getmammoth.wordpress.com, 5 months ago to random

We thought you’d never ask! Yes, ish.

https://getmammoth.files.wordpress.com/2023/12/screenshot-2023-12-09-at-10.03.34e280afam.jpeg?w=472We really really wanted to make sure that newcomers to Mastodon have a starting place full of interesting people & conversations. Selfishly, as ~longtime Mastodon users, we wanted that too. Meet: Mammoth For You. It’s got 2 components:

Smart Lists

Smart Lists are lists, but hosted on our servers. We have dozens of them right now, and if they take off, there’ll be many more! Many of our Smart Lists are curated by community members such as Tim Chambers, Matthias Pfefferle, Debora Giannini and Chris Messina. Mammoth Picks is the OG Smart List —we pulled that one together from the follow suggestions we show Mammoth users during onboarding. So Smart Lists are human-curated lists of Mastodon accounts.

When you subscribe to a Smart List, all the posts from the accounts on that list will show up at the top of your screen, as a feed. That’s the “firehose”, nothing removed. By default, Smart Lists you subscribe to also show up in your For You feed. In For You, we only show the posts that have engagement (likes, reposts, replies), so you won’t see all the posts from that list, just the best ones. That’s a super simple algorithm (“only show posts from this list that have at least 2 likes, replies or reposts”).

2 algo feeds, in beta

We have two “algorithmic” feeds in For You: a Friends Of Friends feed and Trending Among Follows:

• Trending Among Follows is the “trending” stuff from your Following feed: the posts that have some engagement (for now: at least 2 likes, replies, reposts). (Does this even qualify as “algorithmic”? Hmmm)
• Friends Of Friends are posts from your Follow Suggestions (using the open source FollowGraph app) that have at least 2 likes, replies, reposts.

Then we simply merge the various feeds you’ve chosen (smart lists, Trending, FOAF) by chronological order, and … tada: For You.

The best part: you can toggle any of these For You building blocks on or off: it’s YOU For You.

Still nervous? Mammoth is open source so you can Do Your Own Research 🧐

https://getmammoth.wordpress.com/2023/12/09/whats-this-for-you-feed-is-it-algorithmic/

getmammoth.wordpress.com, 5 months ago to random

https://getmammoth.files.wordpress.com/2023/12/mammoth-screens.png?w=1024

By Bart Decrem, co-founder

It’s been a year since we started working on Mammoth, and it’s been quite the year. Over at Twitter, the clown car has gone fully off the rails and the place has become the cesspool we all feared it might. 2024 is going to be the year even more people log off Twitter for good in search of smaller, healthier spaces where they can have authentic online conversations **—**Threads, BlueSky and especially Mastodon. The stakes will only get higher as we head into another divisive and high stakes US election season, the big social media companies fully embrace “synthetic media”🤮 and AI-powered deepfakes get ever more convincing.

We believe the future of social —and what comes next— is all about real people and is being built today on ActivityPub and Mastodon. Social needs to be an open protocol that anybody can build on, just like email or the open web. We believe this will happen in 2024 and all of our work is to bring about this open future faster.

We’re delighted to launch Mammoth 2, completely open source as of tomorrow, the result of a year of hard work making Mastodon easy & fun for everyone to enjoy:

Simple onboarding to Mastodon

Getting started with Mastodon is now fast and simple. If you’ve installed any social app this year, you’ll feel right at home. With just a few clicks you can sign up and start connecting to people and interests.

https://getmammoth.files.wordpress.com/2023/12/giphy.gif?w=480

Easily find and discover content

https://getmammoth.files.wordpress.com/2023/12/3-stills-1.png?w=1024

If you’re just getting started on Mastodon, Mammoth makes it easy to find and engage with the people, topics, and trends you’re most interested in:

• Instant suggestions for people and accounts to follow: moth.social users will immediately see personalized suggestions on accounts to follow, so you can start building your network.
• Curated ‘Smart Lists’: Smart Lists are how we help people easily discover interesting conversations, organized by topic and handpicked by community leaders. Mammoth 2 comes with dozens of Smart Lists including Chris Messina’s /makers, Matthias Pfefferle’s /indieweb, Tim Chambers’ /activists, and Debora Giannini’s /apple and /mastodonitalia, to name just a few.
• The ‘For You’ Feed that Mastodon has been missing: We don’t have hundreds of engineers building the most addictive algorithms. Instead, our For You feed is powered by dozens of Smart Lists curated by passionate community members.

