Mastodon.online invitation if anyone wants it
For anyone who wants an invitation to join mastodon.online, let me know! Like mastodon.social, it is one of the two official communities run by the Mastodon non-profit. The difference is that mastodon.online is invite-only.
Joining an invite-only server helps keep out spammers who target mastodon.social and lets someone be part of a more exclusive community. This can help someone have a better-quality mastodon experience, overall.
Of course, to keep out scammers, the invitation isn't open to just anyone who asks, they will have to have a posting history of some sort.
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Komodo Rodeo
in reply to Sibshops • • •Quick question for you. I signed up to Mastadon a while back, have been endeavouring to use it more regularly, and have been trying to sign on to as many local or often-subscribed orgs (on other media platforms). What I'm finding is that remarkably few of them are on Mastadon, and often those that are have been using them as a kind of alt-Twitter content splash with little engagement.
Are the actual active profiles/communities sort of walling themselves off from bots and bad actors in the way that you're describing? Invite-only groups whose activity isn't seen by non-members, or even accessible when searching for related tags/topics? Have I been casting about looking for content like someone looking for people in a neighbourhood where everyone is inside with the curtains drawn, or is there actually low engagement on Mastadon overall?
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Sibshops
in reply to Komodo Rodeo • • •If you want to follow specific organizations, unfortunately, there aren’t as many on Mastodon as on other social media platforms. Some are accessible through Threads.net federation, like @theonion@threads.net, through the Bluesky bridge, or via other non-Mastodon federated communities (e.g., Flipboard.com) if that’s something you’re interested in.
However, some communities do wall themselves off from bots and bad actors. For example, the most popular Mastodon instance (mastodon.social) blocks the second-largest instance (pawoo.net). Other instances, like mastodon.art, defederate from AI art supporting instances, while others like hachyderm.io has defederated from Threads.net. Additionally, some Mastodon communities, like Truth Social, are entirely isolated and defederate from everyone else.
So, if you want access to the widest range of communities, you may need to join more than one instance.
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in reply to Sheridan • • •The servers are hosted by Hetzner with servers across Europe. They call out Hetzner when there is an outage.
status.mastodon.online/cm722jt…
More info about Hetzner here:
hetzner.com/unternehmen/ueber-…
DB connection issues - Incident details - mastodon.online - Status
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