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What's currently the best #mastodon client for #android (asking for a friend)?

@mayel Ok, now that I got the data for 1746 instances, I can say that the s factor is about 1.33777, so pretty close to the original approximation of 1.3.

@bhaugen
> Think cells and organs.
- I've been pushing this comparison since forever, glad to see it's a shared idea. Federation will be to human society what the shif from single cell to multicellular organisms was to life on earth. Each of us is but a cell, but we can get together as organs (ie. Cooperatives) and work to keep the organism alive (ie. To maintain our society).

@dredmorbius @Gargron @aral @lynnfoster @bernini @mayel

@Antanicus @Gargron @aral

Our view of the required architecture for economic networks, including cooperatives, is "instances of one agent", where an agent can be an individual or an organization.

The individuals can federate with the organizations and each other, and so can the organizations.

Many individuals will work with many organizations, and form more new ones. So will the organizations.

@lynnfoster @bernini @mayel

Hello desktop #Mastodon users!

Can you recommend desktop Mastodon clients/apps for Windows, Linux and Mac?

(Preferably ones that are easy to install and use.)

The deviations are perhaps due to the still young age of the fediverse. Expect it to smooth out. But still, expect that the big instances will always dominate.

Data: 200 biggest instances from https://instances.social.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zipf's_law

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Worried about the dominance of big instances? No, really, this is quite natural.

As an emergent and self-governing system, it could be expected that the size distribution of #Mastodon instances roughly follows Zipf's law.

Does it?

At first you see the top 6 instances, and then the rest. But on a log-log scale the size distribution is close to a straight line, which would be expected from an emergent system.

#statistics

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More #elixir questions: what's the most comprehensive testing resource (particularly wrt Phoenix)?

The docs are good but they're extremely spotty. Not a single mention of mocking params for controller tests that I can see.

Hey fellow #developers, looking to create an #activitypub platform? Here's some ideas I've seen tossed around:

* podcast
* dating
* alternative to evernote
* alternative to asana

@resist_berlin asked me why I stopped using #xmpp.

I wanted to make my point publicly that we should focus on net-gen #privacy tools rather than old protocols that have already been lapped in terms of #usability.

I have 248 contacts who have #WhatsApp but only a handful with xmpp.

Yes #omemo and #conversations are a step in the right direction but I would like to see the community focus on applications like #Briar which has features that WhatsApp simple can't compete with.

I fixed the "follow all" error on bridge.joinmastodon.org, sorry for the trouble

Are there now any functional #alternatives to #reddit already, that have implemented #activitypub successfully? I remember seeing #tildes and @prismo and @tuxether or some other services in the #fediverse some time ago, but they seemed not to be ready and useable yet

new post about #scuttlebutt #p2p social network that's gunna eat the internet over the next couple years

https://medium.com/@richdecibels/this-machine-eats-monotheistic-meta-memes-797449d34d34

Hey @Liberapay, do you plan to support bounties? It would be nice if several of us could pay for a feature we'd like to see implemented in Libre software 🙂

As an example, I'd like to see WebExtensions support in @gnome Web, and I bet a paid bounty would help finding people to implement it