Tim Chambers
Amen. Every one of these developers - very much including @dansup - is doing us all a great service as a labor of love for the open social web. We owe them all nothing but support, encouragement and when we offer notes, to make them constructive ones. Oh and money, we owe them donations to help make good things happen. cc: @fediversenews
Tim Chambers
Welcome @postopinions to the Fediverse!
Tim Chambers
FYI, as we look at #spam on the #Fediverse, I do think there are things to prep for TODAY to prepare for whenever #Threads federates. On that day if/when it happens: I don't worry about spam hitting US from THREADS, I worry about spammers setting up shop here to flood the 160MM Threads users. We need to prepare for that day and to be a good neighbor with our own houses in order. For the good of the Fediverse and the good of the open social web in general.
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Robot Cafou
Good. A huge part of fediverse is hostile to threads. I don't want to be a good neighbour for thread because i don't want to be neighbour in the first place. Facebook is not welcome here.  
Kern 🏳️🌈
@tchambers@indieweb.social I think fedi generally has a huge moderation advantage, being a collection of relatively small servers..
Tim Chambers
As blogs from #wordpress, #ghostcms #microdotblog and others federate in, I'm trying to get everyone to use the tag #Fediblogs to make those posts discoverable and searchable. As podcasts from @Castopod MicrodotBlog, and @funkwhale, #PodcastIndex others federate... I'm trying to push for the use of the tag #Fedicasts to become a common way to search and find federated podcast episodes. Who's with me? cc: @dave @manton @dave @pfefferle 
Boris Mann
@tchambers There’s already the field that is visible from what tool is posting. Mastodon search could be upgraded to show all posts made by Castopod. Or, actually post of type Podcast rather than everything being a Note. And blogs can post as Article. Let’s not get stuck on what Mastodon can do and really exercise the ActivityPub protocol.
zeitiger / David :W12:
@tchambers interesting 🤔 I use my wordpress blog mainly to publish via Podlove Publisher my podcast format, so Fedicast would be the better tag 🏷️ for this content. 
Fediverse Report
@tchambers Sure, lets give this a shot. I'll participate with my blogs ( @LaurensHof@fediversereport.com and @laurenshof@laurenshof.online ) as well
spaceribs
@tchambers I think you're hitting the nail on the head here, I remember going to artschool and becoming deeply enamored with the critique process. This is frankly missing from most workplaces/community interactions in general. People don't realize how valuable it is, and if you do have that in your life, cherish it by practicing it as much as possible.
Tim Chambers
“This mass exodus from Twitter represents one of the largest digital migrations in the history of the Social Web and a unique example of collective behavioral change that is documented through large-scale digital traces, that can thus be studied quantitatively and at scale.”
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dreamingawake09
@tchambers @fediversenews it's wild to see cause I vividly remember the exodus from Digg to Reddit and that felt big at the time too.
72mz
@tchambers @fediversenews
Tim Chambers
@Flipboard just announced it is ceasing support for X and focusing on Mastodon and other platforms. They just sent this to their 452,000+ X followers: https://twitter.com/Flipboard/status/1726999607866208604 cc: @fediversenews
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Cotopaxi
@tchambers @Flipboard @fediversenews Drops become drips, drips become a trickle, trickles become a stream, and this is good, very good. 
Stuart Longland (VK4MSL)
@tchambers @Flipboard @fediversenews Headline: Flipboard flips bird to bird site
Shadow, First of His Name
@tchambers @Flipboard @fediversenews They are betting on the fediverse and doing it right. Can't credit @mike and the team enough for the work they did.
Tim Chambers
Both Threads and Mastodon surfaced the news of Apple dropping X, and the Sam Altman news within minutes of it being live. X is no longer the prime place for breaking news, these other platforms have grown to be equal - or actually better at that. And that was X/Twitter's main feature.
