Hacker News: daveid

New comment by daveid in "Twitter was down"

daveid — Thu, 11 Jul 2019 20:05:51 +0000

No, it's not

New comment by daveid in "Can “Indie” Social Media Save Us?"

daveid — Sun, 19 May 2019 04:49:20 +0000

Mastodon is AGPLv3 so there is nothing to buy.

New comment by daveid in "Can “Indie” Social Media Save Us?"

daveid — Sun, 19 May 2019 04:45:41 +0000

Most of the time you'd come across a post on a different instance in your home feed which just takes a click to reply to, the same as any other post.

New comment by daveid in "Improving support for adult content on Mastodon"

daveid — Mon, 06 May 2019 04:27:07 +0000

> Nobody thinks of Mastodons when thinking of any form of communication, but we all hear birds tweeting every day and have been used in real life to send messages

This seems like backwards reasoning. If you named a new platform after pigeons, which were actually used for transmitting information, you'd get critics saying "It's so archaic, nobody has used pigeons for 80 years!" Birds carrying messages is just as "extinct" of a metaphor as Mastodons are as an animal.

New comment by daveid in "Improving support for adult content on Mastodon"

daveid — Sun, 05 May 2019 23:05:39 +0000

What's not cute about elephants? Especially fluffy ones?

New comment by daveid in "Trust-Busting as the Unsexy Answer to Google and Facebook"

daveid — Mon, 04 Feb 2019 22:16:36 +0000

It's ActivityPub, not OStatus!

New comment by daveid in "Mastodon 2.7: Highlights from the changelog"

daveid — Sun, 20 Jan 2019 22:43:33 +0000

If you decide to change your managed host, you take your domain name and database with you, so outwardly, nothing changes and you lose nothing.

New comment by daveid in "Mastodon 2.7: Highlights from the changelog"

daveid — Sun, 20 Jan 2019 22:40:39 +0000

https://docs.joinmastodon.org/

Linked from the README in the repository you linked.

Why does decentralization matter?

daveid — Sun, 30 Dec 2018 22:48:53 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2018/12/why-does-decentralization-matter/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18791808

Points: 57

# Comments: 15

New comment by daveid in "Ask HN: Did you delete your Facebook account in 2018?"

daveid — Mon, 24 Dec 2018 00:42:07 +0000

Yes, I deleted mine! Deleted my Twitter account too

New comment by daveid in "Deploying Mastodon on Digital Ocean"

daveid — Thu, 15 Nov 2018 10:24:17 +0000

FYI there's a more recent, and much more in-depth official installation manual: https://docs.joinmastodon.org/administration/installation/

The documentation also includes various guides on horizontal scaling, using pgBouncer etc.

Mastodon 2.6: Link verification

daveid — Sun, 04 Nov 2018 14:25:50 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2018/10/mastodon-2.6-released/?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18375990

Points: 9

# Comments: 0

Mastodon: An overview of features for dealing with abuse and harassment

daveid — Sun, 08 Jul 2018 15:56:52 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2018/07/cage-the-mastodon/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17484377

Points: 27

# Comments: 1

New comment by daveid in "OAuth for the Open Web"

daveid — Sat, 07 Jul 2018 23:19:24 +0000

Unless there's gonna be native browser support, the different websites you visit won't be able to know which accounts you've recently used elsewhere.

New comment by daveid in "OAuth for the Open Web"

daveid — Sat, 07 Jul 2018 22:42:29 +0000

OpenID doesn't provide API access like OAuth does, does it?

New comment by daveid in "Why ActivityPub is the future"

daveid — Wed, 27 Jun 2018 17:18:29 +0000

What would be a better name?

New comment by daveid in "Why ActivityPub is the future"

daveid — Wed, 27 Jun 2018 15:20:26 +0000

Then your account is gone, but your friends on other servers are still where they were. With backup/import tools you can reconnect with them from a new account easily.

New comment by daveid in "Why ActivityPub is the future"

daveid — Wed, 27 Jun 2018 15:18:26 +0000

From the thread:

>I don't expect any major changes are needed for compliance, which is why it's been pretty low priority. it's just a matter of getting a document together that better informs admins.

Mastodon has all the features needed for compliance, and does not collect or store any data that's not for its primary purpose.

New comment by daveid in "How to become a successful artist on Mastodon"

daveid — Sun, 24 Jun 2018 22:09:55 +0000

Bug found and fixed and patched!

New comment by daveid in "How to become a successful artist on Mastodon"

daveid — Sun, 24 Jun 2018 21:42:40 +0000

I checked and I noticed that the pictures in the embedded toots don't show up on Chrome. Investigating.