Mastodon.online invitation if anyone wants it
from Sibshops@lemm.ee to fediverse@lemmy.world on 23 Mar 17:18
https://lemm.ee/post/59257863

For anyone who wants an invitation to join mastodon.online, let me know! Like mastodon.social, it is one of the two official communities run by the Mastodon non-profit. The difference is that mastodon.online is invite-only.

Joining an invite-only server helps keep out spammers who target mastodon.social and lets someone be part of a more exclusive community. This can help someone have a better-quality mastodon experience, overall.

Of course, to keep out scammers, the invitation isn’t open to just anyone who asks, they will have to have a posting history of some sort.

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TrojanRoomCoffeePot@lemmy.world on 23 Mar 17:35 next collapse

Quick question for you. I signed up to Mastadon a while back, have been endeavouring to use it more regularly, and have been trying to sign on to as many local or often-subscribed orgs (on other media platforms). What I’m finding is that remarkably few of them are on Mastadon, and often those that are have been using them as a kind of alt-Twitter content splash with little engagement.

Are the actual active profiles/communities sort of walling themselves off from bots and bad actors in the way that you’re describing? Invite-only groups whose activity isn’t seen by non-members, or even accessible when searching for related tags/topics? Have I been casting about looking for content like someone looking for people in a neighbourhood where everyone is inside with the curtains drawn, or is there actually low engagement on Mastadon overall?

Irelephant@lemm.ee on 23 Mar 17:38 next collapse

.online still federates with most servers, its just .social but invite only.

TrojanRoomCoffeePot@lemmy.world on 23 Mar 17:52 collapse

Interesting, I’ll keep it in mind.

Sibshops@lemm.ee on 23 Mar 18:01 next collapse

If you want to follow specific organizations, unfortunately, there aren’t as many on Mastodon as on other social media platforms. Some are accessible through Threads.net federation, like @theonion@threads.net, through the Bluesky bridge, or via other non-Mastodon federated communities (e.g., Flipboard.com) if that’s something you’re interested in.

However, some communities do wall themselves off from bots and bad actors. For example, the most popular Mastodon instance (mastodon.social) blocks the second-largest instance (pawoo.net). Other instances, like mastodon.art, defederate from AI art supporting instances, while others like hachyderm.io has defederated from Threads.net. Additionally, some Mastodon communities, like Truth Social, are entirely isolated and defederate from everyone else.

So, if you want access to the widest range of communities, you may need to join more than one instance.

TrojanRoomCoffeePot@lemmy.world on 23 Mar 18:09 next collapse

It sounds as though there’s a lot more to these new setups than I had initially thought, this might take a bit of reading just to pin down the basics. Thanks for the detailed response, much appreciated, those links are going to come in handy.

Madbrad200@sh.itjust.works on 23 Mar 19:43 collapse

this comment is how I learned Truth Social was based on Mastodon.

Kichae@lemmy.ca on 23 Mar 19:35 collapse

It’s harder to see on a large Lemmy instance like LW, but most of the fediverse is very patchwork. The network of Lemmy sites is itself very patchwork, with the MLs, Hexbear, Beehaw, NSFW, etc. all having different defederation profiles, but the whole space is an incomplete mesh. Mastodon has more themed instances than Lemmy, more very small instances than Lemmy, and a much bigger anti-capital, anti-commerce bent than Lemmy, with many more people complaining on main about other instances rules and federation policies, so if you look, you can really see it.

But the whole fedi project is patchwork by nature.

TrojanRoomCoffeePot@lemmy.world on 24 Mar 01:01 collapse

The Mastadon link is a revelation, I haven’t seen any duplication of content, but TBH I haven’t invested a fraction of the time there as here. The Federation is a great idea, although it’s going to take a little while for me to wrap my head around all of the ins and outs of the patchwork framing.

sheridan@lemmy.world on 23 Mar 18:03 next collapse

What country are its servers located?

meldrik@lemmy.wtf on 23 Mar 18:08 next collapse

Probably Germany.