A source for trusted news

https://getmammoth.files.wordpress.com/2023/12/news-feed-no-caption.png?w=1024

More people are turning to social media as a source for news, but platforms like Twitter are making it harder to find reliable information. We want Mammoth to be a place where people can easily find news from trusted sources, so we’re introducing a few new updates:

• Integration with Flipboard Desks: Flipboard’s curated editorial news desks, which cover the top stories of the day and investigative journalism, are now available to Mammoth users
• Newsmast and Press.coop Smart Lists: We’ve partnered with Newsmast, a leading curator of news and communities on Mastodon, and Press.coop, which imports feeds from popular news sites to Mastodon, to curate a number of Smart Lists in Mammoth 2 including /news, /worldnews, /business, /tech, /environment and /natures.

More ways to support

Mammoth continues to be completely free of charge, but we are now offering a subscription option for $2.99/month or $19.99 annually. Membership benefits include:

• A beautiful and fun collection of colorful and themed app icons (including Pride, Apple and many more!)
• Early access to new features
• Priority access for bug reports and technical support, incl. access to the Mammoth Gold discord
• Vote on new features
• Quarterly board meetings
• On the horizon: you’ll be helping us give back to the Mastodon community!

Have fun…and be cool!

To help promote a fun, safe and trusted environment on Mammoth, we’re introducing new content policies based on the best in class rules written by the team at Mozilla. We’re here to help millions more join the fediverse so our content guidelines are somewhat tighter than before. Trolls, hate mongers and spammers are encouraged to check out Twitter/x.

Mammoth is available in the App Store in the U.S. and internationally. The app works on all recent iPhone and iPad models and on Apple Silicon Macs and can be downloaded here. We’re excited for you to join us on this journey and look forward to your feedback – connect with us at @mammoth.

Support for Mammoth 2 from our community

Chris Messina, investor, product therapist, and hashtag inventor: “I first worked with Bart nearly 20 years ago on the launch of Firefox and subsequently a social browser called Flock. Many of the ideas we worked on then are being realized in Mammoth —which leverages technologies that resulted from those efforts. It’s incredible to finally realize the glimmers of a truly decentralized social web all these years later!”

Gregory Scallan, VP Engineering, Flipboard: “Mammoth is leading the charge when it comes to usability for mainstream users being able to discover content and people around their interests thanks to their use of Smart Lists. Kudos to the team on a fabulous release!”

Matthias Pfefferle, Open Web Lead, Automattic: “Mammoth is a great app for anyone who’s been intrigued by Mastodon but intimidated by how complicated it’s been. It’s a great way for more people to experience the benefits of open social and I’m excited to curate the /indieweb Smart List!”

Michael Foster, Co-founder, Newsmast: “I’ve admired Mammoth from the beginning, so we’re delighted to be working with Bart and the team to bring some of our curated communities to Smart Lists in Mammoth 2.”

Tim Chambers, Co-founder of Dewey Digital and author of the #XTwitterMigration Report**:** “In many ways the last two years of the Fediverse have seen more innovation than most of the closed social media silos have seen in the last 10. This is especially true with Mammoth, one of the first to integrate their client with their own server and do a Fediverse-friendly ‘For You’ algorithm. I’m especially excited about the innovation with this latest release including Smart Lists, combining hand-curated lists with smart software to surface the best content to the top.”

https://getmammoth.wordpress.com/2023/12/07/introducing-mammoth-2-the-easiest-way-quit-twitter-x-for-good-and-join-mastodon/

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mammoth, 5 months ago to random

Stoked to introduce Mammoth 2 https://getmammoth.wordpress.com/2023/12/07/introducing-mammoth-2-the-easiest-way-quit-twitter-x-for-good-and-join-mastodon/

daj, 5 months ago to wordpress

I really wish some more thought had been put into the #Wordpress integration to the Fediverse.

Having a blog post that comes from @someblog.wordpress.com@someblog.wordpress.com is so clumsy. And a blank profile too.

Perhaps V2 will be better

getmammoth.wordpress.com, 5 months ago to random

It’s launch day and the vibes are 🔥🚀. We’re so happy to be part of the AP/Mastodon community! A few quick things:

• Please be gentle! This is a brand new code base, we have a TON of work to do still, and we’re a small team. In particular on the backend we have a big roadmap and we have a lot of fresh code. Bear with us as we ramp up.
• We plan to release Mammoth under the AGPL tomorrow, Friday. Much of our backend code is already open source (AGPL, on Github). More details tomorrow.
• Business model: We now offer an in-app subscription called Mammoth Gold. The IAP does not gate any of our features but unlocks app icons, participation privileges and is mostly about supporting our work. Here‘s more info about it. Please consider subscribing if you love the app and our work.
• We have new content policies largely based on the Mozilla ones.

