Am I the only one disappointed this post was not about the band Mastodon visiting VT on an upcoming tour?

I was hoping it was about a living Mastodon walking around the state. Bummer 😓

Summary:

Link to twitter alternative called Mastadon

Sorry to disappoint on both counts! 😃

I mean....they just played Montreal in September...

I was excited and then quickly disappointed

Yeah, Bell Center is VTs only true concert venue unless you want a boomer or country band at the fair grounds.

I was there twice this year, and multiple times to Mtelus. One thing I've got to say that's great about Montreal: they have a solid metal fan base, and a wide bunch of subgenres hit there. Heck, I'd never be able to see Heilung around here.

Mastodon saves all DM clear text in the sql database. So the admins can read all your DMs for ever. This is a non-starter for most people.

Amyl and the Sniffers were up there back in May and it was fantastic!

Edit: not at the same venue

Just be wary of some of the security issues that are being discovered now that the platform is surging.

I thought fossils maybe.

Higher ground is decent

I was excited for either one to be honest

I got so excited haha

Do we have a mountain named Blood Mountain? That would be perfect! 😉🤘

Same

Wait until I tell you about pretty much every service you use online...

In any case E2EE DMs in mastodon are in development

This isn’t an argument.

I absolutely use no services that save my DMs clear text. Should not have even started the app with on service, non-public messages.

it’s a non starter and I recommend no one use it. If this is the the security they thought was ok, imagine the rest of it. Join Mastodon and just wait for the alert that your information has been compromised.

I too was disappointed. Remember when they played 242?

I thought a mastodon fossil had been uncovered instate and was real psyched :(

People complaining about DM clear text need to re-read the reddit terms of service.

Why would anybody need this when there is now new and improved Twitter

Just send an sql injection attack as a dm. Dogshit security.

This was extremely disappointing

Thought we were getting a concert, nope just the hall monitor twitter lol

I came expecting tusks ;\

Cow pastures occasionally can be concert venues

You are not.

Couldn't you just use it knowing what you say might be read in the future? How are you ok with Reddit?

LOL, thank you

There has been a lot of bot activity on twitter encouraging people to leave the platform since November 6. Ask yourself why.

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> Should not have even started the app with on service, non-public messages.

Maybe the service you think they should have built is not the one they wanted to?

It's not a private messaging protocol. It's an ActivityPub implementation, a public-posting protocol.

In fact, DMs in Mastodon are broadcast to anyone mentioned in them; if you @jsled@mstdn.io in a DM to your buddy, talking shit about me, it gets posted to my inbox!

If you want secure private comms, use Signal, use Cwtch, use SSB.

Same 😔

Awesome thanks! I tried out mastodon for a little a while back. Couldn't really get into it. But I also hardly use Twitter or Facebook.

I'm just really getting into twitter now...