Oh boy, I’m looking through the code for Mastodon right now. Already located one zero day after reading 300 lines of code. Who wrote this app…
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PlutoParty@programming.dev 9 months agoWhat is why it is not being “downloaded”? It seems you don’t actually understand how it works. You realize we are talking on a federated network right now, yeah? You must be trolling.
theanon@lemmy.world 9 months ago
PlutoParty@programming.dev 9 months ago
Point it out and share it with everyone. That’s what FOSS is all about. I bet you won’t.
seitanic@lemmy.sdf.org 9 months ago
Of course they won’t. They’re shilling their own product which is a competitor to Mastodon.
theanon@lemmy.world 9 months ago
What i don’t get about mastodon is that if the owner wants to pull the plug he can take away the app any time. What kind of tomfoolery is this. He can also legally sue instances he doesn’t like. how can you say mastodon is decentralized.
PlutoParty@programming.dev 9 months ago
I’m not going to entertain your buffoonery.
Little1Lost@lemmy.zip 9 months ago
but it is under the: GNU Affero General Public License v3.0 Permissions of this strongest copyleft license are conditioned on making available complete source code of licensed works and modifications, which include larger works using a licensed work, under the same license. Copyright and license notices must be preserved. Contributors provide an express grant of patent rights. When a modified version is used to provide a service over a network, the complete source code of the modified version must be made available.
So he cant revoke anyone of using the software he contributes
Draconic_NEO@lemmy.world 9 months ago
It seems like you’re deliberately misrepresenting, but I’ll explain anyway because I know that some people might be confused.
The Mastodon app is a client on your phone which accesses servers in the network.
The network consists of multiple servers that are interconnected to each other. Content from one server is automatically cross-hosted to other servers when it is discovered on those other servers. That’s how Federation works. I know it’s probably an oversimplification of how activitypub works, but it’s generally good enough for most people, and the important part is really that content is present and visible on other servers.
When you sign up to a server your account is stored on that server, the posts that you make are stored on that server, as well as automatically cross hosted to other servers which have people following you.
If the owner of a server pulls the plug for whatever reason the content on that server will no longer be directly accessible, if your account is there you will lose your account. The copies on other servers will remain as they have been copied. The rest of the network will continue operating without that server and the accounts that were hosted on it.
About asking whether or not an instance owner can sue instances they don’t like, that sounds like absolute nonsense and I’m not even going to bother trying to understand whatever point you’re trying to make with this.
theanon@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Im on a computer not a phone. People like apps not browsers.
theanon@lemmy.world 9 months ago
It’s on the android store I’m looking at the reviews right now.
Schadrach@lemmy.sdf.org 9 months ago
Since you appear to be talking about a Mastodon mobile app and not the Mastodon network a fair bit of negative reviews are about many of the mobile apps blocking access to Gab. Gab switched to a Mastodon back end back in 2019 or so and several of the apps started to blacklist using that instance at the app level as a consequence. Usually negative reviews about that will refer to “the largest Mastodon instance”, which Gab actually was by sheer numbers.
There was even an issue request to hardcode blacklisting Gab into the backend, though they were basically told no in no uncertain terms.