How to Mastodon

Chose the form!

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It seems off to have to sign-up to a particular package for this. It should be a distributed group of some kind.

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Hopefully more news organizations do the same, even if it’s only a X-echo.

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Alternatives to Mastodon, readers, tools, stuff:

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A recent post by Fedi.Tips had an interesting concept:

  • On Mastodon, and others, everything is available as an RSS feed.
  • You can follow an RSS feed.

So, if your instance doesn’t have much traffic on a tag that you want to follow, you can reach over, and follow the tag on another instance that does.

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Poot! Apparently stock Mastodon doesn’t support following RSS feeds. Odd, because it seems like something that should be automatic with ActivityPub. Missing code, or a design decision? :man_shrugging:

That’s a shame. It’s useful for selectively following people, but only on tagged subjects.

I am disappointed, because I had a project in mind where would be a key feature.

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A nine month long thread suddenly appeared on my instance, after someone I follow reshared one post from an hour ago. It’s not a bad thing, just unexpected at first. It reminds me of the old pre-Internet days of Usenet, when a weeks-old reply would suddenly turn up from a site several dodgy hops off the backbone.

On my end:
DelayedInThePost

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