Oddbean new post about login | logout I can't believe Mastodon has had completely arbitrary follower counts determined by whoever is serving the profile all these years: https://cdn.satellite.earth/0036df056c37b3aac944cf97ae0565987e97741cc6e73dbeb4bf00205c19669d.mp4 So basically on Mastodon each user can basically pick a number and decide that's it and the entire network will just accept it -- or perhaps "question it", but just accept it most of the times. And people say Mastodon is better than Nostr or has "solved" that side of the UX while Nostr is awful because follower counts are different depending on how you look.
Yup, if you're the server admin you can make it say/show whatever you want lol. You can even make it show you joined in 1776 if you wanted.
Its an admin. He own the server, can mod all files, erase what he want. This is not an issue -_-".
It's not an issue for the admin.
There was a great blog post that touched on this: https://justingarrison.com/blog/2022-12-06-mastodon-files-instance/ They served a file for “followers” and set it to an arbitrary number.
Did not know that 😂. A proximity metric, based on your follows, could be more useful. Similar idea to "Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon" however between you and them.
boooh. another surprise from COMMIE SOCIAL NETWORK
Whats the deal with this? I've only been on mastodon a few times but it was actually full of commies, climate alarmists, etc. Is there a reason for this?
niche. as bitcoiners are comming to nostr, commies are going do mastodon. USSR has fallen by themselves, just let they explode doin their shit (of course if they didnt attack us. its all ok to have their on ass fucked by them.)
Outrageous. The main problem that Mastodon suffers from is its lack of nips.