Mastodon VS PixelFed

Mastodon v4+ replicates some of the issues with Twitter by giving prominence to highly followed accounts. This is considered "easier" for new users coming from elsewhere (in the sense it's easier to be bombarded with posts you didn't need, than to go look for what you actually need).

The issue is tracked at https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/18128 .

So, even on Mastodon you still need some self-care. Avoid following popular accounts, block and silence generously.

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

It seems like you are going through the same thought process that I went through and led me to work on https://communick.com. Save yourself a world of pain and find something else to work on.

The amount of people who really value their privacy and are willing to pay to avoid getting their data exploited is too low to matter in the context of a social network. I've tried different pricing, I've tried different extra features, I've tried going upmarket, but I never got a critical mass of people to make the whole sustainable.

On the content creator side, it's even worse. Creators will always prefer to work on platforms that offer them the widest reach. So even when you have privacy enthusiasts or creators who know all the issues from YouTube/Reddit/Instagram, they will still keep a channel there out of fear of not keeping up with "the algorithm".

If you really insist on going mad like me and believe that this is a worthy cause to work on, look at the existing social networks that are based on open source and open standards, like PixelFed [0] and Vernissage [1].

[0] https://pixelfed.org

It's a bit premature, but if it's made by the same guy who made https://pixelfed.org then he definitely has experience in this area.

Surprised no one mentioned ForgeFed [0]:

> ForgeFed is a federation protocol for software forges and code collaboration tools for the software development lifecycle and ecosystem. This includes repository hosting websites, issue trackers, code review applications, and more. ForgeFed provides a common substrate for people to create interoperable code collaboration websites and applications.

It's based on ActivityPub [1], the same protocol that powers Mastodon [2], Lemmy [3], and Pixelfed [4].

[0] https://forgefed.org/

[1] https://activitypub.rocks/

[2] https://joinmastodon.org/

[3] https://join-lemmy.org/

[4] https://pixelfed.org/

The conclusion makes the point of view developed in the post quite clear:

> Do we all collectively need the same cycle of honeymoon then toxic relationship over and over? Couldn't we just move away from proprietary social media once and for all?

The author strongly suggests artists in want of an Instagram alternative to try out Pixelfed, the fediverse alternative: https://pixelfed.org/.

All things that'll help see https://pixelfed.org make a similar rise as Mastodon.

Currently contributing to Pixelfed project to gain experience: https://github.com/pixelfed/pixelfed/pulls?q=is%3Aclosed+is%...

There's https://pixelfed.org/

I do post many pictures, but I am tempted to self-host Pixelfed as well as an Instagram alternative.