As a general rule of thumb, I won't follow anyone who:
• Hasn't posted anything yet.
• Doesn't have a bio
It's not that I don't like or don't trust you if you're one of those people, but because ActivityPub has no big scarey algorithm backing it, you must put actual effort into curating your feed. I imagine this is true for quite a few others on the #fediverse.
I know a number of people who looked at joining #Mastodon and were discouraged by just having to choose an #instance (many still don't understand what an instance is). The ones who did join had trouble navigating -- and gave up leaving unused accounts. I'm talking people in my circle: SF authors, some science & environment writers, (writing is their strength not tech), some academics, etc.
What about a sign-up process that proposes specific instances catered to their preferences? Have a short questionnaire where the info (which shows their areas of interest) is used to generate a proposed list of no more than 4 or 5 instances that are a match to what they'd like (do they want a specialty instance -- what area? A general interest one? One with a focus on human rights/environment/the arts/fiction/journalism? etc. While many instances have similar themes, there could be a random element in the selection of the 4 or 5 instances proposed to newbies.
Then once they get used to being on Mastodon, they can choose to move another instance if they want.
It could also help distribute users around the #Fediverse.
Also, if you're new to Mastodon, it's a bit of a learning curve navigating between instances. And while there are new apps and abilities to make some of these things easier -- they're hard to find and newbies (especially non tech types) don't know to look or ask, or know how to use them.
There are a lot of interesting people who just don't have the time to learn a bunch of new steps -- so as much automation as possible between the instances could really help. @admin
Thanks to @CurtisLBray and pnw.zone for hosting the demo account. I included shoutouts to @Tusky and @IceCubesApp as my favorite mobile clients, you rock! And thanks again to Kevin for editing the video and sharing on his channel.
What do y'all think? I'd appreciate any feedback you have about the video, it's only my second software tutorial.
Fediverse musings: folk saying you don't really need a migration of your posts between servers are implicitly minimising the value of something from months ago. Having just 'boosted an old toot' 😎 of mine from 5 months ago, it feels like a Mastodon :mastodon: apologists' view for an obvious shortcoming. And let's be clear ...
Me, 6 months ago?: a "born again pachyderm" 🐘
Me, today?: a "Fediverse explorer" :fediverse:
It''s the biggest reason I'm an early adopter checking out Calckey now -- the team there *get" this 💜 and ... I'm testing out how their new history migration works ie. Mastodon :ms_arrow_right: Calckey and Calckey :ms_arrow_left_right: Calckey migrations. It's coming
@Natasha_Jay It'd be better if everyone just admitted it was a missing feature. There's lots of things I've posted ages ago that I still refer to or find funny.
Some people on #Mastodon#boost terribly much. You know, those guys who want to show you everything they find interesting themselves. I am one of them.😁
If that gets on your nerves, you don't have to block or mute turbo #boosters. There is a much smarter solution to receive only their original posts!
Go to the profile you follow, click the 3 dots and click "hide boosts of @ xy . It's so easy! (Screenshot browser) #boosts
@NatureMC
Ist mir auch schon aufgefallen.
In der Tusky App gibt es ja die Option Stumm schalten für unterschiedlich Zeiträume, oft nur für einige Tage. Aber wenn ständig Inhalte geboostet werden die mich nicht interessieren dann schalte ich auch für immer stumm.
@DuncanWatson calckey (misskey fork) looks and are promising. Best choice for me now. There is nothing wrong in Mastodon. Calckey is Mastodon with steroids for me. 🤓 And this is one beauty of fediverse.
So... I have been experimenting with #Calckey over the past few days and I think that I am going to just stick with Mastodon for now.
https://calckey.social is absolutely superb and if you are very hungry for a closer Twitter-like experience (like Quote Posts), I would give it a shot.
For me, though, I intend to develop my own, independent #ActivityPub-compliant platform (with unique engineering education features) soon so changing over is sort of a moot point for me right now.
What's something cool you've found or are doing with #ActivityPub that isn't specifically #Mastodon related? I'm interested in the scope of use cases for it.
How much have you given to your #Mastodon instance this month?
Be kind and if you can, pay for the service. You don't have to give a lot. A small monthly payment is better than nothing and helps administrators plan their finances.
Neulich hab ich ein Script geschrieben, welches all meine #Mastodon-Posts auf eine HTML-Seite schreibt und damit durchsuchbar macht. Seitdem läuft das einmal täglich auf einem Server und ich kann unterwegs im Browser die Seite öffnen und durch meine Posts Ctrl-F`en, um Dinge zu finden, die ich mal gepostet habe. Falls es noch jemand ausprobieren will, es liegt hier: https://github.com/colorchestra/masto-archive
Ein Skript welches automatisch auf statische HTML Seiten alle Posts eines spezifischen Nutzers auflistet. Ich habe nur edits gemacht um es etwas schöner aufzubereiten / mehr Konform mit dem Design meiner Seite zu machen!
I wonder if I should write a #mastodon rebooster script that will boost my (or your) certain posts periodically, for a week or a month. Would people be interested in that?
Guten morgen #Mastodon 🦣heute hab ich mal einen freien Tag. Das Wetter ist ordentlich und darum kann ich mal wieder meine Kamera hervornehmen. Mal schauen was mir heute vor die Linse kommt 🤗.wünsche allen einen schönen Tag🍀🌺 #LandscapePhotography#landscape_lovers heute gibts vermutlich eher #StreetPhotography
Based on the amount of spam signups on https://pixelfed.social, I wouldn't be surprised if spam accounts correlate to other platforms recent user influx as well.
I'm not saying all growth is spam, but they are significant enough on my :pixelfed: instance to be noticable.
Luckily, 90% of spam accounts on Pixelfed are caught and hidden before any user sees them thanks to our Autospam system. #spam#fediverse
I joined when EM purchased the 🐦 site. The transition was overwhelming (instances, introductions, #toots 🎺 , #boosts, etiquette). I have found new folks, learned a lot, got different insights, and am exposed to less negativity. Some of my old old network migrated. Big parts did not and for those I still need 🐦 (in combination with LinkedIn) to share job announcements, research updates etc.
But bottom line: I am happy I joined :mastodon: 🐘 #onwards
The latest episode of The Vergecast dives deep into #ActivityPub. Flipboard CEO @mike talks with hosts @pierce and Nilay Patel about a bold vision for ActivityPub as a transformative force for social networking and the web itself.
