chris

@chris@threads.net

😬 Man of the internet; generalist.
🆕 Come for the app updates stay for the snark.
🫡 Twitter sober since April '23.

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chris, to random

The twitter.com URL is finally going away.

Just imagine the linkrot.

chris, to random

Hatching some plans with the man, the myth, the legend... @Gargron!

Lots of great stuff in the works for the open, social web in 2024 and beyond!

chris, to random

Wow... @Instagram/@artifact_news cofounder @mikeyk is joining @anthropicai as Chief Product Officer!

After its recent lackluster iOS launch — this could be a significant shot in Claude's arm.

Exciting times!

chris, to random

Here's a solution @jonathanhaidt should consider in his quest to restore the phone-free childhood...

Turn those infinitely capable iPhones kids wield into locked down pocket conveniences without all the distractions by enabling iOS's "Assistive Access" mode:

https://support.apple.com/guide/assistive-access-iphone/about-assistive-access-iphb86e84e2b/ios

Great for grandparents and pre-teens alike!

chris, to random

Wait what? @vsco is now calling itself an "AI Photo & Video Editor"?!?

AI literally means nothing anymore.

chris, to random

Threads is adding a button to mark a thread as "Made with AI", similar to its existing labeling feature.

Evidence of the beta feature has appeared in v329.0.

https://tcrn.ch/3TPz1bz

chris, to random

Another big update to @producthunt Shoutouts — revealing the hidden product graph behind the best products on the internet.

Now Shoutsouts have a dedicated landing page and are featured prominently in the sidebar and newsletter.

https://www.producthunt.com/shoutouts

This is one of @rajivayyangar's top priorities to deliver more value from Product Hunt's underlying dataset: maker-to-maker recommendations.

chris, to random

Wow... Aggregator accounts on Instagram are about to get destroyed... Finally!

chris, to random

First @ghost, now feeeed has added support for ActivityPub!

Grab it: https://feeeed.nateparrott.com/

RE: https://www.threads.net/

chris, to fediverse

Open source @Ghost out-Substacks @substack in terms of openness and portability by adopting .

Welcome to the open, social web, @johnonolan!

https://activitypub.ghost.org/

chris, to random

Threads confirms that you want to "continue sharing to the fediverse" after 30 days.

A nice touch...?

But how about a similar proactive ask about continuing to opt-in to sharing my Threads content across the Meta network?

eobrain, to random

I've been undecided about whether Bluesky or Mastodon/Fediverse has the better architecture

Stacked vs instance-based

But this example of innovation (a gift-article feed) uses Bluesky's ability to disaggregate the feed algorithms and shows a big advantage for Bluesky:

https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:o4s55v3tsfph6whswxccpsia/feed/aaaixbb5liqbu

chris,

Here I thought it was solving for monetization on federated platforms, but instead it's a feed that aggregates paywall-hopping links! Basically the opposite but nevertheless useful!

chris, to fediverse

"New social services need a good justification for why they are launching in siloed mode in 2024. We don’t need any more walled gardens; we already have a lot. This app can be an important part of the developing social web of interconnected networks."

This 👆🏻

RE: https://www.threads.net/@evanprodromou/post/C58xkLJLkQ1RBS4l-1OL9JL0N2Er-ws7UeN0dI0

chris, to random

Any company with over 700M monthly active users can't use Llama 3 without permission from Meta, according to the license:

https://llama.meta.com/llama3/license/

chris, to fediverse

One platform is moving forward and the other is becoming a regressive backwater.

@mehtology & @sarahprz w/ dueling headlines on the future of the Social web.

RE: https://www.threads.net/@chris/post/C5y65tnyOjF

chris, to random

Super clever pull-to-refresh promo for @taylorswift's TTPD ... basically hashflags for Threads.

Not sure why it opens on Threads though if she doesn't even have an account yet?

/cc @isajorsergio

chris, to random

New users will have to pay a fee to sign up for X, and only after three months will be able to post for free.

RE: https://www.threads.net/@chris/post/C5uw4WCLThM

johnonolan, to random

Our most-requested feature in the past few years has been to federate Ghost over ActivityPub 🌍

We're thinking about it. It seems like there are many potential ways to do it.

Curious to hear how you would want it to work? 🤔

3 questions, here 👇
https://tally.so/r/m67X4P

chris,

So much potential here! Absolutely love the idea of out-substacking Substack with true openness and interoperability.

Give writers and publishers the ability to own their own domain, email list, AND activities through federation and syndication.

Lots to consider in terms of Ghost adding support for podcasts too — since the Podcast 2.0 community is moving towards ActivityPub.

💯

chris, to random

This is the tag that is trending on Threads: Iran drones Israel

Meanwhile on X, Israel, Tel Aviv, World War III, And Iron Dome... and Coachella 2024 are the top trends.

chris, to random

Podcasting 2.0 just published its new logo.

https://live.standards.site/podcasting20

chris,

It's not an app. It's a state of mind.

https://github.com/Podcastindex-org/podcast-namespace/blob/main/podcasting2.0.md

chris, to random

On the subject of the ...

chris, to random

Here's what ~$55 worth of pizza looks like from Uber One before various discounts. 🍕

chris, to random

Did you feel it?

Threadsquake! In New Jersey!

chris, to random

WTF, Elon restored my blue check.

Premature removal of my verification lead to me to leave the platform.

I held a funeral for my 17 year old Twitter presence.¹

X's shift to pay-to-play verification contributed to the destruction of Twitter, which the @verge recently mourned.²

In its smoldering ruins stands the banana republic known as X.

Getting back my blue check will not win me back.

Twitter is dead.

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