Notices by Mastodon Migration (mastodonmigration@mastodon.online), page 2

Video Clip: People have gathered outside of Disney’s HQ to protest the decision to suspend Jimmy Kimmel’s show.

h/t Still We Rise on Threads

#JimmyKimmel

If you are looking for some help with how to broach the subject of canceling Disney+ and Hulu to the family...

"Hey all, I want you to know how I am feeling about something. I would like to cancel Disney+ and Hulu because I feel gross and hypocritical to support them any more..."

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@tchambers

Done

RE: https://mastodon.online/@mastodonmigration/109348922398973477

Good morning Mastodon. Quote Posts are here!

In honor of this great new feature, resurfacing this post dating back to the Twitter migration in November 2022 that has held up quite well.

Mastodon is different and much better. More a dinner party than a food fight.

Glad you are here, helping us build decentralized public social media!

#quoteposts

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

RE: https://mastodon.online/@mastodonmigration/115220303833886992

So, this is a kind of recursive, or meta, or something...

This observation is inspired by a post from astronomer Daniel Fischer @cosmos4u (https://scicomm.xyz/@cosmos4u/115209967824042242) who writes:

"...what about longterm stability? Will important and maybe even influential #Mastodon posts be still around in 5, 10, 50 years? On much-despised X - or FB - those from 10+ years ago are still around (if you know the URLs)."

Yes, old posts on X are still around, but there is no guarantee that they will remains so. This is entirely at the whim of the then current owner.

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Mastodon's Killer Feature - Data Permanence

Lately there's been focus on the inherent anti-censorship advantages of Mastodon, but the potential for data permanence is also where the decentralized Fediverse shines.

Some users, like academic and scientific communities, highly value knowing content will be available 5, 10, 20, even 50 years in the future.

With Mastodon, institutions can host their own servers, ensuring independence from social media corporations to safeguard their data.

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If permanence is a priority, which of course it is for these communities, why depend on an unreliable corporation or other third party for this service? It would be a fairly trivial matter for some astronomical consortium or society to host a Fediverse server to insure that the content will be preserved forever. The would also serve as a natural aggregator/meeting place for astronomers.

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What's holding this back? People who use Mastodon quickly understand the principles of decentralization and server ownership, but to those who's only experience with social media is corporate platforms, the concept is a bit difficult to initially grasp. "It's like email..." sort of works, but by then they have kind of lost interest. Hopefully, this is changing.

We should be promoting the idea of hosting Mastodon to these users with data permanence/ownership as the key feature.

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@MediaActivist @deFractal

Here's a duck meme for you...

#Bluesky

@criminalerin

Doubt you would have been suspended from .social, but you found a good home in the beautiful decentralized Fedi dispersion, so that's cool. 😎

@jeffjarvis

If, as it appears, Kirk was killed by someone on the right with even more extreme views than his, perhaps the more interesting story would be the divide on the right that is spawning such right on right violence. But not expecting AG Sulzberger's failed media monstrosity to go there.

In the wake of recent events and corporate social media's response to them, many are reconsidering checking out public social media, and in particular Mastodon and the Fediverse.

Perhaps your impression of Mastodon was formed back in 2022 with the huge migration from Twitter, and it put you off.

Well, Mastodon has evolved both technically and culturally from then and you might like it more now. Why not give it a try?

https://joinmastodon.org/

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Apparently #Bluesky moderation has issued this statement:

@mmasnick.bsky.social

@mmasnick

This is a mischaracterization of https://arewedecentralizedyet.online/ data analysis. Please see the author @ricci response to this same criticism here: https://discuss.systems/@ricci/115171236116610436

@mmasnick @folkerschamel @mmasnick.bsky.social

@mmasnick

@ricci did answer your question very specifically here:

https://discuss.systems/@ricci/115171236116610436

There was also more in depth discussion of the issue. It may be that you are not seeing the entire thread across the bridge.

@mmasnick @folkerschamel @mmasnick.bsky.social

Specifically, what is the company doing to enable independent instances and provide the type of choice your marketing ballyhoos? What are your goals for achieving a meaningful percentage of the AT Protocol network users NOT being Bluesky PBC users? What programs are you sponsoring to achieve these ends? Are you serious about these goals?

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@mmasnick @folkerschamel @mmasnick.bsky.social

Rather than making false and misleading arguments you could instead stipulate that the overwhelming dominance Bluesky PBC does currently make AT Protocol a defacto centralized network, but the company recognizes this and are taking specific steps to address it. AT Protocol is designed to facilitate decentralization and list what steps are being taken, against what metrics to achieve real decentralization.

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@mmasnick @folkerschamel @mmasnick.bsky.social

This is a specious argument, and does not deserve a serious response. Please stop misrepresenting the current degree of centralized concentration of Bluesky PBC on AT Protocol. You are in a perfect position to advocate for actual meaningful decentralization, but instead continue to misrepresent the current overwhelming dominance of Bluesky PBC.

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