Since moving off Twitter/X/whatever to (mostly) here, I have about 1/3 the followers, but roughly the same level of engagement. Also, twice the scolding. But roughly 0% of the Nazis. That last bit is what keeps me here.
how do we lessen the scolding? there was some discussion of that at #FediForum. I think some people are calling that harassment, which it is, but I think needs to be called something different to focus our attention correctly.
@andypiper (with a little bit of help from @J12t) ran a session about the Fediverse Developer Network at #FediForum this week. There were about 25 people in the session, so there's quite some interest!
Slides and notes will be up on the fediforum.org site shortly.
I enjoyed following the posts made to the #FediForum tag, discovered a bit belatedly due to cross-posting with #MastoAdmin.
I would like to find more events and conversations relevant to Fediverse administrators. The hashtags are one place, but they're not appropriate for every topic. Is there any sort of ongoing online forum for us?
The closest I found last year was a closed Discord run by one particular server, and tightly bound to that server's political bent. Fine for what it was, but.
I just did a test and it took 12 minutes from the time I posted on Threads from my @cliffwade account until it showed up in my timeline here on Mastodon.
Believe this is to cater for the 5 minute edit timer present on Threads posts, but hope they will eventually make it more real time with any edits flowing through as well.
⚠️ threads’ fediverse beta opens to share your posts on mastodon, too ⚠️
"threads is rolling out a beta of its fediverse integration in the us, canada, and japan. in a post on thursday, meta ceo mark zuckerberg announced that toggling on the feature will let you cross-post and view likes from other federated platforms, like mastodon."
One of my favorite 10 minutes interactions in the @fediforum , was the one with @n00q regarding how he was able to have a working fediverse instance for his friends IRL.
The learning lessons there made me believe there is room for communities-driven instances for home-brewing, HOAs, universities, hobbyists, etc. I know some of these exists, but the kind of guerrilla marketing used in the n00q one was interesting.
I even believe there is a business model to pursue there.
Today is the first day I thought that the #nostr#bluesky model might be a better way to build a decentralized social network. Because seemingly smart and honest people told me those protocols make using one profile for lots of different services much simpler and automatic than #ActivityPub. I still have serious questions re how they seem more likely to remain more centralized via relays and unlikely to do moderation well enough, but we haven't really solved those here yet either. #fediforum
So @julian reminded people at #FediForum that a decade ago I made quite a number of contributions to NodeBB, but I've also been around doing open source for a long time.
e.g., WebSockets in Node.js? I'm the one who did the work to make that possible.
Moderator Notes & assigning reports in Mastodon? That was me in 2018. Same with hashtag usage prevention.