atomicpoet

atomicpoet, 1 year ago to random

My whole social media career kicked off with, “Nobody gives a damn what you say, so it’s time to speak whatever comes to mind!”

atomicpoet, 1 year ago to random

Every day is a new day that people on Mastodon discover that federation works.

atomicpoet, 1 year ago to fediversenews

🔎 Quick actions have been added to Mastodon search! 🔎

Now Mastodon will help you quickly find hashtags, profiles, and posts when you click inside the search box and start typing.

Search on Mastodon is gradually getting better!

Again, this is available on the web version of mastodon.social. Your server or client might not have this feature yet.

See screenshot.

@fediversenews

atomicpoet, 1 year ago to random

FACT: Mastodon made the 5th most underrated heavy metal album of all time.

https://audioinkradio.com/2023/05/most-underrated-metal-albums-of-all-time/

atomicpoet, 1 year ago to random

During mornings like this, I’m so glad calckey.social added four moderators.

atomicpoet, 1 year ago to random

Well, this is an odd bug in Tusker.

My name most definitely isn’t Porno Riot.

atomicpoet, 1 year ago to random

Here's a graph for "Average #Calckey Total Users by Month".

THIS is what hockey stick growth looks like!

And this doesn't even reflect what's been happening over the past two days!

atomicpoet, 1 year ago to fediversenews

I've been a part of many social media efforts. For example, I helped build and grow Hootsuite.

But nothing compares to what's happening with https://calckey.social (and #Calckey) right now.

Right now, the growth is entirely word of mouth.

No advertising, press releases, Silicon Valley-style hype.

But last November, I told @kainoa that this could be a project that changes their life.

I'm honoured to help in whatever way that I can!

https://calckey.social/notes/9ebkn3z8ud

@fediversenews

atomicpoet, 1 year ago to random

To everyone DMing me to ask for calckey.social invitation codes: I’m not giving them out.

You’re probably really cool. Typically, I’d welcome you with open arms.

But right now, calckey.social needs to take a breather.

Here’s other servers you can join, though:

https://calckey.org/join/

atomicpoet, 1 year ago to fediversenews

🚨 MASTODON NOW HAS COMMENT THREADING! 🚨

This makes following a conversation much easier, especially in long threads with many participants.

It's a major usability improvement, and makes Mastodon much easier to use.

https://mastodon.social has comment threading right now, and only on the native web. This feature should be available on other servers and clients with a future update.

See screenshot as an example.

How do you feel about the addition of this feature?

@fediversenews

atomicpoet, 1 year ago to fediversenews

🚨 NEW MASTODON FEATURE 🚨

When you receive a private message in your notifications, it is now clearly labelled "@ Private mention".

This improves usability vastly as it means fewer people will mistake public mentions for private mentions.

While private messages are not exactly "private" in the sense they are encrypted, they are still more private than public 😉

This feature's not yet available to everyone, but it's usable on the web version of mastodon.social.

See screenshot.

@fediversenews

atomicpoet, 1 year ago to fediversenews

Just made the really hard decision to close registrations to https://calckey.social.

Talk about persistence!

It was getting continuously hammered by new registration requests. And 20 people managed to register during an hour when most people weren't even able to log in.

So now @kainoa will do some additional work to enable more scale, and we'll re-open registrations in the future.

https://calckey.social/notes/9ebo0g31jq

@fediversenews

atomicpoet, 1 year ago to random

This is a good time to mention that there's LOTS of Calckey servers to join!

https://calckey.org/join/

There's lots of great options to choose from: regional, tech, LGBTQ+, and gaming-focused servers are all available!

atomicpoet, 1 year ago to fediversenews

Just discovered that when people write markdown on Mastodon, it gets rendered as such on #Calckey

Here's an example:

https://mastodon.laurenweinstein.org/@lauren/110305793358452322

@lauren wrote a post with a title that was encased in four asterisks (*)

In Calckey, the title became animated -- making the whole post seem that much more scary.

If you want to see a live demo of how this appears in Calckey, check it out here:

https://calckey.social/notes/9ebi571kqk

@fediversenews

atomicpoet, 1 year ago to random

Hey, I want to apologize to everyone about that roundtable on Jitsi.

There was a technical issue that caused an end-to-end encryption glitch.

And numerous people got kicked too.

Sorry about that!

atomicpoet, 1 year ago to socialmedianews

When new #Nostr users complain about spam and abuse, they’re often told that they have to pay for a well-moderated relay.

@socialmedianews

atomicpoet, 1 year ago to fediversenews

This is a big deal!

I bought the https://calckey.social domain name in December, helped set it up in February, waited a month or so to get technical issues sorted out.

And now it's blowing up.

Most of the excitement has been word of mouth, and there's been a big groundswell in demand for #Calckey.

This might spread *key apps to the West -- which is very important for the health of the Fediverse!

https://calckey.social/notes/9eay2lkqiq

@fediversenews

atomicpoet, 1 year ago to random

@kidehen Is there a way to try out YouID with Mastodon/Fediverse?

atomicpoet, 1 year ago to fediversenews

If https://firesky.tv was built into Bluesky itself, I would find Bluesky to be more useful.

I don’t see why they don’t do this.

Mastodon gives access to the Global feed inside their app.

@fediversenews

atomicpoet, 1 year ago to random

The discussion shouldn't be "Mastodon vs. Bluesky".

It should be "*key apps vs. Bluesky".

atomicpoet, 1 year ago to fediversenews

Right now, https://calckey.social can handle more registrations again.

But we're monitoring performance very closely, and will take action if needed if things start to snowball like crazy.

We've had 100 registrations over the past 12 hours, and over 400 people per day are actively using the service.

Lots of action! And we want to keep the party going!

https://calckey.social/notes/9ebtudyc36

@fediversenews

atomicpoet, 1 year ago to internet

Elon Musk is trying to pivot #Twitter to video.

If you post videos, they will be privileged by the algorithm.

Like the rest of Big Social, Twitter wants to become TikTok.

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1653447855401468011?cxt=HHwW1oGwvY2EnfItAAAA

@socialmedianews

atomicpoet, 1 year ago to fediversenews

Legacy Blue Checks are joining Bluesky because Elon took their Blue Check status away, and they didn’t want to pay $8.

@fediversenews

atomicpoet, 1 year ago to random

This is the most excited I’ve ever been about the Fediverse.

This is even more exciting than last November.

atomicpoet, 1 year ago to fediversenews

Relatica, a Friendica iOS client made by @hankg, has made significant progress!

The UI is a lot smoother. The timeline looks great too.

This is still in beta, and not available on the App Store yet—but I’m excited about this!

@fediversenews