#TechShowerThoughts: As a citizen journalist, I want mobile micro-posting apps that don't publish posts to my public feed. But do allow me to take rough notes for future posts, including media attachments, etc, and push them as drafts to the server hosting my account. So I can edit them using a device with a proper keyboard and a decent size screen, and publish them from there.
Micro-posting (a la Mastodon) apps offer an interface optimalised for short text and image posts, which seem to work better for chatty exchanges than for fruitful long form argumentation. Yet most of us have fallen for the temptation to let casual chats become friendship-ending arguments.
What if we could tag a reply as "debate" - or the author could - and it greyed out the reply button on that post. Obviously this would be a setting that can be toggled on and off.
"I wonder if a new scheme idenitifying Mastodon URLs would be useful here. I initially suggested masto, but didn’t particularly like that. @byterhymer suggested fedi or ap, and while I tend to prefer ap, it might not be the best choice, either."
I'd like to give a heads-up to #SocialCoding movement where I'm involved and plan to revive the notion of #SX or Social experience design, esp. for the #SocialWeb.
So much chatter on #Fediverse is either deeply technical or app-specific. The field of SX may offer a more holistic and inclusive perspective, focus on methods, guidance and best-practices.
I’d like to see things developed in the fediverse that everyone comes to recognize as a core value of the network. The crowd potential is enormous. It could be big and important things, or just delightful or inspiring things. I only have a few such #FediverseIdeas now. But I bet we could find dozens.
Hello Fediverse. I'm posting this tonight from my federated Flipboard profile! We're now testing our #ActivityPub integration starting with my account. You can follow me here to see all the stories I'm curating about things like startups, photography and of course, the #Fediverse. Curious to hear your thoughts on how this is working. We’ll incorporate your feedback as we make more progress on federating Flipboard. Stay tuned for lots more soon.
Clicking on it prevents a post from appearing in a thread when viewed on the web version of the server hosting my account. Eg;
A reply to my post uses an offensive term in the heat of the moment. I don't want to feed the trolls by replying, but I don't want people thinking I endorse that kind of hateful language. So I click Mute Post, and and anyone who views my account on Mastodon.nzoss.nz won't see it.
Similar to Mute Post, but a server admin can use it so that a post doesn't appear anywhere on the web pages of that server. Eg;
A reply to my post uses an offensive term in the heat of the moment. We don't want to feed the trolls by replying, but we don't want people thinking our server endorses that kind of hateful language. So the server admin clicks Silence Post, and and anyone who visits Mastodon.nzoss.nz won't see the post anywhere on the website.
I'd really like to use #fediverse apps that can delay notifications of a reply until 24 hours (or ideally whatever delay I set) after the time I made the post it's replying to. I think I've said this before, but last night (while baked) I tried to pseudocode it, and today I put it up in the fediverse ideas bank:
You know what I'd really like? Notifications categorised by "temperature".
Say I get a reply from a ranter whose misinformed post I do eventually want to correct. I want to rate their post (or the whole thread) as "hot", so all their posts in that thread (or all posts in the thread) are moved to a separate list of "hot" notifications. That way I can continue to browse and respond to "warm" or "cold" replies, without having more ranting shoved in my face if I'm not in the mood.