Differences between toot.cafe and birdsite:
- robots.txt blocks all crawlers
- EXIF metadata stripped from photos
- no ads
- questionable instances are blocked
- Nazis are banned
- the memes are funny
Seeing toots and boosts propagate through the exploding network of federated instances is like watching the hyphae and filaments of some subterranean lifeform, threading mycoforms and fruiting bodies through the bare earth in a cascading birth of a brand-new ecosystem.
What I mean is, woohoo, I think my posts are going fungal.
One thing that's kind of a bummer about adopting these decentralized social networks is that most people post super tech heavy content. I use twitter to follow a lot of artists.
One of the reasons those sorts of people are not moving to these networks is that they become bogged down with technical concepts. Signing up is already loaded with foreign concepts. How is a person supposed to know what server to trust their account with?
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@bob what gives you the idea that I'd boost people who don't say interesting things worth promoting?
You know instance admins can read your direct messages in the fediverse? Twitter and Facebook also can - and sometimes do - read your private messages, and they have infrastructure to comply with law enforcement requests. I'd love to see some end-to-end encryption built into Mastodon clients.
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