Mastodon Migration

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2025-10-09 22:01:18 UTC

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This is an excellent point. The type of "decentralized" future Bluesky imagines is very different from what we have here in the Fediverse. To state it simply, Bluesky is not pitching a thousand points of light. Their network protocol does not scale "wide" (many instances) efficiently. Instead they talk about "credible exit", which while it has not been realized at all, comprises a handful of other big enterprises running platforms on AT Proto that you could, in theory, switch to.

2025-09-28 00:12:45 UTC

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It was both ad hominem and non sequitur. The post is meta. It's about ways to engage in constructive dialog. He wanted to hijack it to argue about Democrats. Then he got abusive.

2025-09-17 16:40:26 UTC

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Interesting. Probably testing on the smaller instance first. Would expect it soon. Will edit the above post. Thanks!

2025-09-17 15:18:31 UTC

Enable Quote Posting
Quote Posting deployed this morning on mastodon.online, and will be available to all with the v4.5 rollout by the end of the month.
BUT, if you want your posts to be quotable, you need to enable the feature. Go to Posting Defaults in the settings to enable quote posting for your account.
A great deal of thought has gone into the QP implementation to minimize potential abuse of this feature. More info here: https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2025/09/introducing-quote-posts/
Edit: seems not yet available on .social
https://files.mastodon.online/media_attachments/files/115/220/297/146/230/436/original/4195fcbd2477730d.jpg

2025-09-05 07:00:18 UTC

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That has to have made your day!

2025-05-23 19:24:09 UTC

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Absolutely not. The distinction has always between decentralized and decentralizable.
Whenever Bluesky says they are decentralized they actually mean they are potentially decentralizable. It's the difference between future potential and current reality. It is always more attractive to sell unrealized futures.
Whenever called out on their vaporware marketing it is always, 'we have this or that technical feature in AT Protocol, so what we are selling is potentially feasible.'

2025-04-16 15:24:24 UTC

Confirmation: Bluesky Now Blocking User In Turkey In Response To Turkish Demands
Yesterday Arda Kılıçdağı @npub1lwy…h9la posted (https://micro.arda.pw/@arda/114344261036182422) that #Bluesky had blocked a user in response to Turkish pressure, and published the purported notification.
Today, he confirmed the block by demonstrating that the subject account is still visible in the rest of the world, but blocked in Turkey (see below and https://micro.arda.pw/@arda/114348085466681138). Independently confirmed by @npub1p09…m5vl (https://mastodon.ar.al/@aral/114348113927295764).
https://files.mastodon.online/media_attachments/files/114/348/324/823/120/624/original/5159e1c60e4f64a8.webp

2025-04-16 14:04:46 UTC

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Very important to be cautious with something like this. This post made early yesterday qualifies the matter and points out that ot needs to be confirmed independently:
https://mastodon.online/@mastodonmigration/114345157372044672
Right now another post on the matter without qualifications has been boosted and referenced a lot.
Have been following the issue and have not seen any independent confirmation. Will report if anything surfaces one way or the other.

2025-04-16 01:57:16 UTC

Apparently #Bluesky may have now started to take down accounts in obedience to demands by the Turkish government.
This post on Mastodon Arda Kılıçdağı @npub1lwy…h9la from a few hours ago purports to contain a screenshot of a notice by noreply[at]bsky.social informing a user that their account has been "restricted" because "the legal authority in Turkey" informed them it "violates local laws in Turkey".
https://micro.arda.pw/@arda/114344261036182422
This has yet to be confirmed by any independent sources.
https://files.mastodon.online/media_attachments/files/114/345/139/015/711/443/original/c5a04b2d7ee8caff.png

2025-02-03 19:41:16 UTC

Open invitation to all public servants and public organizations.
Public Social Media is here for you.
Create a Mastodon Fediverse account and communicate directly with the public, free of corporate tech gatekeepers.
These times are too important to trust public information to corporate overlords.
https://joinmastodon.org/
#PublicSocialMedia

2025-01-31 19:45:11 UTC

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Some feel like Matrix is a better alternative to WhatsApp due to its being decentralized.
X to Mastodon, Instagram to Pixelfed, WhatsApp to Matrix, Facebook to Friendica, YouTube to PeerTube, TikTok to Loops
Here is a revised graphic:
#GlobalSwitchDay #PublicSocialMedia
https://files.mastodon.online/media_attachments/files/113/924/682/625/090/318/original/ddd0b792ceaa5213.png

2025-01-31 19:23:34 UTC

Global Switch Day. February 1st 2025.
Spread the word.
Switch to Public Social Media
X to Mastodon, Instagram to Pixelfed, WhatsApp to Signal, Facebook to Friendica, YouTube to PeerTube, TikTok to Loops
#GlobalSwitchDay #PublicSocialMedia
https://files.mastodon.online/media_attachments/files/113/924/581/641/727/647/original/88e91ab24403a991.png

2025-01-19 01:13:43 UTC

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This post makes you think of dark times in history. Secret printing presses. Pirate radio. Hope we are not headed there again, but good to be thinking about it and prepared if we are.

