Post 9ojV1YbBOrMsarIIfA by jvivekanand@mastodon.social
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(DIR) Post #9og4dFIwIsNvWMd08e by prashere@connect.fshm.in
2019-11-06T05:00:18.714345Z
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I am running out of words in happiness becuase most of them from India are flocking towards #fediverse as a sign of protest against the bird site.Welcome to fediverse you all. Damn we have been waiting for you people so so long. Events after events we people from Free Software Movement of India were giving lecture and demo about decentralized web, peer to peer, etc and all it took was one move by Twitter. Thanks Twitter.Fediverse is a open garden. Find your place. Go explore. Also beware there are dark places too where anti social elements like fascists and pro hindutuva breeds. I don't want to mention the name of that instance and give an unwanted attention to them. But beware and you can mute their posts if you don't want to hear them.
(DIR) Post #9og4vfbtEq6GJqHGE4 by BhavanaVarun@mstdn.social
2019-11-06T07:10:36Z
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@prashere Absolutely! We are here for the cause. Free speech and voices that matters. Appreciate all those who are involved in making it a success. I just have one concern, how will y'all deal with hate accounts? Birdsite didn't care much. Days happened, months passed, yet they thrive. Would like to know about some serious steps that will be taken to control such propaganda/hate pelters. Do share with us.
(DIR) Post #9og5WKakLalJqWDwW0 by bharatvarma@mstdn.social
2019-11-06T07:17:14Z
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@prashere What exactly is an instance?Can you please do a small conceptual note on the basics of mastodon, especially it's differences from the #birdverse?
(DIR) Post #9og6hvShhkaFKwYRyy by Feignshourie@mstdn.social
2019-11-06T07:30:27Z
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@prashere thanks for the welcome note. I suggest you should name 'that' instance or drop a hint. Else how we will be knowing those dark places and fascists existence!
(DIR) Post #9og6qTtHaElEQr49zc by tachyons@aana.site
2019-11-06T07:26:40Z
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@BhavanaVarun Here it is managed by relatively small communities. @stux can ban the accounts in your mastadon instance
(DIR) Post #9og6qUlWKa9794RTX6 by BhavanaVarun@mstdn.social
2019-11-06T07:31:55Z
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That's good to know. Hope, the same efficiency remains when we have more no. of users. I know you guys are innovative and will deal with whichever problem, comes the way. At the end of the day, what happened on birdsite, the humiliation, shadow ban, restrictions, banning all the dissent voices, shouldn't happen here. This is what we hope. More power to all. @tachyons @stux
(DIR) Post #9og8ICfpI0Qz64YSrA by tachyons@aana.site
2019-11-06T07:46:21Z
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@BhavanaVarun @stux One of the good part of federation is that if you feel current admin is not fair or efficient, You can move to another community instance within mastadon.
(DIR) Post #9og8QhYGMyWDBE4MjY by BhavanaVarun@mstdn.social
2019-11-06T07:49:40Z
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Quite liberating! How will it be done? Procedure? @tachyons @stux
(DIR) Post #9ogALOYNmCCeidis6a by Cosmobird@connect.fshm.in
2019-11-06T05:19:11.698249Z
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@prasherefascists and pro hindutuva breeds. I don't want to mention the name of that instance and give an unwanted attention to them. But beware and you can mute their posts if you don't want to hear them.Yes new joiners must not think its a dream boat. Thanks for remaining at the right time.
(DIR) Post #9ogALP0O64bY7UpEky by goofysufi@mastodon.social
2019-11-06T05:27:01Z
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@Cosmobird @prashere nobody migrating to toots imagines Fascism will go away if we do so. We are migrating because the birdsite system enable, nay, fosters Fascism. Thanks for the welcome. :birdsite:
(DIR) Post #9ogLJw35N06ZWFafJo by Lookiey_Loo@mastodon.social
2019-11-06T07:58:33Z
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@tachyons @BhavanaVarun @stux Can you suggest any mastadon ios app other than Tootdon
(DIR) Post #9ogLJwRBvNO4j0rutM by stux@mstdn.social
2019-11-06T10:14:14Z
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For iOS or Android?@Lookiey_Loo @tachyons @BhavanaVarun
(DIR) Post #9ogLkhgorgdYntwK4u by liaizon@social.wake.st
2019-11-06T09:04:44Z
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@prashere is there an instance people are mostly moving too? I saw there was an article someone posted about a politician mentioning mastodon as an alternative but do you know where the main source of folks learning about it in India is?
