3 chapters across the catalog
No Agenda Social and the Fediverse Infrastructure
The hosts discuss the No Agenda Social Mastodon server, which has been operational for over three years as part of the decentralized Fediverse. They credit the server's administrator, Aaroner, for managing the high bandwidth and storage requirements. The platform is presented as an alternative to centralized social media, rooted in older protocols like GNU Social.
The administrator of No Agenda Social, Aaronor, announces plans to migrate the instance from Mastodon to Pleroma once a migration tool is available. The move is motivated by technical and political friction within the Mastodon developer community regarding vulnerability reporting and the use of Ruby on Rails. The hosts discuss the broader "Fediverse" and the importance of decentralized social media.
Mastodon Social Media, Anime Blocking and Cultural Context
The hosts discuss the decentralized social media platform Mastodon and the tendency of some server administrators to block content based on cultural misunderstandings. Specifically, they mention the blocking of anime content deemed "problematic" by Western standards, comparing this to the removal of Southern monuments by those outside the culture.
