweet.
So another thing each of them has is a public list of the top tags over the last week. /api/v1/trends with how many accounts, and how many uses per day. SWeet.
So combining those 2 public endpoints, you get something like this: https://hashtags.fyi (and https://hashtags.fyi/status if so interested). Now this is just a listing of the top used hashtags across a bunch of servers, and really, this is not dangerous, it's not violating anyone's privacy, no one can see what tags of those you used.
In fact, given how important tags are to forming communities, the real reason I built that is to help people discovery cool interesting new topics to follow and join in on.
Anyhow, no #privacy thing yet you whacko, what gives?
Well, see that top tag, #introduction ? Well its one that people are being encouraged to spill their lifes stories in (hell I did too) and add all the tags associated with the various groups they associated with, including potentially fringe/attacked/sensitive tags too.
So that big list of servers we got earlier? Yeah so if we run over that, and do like this (demo on this server) https://infosec.exchange/api/v1/timelines/tag/introduction
Suddenly we have info about every person on that server posting about that hashtag, and we have their introduction post, with their lifes story, and all their other tags. Do this across all the server, and .. woah.. yeah now we have a #MastodonPrivacy issue.
There are other ones we could dig into, but lets sit with this one a bit.
Recently there was a witch hunt, and a burning at the stake for a person who was just wanting to build some tools to make peoples experience here better. The #Federati got wind of it, and he was turfed from the server and shut down the project. That is #bullying
Not a peep about how you build a system like this, and make claims about how you'd like the experience and do not build controls to do it like that. Why are these endpoints public?
Now there are some personal controls that users can adopt, things like changing the default visibility of their posts and such, but not all/many of them are set in a "Private by default" kind of way.
On top of that, we're encouraging users to throw out a bunch of private/personal info across this platform, that has not been setup to protect the privacy of those users.
Now I think people should be able to do an #introduction upon joining and also not have to go and unfuck the privacy settings on their account before they do so.
So, I think we can do better around #MastodonPrivacy, #MastodonIntegrity also.
There are reasons large social networks have generally large Privacy, Security and Integrity teams (Trust Teams), and if we want this place to be successful, we're going to need the #Fediverse equivalent . No I don't mean some big Trust org etc, but I do mean that we all have distributed responsibility, especially those who work in the Trust field, to try and help make this place better, safer for all.
Damn, that was long, well if you made it this far, thanks. Now you know about one of my biggest passions, User Trust.
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A really great, clear and simple guide to Mastodon can be found here: https://mastodon.help
Please be patient with any glitches and bear in mind that Mastodon is run by volunteers who are dealing with a mahoosive influx of new people. ❤️
#MastodonHelp
#MastodonServers #Instances #ChoosingAnInstance #MastodonOnSmartphones #MastodonOnLaptops #MastononAccounts #MastodonTimelne #MastodonSearch #MastodonTrendingTopics #MastodonPrivacy #MastodonThreads #MastodonContentWarning #MastodonModeration -
@mike good tip. Thanks. I was wondering how to do this. Easy. #fediverse #mastodonservers