Mastodon provides the highest (over 12%) engagement under posts

1. browser_extension

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   A browser extension that redirects popular sites to alternative privacy friendly frontends

   

   I use Mastodon for social networking. Not for consuming need or media. Things where it being a two way street is nice.

   I actually just have manual bookmarks to Twitter pages of the like half dozen people I think are at all worth reading. And then I use libredirect (https://libredirect.github.io/) to avoid hitting the actual Twitter website so I don't have to log in (don't have an account anyway) and don't see nonsense recommended posts.

   I assume that will break with API changes, at which point I just won't read those people anymore unless they cross post on Mastodon. But it's worked well so far.

   Obviously eliminates any possibility of trying to win the comments section, but I don't really see that as a true negative.

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3. academics-on-mastodon

   2 24 941 5.8

   A list of various lists consisting of academics on Mastodon

   

   With this[1] and checking servers like journahost, that'd solve more than half your problems. You can follow hashtags, so follow like #comedy too.

   1. https://github.com/nathanlesage/academics-on-mastodon

4. instances

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   Mastodon instances list

   

   The way I do it:

   Go to https://joinmastodon.org/servers or https://instances.social/ and find one or more instances you want to join. Use the same account name (but not password, obviously) for all of them. Think of instances as subreddits, but each subreddit is on its own separate server.

   You can manage those identities though a third party app or just a folder of browser bookmarks.

   If you're already on Twitter, you can find anyone on your follow list who is also on Mastodon and follow them. You'll wind up with a json file you'll need to upload for each account.

5. diaspora*

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   A privacy-aware, distributed, open source social network.

   

6. Tusky

   5 24 2,554 9.8 Kotlin

   An Android client for the microblogging server Mastodon

   

   Mastodon itself doesn't, but maybe he's referring to Tusky, a popular FOSS Mastodon client, preventing its users from logging in with an account tied to an alt-right instance (gab and a few others I think).

   They used to also filter any content coming from these accounts but I can't it in the code so they must have removed that.

   As for the login block itself it's there: https://github.com/tuskyapp/Tusky/blob/01b3cb3a53b1e08ed26e7...

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