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DELETED
@tchambers @ramsey Eh, not for me. I get my news from subscription newspapers. I miss my old network from back when Twitter was great. I’m now in three different places, and I don’t have the time to cultivate a new network, so I barely use any of them. There are a handful of people on each that I regularly engage with. That’s all.
submariner.wtf
@tchambers I can't seem to get my feed "tuned" to breaking news. Anything in particular you do?
SpaceLifeForm
That is the point of what X turned into. The fascists thought they could capture the eyeballs there and disseminate propaganda and misinformation. The real human eyeballs are still moving. The fake eyeballs (bots) are not.
Tim Chambers
OK very cool, @gabor, well done: "There is a silver lining: Pebble.is is gone, but Pebble.social has just recently launched. Gabor has stated, for the time being, that this new Mastodon instance is 'just an experiment,' but he appears hopeful that former Pebble community members will sign up there." https://wedistribute.org/2023/11/pebble-shuts-down-but-starts-a-mastodon-instance/
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Tim Chambers
@gabor And love that we get to watch it get built here: https://phanpy.social/#/indieweb.social/s/111344332187076020
Tim Chambers
🔥 Our biggest update yet: our new quarterly report on the #TwitterMigration is live! Covers the stark negative impact of the X rebrand, the dramatic rise, cooling & now stabilizing of Threads as a competitor closer on X’s heels than most think. Also features the state of play of Mastodon & BlueSky as rising alternatives while others shrink. Is an in-depth view of the best third-party research and original analysis from my team. cc: @fediverse Get it here: ➡️ https://bit.ly/3QaHR2W
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Tor Kingdon
@tchambers wonder how/if they counted profiles that mention “extinct pachyderm,” because that’s what mine says. 
Pam Phillips
@tchambers As one of the 60K of Twitter users with Mastodon in my profile, I feel seen. The X rebrand convinced me to let it go. The deletion happened in September.
Tim Chambers
Just in case anyone here having ANY buyers remorse at moving your social home away from X/Twitter.
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hybrid havoc :1m: :rm:
Alt text: post from bgrahamdisciple that reads: To those of you who have abandoned Twitter, well played. There is an attached image, a screenshot of an email from Twitter which reads: Hello, 
Tim Chambers
#Threads officially added its first Fediverse integration today adding “rel=me” verification support. I reached out three weeks ago suggesting that would be an early trust building step. And they did it…. Now you can use your Mastodon account (or Wikipedia or Gavatar or Flipboard or Medium) account to verify your Threads, and vice versa.
Tim Chambers
Everyone: I'm making another push for donating to this developer: @thisismissem - 🔥 if you care about evolving Mastodon, moving the Fediverse forward, no better way than to give to her. She is doing great work inside the Mastodon dev space, and would be a crime for her to not remain focused on that due to funding. 💰 I just gave again, join me in doing so here. Help us move this to 50% of the goal... https://ko-fi.com/thisismissem cc: @spreadmastodon
Tim Chambers
“An NFT of Jack Dorsey's first tweet bought for $2.9M is now valued at less than 4 dollars.” cc: @web3isgreat
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Flippin' eck, Tucker!
@tchambers @web3isgreat And of course the JPEG of Jack's first tweet, which is all that the NFT references, was and remains completely free. Quite how allegedly intelligent (or at least evidently wealthy) people could get conned into paying for that sort of nonsense remains one of the great mysteries of the past few years. 
Tim Chambers
Mastodon has hit 2M active users today https://cyberplace.social/@GossiTheDog/110700438240156452
Tim Chambers
A good read. Key bit: "Obviously, the social networking space is undergoing a major shakeup. Twitter under Elon Musk’s chaotic reign has seemingly created an opportunity for an alternative microblogging service. With #Threads and #Mastodon both embracing #ActivityPub, it might not be one platform that wins out—but an open standard. "
Tim Chambers
Hey @ivory @mammoth @IceCubesApp @MonaApp and all others: please directly steal this UI from the #Threads app for scrolling to top of a feed…
Noah Liebman
@tchambers @ivory @mammoth @IceCubesApp @MonaApp native iOS apps use native iOS conventions like tapping the top/status bar to scroll to the top. No need to reinvent! |
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