Mastodon VS diaspora*

NOTE: Again... What the hell is a "PDS Server"? Well... Click here. For those using Mastodon is just like an "instance".

> A unique user ID that doesn’t change over time.

This is already in the spec for OpenID Connect: https://openid.net/specs/openid-connect-core-1_0.html#Subjec...

And it's already recommended to rely on it and not the email to prevent issues such as: https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/security/advisories/GHS...

Mastodon offers RSS feeds for users (e.g. https://mastodon.social/@primatologyxyz/with_replies.rss), but efforts to extend native RSS support seem to have gone stale (e.g. https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/21500).

However, there are RSS bridges like RSSHub (https://docs.rsshub.app/routes/social-media#mastodon) and OpenRSS (https://openrss.org/blog/mastodon-rss-feeds) that offer RSS feeds for the "Explore" and "Hashtag" sections for local instances.

Do they not have trumpets where you live? Did "tooting one's own horn" imply breaking wind during the annual performance review? Far and away the most common use of "toot" is playing a note on a horn.

At one point, Gargron, the main guy behind Mastodon, even mentioned using a trumpet as the basis of Mastodon's logo branding: https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/962

"Toot" also has the double entendre. In all my life, I've never heard anyone outside a playground use it to describe flatulence. In my personal experience, it's almost always been about the musical notes. I'm not in a band or otherwise around musicians more than the average person, either.

So basically I couldn’t change it to lowercase on their interface, but when deleted I could not register it again.

And that in a nutshell is my experience with everything Mastodon :)

After years the issue is still open and makes the first impression of a lot of users pretty bad.

https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/20487

I'm kind of being doom'n'gloom, but unfortunately, this always seems to happen, and folks who previously disavowed Twitter/X when Elon took over still stuck around for 2 years.

I don't believe the whole "I don't know what server to pick" complaint about Mastodon, because the mainsite literally has a huge button that says "Join mastodon.social"[1]

[1] https://joinmastodon.org/

Highly recommend folks check out Mastodon as well - fully decentralized, no ads, no algo, no corporate control.

It is continuing to grow steadily and has tons of activity compared to a few years ago.

https://joinmastodon.org/

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* Look into Diaspora. (https://diasporafoundation.org/). Upside: It's basically a self-hosted facebook. Really cool project. Downside: Unlike facebook, there's no fake/pushed content so it tended to feel stale.

* Look into hosting a forum (e.g. phpBB). Forums are excellent because they don't lose old information like facebook does. When someone says "Hey what's the policy on dogs?" three years later I can search "dogs" and find the answer. Downside: They're not pretty, not full of pictures and no infinite scrollingz. sadge alfababies.

* IRC chat. I hosted an IRC group for several years at work and it worked great. We only killed it when we decided to move to an enterprise communication app.

Des gens soit là : https://joinfirefish.org/join/ Soit là ? https://diasporafoundation.org/

What are your thoughts on BDD and Gherkin test scripts? The federated Diaspora* app has a BDD test suite [0], and for the Fediverse people are test-driving if it is applicable for ActivityPub compliance testing [1].

[0] https://github.com/diaspora/diaspora/tree/develop/features

[1] https://codeberg.org/helge/fediverse-features

diaspora*

Edit: https://diasporafoundation.org/

Maybe if reddit manages to kill itself, one of the decentralized projects like diaspora will expand.