Mastodon (Not the Band) Classic or Dud

I will probably delete the account and try again

mastodon.social has been up and down ftb large recent influx, i *think* the decentralised servers means that mastodon as a whole chugs on even when there's local outage so yes, maybe try another server aka instance (call it by its name)

it's *possible* that someone calling their server "lol" did not have a serious purpose to their project

I only joined because it was called that. Joke is on me.

When I go on account settings it does "Server upgrades, check back later <3".

Anyway, this looks like a good thread on it

Apparently there is a crossposter you can use.

To mirror my tweets to Mastodon, I use this cross-poster. Others are also available. I have it set to mirror all my Tweets except replies.

If I don't feel a Tweet was RIGHT for mastodon, i just pop over quickly and delete it after posting it here. Simples https://t.co/eTXBJFgczo

— John Bull (@garius) November 5, 2022

Once I got through the basics of it it all seems pretty reasonable enough. The mobile app version is quite nicely designed.

Useful general thread here (though speaking from a high follower standpoint) -- also notes how you can make Mastodon look like Tweetdeck, which suits me for sure.

Right. As a heavy tweeter/content creator who is now maintaining BOTH a Twitter and Mastodon presence, here is a short guide to what I have set up, how to do it and lessons I've learned, for others.

TLDR: It's been WAY less hassle than I expected thanks to tips from followers /1

— John Bull (@garius) November 5, 2022

Although that may be the same thread featured above! Well, repetition, etc.

I'm on the waitlist for mastadon.social, but yeah it would be cool if we could figure out how to get an ILX mastadon server; though, perhaps that would just be redundant?

Not really -- since you can move your accounts between servers as desired, having some sort of ILX server even as a stopgap might not hurt.

i meant redundant with ILX itself.

I joined and am hoping to a return to the simpler/more enjoyable days of Tumblr communities.

@sctttn✧✧✧@ms✧✧✧.soc✧✧✧

Try it as a URL!

Weird formatting there!

https://mstdn.social/@sctttnnnt

I don't get it at all, but I am here https://mstdn.social/@akmonday

@lathamgr✧✧✧@ravenat✧✧✧.c✧✧✧

that's right , I ravve

what the hell - diamonds??

@lathamgr✧✧✧@ravenat✧✧✧.c✧✧✧

@lathamgr✧✧✧@ravenat✧✧✧.c✧✧✧

please lord help

v

https://ravenation.club/web/@lathamgreen

ilx has disguised emails for like 15 years dude, write it out like i did

at lathamgreen at whichever dot whatever

great, lathamgreen is now the only person I am following on mastadon. I hope lathamgreen will not be pushing me disinformatioons.

u can say yes to my pending friend request and then follow me if u like :D

or not no pressure

I didn't get one (if that was directed at me). One thing I don't quite get: on mastadon.social, if I search for @quartzcity or @mrnedrick, I see your profiles aand am able to follow you. but this doesn't seem to be generally the case; for instance, tried to follow Damon K. but he's on a different instance entirely but I can't seem to do that without also having an account on that mastadon server? maybe I'm doing this incorrectly. we'll see how long I stay interested, I give it two days.

tried to find people but doesn't seem to work. looks very unlikely that I'll ever use it anyway, seems like a bit too much of a commitment to have a new social media app. anyway https://mastodon.world/@centuriesofsound

I’m on there - @Jelbu✧✧✧@m✧✧.t✧

It works for like 10 minutes of every hour as far as I can tell

Jelbugle mas to

yes sorry, this is me mark s (dubdobdee) talking to you akm (akmonday)

i'm in mastodon social, which may or may not be the same server as mstdn social (probably not the same, which might "explain" the non-connection)

it's telling me follow request is pending approval at the moment -- i know it sometimes takes time to clear (especially at the moment with lots of new ppl joining)

you dfon't need to have an account in more than one server to follow accounts in other servers, but with some inter-server hook-ups it is a bit more intricate (and apparently counter-intuitive, i remember having to puzzle it out when i first joined but can't now recall what the error was that i was making)

(there are actually also some servers which have entirely blocked other servers but that's unlikeley to be an issue for anywhere ppl are currently moving into)

The only alternative to Twitter is the Statscock

I got onto the app but just getting 503 errors

I mean, I have ILX, Facebook, a Viber account, Reddit, a twitter I dont use, an IG I dont use, I still have my livejournal ffs, and I have a blog that I never update.

