atomicpoet

@atomicpoet@mastodon.social

Product, QA & marketing @ #GreatApe

I'm searchable.

Putting the sauce in awesome.

This profile is from a federated server and may be incomplete. Browse more on the original instance.

atomicpoet, to random

Mastodon is a case study for why software and protocols built to help one marginalized community may end up alienating another marginalized community.

This is why intersectional examination of prejudice is so important.

jrm4,

@msilpala @atomicpoet @shelenn

It's that (usually white) people here often advocate for the use of CW's to prevent them from seeing what they feel is objectionable content.

Problem is, truth hurts. So yes, it's not fun seeing e.g. police in the US brutalize black folks, but it should be clear that "please use hashtags to keep this off my timeline" is emphatically the wrong move.

pixelfed, to random
@pixelfed@mastodon.social avatar

✨ Grifter-free Fediverse Discovery

We built an opt-in directory of people using bio hashtags as topics.

https://fediverse.info/explore/people

One more thing, we're building an API to power discovery and follow recommendations in our project and the API will be open and available to anyone, including other fediverse projects!

atomicpoet, to fediversenews

Here's my prediction.

With ActivityPub, Mastodon will soon find a challenger that starts getting more attention.

Maybe is will be the *key apps. Maybe it will be Barcelona. Maybe it will be WordPress.

But when this starts happening, this will shake up the community-at-large -- and completely change the direction of the protocol.

https://indieweb.social/@tchambers/110284145745758193

@fediversenews

jcastroarnaud,

@atomicpoet That's... Surprising, but obvious once you said it.

Send e-mail from a.person@mailserver.com to mail@a.mastodon.server, and a sanitized version of it is posted in Mastodon as coming from @a.person@a.mastodon.server. The reverse also applies, as an e-mail subscription service.

Moreover, SMTP and POP servers are tiny compared with current instance code size; shouldn't be too hard to integrate (yeah, right...)

tchambers, to internet

Quick bet: will grow dramatically over the next quarter.

And the will continue to grow at AT LEAST 800,000 to 1 million+ new users per month as well. No let up.

Dramatic new apps will launch supporting BlueSky AND cool new features launching in great apps for Mastodon.

A decentralized rising tide of awareness lifts all decentralized boats.

Meanwhile:
Twitter will lose Monthly Active users. So will mini-me closed source platforms (Spoutible, Tribal, etc)

tchambers,

Follow on bet for this next quarter:

At LEAST one, robust bridge will launch inter-connecting ActivityPub/Fediverse networks in a two-way connection with BlueSky ATProtocol networks.

Likely more than one.

atomicpoet, to random

Mastodon is still getting 220K registrations a week.

AkaSci, (edited )
@AkaSci@fosstodon.org avatar

@atomicpoet
Close to a million new accounts have been opened in Mastodon in April :mastodance:
Data source: @mastodonusercount
More details at https://instances.social/list/advanced#lang=&allowed=&prohibited=&min-users=&max-users=
Go

atomicpoet, to random
@atomicpoet@atomicpoet.org avatar

Once upon a time, there lived a man who was known throughout the town for his penny-pinching ways. He never spent a penny unless it was absolutely necessary, and he would always find ways to haggle and bargain until he got the best deal possible. His name was Ebenezer, and he was the very definition of a cheapskate.

One day, while walking through the park, Ebenezer heard a bird chirping loudly. At first, he didn't pay it much attention, but as he continued on his way, the chirping grew louder and more insistent. It seemed as though the bird was trying to tell him something, but he couldn't quite make out what it was.

Days turned into weeks, and the chirping never stopped. Ebenezer began to hear it everywhere he went, whether he was at home or out and about in the town. At first, he tried to ignore it, but the more he tried, the louder it became.

Finally, one night, Ebenezer could take it no longer. He grabbed a broom and began frantically sweeping the room, hoping to scare the bird away. But the chirping only grew louder and more persistent, until he was convinced that the bird was accusing him of being a cheapskate.

