Alex Vranas @Alex@vran.as

They call Mastodon a "rival" to Twitter, which from a business perspective isn't true. It's like calling email and Facebook "rivals".

They claim Instances are separated by topic, which is partially true, but not even remotely the rule.

They refer to the flagship instance as simply as "Social", which is just the gTLD after the word "Mastodon", not the name of the instance!

It's embarrassing to see the BBC do this.

They refer to it as a "site". No, it is not a website, it is a piece of web software. Would you call all the WordPress blogs a "site"?

They refer to instances interchangeably as "channels", "groups", and "servers". Mastodon does not have channels or groups, and instance ≠ server. An instance could be a cluster of servers mixed with SaaS solutions.

Hey #Journalists that are joining Mastodon! 👋

Happy to have you here.

Now please, learn how Mastodon works, and start reporting on it honestly. Every mainstream source that writes about it gets things atrociously wrong.

I get that it's really different than traditional social media, but journalistic integrity means doing your research before you publish something, and some of these articles are just ridiculously incorrect. They're hard to take seriously. Like this: https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-63999452

@oblomov @nova @gabe they fixed the typo, but they went too far and updated the URL without a redirect, breaking it!

Now found here: https://www.digitalocean.com/blog/digitalocean-spaces-mastodon-hachyderm

@liaizon @w__h_ Gen Z? They were born after the iPod. This is definitely for Millennials.

Source: I want it.

Elon Musk won't see your posts when you intentionally misspell his name.

But all of your friends who are trying to filter him off their timelines will.

Who exactly are you trying to punish by doing this?

@mastodonusercount Don't believe the dip!

The script relies on https://instances.social/ to work properly, and it's down. Hugged to death!

@boud @mastodonusercount @piccolbo It's only plateauing because it relies on https://instances.social/ for full functionality, and that site is getting hugged to death right now.

#TwitterPurge #TwitterMigration #ThursdayNightMassacre

@mastodonusercount Oh wow, I guess banning the official Mastodon account, and a bunch of journalists critical of Elon really pushed the needle.

@jjhysell@historians.social Elon banned the official Mastodon account on Twitter. That's the best endorsement this network could ever get.

@dripsandcastle I should probably:

1. See if this condition exists in 4.0.2 (which means updating my instance 🙄)

2. If so, I should submit a bug report here: https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues

(You could probably do this faster since you are on an instance running 4.0.2)

Oh, and it breaks every @ after the redirect in the same post! Look at that!

Thanks again @maartenballiauw. Looks your clever trick exposes a bug in Mastodon.

Okay, sorry for spamming this post repeatedly.

It turns out if you publishing a post with a custom address in it like this, you'll get an error message and it will look like it didn't send.

I just kept mashing that button while I investigated, and it really was publishing the post every time 😬

This is really neat! With the power of WebFinger, you can make your Mastodon account discoverable using your own domain name!

See it in action by searching for me with these custom addresses:

@me@breakdecks.com
@owner@prods.page

It's a bit kludgy if you make it static, so @<anything>@your.domain will end up working.

Thanks @maartenballiauw@mastodon.online for the writeup!

https://blog.maartenballiauw.be/post/2022/11/05/mastodon-own-donain-without-hosting-server.html