Notices by 🇳🇴 Thor — backup account (thorthenorseman@octodon.social), page 3

@skypage I mainly just want to know if I'll get in trouble for sharing controversial political views. Also, I'd like to know if they refuse to federate with any instances.

@skypage Hmm, what are the terms of service there? Can't find it by browsing the instance from my phone. I mean, I've looked at it before, but it seems to be an instance for a podcast, and I don't really listen to podcasts?

@alphakamp It looks like they have politics in their TOS.

Anyone know what's going on with pleroma.soykaf.com today?

Also, if any of you know of a Pleroma/Mastodon instance without an agenda of any kind, that never really goes down and has a decent number of active accounts, let me know about it. I was hoping I wouldn't need to instance hop again so soon, but my experience with the Pleroma software hasn't been so great.

A tragic fate... https://octodon.social/media/KorqYPffsom1g3s5WHE

I just had a job interview at a Microsoft shop. The male employees were all like... https://octodon.social/media/tzGtuGvtLhlEmo-pSLU

VR glasses aren't cool until they look like this.

@dirb @thor @Kameyosek@freespeechextremist.com @p@freespeechextremist.com That is true. Personally, I think the structure of the network is a bit off. It shouldn't matter so much what instance you're on. You should be able to sign onto any instance and keep your address in the network.

@tootapp Hmm, suddenly, it did load, but asked me to authorise. So, it's a tad glitchy I guess.

@tootapp It doesn't seem able to fetch the "public" feed; the one you get if you simply add the instance and don't log in. I'm not sure if I can log in when it errors like that?

Yeah, so that one thread I wrote about Mastodon being very LGBT actually got about 2-3X more replies than I was about to see from octodon.social.

I think my old snabeltann.no instance (non-functional and practically decommissioned) was a tad more eclectic in its federation, and I kind of liked that.

@thor

@tootapp Has Toot! been tested with Pleroma? I get an error message when I try to add a Pleroma instance. Amaroq seemed to handle them fine (except for being unable to full view images and play video from Pleroma instances).

@kvltist Now, if the Mastodon client I use on iOS (Toot!) didn't error on Pleroma instances, that would make it easier to choose Pleroma. The client I used before, Amaroq, did handle Pleroma properly, but as far as I know, Amaroq isn't being maintained at the moment.

@CobaltVelvet I read that before I joined.

@dirb That's exactly my problem with them. Mastodon has a lot of hidden disadvantages like these. You're completely unaware of them until you accidentally discover them, which makes me think they are designed that way on purpose, to keep people apart.

@Mainebot Perhaps the definition of those terms depend on your point of view. The term "shitposting" is, in my experience, more innocuous than it seems. Just memes, most of the time. I follow several people from there because they post funny memes, and I don't like having missed out without even knowing. I think I'd prefer an instance with a somewhat less offputting name. OTOH, if a lot of left leaning instances block an instance, it's almost tempting to think that's a sign I should be on there.

Yeah, I think I'll be moving to another instance shortly. It took me way too long to figure out that Octodon wasn't quite what I had imagined it to be. shitposter.club has been recommended to me. Ironically, that instance is blocked from here. Also, unfortunately, because I follow people from that instance, and that means I've been missing toots from them. What's the name of a large instance that doesn't really block anything but spammers and trolls, and is more centrist?

@CobaltVelvet Uh, I wasn't aware of that at all.

Also, I'm rather upset at not being able to see posts from shitposter.club.

I follow people from that instance and received no warning that I'd be cut off from them by moving here.

@CobaltVelvet Uh, I wasn't aware of that at all.

Also, I'm rather upset by this: https://social.beepboop.ga/objects/9defdc31-ecc4-42b5-adba-bfac18d501f9

I follow people from that instance and received no warning that I'd be cut off from them by moving here.