toofy @toofy@mastodon.social
Interested in technology and if we will use it to fix broken systems. We should Ⓐctively strive for a better world. Open source everything.
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Does anyone know if there's a #biohacking scene on mastodon? Looking to design some experiments and want to see if there's more literature than I'm aware of on the subject.
[Not ITsec] I am helping to set up a small bookshop and am looking for a CRM/inventory management system which tracks books in stock, on order, sales, clients, subscriptions, etc. I have looked at both SuiteCRM & Odoo but to get anything done you need at least €100/mth which is more than current net profits :( Odoo community, for example, does not allow customisation which is essential.
I would be grateful for any hints/help.
Another factor to consider is that the demographic of fediverse folks probably includes a higher proportion of non-normative views and lifestyles than you might find in the silos. These non-normative people are precisely the groups which the really bad guys always seek to target. So as maintainer you should be concerned with your user's interests and practice metadata minimization which can limit any potential damage.
Ultimately Mastodon's killer feature is that it's a public good that someone built because they thought it needed to exist and not a startup someone built because they wanted to get rich quick selling other people's data.
Facebook: run by Peter Thiel, who wants to drink young people's blood
Mastodon instance: run by that cool goth girl from your CS class, who may have cosplayed as a vampire once but probably doesn't drink real human blood
Maybe anticapitalist.party is the politically engaged Mastodon instance I've been hoping for
I aint' sayin that Mastodon doesn't have problems to overcome, or that its perfectly but right now, I'm rather enjoying it. I'd just like to see where this goes without some dipshit in the valley telling me what I should and should not like.
About risk profile:
- Mastodon is like email because you can't delete federated toots
- Mastodon is like twitter in that Google's search bots index it, unless your admins robot.txt it away
- Mastodon is like being a teenager because the people that own your instance can see all your private stuff
Have a talk with your admin about their policies.
By default, assume everyone will be able to read your toots forever.
@puellavulnerata @johnhenry @maradydd Perhaps the way to think of it is not "identity networks" but "distributed synchronized directories/indexes" or "trust chain namespace authorities."
If uniqueness is all that matters, that's a pretty soluble problem. Authentication is much harder. (Webfinger doesn't solve either of these; it's just a lookup protocol.)
Anyway, listen to Andrea, she's lived this. :)
So, about this Mastodon thing (still learning):
- mastodon.social is to Mastodon what gmail.com is to email,
- like in email @usernames are only unique within a given server,
- MAXLEN=500 here,
- RTFM: https://github.com/tootsuite/mastodon/tree/master/docs
- enough people already asked about end-to-end encrypted DMs. There are no.
- no one asked about e2e signed toots though yet?
- if you believe you're trustworthy enough, consider using the ✅ character to let others know they can trust you.
this is an excellent point about one advantage of decentralized systems that i hadn't thought about: https://icosahedron.website/users/chris_martin/updates/9678
Its nice stumbling upon people from the twitter feed. Saves work and gives hope that this move may stick.
Guys, masto is under a heavy load right now and it's gonna get a lot heavier soon. Remember that one guy is doing almost all the work. Help your boy Eugen out if you can: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=619786
Hello friends, I'd just like to interject here for a moment.
Eugen needs money to live, and mastodon.social has server expenses, but money doesn't write code by itself. There's still 183 open issues on the Mastodon project github.
https://github.com/tootsuite/mastodon/issues
Writing a code patch to fix a problem or work in a feature helps not just mastodon.social, but also everyone else running Mastodon, too, and you'll have @Gargron's gratitude, and all the other devs' too.
Love, Trev
api looks great too...
yay! term client comin up.
loving this so far. hope the api is relatively open.
Weaknesses / feature gaps observed so far:
1.) use of federated instances to separate social norm boundaries is good, but binding identities to a particular instance is more concerning for network effects reasons
2.) Particularly given that choice, TweetDeck-style support for picking which of several identities to post something under would be desirable.
Don't like the code of conduct on mastodon(.)social? Download a copy of Mastodon and run your own with the code of conduct you see fit or get an account on another that is already running that is more lenient. Hell, shitposter(.)club is one example of what you can do in this federation (though the software they run isn't mastodon but you can still do the same) .
Anyway, if you want to run your own here it is.
https://github.com/tootsuite/mastodon
So Dreamy!