Roadmap

Our current plan is to do ~weekly updates, at least for the next month or so. It’s a WIP but here’s what we’re thinking:

1. Critical bug fixes, incl making sure our backend can handle the load. For the next week or two
2. Performance improvements across the app, but in particular for the feeds. Within the next month
3. Additional UI polish and tweaks throughout
4. Composer. This is the last major part of the app that has not been completely rewritten. We’re excited about turning our attention to this shortly
5. Lists lists lists. We love smart lists and we have many more list-related ideas

Stay tuned! Please note: Mammoth Gold users will have a vote in the prioritization of new features.

Data practices

We collect as little data as possible while still enabling the best user experience. For example, we’ve opted not to use a standard analytics library to track, say, DAUs, etc.

Here’s what we collect and store in Mammoth 2:

For Mammoth users and accounts that are part of our Smart Lists, we are storing the following publicly available information: publicly available username, domain, display name, following count, and followers count. This is information that anyone on the internet can view by simply going to the user’s instance. We contact everyone on our Smart Lists and remove users upon request.

For Mammoth Users, in addition to the above, we store For You settings, the names of Smart Lists you’re subscribed to, which of your Smart Lists are enabled in your For You feed, and the timestamp of when you last used the app.

For Moth.social users we collect and store the same information as any Mastodon instance. In addition, we offer Personalized Follow Suggestions using the open source FollowGraph app. As part of that, we collect and store the same information above for all the accounts that are followed by the moth.social user. Again, we only see and collect information already publicly available. We also collect this information for any user that has opted in to the beta of our Personalized For You features.

The GetMammoth.app website is GDRP compliant and does not use cookies. Our mailing lists use Mailchimp in a GDPR compliant manner.

Here‘s our privacy policy.

We’re a small team trying to do the right thing. Please let us know if we’ve missed or gotten anything wrong.

https://getmammoth.wordpress.com/2023/12/07/community-update/

pfefferle, 5 months ago (edited 4 months ago) to random German

# Ab 18

Das notiz.blog ist volljährig 🎉

Ginge es nach ChatGPT, könnte jetzt folgendes auf mich und mein Blog zutreffen/zukommen:

1. Selbstfindung und Identitätsstiftung: Mit 18 Jahren könnte das Blog in einer Phase der Selbstfindung und Identitätsstiftung sein. Der Blogger könnte überlegen, wer er als Autor ist, welche Werte er vertritt und wie er sich weiterentwickeln möchte.
2. Erwachsenwerden in der digitalen Welt: Ein 18-jähriges Blog könnte die Herausforderungen des Erwachsenwerdens in der digitalen Welt reflektieren. Das bedeutet möglicherweise eine verstärkte Auseinandersetzung mit Themen wie Datenschutz, Ethik im Online-Journalismus und der Verantwortung gegenüber der Online-Community.
3. Bewältigung von Veränderungen: In diesem Alter könnten sich auch Änderungen in der Technologie und den Online-Trends bemerkbar machen. Das Blog könnte seine Anpassungsfähigkeit zeigen, indem es sich den aktuellen Entwicklungen anpasst und möglicherweise neue Medienformen integriert.
4. Einfluss auf die jüngere Generation: Ein 18-jähriges Blog könnte eine inspirierende Rolle für neuere Blogs oder aufstrebende Blogger spielen. Es könnte seine Erfahrungen teilen, Ratschläge geben und dazu beitragen, die nächste Generation von Bloggern zu beeinflussen.
5. Reflektierte Inhalte: Das Blog könnte sich darauf konzentrieren, tiefer gehende, reflektierte Inhalte zu produzieren. Es könnte sich in Richtung anspruchsvollerer Themen bewegen und einen Beitrag zu qualitativ hochwertigerem Online-Content leisten.

Ich lass das mal so stehen 🙂

https://notiz.blog/b/6sC

#Geburtstag #notizBlog #notizblog

w3c, 5 months ago (edited 5 months ago) to random

W3C has posted that we are no longer active on X/Twitter and have directed all our followers here to Mastodon.

We are encouraging all W3C-related accounts to do the same.

Encourage your friends to follow us here!

pfefferle, 5 months ago (edited 5 months ago) to wordpress German

sidebar

Vor einigen Wochen habe ich Ian Steward auf einem Automattic Meetup kennengelernt. Er kam auf mich zu, um mir zu erzählen, dass er kürzlich auf einen ziemlich alten Artikel von mir gestoßen ist. In diesem Artikel geht es darum, wie man die Reihenfolge der Sidebars im K2-WordPress-Theme ändert.

https://notiz.blog/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/623461381_90c24647bf_o-900x768.jpgIch habe K2 sehr lange auf notiz.Blog eingesetzt und mich viel und lange mit dessen technischem Aufbau und der semantischen HTML-Struktur beschäftigt!

