chrismessina

chrismessina, 3 months ago to random

RIP mozilla.social?

"Scaling back investment mozilla.social: With mozilla.social, we made a big bet in 2023 to build a safer, better social media experience, based on Mastodon and the Fediverse. Our initial approach was based on a belief that Mozilla needed to quickly reach large scale in order to effectively shape the future of social media. It was a noble idea but one we struggled to execute. While we resourced mozilla.social heavily to pursue this ambitious idea, in retrospect a (1/2)

evan, 3 months ago to random

Letting you connect to other people you care about is not unethical or immoral.

You have a lot of options for whether you want to participate in the BS bridge -- either by managing your follows directly, by blocking users from that domain, or by blocking the whole domain.

This is how federation works. You have absolute control over who you interact with.

chrismessina, 4 months ago to random

Going out on a short limb here, but my guess is that @arcinternet's Act II is going to be building the Arc AI Search Engine.

The biggest swing they can take is at replacing Google with a Perplexity-style AI search engine that lives inside of their cross-platform Chrome-killer.

Just a hunch.

maique, 4 months ago to random

🌐 What about that new Arc for iOS? Shouldn’t we have it by now? It would be the perfect day, since I’m bedridden.

chrismessina, 4 months ago to random

It appears that social web/fediverse compatible web mentions are being worked on over on Threads.

https://www.threads.net/@chris/post/C1JAcRLL0lc/

/cc @mike@flipboard.social

video/mp4

chrismessina, 4 months ago to fediverse

Perhaps the best part of this interview (so far!) is that @Gargron says he prefers the phrase "social web" over fediverse. LET'S DO IT!

https://open.spotify.com/episode/0Oc1sz7K9L3NjeDvLotkuH?si=eE8pdpUvR06qY2JA9U1SPg&context=spotify%3Ashow%3A0X00HNuKr8PuhZdpjkPwUT&t=712

#DiSo #ActivityPub

From: @Gargron
https://mastodon.social/@Gargron/111616761510320943

chrismessina, 4 months ago to random

ICU @chockenberry!

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT214048

chrismessina, 5 months ago to fediverse

It's happening!!

https://www.threads.net/@zuck/post/C0zXcQmxO77/?igshid==

#ActivityPub #fediverse

ivory, 5 months ago to random

Ivory v1.7 is here! This release is all about hashtags. It's set to slowly roll out over the next few days, but you can force download it now from our App Store page:

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/ivory-for-mastodon-by-tapbots/id6444602274

Follow Hashtags. Search for and follow hashtags to see posts that are tagged around your interests. It's a great way to discover like- minded users across the Fediverse. Posts with hashtags you follow automatically show up in your home timeline, but you can optionally create a filter to hide them.
Feature Hashtags. Organize interests or projects with featured hashtags and bring them front and center for users to see in your profile. You can also go back and edit old posts to add hashtags and get them featured. Featured hashtags are only a button tap away when composing a new post so you won't forget to use them.
View Trending Hashtags. See what's trending right now on the Fediverse!

Tibor, 6 months ago to random

X, formerly known as Twitter, kills the Hashtag, invented by X, formerly known as Twitter.

chrismessina, 6 months ago to random

The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) is seeking public input on government use of AI: https://ai.gov/input

chrismessina, 6 months ago (edited 6 months ago) to random

Very interesting listen considering that what @dansup is suggesting for the social web, Meta is doing between Threads, Instagram, and Facebook.

@photomatt 's suggestion to provide "adjustments" when sharing (intentionally) to other social contexts is worth considering given the reaction many are having to their Threads content appear on Facebook.

From: @davidpierce

https://mastodon.social/@davidpierce/111284796654263440

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