Fuck am I going to do with more crap to log into. Personally I wish everyone'd start up a subreddit to sit and chat in, but I know thats never gonna happen.

I signed up for a Mastodon account with relative ease, but now that I'm on there have no idea what to do. For me, it suffers from the same flaw as Instagram: you can only search by hashtags. So trying to find interesting accounts to follow by just typing in various artists or writers or bands is impossible.

Me, I'm all for a return to Usenet.

it's funny how nobody is talking about going to Facebook even as a joke

— blaine capatch (@blainecapatch) November 5, 2022

LOL thats because everyone who is on twitter left FB to go there. Its the only reason I even have a twitter - to keep up with a few close friends who straight up do not post anything anywhere else.

xp I'm totally prepared to go back to store-and-forward in case the Internet segments back into national/local networks.

BBS style!

Bring on ilx.i-love-everything and ilx.i-love-music!

A vision!

Usenet is just sitting there for the taking. There's great clients, better ways to block spammers, alas....

I mean the whole point of the original host of ILX was Usenet functionality on the web

For several years, I ran the message boards for Spiritualized and The Church off of a Usenet nntp server app that ran on a spare System 9 Power Mac 7500 in my apartment closet. I still miss those days

Isnt usenet a hive of scum and villany porn spam?

I tried setting up a mastodon account and kept getting forbidden errors with no detail about which field was being rejected. I might try again later.

In other words...

tweeters trying to figure out mastodon pic.twitter.com/Iy49vIZhuj

— Eric Allen Hatch (@ericallenhatch) November 6, 2022

suggesting Mastodon to most people as a twitter replacement is like if you ordered a steak at a restaurant and the waiter handed you the map to a cow pasture and a bolt gun

— 👨🏻‍💻☕️ (@hunterwalk) November 5, 2022

Add me on mastadon https://t.co/CMGUq9o5Z1

— Don Hughes 🎄🎁 (@getfiscal) November 5, 2022

the library of alexandria dril museum but it just contains a single @getfiscal tweet (that one)

Don is truly the masta

proof if proof be need be:

So the guy who coded Mastodon is...Russian.

Just FYI.
🤣

— Eric Garland (@ericgarland) November 5, 2022

The guy who coded it is German apparently.

https://mastodon.lol/@nathan/109294013603133150

Basically it's really creaky. See where it goes, it may not cool either if twitter dies in a few weeks.

i haven't used any of these apps but mastodon strikes me as sort of being the dc++ to twitter's napster

mind you i never used dc++ either

I have no idea what dc++ is but you're probably right

So anyone signing up/coming back over or are you all friends of Jack's now? I don't think I will ever sign up for bsky, the slower pace of life on Mastodon is suiting me nicely.

I'm no friend of Jack. I have the occasional flash of "should I get an account there so no one else gets the user name I use everywhere on the internet?" but that's a key motivator in geting you to join a social media site anyway, right?

I had some problems with the instance I was on so I jumped to one of the big servers. I miss the previous one - it was Los Angeles-themed which made the Local timeline worth checking out. Anyway, I'm here now: https://mas.to/@quartzcity

i moved my bots over, just in time, but haven't picked a server for my main account yet.

What was the LA themed server?

https://onewilshire.la - named after the giant data center downtown.

So anyone signing up/coming back over or are you all friends of Jack's now? I don't think I will ever sign up for bsky, the slower pace of life on Mastodon is suiting me nicely.

― emil.y, Saturday, 1 July 2023 bookmarkflaglink

The pace on there is a full stop. Cannot figure it out. I shouldn't have to either.

Ideally, it's the place.