Sibshops@lemm.ee on 23 Mar 18:09 collapse

The servers are hosted by Hetzner with servers across Europe. They call out Hetzner when there is an outage.

status.mastodon.online/cm722jt5p005y134nbp7jwfm2

We have switched back to our original networking, and all functionality and performance is restored. Hetzner has confirmed that is was indeed a vSwitch issue that caused the network outage.

More info about Hetzner here: www.hetzner.com/unternehmen/ueber-uns/

dox@lemmy.world on 23 Mar 18:55 next collapse

Sounds perfect to check out what the fediverse is all about through a somewhat official channel :)

I mean, I created this account on lemmy.world after the whole Reddit black-out riots, but haven’t picked it up after that, although I have been lurking around.

kooltechlord@lemm.ee on 23 Mar 19:36 next collapse

mastodon.online is now invite-only? I remember it was open.

Sibshops@lemm.ee on 23 Mar 20:09 collapse

Yeah, they closed it around December 2023 as a way to combat spamming.

scytale@lemm.ee on 23 Mar 22:33 collapse

Ohh I’m a member of an exclusive club! lol

TheThrillOfTime@lemmy.ml on 23 Mar 21:09 next collapse

I would like one

Sibshops@lemm.ee on 23 Mar 21:16 collapse

Sent in DM!

TheThrillOfTime@lemmy.ml on 23 Mar 23:50 collapse

Thanks bro!

Bclueck@lemmy.world on 23 Mar 22:12 next collapse

I would be interested!

Sibshops@lemm.ee on 23 Mar 22:15 collapse

Sent!

Ste41th@lemmy.ml on 24 Mar 00:18 next collapse

Interesting, the only thing about mastodon is that it doesn’t interact with lemmy very well and that does kinda put me off from using it

irotsoma@lemmy.blahaj.zone on 24 Mar 01:00 next collapse

I’ll take one. Feel free to DM me.

Sibshops@lemm.ee on 24 Mar 01:36 collapse

DM sent

andyquest@sh.itjust.works on 24 Mar 04:54 next collapse

I’ll take one 🤷

Sibshops@lemm.ee on 24 Mar 06:23 collapse

Sent via DM

andyquest@sh.itjust.works on 24 Mar 17:26 collapse

Thank you!

EarlGrey@discuss.tchncs.de on 24 Mar 08:07 next collapse

Well, sure I’d like to give it a look

Sibshops@lemm.ee on 24 Mar 11:21 collapse

Sent via dm

pineapplelover@lemm.ee on 24 Mar 22:05 next collapse

Sure shoot a dm. I don’t use mastadon, maybe this will get me started

Sibshops@lemm.ee on 24 Mar 23:42 collapse

Sent via DM

wurlds@lemmy.world on 24 Mar 22:11 next collapse

I’d like one!

Sibshops@lemm.ee on 24 Mar 22:36 collapse

Sorry, to keep out scammers I’m only giving them to people with a posting history.

ksigley@lemm.ee on 24 Mar 23:15 next collapse

Get me in there.

Sibshops@lemm.ee on 24 Mar 23:41 collapse

Sent via DM

ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 26 Mar 03:09 next collapse

I’ll take one!

Sibshops@lemm.ee on 26 Mar 12:06 collapse

Sent in DM!

ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 26 Mar 12:18 collapse

Thank you!

Activism2670@lemmy.ca on 26 Mar 16:28 collapse

How invitation only instance prevent spammers ? Can’t they can answer some questions accurately and complete captcha ?

Sibshops@lemm.ee on 26 Mar 16:37 collapse

Invitation-only Mastodon instances prevent spammers by controlling who can join and maintaining a trust-based network. Since every new user must be invited by an existing member, admins can track invitation chains. If someone turns out to be a bad actor, admins can ban them and also ban anyone they invited. This is like pruning the whole spam network. This discourages spammers because their accounts can be removed along with their entire invitation tree.