How do I Mastodon?

Messages From Sixguns
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If you view

You might not see much, if you create an account you might even see less

But, it’s namesake is not without cause, it is HUGE

To grow you need to follow something which will lead to something else.

As an example I posted outside my wheelhouse with the #gamedev tag

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Beni, who has only two followers and is on Bluesky, not Mastodon seen and liked my post

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how?

He has chosen to follow that hashtag and when someone uses it he sees their post

If game development interested you then you simply click (or create) that tag, then follow it

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Now your timeline will fill with game development posts.

Now, Bluesky, to bridge with Mastodon you need to follow

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You may already see posts as I follow,

Each person you follow adds to your timeline and with it their followers and tags

It’s how it works, so, follow each other, follow others, pace yourself or you won’t be able to keep up with your timeline

You may not see replies to others I noted even if you follow a person, I guess as it was a reply to someone else, still figuring it all out but thought I’d add what I’ve found out already.

DEFEDERATED

If you see that term it means a server blocked or muted another server, ask me how I know

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yep, right now Mastodon is as left as they come, if you want to piss people off, support Trump

#gotrump is my preferred tag

Isn’t that bad?

You’ll figure it out.

If it’s left then why are we here?

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We’ll add to that and this more soon :nod:

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We’re using it, because you like to prod the enemy with either a taser or a cattle prod. At least that’s how i understand it.

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We’ve seen that depending on who’s in charge, stuff we like to post will get shadowbanned or outright taken down. Technologically, Mastodon deals with this issue by giving every instance admin the right to decide the rules for their own content, rather than a company deciding that for them.

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It’s far uglier than that and tiered too, shadow banning right from the top through the software itself, groups dedicated to keeping their cyber streets free of us thugs, below that bots and other automatic systems employed as well etc etc.

I’ve been reaching out to other platform leaders, testing various software types and will report its extremely bad out there.

Equally as frustrating is I have only the limited support base here to work with, while appreciated it’s not enough.

I have weekly phone meetings with others who are supposed to be and get further involved but week after week nothing happens, our side does as much harm with/by/through inaction as the other side does intentionally against us.

I’m watching Trumps meeting live

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and this problem is minute compared to the utter BS going on there, but, it is also related.

I say related as Trump is trying very hard to fight the good fight, but the enemy is legion, and everywhere, we’ve been asleep far to long, time to awaken.

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I think the real problem is there’s a lot of people that support the ideas, but when it comes to financial backing or help they aren’t equipped to follow through or they’d rather spend their money on something else. :man_shrugging:

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I was on slapping a few of those saying trumps photos were fake etc.. all they was worried about was the 75 dead SA Blacks per day .. its so ridiculous 99% of those people on there are whacko

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Happy you left room for us :grin:

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Believe me we are the only sane people pretty much that I have ran into.
This morning I was reading Alt-News off this one persons feed seriously there are news outlets out there that have a complete 180 spin from what ypu would hear on the same topic on Fox News for example.

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I feel a Sanford and Son meme coming when I say, “I’m a big dummy.” But I’m still trying to understand this Mastodon thing y’all keep talking about. One thing I do understand is that it appears to be dominated mostly by those on the political left. That doesn’t bother me, but I admit I’m more of an Independent who recoils from both parties and ideologies, as I feel neither side fully represents my values.

Be that as it may, and being that I’m a strong believer in our Constitutional civil rights, especially the 1st, 2nd, 4th, 5th and 14th, I think it’s best to take the high road and engage with those with opposing views with civility, maturity, wisdom and intelligence. When discussing the 2nd Amendment with gun-control activist friends and family, I typically give them Mexico as an example. As we all know, it has very strict gun control laws leaving the vast majority defenseless and victims of murders, rapes, kidnappings, torture, extortion, etc. If the government allowed its citizens to defend thenselves, then there’d likely be less innocent victims. I try to explain that in a respectful, diplomatic, almost objective tone. Many acknowledge my point, and while they may not admit to changing their views, a few do think about it. I take that as a small win in educating them on the purpose of the 2nd Amendment.

So if this Mastodon platform has any members or even online readers on the fence about the issue, it may help our 2A cause by responding or advocating diplomatically about it if that makes sense.

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@equin possibly but slim chance

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In my view its much larger, their souls are sold, redeeming requires effort, once sold there seems to be a tough policy for individuals to need to face, which is, they need to face that ugly fact, their souls were sold.

For us the difficulty is these are enemies but we need to love them enough to want them to want to save themselves.

If we fight them direct the likelihood is lessened, however their evil must be fought, it’s tricky, more tricky when the evil is controlled by them.

I’m right there with you

Me neither, but I did a great job of getting us cut off by blazing in with sixguns, however, better now than after more effort was put in, now I’m looking at how to deal with that.

Option, we fork Mastodon as Truth Social did, but unlike TS we leave it open, find some not so big dummies to help us clean the code of back doors used to shadow ban instances/users as sixguns/myself are currently under, I logged in yesterday, a quick blip appeared on my notifications, 43, then gone, people I follow post, but I get no notifications, for anything, makes it more work, less fun, I can go on with more evidence but can’t fight the developers direct as they are homo’s who stroke each other, I can code about as well as I gunsmith, which means if its modular, I can build a gun, anything else, not so pretty.

Option, this is not the only software option, or even only fediverse, just the largest, finding one that believes in free speech could be mutually beneficial, but, again, stroking, I went to one that seems to seek communication and outreach as they have a developer forum with a category titled as such.

It doesn’t work on the Mastodon fediverse but is on a separate smaller one, software is better, but it lacks life, so I ask if they’d like a firearms community for growth potential

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As close to a direct no as is possible, I may still build on it, not sure, doing a lot of studying and outreach

Sadly our side seems to be all self gratifying, like teenagers, actual teaming up to win doesn’t happen.

Best option, change a few things

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Yes ,and Inbelieve they are all to willing to do it.

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There is a new one coming out .

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Cool, my wife likes the John Wick movies :+1:

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Yeah, I like how He actually has to reload . And when out of bullets then the fighting skills kick in.
Possibly unknown to many people Keanu Reeves does have maryial arts training , at what level I am not sure

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Testing a Mastodon fork

He was in a pretty interesting documentary

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