Tag: Mastodon
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Psuedonymity
I’ve used the name “Bloonface” on the Internet now for about eight years. Choosing it was essentially a very impulsive decision that in all honesty I’m rather sick of the results of but am more or less stuck with. “Bloonface” is a stupid username – quite aside from the fact that it actually appears to…
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A vision of the future
It is 1st January 2024, and Meta has shocked the world by introducing a new policy where they will literally murder all of their users using a big gun if they don’t delete their Facebook, Instagram and Threads accounts by the end of the year. Luckily, the Fediverse has an answer! It’s a new decentralised…
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The fediverse is a privacy nightmare
ActivityPub, the protocol that powers the fediverse (including Mastodon – same caveats as the first two times, will be used interchangeably, deal with it) is not private. It is not even semi-private. It is a completely public medium and absolutely nothing posted on it, including direct messages, can be seen as even remotely secure. Worse,…
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My short guide to getting started on Mastodon
This is mainly for users of my instance but can be used by anyone who wants to start using Mastodon. Everything you need to know is in these five bullet points – you don’t even need to check the footnotes.
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On Twitter
Elon Musk buying Twitter was the final straw for me with that platform, which as it functions at the moment is a combination of things; a Skinner box in which everyone competes to find the most extreme opinion that will get them applause if expressed in 280 characters, and a glorified freak show where every…