(DIR) Post #9ogLkiKsSkgCo8gJW4 by prashere@connect.fshm.in
2019-11-06T09:13:01.389586Z
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@liaizonyeah, a senior supreme court lawyer was banned from Twitter for having a anti-Nazi cover picture and sharing a poem against fascism. This had led to the protest against this Fascist tendency and people are discovering Mastodon and the goto instances are mastodon.social and mstdn.social for them. We are also trying to promote fsmi.social which is a pleroma instance hosted by Free Software Movement of India.
(DIR) Post #9ogMiXvIJ0dHt9FGiW by Lookiey_Loo@mastodon.social
2019-11-06T10:20:05Z
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@stux @tachyons @BhavanaVarun For iOS
(DIR) Post #9ogMoemXiXpMtl48C8 by stux@mstdn.social
2019-11-06T10:31:02Z
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@Lookiey_Loo I use Mast for iOS a very nice app! There's also Amaroq! @tachyons @BhavanaVarun
(DIR) Post #9ogMpzhRQo423yJjGa by BhavanaVarun@mstdn.social
2019-11-06T10:31:19Z
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Both, if you can list here. Android/iOS@stux @Lookiey_Loo @tachyons
(DIR) Post #9ogMujohuWZ8FdygPQ by stux@mstdn.social
2019-11-06T10:32:08Z
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@BhavanaVarun You can find all apps for Mastodon on this page: https://joinmastodon.org/apps
(DIR) Post #9ogMywEDhtSdu3ujGy by sushubh@mastodon.social
2019-11-06T10:32:35Z
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@tachyons @BhavanaVarun @stux migration does not migrate content right? Just followers and following?
(DIR) Post #9ogMywrZLaw7s6K9bc by stux@mstdn.social
2019-11-06T10:32:54Z
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@sushubh Correct! @tachyons @BhavanaVarun
(DIR) Post #9oh7tAnlJ4wDD3I7yS by LienRag@miaou.drycat.fr
2019-11-06T18:11:47Z
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@bharatvarma Hi and welcome here.The Fediverse (of which Mastodon is a part of) is decentralized, like e-mail: anyone with a gmail account can write to anyone with an india.com account (I'm not familiar with what email servers are used in India, sorry), or a yahoo account, or any mail account actually.Anyone can even host one's own mail server and then he'll be able to write to any other mail account.It's the same with the Fediverse: I am on Miaou.drycat.fr and you are on mstdn.social but we can still write to each other and see each other messages: it's called "federating".Federating is a choice; many instances chose not to federate to the nazi/alt-right instance named "gab", for example. But your instance federates with mine; if it didn't there is not way we could see each other's messages.
(DIR) Post #9oh7tJwbJaM7Z4UoV6 by LienRag@miaou.drycat.fr
2019-11-06T18:22:56Z
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@bharatvarma OK, I didn't define what is an instance, so bear with me.If you want to have your own mail server, you have to host it somewhere: that is, to install on a computer connected to the internet (either your own or one that you the software that can handle sending and receiving mails (which in turns means that the software will follow the email protocols that are standardized). Usually you also gets a domain name (usually from an internet registrar) in order to use a mail adress (like something@bharatvarma.in) rather than an IP adress (like something@135.22.21.67).Once it's done, you can create accounts for other people: you can have didi@bharatvarma.in and daddy@bharatvarma.in and mommy@bharatvarma.in. You can even automatise account creation in order to let other people create their own accounts.
(DIR) Post #9oh7tx9jWh29B5wLsu by LienRag@miaou.drycat.fr
2019-11-06T18:23:09Z
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@bharatvarma That's exactly what gmail or india.com or yahoo did in order to launch their services (well, you can guess that nowadays they have a bit more than one computer to handle the millions of emails they send each day, but the principle is the same).
(DIR) Post #9oh7wVw5BdabcnmCBM by LienRag@miaou.drycat.fr
2019-11-06T18:28:08Z
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@bharatvarma It's the same with Mastodon or the other softwares that work on the Fediverse: in order to have a working instance, someone has to install the software (be it Mastodon, Pleroma, Peertube, or any one that can work with the Fediverse protocol named ActivityPub) on a computer connected to the internet, either at home or on a rented server.Once it's done, this installed software will be a new instance: it will be administred by the one who installed it (or the one he transfers control to) in the way he decides to.Some instances are personal (the guy who administers it is alone on it), some are invite-only (one cannot join without asking first), some are open registrations (anyone can join, like you joined mastdn.social), some are closed registration (they do not accept new users), but they still federate with each other.
