@dansup I left birdsite entirely. Content on Mastodon is vastly more relevant than on the birdsite. I'm convinced that if you were to ignore the bots and trollfarms, Mastodon has more active users and posts.

@dansup How accurate are these stats‽ They put WordPress (which is main strain amongst the non geek populations) far behind Mastodon, PixelFed, Peertube, WriteFreely, etcetera.

@dansup A graph to see posts per day would be interesting. Now I’m wondering how much twitter does daily.

@dansup this wouldn't even eliminate spam it would just exclude people without phone numbers

the way to eliminate spam is human approval of registrations and federation

@dansup I’m against utilizing SMS. It’s not secure, exposes phone numbers necessarily, and excludes anyone without a phone.

@dansup The next logical step will be SMS-based password recovery, because it always happens after that, which will be used by governments to fuck social accounts of any person they don't like. Nice plan :shrug_akko:

When a spam account is deleted from a large instance like mastodon.social, they federate the account deletion to every known instance. This means your server has to check if that account exists and delete it if so. Account deletion is an expensive process but one that is required. The issue with this is how small servers are subjected to these constant activities from larger servers that are likely more able to deal with this.
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@dansup I don't fully understand why account deletion is federated. Is account creation also federated. I'm new to Mastodon.

@dansup What is 'SEO spam'? Good to know that it's being taken care of

@dansup Work hard, party hard. :D

@dansup @pixelfed

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@dansup R0ck 0n, Dan! :ablobcatattention:

@dansup hey dawg!

@dansup my partner is learning japanese and is curious what the cap says

@dansup yes, because you can’t read the label if you’re stuck into the jar!
Remember to write from the perspective of your users: what to they seek? what do they want/need to know?

I'm kinda tempted to hire someone to design the promo website for Smithereen when it's mature enough

@dansup
Not really. Who are you writing for? What language do they use? How can you explain your unique benefits issuing that language? If in doubt, consult one or more members of your target audience.

#marketing

@dansup I've been going around telling people to try pixelfed when they express their discontentment with Instagram.

@dansup Probably because of https://www.theverge.com/23280518/instagram-flickr-vero-photos-social-networks :)

@dansup I think use is going to multiply once there’s an official/dedicated app.

@dansup Be safe

@dansup keep safe

@dansup I always get these type if warnings but it never happens
They are kind of annoying ngl

@dansup dang, it's still on dev branches tho

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what is this ?

@dansup same feeling ! Have you tried See and Trying ? Totally opposite but very good in their respective styles

@dansup "Foundation" was damn good, really enjoyed it.

@dansup You should really give Severance a shot as well. It’s at its best if you go in blind and don’t watch a trailer first

@dansup that is only possible with premium accounts.

@dansup wonder if Funkwhale could be extended to support it? They have support for external podcasts via RSS. Feels doable. (obligatory "PRs welcome!!!!")

@dansup That might be a fun project -- something like that old "mixtape" website that used to exist back in the 90s. You would have to be wired to one of the premium services though.