<div dir="ltr"><div>Not to steer this conversation a little bit towards the oncoming traffic... But there's an interesting write-up on "why Mastodon may succeed where others have failed" on IT World Canada: <a href="https://www.itworldcanada.com/article/how-mastodon-may-succeed-as-the-twitter-alternative-where-others-have-failed/514395">https://www.itworldcanada.com/article/how-mastodon-may-succeed-as-the-twitter-alternative-where-others-have-failed/514395</a></div><div><br></div><div>(my favourite line is, "The big difference is that Twitter is owned and controlled by an erratic billionaire. Mastodon has no owner.")</div><div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Nov 22, 2022 at 11:59 PM Rick Moen <<a href="mailto:rick@linuxmafia.com">rick@linuxmafia.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Quoting Paul Nijjar via kwlug-disc (<a href="mailto:kwlug-disc@kwlug.org" target="_blank">kwlug-disc@kwlug.org</a>):<br>
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> Of course admins *should* do these things, but if they don't know that<br>
> they should do these things then bad things happen. Sensible defaults<br>
> matter, and I am not convinced Mastodon got these right. <br>
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Valid point. OTOH, this isn't a first for complicated Internet<br>
services. For example, do commodity distro packages for MTAs <br>
yet bother to provide meaningful antispam defences? I haven't <br>
checked in ages, so actually don't know. Have been simply assuming they<br>
don't, and build local config to implement local policy.<br>
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-- <br>
Cheers, He's making a database;<br>
Rick Moen He's sorting it twice.<br>
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