Musk offers to buy Twitter

[Renzatic]

Toot me, baby!

...how do I add toot people with which to toot?

Nevermind. I figured it out.

 

[Renzatic]

@Renzatic@Mastodon.Social

@Renzatic@Mastodon.World

That's me. It is my name.

 

[Eric]

Nice all, there's more tooting going on there than a taco bell!

 

[Eric]

There's an addon for this board but it only supports https://mastodon.social

Let's try this one from Alli

Dr. Flowers (@alliflowers@mastodon.world)

Dude! We can start with an already intact community here, @ericgtr .

mastodon.world

 

[Renzatic]

Join the bandwagon! Become one of us!

 

[Pumbaa]

Gooble gobble one of us!

 

[DT]

@Renzatic@Mastodon.Social

That's me. It is my name.

So when you registered at Mastodon.World, did you get an @Mastodon.Social ID?

 

[Renzatic]

So when you registered at Mastodon.World, did you get an @Mastodon.Social ID?

You know what? I'm an idiot.

I'm @Renzatic@Mastodon.World.

 

[DT]

Oh, OK, thanks for the clarification, I didn't know if there was some kind of central ID services available (like everyone gets .social).

It really is both a completely standalone service, and a networked service with the other 6K servers. Cool.

I guess if you're on a server with a specific <username>@Mastodon.Something, if that admin/owner, flips out, starts posting racist crap, they get booted from the Mastodon network and you get booted right along with them.

 

[Eric]

You know what? I'm an idiot.

I'm @Renzatic@Mastodon.World.

@ericgtr@mastodon.world here

 

[Eric]

Ooh, you can edit, too.

 

[Cmaier]

Oh, OK, thanks for the clarification, I didn't know if there was some kind of central ID services available (like everyone gets .social).

It really is both a completely standalone service, and a networked service with the other 6K servers. Cool.

I guess if you're on a server with a specific <username>@Mastodon.Something, if that admin/owner, flips out, starts posting racist crap, they get booted from the Mastodon network and you get booted right along with them.

Then you just move your account to another server.

 

[DT]

Then you just move your account to another server.

Oh yeah, I'm sure there's some kind of migration service, I was just thinking (out loud) at all the caveats. Like what if the .World guy just blows up his servers, everything is gone. Is your profile, etc., replicated somewhere else? Or do you start from scratch?

 

[diamond.g]

Oh yeah, I'm sure there's some kind of migration service, I was just thinking (out loud) at all the caveats. Like what if the .World guy just blows up his servers, everything is gone. Is your profile, etc., replicated somewhere else? Or do you start from scratch?

Looks like the old server has to still be accessible to migrate your followers (they didn’t mention toots going as well).

 

[Alli]

Oh yeah, I'm sure there's some kind of migration service, I was just thinking (out loud) at all the caveats. Like what if the .World guy just blows up his servers, everything is gone. Is your profile, etc., replicated somewhere else? Or do you start from scratch?

You can always create your own Mastodon server.

 

[Cmaier]

Oh yeah, I'm sure there's some kind of migration service, I was just thinking (out loud) at all the caveats. Like what if the .World guy just blows up his servers, everything is gone. Is your profile, etc., replicated somewhere else? Or do you start from scratch?

well, twitter might implode, too. The advantage of mastodon is that if this is something you really worry about, you can create your own server.

 

[Eric]

You can always create your own Mastodon server.

I looked into that a bit and it doesn't seem like Discord, it appears to require an actual server, hosting and all

Running your own server - Mastodon documentation

docs.joinmastodon.org

 

[DT]

I was also thinking about it terms of choosing a server, you know, go with something a little more established. The one @Alli and @Renzatic selected seems like a really good choice (assuming mastodon.social isn't offering registrations).

 

[DT]

I looked into that a bit and it doesn't seem like Discord, it appears to require an actual server, hosting and all

Running your own server - Mastodon documentation

docs.joinmastodon.org

DigitalOcean (and I imagine more in the near future, like AWS) has a Mastodon image, a "one-click" deployment:

Mastodon | DigitalOcean Marketplace 1-Click App

A decentralized social network -- follow your friends and discover new ones!

marketplace.digitalocean.com

I've used a few of those, pretty nice, I've used them to get a development instance of something up and running super quick.

 

[Pumbaa]

I was also thinking about it terms of choosing a server, you know, go with something a little more established. The one @Alli and @Renzatic selected seems like a really good choice (assuming mastodon.social isn't offering registrations).

Pretty much my thoughts. Guess who snagged @pumbaa@mastodon.world ?

And no, no mastodon.social registration for now.