Boosts are marked as such and recognizable, the posts i am seeing are common posts from accounts i don't follow. Here in the middle is an account i don't follow, at the bottom is a boosted post. The feed is my home fed in Elk, it is the same on the website.

It also functions as a PWA (progressive web app) for those that want those features. The underlying chat protocol has many native clients as well for everyone to have a low-power, low-data-consumption option for encrypted chat, both direct messages & chat rooms.

correct.

when composing a message you can also set the visibility to whoever is mentioned in your message exclusively:

those messages aren't encrypted, as stated on the banner above

Not an instance, but there is Bridgy Fed

It's vote and build pressure. Doing only one of those will leave you in a bad spot

Not voting will leave you with republican who wants to bulldoze gaza and doesn't care what anyone thinks. Who's former white house advisor thoughts about the war was how gaza's waterfront properties were economically valuable. Who's planned response to peaceful protests is to deport US citizens protesting

@[email protected]
It does indeed work. So you can post directly to a mastodon user from a Lemmy post comments section.
@pineapplelover

@pineapplelover [Waving hello from mastodon]

@pineapplelover @tezoatlipoca You just did! It’s ActivityPub all the way down.

@pineapplelover I must subscribe to [email protected] or something. Wherever u posted to

@pineapplelover I think you just did, he says from mastodon

I've been wanting to find more peeps to follow on Mastodon for a while, so I did some research. Here's some lists and resources to find people.

• https://fedi.tips/
• hacker news post
• popular people on Mastodon
• journalists on mastodon
• Academics on mastodon
• https://mastodon.online/@FediFollows
• Follow #introduction #introductions #followfriday
• Trunk — https://communitywiki.org/trunk
• Fediverse — https://fediverse.info/explore/people
• Fedi Directory — https://fedi.directory/

Corporate media are leery of the fediverse because the capitalist class hasn’t (yet) gotten control of it. They aren’t able shape the narratives here like they’re able to on corporate social media platforms.

We are on their radar, though, and they will eventually try to control us. US military-industrial complex think tank Atlantic Council report: Collective Security in a Federated World (PDF link)

@BuddyTheBeefalo I don't really get the problem tho? All Information that you post on Fediverse is already public, that's how ActivityPub works, no?

This is the best summary I could come up with:

We were aiming to learn about how much work and cost this involved, how many people we’d reach, what levels of engagement we would get and to explore the risks and benefits of the federated model.

The trial so far has been really effective in helping us learn about how the Fediverse is evolving, what technical support a Mastodon server needs, what the costs are, and how a large media organisation like the BBC can engage with the many different overlapping communities that exist in this rapidly changing space.

We are also planning to start some technical work into investigating ways to publish BBC content more widely using ActivityPub, the underlying protocol of Mastodon and the Fediverse.

Reassuringly, most of the comments and feedback have been positive, welcoming both our interest and the way we have set things up.We’ve had really encouraging levels of engagement(i.e. replies, re-posts and likes) on Mastodon.

Because this an experiment and a trial, it's not always the main priority for all the teams involved, so we may not be able to engage and reply as much as the Mastodon community and culture expect, and we recognise this could be an issue going forward.

Because of the potential sensitivity around news stories, we need to be particularly careful with our editorial processes and within the scope of this trial we are not in a position to guarantee time and effort from other teams outside of R&D.

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https://c.im has 5000 characters limit.
https://kolektiva.social (anarchist) has 10 000
https://infosec.exchange has 11 000 characters and formatting.
https://qoto.org has 65 535 character limit and other features, but some servers (including Universeodon and main British one - mastodonapp.uk) block it.

@davel what do you mean about "an argument without qualification"? And what has this to do with what meta is banning?

@davel

is culture issue

Right, that and knowing the long history of Embrace, Extend, Extinguish (EEE) ought to be sufficient.

This is a concern I have also posed.

There are better arguments for not federating with Meta’s Threads, some of which can be found in [email protected]. Firstly, Threads isn’t going to be able to restrict speech on other instances, at least not in any direct fashion. And secondly and more importantly, an argument for “freedom of speech” without qualifications is either naive or disingenuous: Paradox of tolerance