(DIR) Post #9oh7xIxWv2rVfTpXk0 by LienRag@miaou.drycat.fr
2019-11-06T18:33:13Z
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@bharatvarma Each instance administrator makes its own choices: when he updates the software, what rules he implements on the instance (the funniest example is oulipo.social; on it it's forbidden to use the letter "e"), who he will ban or accept and why, and so on.One important thing to understand is that the instance's administrator has access to all the private messages of the instance's users : I'm not saying that he actually reads them, but he has the technical ability to do so (no one else can as they are encrypted - to the exception of course of the user you send the private message to, and of his instance's administrator).Feel free to ask more questions if you so need.
(DIR) Post #9oh7z8Hda95Z8Z6hGq by LienRag@miaou.drycat.fr
2019-11-06T18:40:57Z
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@bharatvarma (oh, another example of specific rules of different instances: I believe mastdn.social limits the length of your posts to 500 characters, and you may have noticed that my posts are sometimes longer than that: that's because my instance's administrator chose a limit of 1024 characters instead)
(DIR) Post #9oh83Ug6GH5Nkcd2sy by bharatvarma@mstdn.social
2019-11-06T19:20:22Z
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@LienRag Thank you, appreciate the detailed response.
(DIR) Post #9ojV1YbBOrMsarIIfA by jvivekanand@mastodon.social
2019-11-07T16:35:46Z
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@Lookiey_Loo @tachyons @BhavanaVarun @stux I just started on Tusky. As a total newbie with all of 5 minutes on the app, I can say it looks OK. Rest is your call. 😁
(DIR) Post #9ojV1ZEX2YqMYthizo by Lookiey_Loo@mastodon.social
2019-11-07T16:37:33Z
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@jvivekanand @tachyons @BhavanaVarun @stux I think Tusksy is an Android app,where as I’m looking for a good iOS app.
(DIR) Post #9ojVR1RXIIrjIBvOLY by cherry@mstdn.social
2019-11-07T22:51:46Z
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@Lookiey_Loo https://mstdn.social/web/statuses/103099001184111065 -- this looks potentially helpful.
(DIR) Post #9ojWSi7CE61RsfmPOy by nishadnevgi@mastodon.cloud
2019-11-07T23:02:33Z
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@Lookiey_Loo @jvivekanand @tachyons @BhavanaVarun @stux Mast is a great iOS app! Currently loving it...!
(DIR) Post #9ojWSjIDqaR7X9wjE8 by stux@mstdn.social
2019-11-07T23:03:11Z
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@nishadnevgi It's certainly worth it's money! @Lookiey_Loo @jvivekanand @tachyons @BhavanaVarun
(DIR) Post #9ojojzQmthjrgQKgO8 by anathem@toot.kif.rocks
2019-11-07T18:23:40Z
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@BhavanaVarun To exercise your right of not listening to some people, you have 3 options:1. Block the user.2. Block the whole instance of a user (i.e. everyone with the same domain name).3. Ask your instance admin to block a whole instance for all users of your instance.If you're on the same instance as that other user:1. Block the user.2. Ask your admin to suspend/delete that user.3. Move to a friendlier instance, continue as above.Apart from that: Welcome to the fediverse!
(DIR) Post #9ojok5krNzMNIPlnVY by BhavanaVarun@mstdn.social
2019-11-08T02:28:01Z
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@anathem Thank you! This will be helpful. I'll share. Keep sharing insights with us.
(DIR) Post #9okjsCsGUjIR53FACO by Megha1998@mastodon.social
2019-11-08T12:38:53Z
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@prashere hey I’m a Twitter user and I got to know about this new platform from there. I’m Using this since morning and its pretty cool. It would be highly appreciated if you can boost my posts so that we can help each other. I would love to interact more and grow here.
(DIR) Post #9olT99KvOfnmy76OI4 by Lookiey_Loo@mastodon.social
2019-11-08T21:34:19Z
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@stux @jvivekanand @tachyons @BhavanaVarun Testing Mast , seems to be as good as a birdsite app.I think I will stick with this one.#TweetNotTweet
(DIR) Post #9olTNPBFHpJiA5N8vw by BhavanaVarun@mstdn.social
2019-11-08T21:37:59Z
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@Lookiey_Loo @stux @jvivekanand @tachyons Very well. Hope, it works!
(DIR) Post #9olTXq6K3EoaYB2qaO by Lookiey_Loo@mastodon.social
2019-11-08T21:39:50Z
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@stux @jvivekanand @tachyons @BhavanaVarun Testing Mast , seems to be as good as a birdsite app.I think I will stick with this one.#TootNotTweet