I am curious if the "announcment" feature Mastodon admins have access to is actually useful.
I suspect many people never see them. I think I've only ever seen it displayed in the "official" mastodon web UI. And never in any of the (many) apps I use.
So for all the #startrek, #StartrekPicard fans that didn't know ... this is Jeri - Seven of Nine - Ryan geeking out about Mastodon and #ivory (the app, @ivory)!
Maybe this isn’t new, I don’t look at Apple’s App Store much. But having the Ivory mastodon client in the list of essential social apps seems pretty great.
#Threads is an app trying to play nice with the Fediverse while attempting to keep all of its corporate shenanigans intact, and keep full control out of the people's hands. Typical.
There's this other place, actually many other places. It's called the #Fediverse where you are not funneled into corporate algorithms and have full control of what you want to see.
The ultimate yak shave: to implement its last generation of #LispMachines, Symbolics developed a complete #EDA toolset in #CommonLisp called NS that enabled them to design and verify their ASICs, gate arrays, and boards from architecture to photomasks for manufacturing.
One thing I severely dislike about the #Ivory iOS client (and I assume is intentional) is the block/mute function is all performed by the app and is not tied to your Mastodon account. So if you log on via web or another app, it’s all lost.
This, I assume, is to provide friction when you want to move or try another client. So, I have cancelled my sub renewal and I’ll move to Ice Cubes when it expires.
My favorite Mastodon client (#Ivory) got custom emoji support today! I’m partial but it pairs very well with the Custom Emoji report in #Mastowatch. Use Mastowatch to check out what emoji a server has before you register or move your account and rest assured you’ll be about to use them in @ivory.
Andrew Logan @byandrewlogan tells the saga of two of our favorite immigrants, #Tapbots' Paul Haddad @paul and Mark Jardine @mark. How Elon murdered #Tweetbot, and it was resurrected as Ivory on Mastodon.
If you use #ivory, don't forget to enable "Alt text reminders" in the Settings -> Behaviors section.
I usually forget to add alt text because it's not SOP on most social platforms, but then remember and have to edit the post later. This is a nice little nudge to fix that.
Man #Threads as a piece of software is just not where I assumed #Meta would launch at. It’s not…..bad? But this thing is coming in screaming hot. It feels like a dev build that they slapped a 1.0 tag on and hit the launch button with their eyes closed.
No DM (which is actually good IMO), no feed of only people you follow (which is likely so the initial feed doesn’t look empty like Mastodon for new users). It’s a tribute to apps like #Ivory and the other third party #Mastodon apps that they’re just miles ahead of the Meta team.
The perks of this for the #Fediverse are pretty clear. People interested in social media as a business are gonna be here. The cross-posting to Instagram and celebrity roster are going to be the solve for “how do people who rely on social media for income join the non-commercial Fediverse”. So if you want to skip that content, it’s gonna be very easy to do cause it’ll all be here.
The ability to move your audience is also super compelling in social media. If you want to run your own server and move your identity from Meta to your own box, the ability to do that is going to be interesting. Again it solved problems for Meta from the perspective of gatekeeping regulation, but adds a lot in terms of moderation.
It’s clear from the interviews they’re going to treat outside servers as effectively “unknown outside content” and apply moderation/filtering to that content as it comes in. Long-term I’m not sure how that will work. Will there be some sort of DMARC-type security steps servers can take? Is it gonna be a trust score based on the domain of the server? Meta still has a ton of hard engineering problems to solve for and how they expose that data to end users outside their platform (if they ever will).
Long-term who knows if this is going to survive. Meta has a high failure rate with new apps and we won’t know if this matters for a few years. My guess is orgs will be willing to dip their toes in here and if they see success, move content from twitter to here. It’s more stable and better run.
ice cubes czasami (w sumie dość często) przy shareowaniu posta jako obrazek wrzuca takie coś :/
Nie chodzi mi o to że @pluszysta tylko ze szary prostokąt
p.s. Ice cubes jest i tak spoko ale tęsknię za Ivory... #IceCubesApp#ivory#ios
A Sphinx (height 4.8 cm) carved from #ivory and with face made of amber. Found in the Grafenbühl burial near Asperg, a rich burial mound from the late Hallstadt period, dating ca. 500 BC. The Sphinx is a product of a #Greek workshop in Italy (Taranto?).
It was used as an applique and attached to a piece of furniture.
Using #Skybridge to see my Bluesky account in #Ivory to boost fed.bird.gy (#Bridgyfed) allowing me to see #Bluesky posts on #Mastodon, and vice versa. If I post something on Mastodon will it appear on Bluesky, and so appear on Mastodon, and so forth, in a mirror of infinite recursion?
@rmondello I personally think this is helpful, but my impression was that quote posting was frowned upon here. What do you think? Boost for visibility. #quote#ivory#tapbots