<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>lokedhs</author><text>I switched to Mastodon about a year or so ago. I fully agree with the grandparent post in that the atmosphere is very different compared to the major social media platforms.&lt;p&gt;As you allude to, discovery is harder since you don&amp;#x27;t have an algorithm pointing you in the direction of content you&amp;#x27;re likely to engage with (yes, engage with, and not necessarily enjoy) but once you have found the right people to follow, it&amp;#x27;s more rewarding because it&amp;#x27;s your community, not owned by a single corporate entity.&lt;p&gt;Although I didn&amp;#x27;t use G+ much in the later days, its closure showed my how irresponsible it is to rely on proprietary platforms. I&amp;#x27;m committed to never be active on a proprietary, closed social media platform again.&lt;p&gt;My main account is here: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;functional.cafe&amp;#x2F;@loke&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;functional.cafe&amp;#x2F;@loke&lt;/a&gt;</text><parent_chain><item><author>jeena</author><text>It would be cool to see everyone&amp;#x27;s Mastodon usernames&amp;#x2F;domains, I&amp;#x27;m on my own self hosted instance where it&amp;#x27;s a bit more difficult to find other people.&lt;p&gt;Mine is: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;toot.jeena.net&amp;#x2F;@jeena&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;toot.jeena.net&amp;#x2F;@jeena&lt;/a&gt;</text></item><item><author>zach43</author><text>Just wanted to say that i moved from twitter to mastodon sometime late last year amd couldn&amp;#x27;t be happier with it. Keybase integration is interesting to me, but not realky useful since i don&amp;#x27;t want to tie mastodon with my real life identity.&lt;p&gt;the Fediverse as a whole has a very different &amp;#x27;feel&amp;#x27; to it compared to Twitter. Twitter feels significantly more commercialized amd stressful...mastodon &amp;#x2F; pleroma feel a lot more relaxed and pleasant in comparison.&lt;p&gt;Maybe i just accidentally joined nicer communities, but i see a lot of small-scale chitchat and genuineness on mastodon than i rarely see on twitter.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;ve also had zero issues with the platform from a technical perspective...overall i think Mastodon, etc have done decentralization &amp;quot;right&amp;quot;, and have a lot of potential for growth in the future</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Mastodon and Keybase</title><url>https://keybase.io/blog/keybase-proofs-for-mastodon-and-everyone</url></story>
<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>JoshTriplett</author><text>What has your experience been with self-hosting?&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;d love to self-host a Mastodon instance that two-way mirrors my Twitter account and acts as a Twitter client (letting me pseudo-follow folks from Twitter). But in any case, I&amp;#x27;d want to ensure that no content from people I follow gets mirrored&amp;#x2F;hosted on my own instance; the only content actually hosted on my own instance should be the content I post.</text><parent_chain><item><author>jeena</author><text>It would be cool to see everyone&amp;#x27;s Mastodon usernames&amp;#x2F;domains, I&amp;#x27;m on my own self hosted instance where it&amp;#x27;s a bit more difficult to find other people.&lt;p&gt;Mine is: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;toot.jeena.net&amp;#x2F;@jeena&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;toot.jeena.net&amp;#x2F;@jeena&lt;/a&gt;</text></item><item><author>zach43</author><text>Just wanted to say that i moved from twitter to mastodon sometime late last year amd couldn&amp;#x27;t be happier with it. Keybase integration is interesting to me, but not realky useful since i don&amp;#x27;t want to tie mastodon with my real life identity.&lt;p&gt;the Fediverse as a whole has a very different &amp;#x27;feel&amp;#x27; to it compared to Twitter. Twitter feels significantly more commercialized amd stressful...mastodon &amp;#x2F; pleroma feel a lot more relaxed and pleasant in comparison.&lt;p&gt;Maybe i just accidentally joined nicer communities, but i see a lot of small-scale chitchat and genuineness on mastodon than i rarely see on twitter.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;ve also had zero issues with the platform from a technical perspective...overall i think Mastodon, etc have done decentralization &amp;quot;right&amp;quot;, and have a lot of potential for growth in the future</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Mastodon and Keybase</title><url>https://keybase.io/blog/keybase-proofs-for-mastodon-and-everyone</url></story>