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chrismessina

@chrismessina@mastodon.xyz

Inventor of the hashtag
#1 Product Hunter
Man of the internet
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MikeElgan, to random
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It now costs the US more than 3 cents to make each penny. (This makes no cents.) https://sherwood.news/power/it-costs-the-us-3-cents-to-make-1-penny/

chrismessina,
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@MikeElgan Actually, it makes -2¢. 😆

tessala, to random
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Great talk tonite by @chrismessina on the importance of open source.

And of course he invented the #hashtag which I taught about for so many years!

chrismessina,
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@tessala Thank you!

johnonolan, to random
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Excited to share that Ghost is going to federate over ActivityPub and become part of the largest open publishing network in the world 🎉

https://activitypub.ghost.org

chrismessina,
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@johnonolan hooray! 🚀

samsethi, to random
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When I first heard Elon Musk was going to charge newbies on X, like most I thought well that's the end of X.

  • Pay to post
  • Pay to reply
  • Pay to like

But then I thought isn't that exactly what Podcasting 2.0 is trying to encourage users to do?

  • Pay to stream
  • Pay to boost
  • Pay to zap

If Elon can (re)introduce micropayments to X for the payments and give everyone a wallet then maybe he is helping train the mass market to pay for content creators.

/cc @chris @chrismessina @samsethi

chrismessina,
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@samsethi @James Elon is simply expanding the “Not-a-Bot Program”, which has been live since last October.

The best way to understand this is that it’s a captcha with 1000% friction, unless or until bots can fabricate credit card numbers (don’t bother holding your breath).

It has nothing to do with micropayments for content, although Jack’s Twitter previously had tipping.

https://legal.x.com/en/not-a-bot-terms.html

dansup, to Pixelfed
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Experimenting with separate hashtags in the @pixelfed app

Before vs After

Wdyt?

Hashtag buttons
Inline hashtags
Hashtag buttons

chrismessina,
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@dansup @pixelfed I would caution against lowercasing tags since concatenated CamelCase words are useful for legibility and accessibility.

Visually this style is more pleasant, but might cause people to new to the platform to not know how to create tags (i.e. by prefixing words/phrases with a #).

You'll also have to contend with how this content appears in feeds or via the API.

Also: how would appear inline?

chrismessina, to random
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This is the first ad for Mastodon I've seen in the wild — on @Techmeme. Baby's growing up!

https://www.techmeme.com/

chrismessina, to random
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An eclipse AND the Threads API? On the same day?! Praise be!

https://developers.facebook.com/docs/threads

chrismessina,
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If you are interested in building integrations with the Threads API and want to share feedback, fill in this form:

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSemLeRfJHEbHVs1EvJwomOGMARjNYM9WbbPjFc1WOswfju2Jw/viewform?usp=pp_url

chrismessina,
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@mshiltonj I had hoped they'd be hewing closer to ActivityPub, but I guess not. 😕

J12t, to fediverse
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What about an session next week where we remind each other what we wanted the to be ≈15 years ago before the big platforms took over and it all became non-viable since?

Which parts of the vision are again relevant and can we make them happen this time around now that we have a resurgence of the ?

Off the top of my head: @evan @chrismessina @blaine @daveman692 @DickHardt @snarfed @jpanzer @jsmarr Who else is here of the old gang?

chrismessina,
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@J12t @evan @blaine @daveman692 @dickhardt @snarfed @jpanzer @jsmarr Is it better to go back in time or imagine what would be relevant to today's audiences, given the maturing of fundamental enabling technologies?

chrismessina, to random
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Great... moderated lecture from @mala with @mmasnick on as relates to the animating purpose behind the pursuit of decentralization.

We do not decentralize simply to decenter, but instead to preserve the muscle that affords us choice, agency, and self-sovereignty when we get lazy through centralization and (1/2)

chrismessina,
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"efficiency".

https://open.spotify.com/episode/2j2PBGoyaTZx9WCrRvf3OM?si=30D3PJwXSoeaeWTIHoMvsw&context=spotify%3Acollection%3Apodcasts%3Aepisodes (2/2)

chris, to random

PSA to the Fediverse Threads — if you want your hashtags to remain intact when your posts are federated, make sure to always include the # prefix.

On the left is Threads, on the right is my post federated and viewed in elk.zone.

Topic tags (without a prefix) are treated as plain text.

chrismessina,
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@simonwood @BeAware @chris to be clear, even without linkification, the hashtag is preserved as long as there's a # prefix. If you use a Threads-native topic tag, which can include spaces and other characters, it'll be treated as plaintext elsewhere.

At least if you use conventional hashtags on Threads, they'll be searchable as text on the fediverse.

bdrell, to random

People sharing with the Fediverse, reply here and tag Fediverse Threads please!

chrismessina,
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@mjgardner @chris If you use fully expressed hashtags (i.e. not Threads's ), then they'll pass through.

See this:

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chrismessina, to random
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Some number of Mastodon instances plan or are blocking Threads, but Threads also reserves the right to not federate with everyone.

Here's its current policy:

https://help.instagram.com/914046486923176/

chrismessina,
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@FinchHaven @wbpeckham Please share screenshots... hard to comment when I'm not sure what was actually blocked.

aklemm, to random

@chrismessina Can you post a link or a description of the payment model you pitched yesterday (OAuth based w/ Stratechery as an example, I think)? I want to fully understand it.

chrismessina,
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@aklemm Sure: https://stratechery.com/2021/passport/

chrismessina, to random
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Threads has entered the fediverse. (Yes, it's opt-in by default)

https://engineering.fb.com/2024/03/21/networking-traffic/threads-has-entered-the-fediverse/

chrismessina,
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More details:

chrismessina,
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@hajovonta You can do it on your instance.

chrismessina, to fediverse
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I appreciate @pcottle's entreaty to the attendees of the #FediForum to engage with the Threads team genuinely.

Meta/Facebook have a mixed track record when it comes to open formats/standards (fool me once, etc etc); but at the same time, ushering in 130M potential new users to an open, social web is also an opportunity not to be dismissed out of hand.

I am optimistic that the current team is showing up with good intent and I intend to reflect that.

#DiSo #ActivityPub

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matt, to random
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I don’t know when this changed, but the purchase history page in the App Store got an update.

It won’t let you see more than a year at a time, but it does give you more details which is kinda cool.

chrismessina,
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@matt Oh, that's nice!

bojanfurst, to random
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Catching up on my 100+ open tabs in TO READ group… This is excellent from @pluralistic. Really excellent: https://www.ft.com/content/6fb1602d-a08b-4a8c-bac0-047b7d64aba5

chrismessina,
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@bojanfurst @pluralistic I can’t believe the FT actually published that. Clearly the FT has been enshittified! 😜

matthewcassinelli, to random
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New FourTet album out: https://music.apple.com/us/album/three/1729585296

chrismessina,
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@matthewcassinelli I enjoyed it. You?

chrismessina, to random
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X drops the "Trust" from their "Trust & Safety" team.

Now it's just "Safety", which is a two point score in football when the offensive team is tackled, loses possession of the ball, or commits a foul in their own end zone. 🏈

https://x.com/safety/status/1767275266613645597

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chrismessina,
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@Jon_Kramer @damon We can agree to disagree.

I recently saw this film and it helps to make my point: ‘Kiss the Future’

https://youtu.be/zxTV8gEbN2s

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