James Renken @jrenken@mastodon.sandwich.net
Sandwich Maker
@mitch Welcome! It's "federation" + "universe," a term for the universe of Mastodon instances: a whole bunch of operators run a whole bunch of independent copies of Mastodon, but they all interact as one big federation.
@dragfyre And they're gone. But there will be more. :(
@dragfyre Improved. Thanks for the heads up! #MastodonSandwich
I've been banning the "watch blah free online" spammers' local accounts, but they're still all over the federated timeline. Working on some strategies to screen signups, but spam filtering the fediverse is going to be tougher.
We're joining many other companies to urge @AjitPaiFCC to reconsider his attack on net neutrality. The @FCC must stop ignoring public and expert input in favor of cable/telco lobbyists, and it must stop ignoring attacks on its rulemaking process. https://docs.google.com/document/d/14NM8kSCe0v8D1AzhYan4nuToTpXn_N7CRs-fqa68IPg
@jeffmueller I think it's particularly extreme on our instance since we're small, and our users aren't following too many people. Our federated timeline will only get busier...
Apologies to everyone I had to leave out! (your instances are great too)
From Witches to Dolphins, These Are the Communities That Make Mastodon Great https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/from-witches-to-dolphins-these-are-the-communities-that-make-mastodon-great #eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
"What we need is to come up with a centralised brand strategy for the OStatus network, in order to attract the sort of people who respond to branding, because network growth is important."
Woah. Back that train of thought right back in to the station and decommission the locomotive.
@angristan It is a little scary! When I use HPKP, I pin the roots for my current CA and at least one other, plus an emergency backup key that I store offline.
@b I am! #MastodonSandwich has full backups copied off-site nightly.
Welcome, local folks - thanks for choosing #MastodonSandwich for your tooting needs!
Since we're a small server and Mastodon is decentralized, our "Local timeline" isn't as busy as big servers like mastodon.social.
Our "Federated timeline" shows toots from each user across the fediverse (i.e. all Mastodon servers) who is followed by someone here on this server.
Please make interesting toots, and follow interesting people across the fediverse, to make both our timelines awesome!
Sandwich Maker
