Update on the growth of #mastodon in the last months. After the big wave of new accounts on Nov 17th, the growth seems steady for the last week at around 50k new accounts/users per day. Only in the last couple of weeks, 1M new accounts were added. At this rhythm
Most of these new users are leftist refugees from Twitter and they don't like freedom of speech. However, it doesn't matter, because mastodon is decentralized and everyone can run their own server based on their own rules
All instances of mastodon have the same problem. Money. Running hundreds, soon probably thousands of decentralized servers requires a huge financial expenses.
Now imagine we have Blurt plugin that will allow thousands of admins to connect their servers to Blurt, Steem, Hive blockchains. Millions of users could become potential investors because admins will promote our blockchains for free.
Btw, wouldn't it be cool to get together on one app with old friends from Hive and Steem and discuss with them without worrying that someone will downvote us?
We have some talented developers like @nalexadre @sagarkothari88 @fervi and probably a few others on Blurt.... What do you guys think? Is it technically possible to build such a plugin?
Thanks for the mention as talented developers.
Like @khrom I am not at all familiar with this application not using it so I took a quick look.
Technically, for a third party application to connect to Blurt, Hive or Steem, it just needs to integrate a library of the same language as the one used by the application.
The mastodon frontend uses React (Javascript) like Condenser (blurt.blog, blurtlatam...) so it can use BlurtJS or dBlurt (the one I did) libraries to create a bridge with the Blurt blockchain.
As said the problem here is rather time-consuming and especially cooperation of other entities. Because I did not see a system of management of plugins as we can have on Wordpress to do something like SteemPress I see only 2 possibilities remaining, to get the mastodon team to accept the change of the code so that every owner of an instance can use it, the second possibility is to fork mastodon and then convince every instance owner to use our version of mastodon instead of the official one.
Of all of us the one who knows mastodon best is I guess @fervi since he seems to start a crosspost project from Blurt to mastodon (Integrating Mastodon ...) so I guess he will have a more complete answer than mine.
What can be also interesting is to have a presence on mastodon, that each Blurt user having a mastodon account promote Blurt with mastodon posts and specific hashtags, maybe by organizing regular contests like what I try to do on twitter with [@]randula througth the BPUD-TWITTER Event with a result at the performance of the tweet.
I think this is the way we should go. We wouldn't even have to convince anyone because many admins and users would be interested in our solution themselves. Even if it didn't happen, we would gain a modern frontend.
If you are interested, organize a group of 3 or 4 programmers and write a proposal. We pay more than 2M BLURT per year for block explorer, so there should be no problems with spending another 2M on a modern, revolutionary application that has a chance of attracting new users and investors.
The question is whether we want to integrate Blurt directly into Mastodon or as an add-on to Mastodon. An add-on can be trustless under certain conditions and executed on the user side, where in the case of Mastodon if we do not have our own instance - this is risky.
On the other hand, I was thinking of doing it so that the script would read the posts on Mastodon and transfer them to Blurt. The data structure of Fediverse and Blurt (and other blockchains) is quite similar. Things like tags or post can be easily transferred.
@mariuszkarowski
Pytanie czy chcemy integrować Blurt bezpośrednio w Mastodon, czy jako dodatek do Mastodona. Dodatek może być trustless w niektórych warunkach i wykonywany po stronie użytkownika, gdy w przypadku Mastodona jeśli nie mamy własnej instancji - jest to ryzykowne.
Natomiast myślałem o zrobieniu tego tak, iż skrypt by odczytywał posty na Mastodon i przenosił je na Blurt. Struktura danych Fediverse i Blurt (i innych blockchainów) jest dość podobna. Takie rzeczy jak tagi czy wpis można w łatwy sposób przenieść.
Its an interesting idea but mastodon is a creepy libtard echo chamber so it could get pretty wierd!
PS. OK I'm back on Mastodon again just to keep an eye on anything you guys set up on there - I wasn't going to but I have a Vivaldi account and they just set up a server so I automatically had a log in.
https://social.vivaldi.net/@frot
I actually do think Vivaldi is a really good browser, it's probably spying on me, but it's the only browser that has all the features I want.
Do you still do the vyb ? market is pumpin
No, I sold all mine for peanuts and gave up on all things Hive - but no stress, I did very well out of Hive, and only put a bit of the profits into POB and VYB - I also put a bit into Blurt which has bombed too, but mostly into Monero which has sort of held together a bit better.
With Hive I ended up having an intense personal dislike of the insiders, and just don't want to encounter them.
https://peakd.com/introducemyself/@hive-cabal/for-the-greater-good
Pob and vyb are pumpin good
The only one that is not pumpin is blurt
But if you did good ...
i read the post , it was very funny :D
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This is a step forward, a new window to communication and business. Blurt should be everywhere. He must be noticed and he must work. Thank you very much for the informative post. Good luck and prosperity to you.
I think any integration we could establish would be highly beneficial...
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I love the idea , the bigger the wave , the better for everyone
The most stuff is technically possible today, at least when it comes to apps. The problem here is rather time-consuming and cooperation of other entities.
I have no idea how mastodon works because I've never had time to look at it, but the main question should be: what is this combination of mastodon with blurt and hive? And how would these admins benefit from it? What would make them promote blurt?
They would set beneficiaries for each post published from their apps, sell Blurt and pay the cost of their servers, so a higher Blurt price would be in their interest, I have no doubt they would promote Blurt
ok but who pays for that blurt they sell to pay for servers? this is a good question especially in the context of the screenshot you quoted where the leftists hit the mastodon and suddenly they find out that things cost money and you have to pay for them unless you are product. If someone used to idea that money for "free" tweets about Gretta statements is falling from the sky, so he will expect the same from blurt ;]
they have to earn/buy some first before they sell anything
Ok it makes sense
Indeed , @lucylin will understand that .
We are the product or the investors of the product
All platforms the same .
the whole world works the same way. material reality is characterized by the fact that in order to have something, you have to give something. All this philosophical discussion is rather to determine what from an ethical and moral point of view can be taken and what not. For example, personal data on twitter is one of those things that should rather belong to the private zone of a person, unless someone clearly understands that they are the ones who pay for using the platform (which of course is so vaguely written in the contract that no one reads anyway that you might as well say hidden.)
Here on the blurt it is clear that there are micro fees for everything because all this crap has to be maintained somehow ;) It certainly captivated me when I logged in here for the first time.
of course, another thing with megadrive with their entourage made themselves parliamentary allowances at their discretion like racial politicians, but that's another story ;)
Hmmm yeah another story ....
I shall have say bloggers instead of products and investors in the blogging platform
Which is really what it is ...i enjoy voting on great contents , on bloggers . Not so many .
But one dont need to be both , but most are neither .
That is where the line is drawn between real bloggers and investors , which represent 20% or less
In the middle of shitposters and carefree profiters .
i mean, maybe, but probably not worth the effort