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   Catherynne M. Valente (catvalente@mastodon.world)'s status on Wednesday, 30-Nov-2022 04:03:12 JST Catherynne M. Valente

   Mastodon, holy shit. You can’t quote-tweet (quote-mast?) AND there’s no dedicated column for mentions so I have to click individual posts and scroll to see replies?

   Those are some serious barriers to using this site.

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     pawlicker (pawlicker@pawlicker.ddns.net)'s status on Wednesday, 30-Nov-2022 04:02:51 JST pawlicker

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     • Trevor - The Vitruvian Meeple
     @vidar @catvalente @vitruvianmeeple Eugen doesn't care about you, or making a software people can enjoy using.
     
     You can always run an instance with Pleroma, I'm running this instance on an old Sun workstation from 2006.
     
     https://docs.pleroma.social have fun.
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     Vidar Hokstad / Galaxy Bound (vidar@m.galaxybound.com)'s status on Wednesday, 30-Nov-2022 04:02:57 JST Vidar Hokstad / Galaxy Bound

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     @catvalente @vitruvianmeeple It'd be easy to fix by injecting some JS via a browser extension, for the web anyway, or building into one of the multiple alternative frontends.

     I agree it's annoying, and just a question of time before support for it becomes a thing.

     After all just pasting the url to a tweet was the old-school Twitter way too...

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     Catherynne M. Valente (catvalente@mastodon.world)'s status on Wednesday, 30-Nov-2022 04:03:05 JST Catherynne M. Valente

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     @vitruvianmeeple it also provides context, though. Especially with threads, that’s vital.

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     Trevor - The Vitruvian Meeple (vitruvianmeeple@dice.camp)'s status on Wednesday, 30-Nov-2022 04:03:11 JST Trevor - The Vitruvian Meeple

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     @catvalente The lack of quote-tweeting was a conscious choice. QTing on Twitter lends itself to the quoter interacting with THEIR audience, rather than the person who originally posted it. It's often used as a way to "reply" to a post in a negative manner without making that as obvious to the OP, or to later "I didn't mean anything, I was just saying..." type justifications.

     By replying publicly, you're still drawing the post to your readers' attention while interacting with the OP.

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     pawlicker (pawlicker@pawlicker.ddns.net)'s status on Wednesday, 30-Nov-2022 04:04:10 JST pawlicker

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     • Trevor - The Vitruvian Meeple
     @vidar @mastodonmigration @catvalente @vitruvianmeeple There's an interesting Mastodon/Pleroma frontend called Soapbox that has those.
     https://gitlab.com/soapbox-pub/soapbox
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     Vidar Hokstad / Galaxy Bound (vidar@m.galaxybound.com)'s status on Wednesday, 30-Nov-2022 04:04:11 JST Vidar Hokstad / Galaxy Bound

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     • Trevor - The Vitruvian Meeple

     @mastodonmigration @catvalente @vitruvianmeeple

     I've been here on other accounts long enough to know that to me this is broken. It's a bit insulting to get told I don't know what is broken to me.

     No. I don't like the lack of QT's.

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     Mastodon Migration (mastodonmigration@mastodon.online)'s status on Wednesday, 30-Nov-2022 04:04:12 JST Mastodon Migration

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     • Trevor - The Vitruvian Meeple

     @vidar @catvalente @vitruvianmeeple Hello Vidar, welcome. You've just landed. You must be able to see how this post comes across to the citizens of this planet? Before you try to fix what is not broken, why not settle in and start to interact with the community here. You may find that you like it, and it will certainly inform your opinions.

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     pawlicker (pawlicker@pawlicker.ddns.net)'s status on Wednesday, 30-Nov-2022 04:15:26 JST pawlicker

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     • Trevor - The Vitruvian Meeple
     @vidar @vitruvianmeeple @catvalente @mastodonmigration Yep and just like how there's mastodon forks like glitch-social or hometown, you can easily make a soapbox fork. There's some soapbox fork for example for some guy's instance to allow it to work better with Akkoma (a Pleroma fork) and with modifications for his own site. Rebased is also another Pleroma fork as well.
     
     There's also at least two Misskey forks such as FoundKey and Calckey.
     
     This is the cool part about the AGPL license used on the fedi. Nobody "owns" the software. Even if you hate the developer, you can fork it and fix features the developer removed for example or add in ones he won't add.
     
     While Soapbox did have a stigma due to the people who initially ran instances with it, I know a friend who is running a pro LGBT furry instance with it for example and I know someone else who is trans trying to run an art instance with it. As long as you make sure to specify in your rules exactly what your views are, you'll be fine running one with it blocklist wise.
     
     The other thing with Pleroma and it's forks and other fedi software, is they are a lot less resource heavy than Mastodon is IMO.
     
     https://gist.github.com/Gargron/aa9341a49dc91d5a721019d9e0c9fd11
     
     Recently there was a semi viral post as well about how a Mastodon instance was having to spend 800 Euro a month to be hosted for a 15k user instance, and then SDF needed excessive high-end hardware to run a 50k user instance.
     
     https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@aras/109375786255688867
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     Vidar Hokstad / Galaxy Bound (vidar@m.galaxybound.com)'s status on Wednesday, 30-Nov-2022 04:15:27 JST Vidar Hokstad / Galaxy Bound

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     @pawlicker @vitruvianmeeple @catvalente @mastodonmigration

     Thanks, that's useful. I'll have a look and see if it fits my use. Even if it dosn't, "borrowing" the QT support might be a nice shortcut.

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     pawlicker (pawlicker@pawlicker.ddns.net)'s status on Wednesday, 30-Nov-2022 04:18:03 JST pawlicker

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     • Trevor - The Vitruvian Meeple
     @vidar @catvalente @mastodonmigration @vitruvianmeeple The other thing I'd mention is to change the user agent if you run a Pleroma instance. You can do this easily in settings, and this is because some instances run by sysadmins new to the fedi automatically began to block Pleroma instances in the nginx config because of some harassing instances running it.
     
     My friend running the furry server had this issue as well. His fix was to change the user agent to what he called his fork and suddenly he found himself able to federate with instances that had issues federating with Pleroma.
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     кину奇诺 (kino@fedi.intkos.link)'s status on Wednesday, 30-Nov-2022 04:33:55 JST кину奇诺

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     • Trevor - The Vitruvian Meeple

     @pawlicker@pawlicker.ddns.net Fediverse instances should never be that large. It should be taxing and extremely expensive to run single instances that large. That's the entire point of the fediverse---decentealized hosting, decentralized instances, decentralized control.
     @vidar@m.galaxybound.com @vitruvianmeeple@dice.camp @catvalente@mastodon.world @mastodonmigration@mastodon.online

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     pawlicker (pawlicker@pawlicker.ddns.net)'s status on Wednesday, 30-Nov-2022 04:34:18 JST pawlicker

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     • Trevor - The Vitruvian Meeple
     @kino @mastodonmigration @catvalente @vidar @vitruvianmeeple >looks at poast and masto social
     
     Yep, running a centralized fediverse instance is truly a bad idea.
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     Vidar Hokstad / Galaxy Bound (vidar@m.galaxybound.com)'s status on Wednesday, 30-Nov-2022 05:09:24 JST Vidar Hokstad / Galaxy Bound

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     • Trevor - The Vitruvian Meeple

     @kino @pawlicker @mastodonmigration @catvalente @vitruvianmeeple The irony is that the advise in that gist *does* make it far more expensive than it needs to be (e.g. he only needs to recommend proxy requests to the object storage because they're mentioning S3, which is extremely expensive, in the first place)

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