tomw,
@tomw@mastodon.social avatar

Mastodon will never achieve mainstream adoption unless it adds a "poke" button

dec_hl,
@dec_hl@mastodon.social avatar

@tomw a friend and I got the poke counters on Facebook into four digits 🤣

ianp5a,
@ianp5a@vivaldi.net avatar

@tomw what does that button do then?

PowerfullJohnny,

@tomw What should a "poke" button do upon clicking it?

Eyuphuro,

@tomw What's that?

eli,

@tomw “we must go BACK...to the FUTURE!”

Iwillyeah,

@tomw poke

Done

Felipe_B,
@Felipe_B@mastodon.social avatar

@tomw
"Here's some reactionary right wing shit you might like"

StrangeNoises,
@StrangeNoises@mastodon.social avatar

@tomw except of course it must be called "boop"

tomw,
@tomw@mastodon.social avatar

@StrangeNoises I like it! Really brings it up to date

DelilahTech,

@tomw I'm so old, I remember when poking was done to memory locations...

tomw,
@tomw@mastodon.social avatar

@DelilahTech need a "peek" button too

esther,

@tomw @stavvers this will never go anywhere if it doesn’t say “ah ohhh!” on every new mention

chileannick,

@tomw Given the existence of Toots, it should be a "Pull my Finger" button. My 2 cents

rowens,

@tomw
Like this? :flan_XD:​

franktaber,
@franktaber@mas.to avatar

@tomw Mastodon needs a It's Complicated setting for one's relationship to one's instance.

patrickmcurry,

@tomw I read this and really hoped it was a Pokémon reference. Me: “Yes! Federated Pokémon battles! Finally!”

tomw,
@tomw@mastodon.social avatar

@patrickmcurry "PKMN" button

patrickmcurry,

@tomw Now I’m seriously considering game mechanics that we could make with federated accounts. We each pin our favorite creature in a post to our profile. We make a challenge post tagging someone and our favorite referee account. If the other person accepts the battle, the referee tells us how it turned out!

tomw,
@tomw@mastodon.social avatar

@patrickmcurry It would be interesting to somehow piggyback something like that onto existing accounts... oh no this ends in Fedi-farmville doesn't it?

(I would like a Pokémon one though)

patrickmcurry,

@tomw Yeah totally should use our existing accounts.

tomw,
@tomw@mastodon.social avatar

@patrickmcurry If this ultimately leads to Fedifarm (as I am now calling it) I will feel like it was all my fault

patrickmcurry,

@tomw I will take half the blame and shame. It’s only fair. So how many virtual carrots will you be selling me from your farm today?

gizmo,

@tomw you can’t see those of us on reacting with a 👉 it’s not quite the same, but it’s closer than gets!

tomw,
@tomw@mastodon.social avatar

@gizmo This makes me wonder how people are invisibly (to me) reacting to anything else I post

guiltmanager,
@guiltmanager@gm-cloud.org.uk avatar

@neil @tomw then likely gets sued by facebook, defeating the object really.

tomw,
@tomw@mastodon.social avatar

@guiltmanager @neil No way! Poking belongs to the people

guiltmanager,
@guiltmanager@gm-cloud.org.uk avatar

@tomw @neil thought fb invented it?

tomw,
@tomw@mastodon.social avatar

@guiltmanager @neil I'm sure I poked someone before they invented Thefacebook

guiltmanager,
@guiltmanager@gm-cloud.org.uk avatar

@tomw @neil hmm i suppose you could argue physical poking was around before facebook. would be an interesting courtcase, however I wouldnt want to be the one trying to defend that one, very expensive!

vintprox,
@vintprox@techhub.social avatar

@tomw @guiltmanager @neil

Haha, like poking in IRC.

guiltmanager,
@guiltmanager@gm-cloud.org.uk avatar

@vintprox @tomw @neil wow never heard of that in IRC, learn something new every day

Ryan,
@Ryan@mstdn.ca avatar

@tomw
The glory days of innocent social media where super awkward young people could flirt by pressing a "poke" button regularly.

pierrenick,
@pierrenick@hachyderm.io avatar

@tomw Remember setting people on fire via SMS? That was such a weird underground Facebook feature I faintly remember.

DelilahTech,

@tomw does mastodon want mainstream adoption?

I'm thinking no

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