In a fit of rage, Ebenezer grabbed a pillow and smothered the bird, hoping to finally silence its accusatory chirping once and for all. But as soon as he had done so, he began to hear the chirping again, louder than ever before.

Desperate to escape the relentless sound, Ebenezer tried to leave the town, but the chirping followed him everywhere he went. No matter how far he traveled, he could never escape the sound of the bird accusing him of being cheap.

In the end, Ebenezer realized that he could never escape the truth. He had been a cheapskate all his life, and the bird's chirping was a reminder of that fact. From that day forward, he resolved to change his ways, to be more generous and kind, and to never let the sound of the bird's chirping haunt him again.

ch0ccyra1n, to random

Some initial thoughts on Calckey

  1. Love the onboarding experience. Granted, I am already familiar with the fediverse in-general but the experience here seems the most friendly overall.
  2. I'm not a fan of how channels work. In my opinion, they should essentially be the same as groups in Friendica or Communities in Lemmy or Guppe groups, so that people using other types of instances can check them out.
  3. Love how easy it is to be found.
  4. Love Misskey-Formatted-Markdown for sure! It's especially useful for things like little animations, such as in my introduction post.
  5. Overall, excited to keep trying this out!
MissingThePt, to random
@MissingThePt@mastodon.social avatar

I didn’t “sell you out.” I merely bought myself a lot of money.

admin, to random

Not only did @mmasnick mention , he linked directly to calckey.social.

So welcome too all new folks who came here from that Techdirt article!

~⚛

https://www.techdirt.com/2023/04/28/six-months-in-thoughts-on-the-current-post-twitter-diaspora-options/

atomicpoet, to random

I'm hoping @futurebird can settle an age old debate.

A Bug's Life vs. Antz

Which movie is better?

futurebird,
@futurebird@sauropods.win avatar

@atomicpoet

I'm not going to be popular for this... but neither.

Both commit the cardinal sin of making half the worker ants male, rather than making male alate characters. It's petty but that drove me nuts even as a kid.

futurebird,
@futurebird@sauropods.win avatar

@atomicpoet

Phase IV is the best ant movie ever.

It's an uplifting story too. Great ending.

atomicpoet, to random

There's no Mastodon slump.

Sign-ups continue to increase -- albeit, not at the same rate as in November -- November was a spike.

While Monthly Average Users (MAUs) decreased since November, it's increased again this month (according to @Gargron).

But what's more interesting is that Half Year Average Users (HYAUs) is at a peak.

And we're very close to breaking 1 billion posts per month!

See chart.

https://mastodon.fediverse.observer/stats

FediThing,

@atomicpoet

There is actually a precedent for this, Mastodon used to use a different protocol called Ostatus and a few years later switched to ActivityPub. No one noticed, all the account addresses and server URLs etc stayed the same, it just changed some techincal stuff behind the scenes.

Gargron, to random
@Gargron@mastodon.social avatar

Looks like @arstechnica is now verified on here! Always great to see this feature used. It'll be even more prominent in the future.

https://joinmastodon.org/verification

shoq, to internet
@shoq@mastodon.social avatar

@atomicpoet There's another somewhat smelly thing Jay Graber and are doing. They're calling AT "open source" to suggest "hey, no worries, big money hates open source. You're safe from corporate bullying!"

What's not said? It's an MIT license. You can take it, throw huge money into your own version, add massive new features, and then NOT publish the source code (legally). This seems to fit @davetroy's thesis that this is all a puppet show, much more staged than we want to believe.

juddlegum, to random
@juddlegum@journa.host avatar

This is really important. Musk’s entire rationale for buying Twitter was to reduce censorship, but it was all BS.

tchambers, to random

Literally YOU are the product being sold as a Facebook or Instagram user….

“Meta makes $207 per year per user in the US and Canada, without charging them anything.

