When my iphone dies because its battery runs out, and I turn it back on again, it seems like push notifications are messed up. And the only solution seems to be … turning it off and on again.
@misc when I teach my UX class I ask students to add features like these to an exiting app. And they’re so used to shitty apps it’s hard for them to comprehend useful additions. It’s like pulling teeth to get them to pitch a useful new feature.
(A real failure of the app store incidentally is that there are a lot of hidden gem apps that languish in obscurity. It's really hard to find the thing that does the thing you want to do.)
The journalists went to Bluesky, the politicians and orgs went to Threads, and when bridges are fully implemented, Mastodon will be the best place to have it all.
Everyone goes after Marie Antoinette for saying "let them eat cake" but they leave out the part that came before, which was a crowd angrily chanting "let us eat cake!"
Playing with Streamlabs … not free, but looks like it will let us multi-stream to Instagram, Twitch, and (ugh) X for our next action, and Twitch has fixed urls/ native-ish embeds in Bluesky, so that should work better for Bluesky and Mastodon.
Would like to do #Owncast or #Peertube as well, but the #Streamlabs iPhone app seems to have only one slot for a custom RTMP server and Instagram takes that up.
@knizer Sorry, missed this! So, this post was inspired by, on one side, a problem I see of unmet demand, and on the other, intriguing new projects, and a kind of tantalizingly narrow gap between them.
To get more specific, right now I'm laser focused on how to get the activist left less attached to X. It's one thing to try to narrow the gap on stuff people still use as excuses to stay there - breadth and speed of information, mostly. (1/7)