* <<J3ZXGP2J>> Mastodon
Created: 6/16/2017, 7:06:27 AM


Using Mastodon leaves me feeling like I'm settling – or like I'm
endorsing a status-quo that I fundamentally disagree with.

Creating a libre-Twitter is a great idea, but
microblogging/shitposting is not the be-all of social media. Mastodon
is a nice application, but by only supporting the notice activity
object – "tweets" – it sort-of misses the point of a libre
social/pub-sub federation.

If an OStatus server (GNU social, Mastodon, etc.) can't at least
provide notifications to users for the receipt of activity types that
it doesn't know how to handle, then it's A) a complete failure for
users, and B) it discourages the development of new post
types/applications.

Already we've seen that polls and events, fully functional in GNU
social (and before) are

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