Aber außer dem kurzen Schwelgen in alten Erinnerungen hab ich mir nicht weiter Gedanken zu dem Thema gemacht. Immerhin gibt es das Theme schon seit einer halben Ewigkeit nicht mehr und Sidebars sind auch aus der Mode!(?)!

Dann schreibt @ricmac letzte Woche aber folgendes auf Mastodon:

Sidebar Culture: remember things in your blog sidebar like blogrolls, “Influential articles”, Flickr photos, MyBlogLog (a proto-social network for bloggers). All this stuff and more helped make early 2000s blogging fun and more communal. Would love to find a way to bring that back in 2024…

https://mastodon.social/@ricmac/111477809540922177

…das hat mich dann doch noch einmal neugierig gemacht und ich habe eine alte notiz.Blog Version von 2008 (auf Basis von K2) raus gekramt.

https://notiz.blog/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/notizblog-2008-11-900x698.pngFast die Hälfte der Seite war Sidebar 😍

Vieles von damals hat mich schwer an den Artikel „The lost infrastructure of social media.“ von @anildash (und der IndieWeb Version davon) erinnert.

Ich bin gespannt was @ricmac sich einfallen lässt…

Thinking about a personal website re-design (or a new site), so I can play around with fediverse integration, sidebar culture, and other fun things. Thinking of using @eleventy (have used Hugo before and this seems better). Maybe a new site is better, as I don’t want to have to migrate ricmac.org from WordPress…for now, anyway. Is it normal for people to have two personal websites these days? I should just start a test site with 11ty and see how it goes… #thinkingoutloud

https://mastodon.social/@ricmac/111489177217562043

… und ich werde die Position meiner Sidebar vielleicht nochmal überdenken!

Alles kommt wieder ☺️

https://notiz.blog/b/6mS

#sidebars #theme #thinkingoutloud #Web20 #WordPress

mike, 5 months ago to fediverse

Hello Fediverse. I'm posting this tonight from my federated Flipboard profile! We're now testing our #ActivityPub integration starting with my account. You can follow me here to see all the stories I'm curating about things like startups, photography and of course, the #Fediverse. Curious to hear your thoughts on how this is working. We’ll incorporate your feedback as we make more progress on federating Flipboard. Stay tuned for lots more soon.

jrf_nl, 5 months ago to php

PHP_CodeSniffer users: please read this important announcement: https://github.com/squizlabs/PHP_CodeSniffer/issues/3932

squizlabs/PHP_CodeSniffer is dead, long live PHPCSStandards/PHP_CodeSniffer!

Also, please consider sponsoring the project to safeguard its continuation, as without funding, we'll have the same problem again sooner rather than later.

#phpcs #php

P.S.: @phpcs now also has its own account, follow it to stay informed.

Edent, 6 months ago to wordpress

I love the fact that my #WordPress blog is on the Fediverse.

When someone replies to a post from the @blog account, their reply is automagically sent as a comment to my site.

Brilliant! Thanks @pfefferle and gang 🙂

https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2023/09/this-blog-is-now-on-the-fediverse/

ricmac, 6 months ago to random

Web-First in 24

Some initial notes about my personal goals for the new year. Work in progress, and curious if others are thinking similar thoughts about their social media / online life goals etc.

Principles:
• Always bet on the web
• Web protocols > platforms (slogan: “Down with walled gardens!”)
• Web openness > Whatever Mark Zuckerberg defines as “interoperability” (slogan: “Down with robber barons!”)
• Bring back Sidebar Culture (all the fun stuff a blog sidebar had in 2004)

TBC

fedidb, 6 months ago to wordpress

Thanks to @pfefferle, you can now mass submit new instances by making a POST request with a comma separated list of instances to our API!

Example request:

<https://api.fedidb.org/v1/servers/submit?domains=pixelfed.social,pfefferle.wordpress.com,jetpack.com,evanp.me,mastodon.social>  

The API will return any valid and new instances which will be crawled in the background and published to the network directory

#wordpress #fediDB #fediAPI

fedidb, 6 months ago to random

We now have an official bug/issue tracker!

https://github.com/fedidb/issues

acambronero, 6 months ago to wordpress Spanish

Bienvenidos al episodio 15 del podcast WP A DAY, procesado por #IA, ¡donde la emoción por #WordPress nunca termina! Hoy, se desglosa el futuro del lanzamiento de WordPress para el 2024 y nos despedimos de la legendaria @sarahgooding de WP Tavern. Además, ¡no hay mejor manera de conocer los entresijos de WordPress que con la entrevista exclusiva con el asombroso @pfefferle!