That's more than what many subscription products (Netflix, Spotify, etc) make from their paid users.”

https://twitter.com/tanayj/status/1651334563401027584?s=46&t=SJq9hij4JmK6nQhFUm559w

admin, to random

Do you know that Calckey supports multiple windows inside a webpage?

To create a new window, right click on a button on the left navigation panel. This will initiate a dropdown menu. On that dropdown menu, select "Open in new window".

This will launch a new window. You can do this multiple times for multiple windows!

See screenshot for what this looks like.

zyk, to random

1/
"Mastodon Is Doomed"

1200 words of abject horseshit from Justin Garrison on the front page of HN this morning.
https://justingarrison.com/blog/2023-04-24-mastodon-is-doomed/

I don't normally bother with this kind of thing, but I'm bored so here we go...

> running an instance is expensive and complicated,

No it isnt

> And owning your data isn’t a product feature.

Yes it is. One that's unparalleled in the corp/centralised socialmedia landscape.

atomicpoet, (edited ) to fediversenews

📰 BIG NEWS! 📰

The Misskey family of server apps just overtook Peertube to become the #2 most used platform on the Fediverse!

  • Peertube: 310,548 accounts
  • Misskey + forks (including Calckey): 315,377 accounts

While Mastodon currently dwarfs the Misskey family by orders of magnitude, Misskey is growing at a faster rate -- particularly in Japan.

But a fork of Misskey, Calckey, is beginning to gain traction in North America and Europe!

Source: https://beta.fedidb.org/software

@fediversenews

maegul,
@maegul@hachyderm.io avatar

@tom4okstate @atomicpoet I remember people having fun when they first got on Facebook. The little games and gimmicks, people were into it (from what I remember). doesn’t have a fun aspect at all.

When you go check out a calckey/misskey instance (natively on the web) it’s very obvious that they’re having fun.

dansup, to fediverse
@dansup@mastodon.social avatar

When you look at the MAU (monthly active users) for the top 5 popular projects, you see just how many active users Mastodon has compared to the rest.

If you haven't already, you should checkout @peertube, , @pixelfed and other projects!

https://beta.fedidb.org/software

eff, to random
@eff@mastodon.social avatar

A potential new law gives incentive for messaging services to go snooping through your private communications. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/04/your-messaging-service-should-not-be-dea-informant

box464, to random
@box464@mastodon.social avatar

Calckey offers an interesting feature that I wish Mastodon apps included - the ability to view from what PLATFORM an account comes from. It's missing one thing, which is a clickable link that would take you to the official site of each platform to check it out. I think the beta API from FediDB might be able to assist with that.

Would love to see this in more apps, regardless of platform. Gives casual users a chance to check out other pockets of the fediverse out there.

craigmaloney, to random

The masses: The Fediverse is too complicated.

Me, an old:

feditips, to random
@feditips@mstdn.social avatar

I don't think people are realising the danger the Fediverse is in.

The only thing stopping corporations and VCs taking over this place is that the Fediverse is spread out on many different servers, which makes it very difficult to purchase.

If most of the Fediverse ends up on mastodon.social, which is now a strong possibility, there will be nothing to stop most of it being sold to Musk or Zuckerberg or whoever.

The bigger mastodon.social becomes, the more likely a buyout is to happen.

(1/4)

Uraael, to random

Wanna see the difference this weekend's influx of users made to my engagement with Calckey?

That's you lovely new people, that is. 🫵 😘

G'night. I have eyelids and must asleep.

  • All
  • Subscribed
  • Moderated
  • Favorites
  • JUstTest
  • mdbf
  • InstantRegret
  • ethstaker
  • magazineikmin
  • GTA5RPClips
  • rosin
  • modclub
  • Youngstown
  • ngwrru68w68
  • slotface
  • osvaldo12
  • kavyap
  • DreamBathrooms
  • Leos
  • thenastyranch
  • everett
  • cubers
  • cisconetworking
  • normalnudes
  • Durango
  • anitta
  • khanakhh
  • tacticalgear
  • tester
  • provamag3
  • megavids
  • lostlight
  • All magazines