2025-01-10 17:36:37 UTC

If you use #Bluesky be sure to install a tracker blocker.
Thanks to @npub1tq3…av7r for calling attention to this privacy nightmare: https://pnw.zone/@BlurryBitsPhoto/113804648365475726
Apparently Bluesky ranks among the worst in their experience for trackers.
Here is a comparison of the uBlock Origin filter log for bsky.app versus Mastodon 👀
(Note: had to cut off the bsky.app page as the log just went on and on yielding dozens of blocks and kept streaming in.)
https://files.mastodon.online/media_attachments/files/113/805/247/557/023/658/original/cd74b3a8169eb23a.png

2024-09-12 20:45:00 UTC

Kind of annoyed by this "Trump fell for fake internet theory" stuff. No. Trump is spreading a fake internet hoax in full knowledge that it us not true in order to stoke racism and hatred, and to demonstrate the power he has over his idiot supporters.

2024-09-11 06:30:39 UTC

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Disgusting comment from a disgusting human being.

2024-09-09 04:10:25 UTC

Harris Posts Policy Positions
Two days before the debate the Harris Campaign has posted detailed policy positions on her website.
https://kamalaharris.com/issues/
Details on...
1. Cut Taxes for Middle Class
2. Make Rent More Affordable and Home Ownership More Attainable
3. Grow Small Businesses and Invest in Entrepreneurs
4. Take on Bad Actors and Bring Down Costs
5. Strengthen and Bring Down the Cost of Health Care
6. Protect and Strengthen Social Security and Medicare
1/2
@npub1z4k…g27u

2024-09-08 01:19:37 UTC

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But it would be really terrible to wind up living in an authoritarian hellscape like Russia. Seems like that place sucks. What can we do?

2024-09-08 01:10:16 UTC

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Seems bad we let that happen.

2024-09-08 00:51:02 UTC

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Got it. Thanks. And US journalists are cool with this?

2024-09-08 00:44:39 UTC

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So basically Twitter/X is owned by Elon Musk AND the Russians.

2024-09-04 17:12:15 UTC

Welcome #brazilians
If you are looking for a Brazil based Mastodon server @npub1vct…nqdf has provided this list:
https://mastodon.br-linux.org/instancias/
Thank you Augusto!
https://social.br-linux.org/@augustocc/113080335113061252
#brazil #servers #fediverse

2024-08-31 18:33:39 UTC

Something really cool is happening in Brazil in the wake of the Twitter/X ban. Check out this post from @npub1vct…nqdf regarding Mastodon traffic spiking over the last day...
https://social.br-linux.org/@augustocc/113057994122440339
"yesterday evening we had the peak of the fortnight on the 2 hour period just after the judicial order of closure, and today's morning was the hottest traffic period of the fortnight tooo..."

2024-08-30 23:01:53 UTC

A concensus seems to be emerging that the CNN interview was good for the Harris campaign specifically because it demonstrated in spades that CNN is a hostile entity taking it's marching orders directly from her opposition.
https://www.rawstory.com/kamala-harris-interview-2669105917/
"... the idea that we are now simply recycling things Donald Trump says into what the media wants to know, as if that is helpful to any voter?" [Reid]
"This was the best gift that the media and the establishment could have given to her," Blow said.

2024-07-09 02:40:17 UTC

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So, breath easy folks. Contrary to wild speculation by NYT's Peter Baker, Biden does not have Parkinson's.
Dr. Cannard, who does have expertise in Parkinsons, has been a Neurology Consultant to the WH since 2012. He "was the neurological specialist that examined President Biden for each of his annual physicals," which found no Parkinson's. "He also has held regular Neurology Clinics at the White House Medical Clinic in support of the thousands of active-duty members...”
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/white-house-doctor-offers-explanation-parkinsons-experts-visits/story?id=111764565&cid=social_twitter_abcn

2024-07-09 01:38:37 UTC

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So, it seems that @npub1ejx…afye has another take on Peter Baker's, Biden has Parkinson's story.
https://www.emptywheel.net/2024/07/08/peter-baker-argues-joe-biden-is-unfit-because-peter-baker-is-too-lazy-to-read-the-homework/
In short, Biden had a very detailed exam in July 2023 that found no Parkinson's but did identify a movement disorder in his gait. Baker's "Parkinson's expert" Dr. Cannard is also a "neurological movement disorder" specialist who may have been brought in to advise on Biden's gait problem.

2024-07-08 20:40:30 UTC

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Just to state the obvious, Peter Baker is not stupid. He knows exactly what he is doing. And neither is the New York Times oblivious. This is deliberate misinformation.
#VoteForDemocracy

2024-07-08 20:18:53 UTC

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Oh for fucks sake! Turns out the reason for the visits to the White House by Parkinson's experts was that Biden was signing a watershed Parkinson's awareness bill.
"On July 2, President Biden signed the National Plan to End Parkinson’s Act into law. This is the first-ever federal legislation dedicated to ending Parkinson’s disease (PD)"
https://www.parkinson.org/blog/awareness/national-plan

2024-07-08 19:11:07 UTC

Such a BS hit job today from the New York Times. This rag should be renamed the New York Enquirer.
Seems the Parkinsons expert's visit wasn't to examine Biden, and Biden's doctors have repeatedly stated publicly that Biden has no signs of Parkinsons. But Peter Baker finds some unnamed people who've never examined Biden who say they think Biden might show signs of the condition, and the New York Times pushes out this supermarket tabloid headline.
This is getting absurd.
#VoteForDemocracy
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