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   Mike Masnick ✅ (mmasnick@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 03-Jan-2023 23:46:45 JST Mike Masnick ✅

   Okay, so I've recommended pinafore.social as an alternative UI for Mastodon on the web, and then elk.zone (which is in alpha, but very clean), but also someone recommended https://fe.soapbox.pub/ and... i think that might be my new favorite. It's... very Twitter-like (maybe too much), but really nice.

   Still wish one of these clean interface options would implement multi-column though... (psst: @soapbox@gleasonator.com )

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     silverwizard (silverwizard@convenient.email)'s status on Tuesday, 03-Jan-2023 23:46:42 JST silverwizard

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     @mmasnick Just a warning - some people in the fediverse think that people using it are bigots because the author is a bigot
     
     It annoys me - since needing to know everything about a piece of software before using it is weird and dumb - but
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     silverwizard (silverwizard@convenient.email)'s status on Wednesday, 04-Jan-2023 00:00:49 JST silverwizard

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     @mmasnick Alex Gleason is an old time fediverse villain, and this isn't the first time people tried to block entire projects that he's touched - but this is the first times it's a project he leads at least,
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     Mike Masnick ✅ (mmasnick@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 04-Jan-2023 00:00:50 JST Mike Masnick ✅

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     @silverwizard oh wow. yikes.

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     Osma A (osma@mas.to)'s status on Wednesday, 04-Jan-2023 02:32:25 JST Osma A

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     @mmasnick

     Ah, yes, scrolled up to the other discussion, thanks. Ok, that would explain defederating the instance, but extending that to the software as well? That's as nonsensical as defederating mastodon.social because Truth Social also runs Mastodon. These banhammers remind me of the oldendays with BBS admins drunk with imagined power.

     silverwizard likes this.
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     Mike Masnick ✅ (mmasnick@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 04-Jan-2023 02:32:26 JST Mike Masnick ✅

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     • Osma A

     @osma as i've learned... the creator of soapbox has some... not great views, and that likely has resulted in the defederation. And, people have noted that some servers are defederating those who use it.

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     Osma A (osma@mas.to)'s status on Wednesday, 04-Jan-2023 02:32:30 JST Osma A

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     Mike, since you know so many of these Fedi tools, do you know of a way to analyze (de)federation networks? gleasonator.com seems to be the second time I run into an instance ban on mas.to, and I can't immediately see any reason why such a ban exists.

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     Osma A (osma@mas.to)'s status on Wednesday, 04-Jan-2023 02:32:32 JST Osma A

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     oops, a design error (the author mention doesn't resolve for me, btw)

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     Osma A (osma@mas.to)'s status on Wednesday, 04-Jan-2023 02:32:34 JST Osma A

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     oh, wow. This looks super nice. Perhaps good enough for me to ditch the modified Pinafore playground I've been using last couple of weeks