Some people complain about the lack of an algorithm to surface posts on #Mastodon, because when they open up in the morning, they have to scroll back to see everything that was posted during their night.
I understand the temptation to do that, but I'd say, don't. One of the very best things about pre-algorithm Twitter was the immediacy. The "you snooze, you lose", "if you miss it, it's gone" philosophy. Losing that urgent, immediate nature of Twitter was one of the biggest reasons I raged so hard against the introduction of said algorithm, and one of the things I still miss the most -- and consequently, one of the biggest draws to Mastodon, and why I so wish I'd discovered it years ago already.
So when I sit down at my desk in the morning, I fire up @sengi_app (my Mastodon client of choice), and I start there. With what I can see in my timeline without scrolling. That's it. What happened before that is gone forever (unless someone I follow boosts it).
Similarly, I might quickly glance at Mastodon during the day, and I might interact with the posts I see there, but I won't scroll back. If I missed it, it's gone.
To me, that's one of the biggest joys of the network.
(Obviously, this excludes notifications. I will scroll through my notifications and respond to those that need response or some sort of actioning) :-)
I have a @Mastodon account on mastodon.social with followers I would like to keep. But I also have my own website at FredRocha.net, running ActivityPub. How do I keep both while having my posts on my FredRocha.net WordPress install be federated as john_fisherman@mastodon.social?
Is this a thing? Are there aliases on the #fediverse that are easy to setup?
Or it’s expected to have multiple ids over here and just boost’em from instance to instance?
As an individual user, if I block a whole instance does it stop my toots from going there (so my toots would never appear in that instance's view of the federated timeline)? Or does it only stop people on that instance from interacting with me?
Does anyone know how the tagging function works. I've got a column that was originally just tagged with #bikeNYC and I added #WildFlowerHourNYC and #pawPaw and I know I've messed it up. There are three categories and I don't know what they mean. Any of these, All of these, None of these. Actually the latter makes some sense. Maybe an logical expression would help. Time for #Fedihelp.
Is there a way to move followers from one #Fediverse service to another, for example from #Mastodon to #Calckey? Within a service (e.g. Mastodon) the move from one #Instance to another is possible without any problems. But across services?
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I have an #eWaste problem that I would like to solve: two #dell laptops that refuse to boot. One lights up for a couple of seconds, before shutting down again. The other seems completely dead, even after replacing the battery. The laptops are otherwise in decent conditions and I would like to revitalize them for my kids as they come of age.
Any suggestions on disposing of this foam packing material? This isn't styrofoam, though I doubt that the local city will take it. Boosts welcome. #FediHelp#Recycling#Disposal
Weird #question: is there a way to use #passwords without knowing them?
For example: in an API to API communication I (hopefullu) need a password or token. Is there a way to let my application retrieve and use it, without be being able to know such password?
Or: I have a shared resource (e.g.: intranet page) that, for whatever reason, I cannot put under SSO. Can I let people access such resource with a password, without sharing it or even without letting them know it? #askFedi#FediHelp
I want to write a top-like tool for my server software (i.e. I want it to emita table of running requests), and also a structured access log (not persistent, only to display it while amonitoring tool is attached).
Is there some kind of standard protocol to transport such information to a monitoring tool, e.g. over a Unix socket or Websockets?
Is there a search engine/list/tool to find the right hashtags for posting on a certain topic? #FediHelp
Manual curation is hard work, so what about a PageRank style thing that will apply Bayes' rule to all words + hashtags in all public toots, and allow to search hashtags by most-related words? Too close to a search engine?
I'm looking for a thing that will:
live index all hashtags on a large server
provide a searchable description/word cloud/related hashtags for each of those hashtags
Why is it that sometimes I'll see a toot with replies but I'm unable to see the replies? Or I'll see a reply but be unable to see the original post? It feels like pieces of the conversations are just missing.
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