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Notes on using a single-person Mastodon server
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Reflecting on Mastodon's limitations around account control, portability, and federation-why it still doesn't quite feel like owning your identity online.
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Meta's Threads, which is slowly enabling ActivityPub capabilities, has just posted a list of servers it is blocking. The list (as of this writng) has over 660 entries. Since I am finalizing a chapter on Threads for my forthcoming book, I will definitely have to consider this list in detail. For now, I wanted to offer a few comments on this development, since it's a decidedly important moment in the ActivityPub-based fediverse.
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EDIT: Credit where credit is due: I stole many of these ideas from Sean Lawson. Except they are better with FOSS.
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