I posted this on another thread but the main thing I've learnt about finding interesting things on Mastodon is to use and follow hashtags. I never wanted to do this on twitter because there were too many aggressive randos, but Mastodon is smaller and more peaceful, so when I want to potentially be part of a larger conversation, I can use hashtags confidently. Following hashtags puts posts containing them directly in your feed, so choosing those well is essential.

I also think joining an instance that is generally themed around a topic you find interesting is a good idea, so you can browse local to find stuff. I loved .lol b/c it was queer and antifascist. The one I'm on now is specifically LGBTQ+ but I feel like it's less interesting to me w/o the explicitly political side. There's also the worry with facebook moving in about who federates with them and what that means. I might end up moving instances again, which is, to be honest, a massive pain in the arse.

I do see fewer entertaining shitposts and memes on Mastodon, which is why I've finally joined tumblr as well, ha!

I'm on .lol but I've not logged in months. Now I get 404

Oh, ha, you have been away! .lol closed down, it was just one guy running it and the first twitter influx got too much for him to handle. That is a big issue with the system - you don't want to go for a big instance for a variety of reasons but the smaller ones will always have the risk of folding.

I feel like I'm becoming the Mastodon proselytiser over here, but there are definitely issues with it. I'd like to see more people join and give it a proper try rather than automatically going to bluesky, but I think part of my enjoyment of Mastodon is that I genuinely want a smaller space now, and for lots of people that isn't what they want at all.

uh

https://www.neowin.net/news/admin-of-an-anarchist-mastodon-server-raided-by-fbi-insecure-user-data-gets-seized/

Gotta OPSEC yr instances.

"Oh, ha, you have been away! .lol closed down, it was just one guy running it and the first twitter influx got too much for him to handle."

Ah ok so I gotta rejoin under another instance. Will look to doing this. Any recommendations?

mas.to has been smooth sailing the whole time.

Thanks, will look

Done. That's a smoking fast server!! So I think I was really unlucky last time. We'll see.

Actually want to post there

I am @✧✧@lgbt✧✧✧.sp✧✧✧ if anyone wants to follow my sporadic posts about music and nonsense (including far too many posts about old Eurovisions, I apologise).

Argh, forgot about the redactions - EK is the first bit. lgbtqia.space is the second bit.

We're following each other there, I think?

Yep, we are.

is there a way to find bands easy on this thing

Following this on Mastodon.

Prime Numbers bot won't be tweeting anymore due to Twitter's API and policy changes. The bot lost API access a few days ago, and won't be coming back, but it lives on in a few different places:

web/rss: https://t.co/ujQjfo0AMA
mastodon: https://t.co/FJhv5cV0PJ

— Prime Numbers (@_primes_) July 5, 2023

currently relearning the process of finding people and adding them to a list i have set up : not the easiest of processes to say the least.

is there a way to find bands easy on this thing

If they're on there, you should be able to search for the name of the band and unless they've given themselves a comedy username they'll come up. I don't think bands make themselves accounts there as a matter of course, though, so you might not have much luck unless you're sure they're there already. You also can't search for text within posts so you can't just look for any reference to the band (unless it's a hashtag).

If you're just looking for bands who are on there and to maybe discover something new, there are two options:

1) browse the music servers from joinmastodon.org/servers. See if there's anything you like the look of and then browse their local timeline. For example, https://synthwave.social/public/local.

2) search for hashtags, like #DIY or #ElectronicMusic or #BlackMetal or whatever. You can follow those hashtags to get new posts about them straight in your feed and keep an eye on anyone new posting about the topic.

back into the swing of things now.
however, i clearly need to use hashtags more.

Can someone familiar with the "fediverse" answer a basic question? (I've used Mastodon a little while, but still don't understand some of the underpinnnings.) When it comes to these other platforms that use ActivityPub to talk to each other... how do they actually interact? Like, when I search for a hashtag on Mastodon, should I also theoretically be seeing posts using that hashtag on "Akkoma" and all the others? Or is there more to it? Thx