Monsterdon
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Monsterdon is a weekly event on the fediverse, hosted by @Taweret@octodon.social, where people watch a monster movie together by posting to the #monsterdon Hashtag.
Joining
Monsterdon is now on peertube at https://tube.me.jon-e.net/c/monsterdon
- Movies usually start at 6pm (pacific time) on Sundays
- Search for #monsterdon or #monsterdonAlert to find that week's movie
- Movies are available freely somewhere, usually on archive.org or Tubi (see Torrenting archive.org movies )
- Start the movie, try to keep synchronized in time, and post with public Post Visibility using the
#monsterdonhashtag!
Respectful Posting
Since we have to use the public visibility for posts to go in the hashtag feed, its very easy to totally clog local feeds on smaller instances.
It turns out that replies to posts from a different account don't show up in the local feed, so to spare your instancemates, you can make one root post from an alt account and reply to that with public visibility to post to #monsterdon but not the local feed.
If you remove the @mention in your reply, it doesnt bug the original poster, so if you dont have an alt handy you can just pick any root post from any other account.
Side-events
- @cheribaker@writing.exchange has been making bingo cards for monsterdon movies lately, check her page before the movie starts to find the bingo card!
Muting
See Filters
To Hide Monsterdon from your feeds:
- add a filter for "#monsterdon"
- Set to "hide completely"
- Check all desired contexts to mute monsterdon posts. (recommend at least home and local feeds, if you don't want to participate at all)
- Save the filter!
You can optionally set an expiration for the filter in case you might want to check it out later :).
Many people also will post as a thread of replies, and you can mute just that thread by opening the '...' menu on the root post and selecting "Mute conversation"
Muting/filtering monsterdon is necessary due to a quirk in how mastodon handles Post Visibility. Monsterdon tends to be very noisy - posts have to use public post visibility in order to appear on the timeline, but all public posts including replies are also added to the Local Feed. There is no current method to post only to the #monsterdon feed (see Fine-Grained Post Visibility).
Guides
- Filters - how to set a filter to hide monsterdon posts
- Torrenting archive.org movies
Art
- Louisa has made a few designs for monsterdon merch!!!!
- Randy S is making a snowglobe of the last scene from Son of Godzilla: https://mefi.social/@randy_s/112709117156562928
Movie List
This isn't complete by any means, but according to the movies that Jonny has saved in their bittorrent client...
| Date | Movie | Year | Links | Comment |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-01-14 | Gorgo | 1961 | archive.org | |
| 2024-01-07 | The War Between the Planets | 1966 | archive.org | |
| 2023-12-31 | Hogfather Part 2 | 2006 | :( | |
| 2023-12-24 | Hogfather Part 1 | 2006 | :( | |
| 2023-12-17 | From Hell It Came | 1957 | archive.org | |
| 2023-12-10 | Mothra | 1961 | archive.org | |
| 2023-12-03 | It Came From Beneath The Sea | 1955 | archive.org | |
| 2023-11-26 | It: The Terror from Beyond Space | 1958 | archive.org | |
| 2023-11-19 | The Magnetic Monster | 1953 | archive.org | |
| 2023-11-05 | Destroy All Monsters | 1969 | archive.org, reconstruction | |
| 2023-10-22 | Return of the Living Dead | 1985 | archive.org | |
| 2023-10-08 | Re-Animator | 1985 | archive.org | |
| 2023-10-01 | Killer Klowns from Outer Space | 1988 | taken down :( | |
| 2023-09-10 | The Stuff | 1985 | archive.org | |
| 2023-09-03 | The Thing From Another World | 1951 | archive.org | |
| 2023-08-27 | Octaman | 1971 | archive.org | A monsterdon classic |
| 2023-08-20 | The Day of the Triffids | 1951 | archive.org | |
| 2023-08-13 | Godzilla, Mothra, and King Ghidorah | 2001 | archive.org | |
| 2023-08-06 | Queen of Blood | 1966 | archive.org | |
| 2023-07-30 | The Brain Eaters | 1958 | archive.org | |
| 2023-07-23 | The Giant Claw | 1957 | archive.org | |
| 2023-06-25 | Godzilla Vs. King Ghidorah | 1991 | archive.org |