https://www.blogpocket.com/podcast/wp-a-day-15-calendario-de-lanzamientos-de-wp-para-2024-sarah-gooding-dice-adios-a-wp-tavern-entrevista-a-matthias-pfefferle/

@wordpress @wordpress

paul, 6 months ago to fediverse

I had a really interesting conversation with @pfefferle about #ActivityPub this evening, and other things #Fediverse. Definitely a highlight for me. 😁

blog, 6 months ago to wordpress

What has been done so far

As we have announced from the very beginning, it is important to us to make our work as sustainable as possible. In this context, sustainability means being modular and trying to enable necessary extension functionality in the upstream project, the WordPress ActivityPub plugin. Regarding the functionality that our project should ideally offer, we have created two posts in the discussion section of the repository on Github to provide a place where these feature additions can be discussed by the community while we work on a draft for a pull request.

• Flexible management of how posts gets transformed to ActivityPub objects
• Management of ActivityPub actors

During the planning stage of our proposals, we had fantastic meetings with other ActivityPub developers, whom we would like to sincerely thank.

• The lead developer of the ActivityPub plugin @pfefferle provided a fascinating insight into previous and ongoing challenges, as well as future strategies, eagerly embracing our concepts with receptiveness.
• The lead developer of Mobilizon @tcit informed us about the most important hurdles in the development of Mobilizon and helped us to assess what challenges in interoperability we were likely to face.
• With @grindhold, the developer of flohmarkt, a federated marketplace with ActivityPub support, we discussed common issues such as working with non-note object types, implementing instance/application actors, and took a look at some Fediverse Enhancement Proposals (#FEP) that are of interest to both our projects.

A later task in our project plan is testing with real users to identify typical pitfalls in setup, use and documentation. Although this user study will not take place in the near future, we have recognised the need to start thinking about it now and have already had discussions about planning this task.

Current tasks

Currently we are designing and prototyping the architecture of the hook system, how plugins can register their own ActivityPub transformers to the main plugin.

Upcoming tasks

Next, we will write a small WordPress plugin containing hardcoded transformer classes for the three most installed WordPress event plugins, as well as extending and improving the admin interface for managing transformers.

https://event-federation.eu/2023/11/12/getting-started/

#ActivitiyPub #FEP #WordPress

evan, 6 months ago to random

@photomatt how can the ActivityPub community support building federation into Tumblr? Could volunteer developers be helpful in this situation? /cc @pfefferle

J12t, 6 months ago to fediverse

Have questions for our #fediverse panel on The Well? You can submit them by e-mail even if you are not a member.

https://people.well.com/conf/inkwell.vue/topics/538/The-Fediverse-and-IndieWeb-page01.html

piper, 6 months ago to random

Oh I’m so excited! Finally seem to have everything 100% working now with my blog’s Mastodon profile @blog, my prior boost is the most recent post and the first one to come through successfully. Thx again @pfefferle for your WP plugins and help, and thx to Flywheel for their support getting it working on their servers! ❤️

andi1984, 7 months ago (edited 7 months ago) to fediverse

I wrote about the #activitypub #plugin for #wordpress and why – in my eyes – it is a game-changer.

https://dev.to/andi1984/bridging-communities-an-overview-of-the-wordpress-activitypub-plugin-o9o

Shutout to one of the core plugin authors: @pfefferle. Give him a follow, hug, coffee...

pfefferle, 7 months ago to fediverse German

The next big social network is just the Web

The next big social network is just the Web

Jeremiah Lee

Schöner kann man das Fediverse nicht beschreiben ❤️

Thanks @Jeremiah

#ActivityPub #Fediverse

https://notiz.blog/b/6k2

pfefferle, 7 months ago to fediverse German

Hello WordPress

WordPress + ActivityPub wird gerade auf FediDB gefeatured!

Thanks a lot @dansup ❤️

#ActivityPub #FediDB #Fediverse #WordPress

https://notiz.blog/p/6jp

dansup, 7 months ago to wordpress

So proud of @pfefferle for all the hard work they put into the official WordPress plugin.

Kudos 🙏

https://fedidb.org/current-events/wordpress

#wordpress #activitypub #fedidb

pfefferle, 7 months ago to wordpress

The fediverse has arrived at WordPress.com ❤️

https://wordpress.com/blog/2023/10/11/activitypub/

thanks @mattwiebe and #wordpressdotcom and #Automattic and all other contributors!!!

This is amazing!!!

#wordpress #activitypub #fediverse