Hey @ivory @mammoth @IceCubesApp @MonaApp and all others: please directly steal this UI from the #Threads app for scrolling to top of a feed…
Hey @ivory @mammoth @IceCubesApp @MonaApp and all others: please directly steal this UI from the #Threads app for scrolling to top of a feed… A list of the wisest people I'm listening to to navigate the #Threads opportunities and threats. This will be a hugely accelerated time of learning, and these are folks I learn from every week, and good sources to compare notes on as things change day to day: @erlend @tchambers oh man, what a group to find oneself mentioned in! Obviously this list is incomplete without you on it. Your "Instagram Threads and the Fediverse" series is fantastic. Thank you for writing it! One idea that #Threads does now we should learn from and directly steal: the ability to say in your settings that you can set @mentions to be from. You can choose to allow them from: Everyone, Profiles you follow, or No one. That's a great feature. How feasible would that be inside #ActivtyPub? @tchambers @smallcircles @liaizon @helge Every implementation would have to respect and handle that for it to be really useful This doesn't need to be inside ActivityPub. It's super easy to implement, your server would just ignore the mentions that don't match your preference.
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@tchambers A very thoughtful approach for how to deal with #meta and its #threads app by @tchambers @tchambers @fediverse This seems to hold some promise until #Twitter rescinds it lates gaffe! Is anyone going to make a bot like Mastodon User Count, or @threadcount but for the overall Fedi using #FediDb data? @tchambers @threadcount I’ll probably do this sometime in the next week, I can add federation support and publish stats from accounts based on project or period from fedidb itself like @growth@fedidb.org or @pixelfed@fedidb.org FYI, @activitypubtestsuite - while we work to bring ActivityPubTest Suite 1.0 back to life, it looks like @dansup is working on this which feels very promising for a new tool. https://kbin.social/m/fediverse/p/561391/Really-excited-for-the-activityPub-developer-tools-I-ve-been-working The 2nd argument for preemptive defederation: ➡️ To defend against poorly moderated P92 users & ad spam. We have all the tools for that now - as users & as admins, and deal with exactly this from poorly moderated servers EVERY. SINGLE. DAY. And if we find ANY server not responsive THEN we block. Protecting our users is our 1st job but we have all we need - WITHOUT first strike defederation. The third argument I'll look at next is to avoid #EEEE - "Embrace, Extend, and Extinguish." 🧵 2 of X The 3rd argument for defederation: ➡️ To defend against being Embraced, Extended, and Extinguished. This is a real risk, and others point to Google and Facebook and XMPP, or Google and RSS Google reader. Where a big entity takes over, then rug pulls or extends an open standard slowly into an non-standard, non-interoperable functionally siloed service. This is a real risk. But you don't - and can't - defend against this by defederation. I'll explain why next. #EEEE 🧵 3 of N
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@tchambers @spreadmastodon @fediversereport @fediversenews "Tapbot released Ivory, an iOS version of the Mastodon app. In addition to updating their iOS app and releasing a new Mac OS[sic]" I'm sure they're talented but perhaps not *that* talented. (Typos on p. 19) @tchambers @spreadmastodon @fediversereport @fediversenews @tchambers
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@tchambers Your new instance, magazines, posts have been a huge assist. Having people established on Mastodon shepherding the new users on and helping to answer questions, reduce confusion, etc. all while not tone policing is nice to see. The power of the Fediverse is definitely starting to come into focus. I honestly think it will be a paradigm shift for content creators if they embrace it. It's a bit thrilling to watch unfold. @tchambers about the "cross-platforms federation", am I supposed to be able to see Lemmy/kbin posts in my mastodon app if I follow them ? Can't understand if it's not possible or if the instances are just swamped
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I have some opinions about this (basically: fuck Meta forever), but what I'm finding so fascinating is how this is all being hashed out in discussions like this one. Not just ActivityPub/BigSocial integration, but moderation, federation, text search, quote-boosting – all of it. It's a real time, real-world, live action drama of anarchy and (small-d) democracy being built. @tchambers nope, that's not how this works. Embracing means that many people will use a Google service, just because it's a big name with a marketing budget. People will join Google instead. Just like people used Facebook Messenger to talk to XMPP friends. When (inevitably) the support will get cancelled or when corporations make unilateral additions to the protocol, then the rest of the Fediverse will be worse off. Not "at the point where we are now". Worse. @tchambers @darius yep the key point is we have to have a strong "culture" so we can try and hold our #fashionista crew from going down the #dotcons path because it's "better", this is harder than our "logic" thinks it is. Take note. Signs of the #RedditMigration in action: That is only seriously good for the entire Fedi infrastructure. Diversity is strength.
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@tchambers the issue we are facing is the creation of a small number of servers supporting a vast number of users. Counter productive with the concept of the #fediverse. We need to encourage new people to not swarm. Just want to say how crucial #FediDB is this week tracking the #RedditMigration and what a great resource it has grown into becoming for the entire Fedi. Thanks @dansup @tchambers @tokyo_0 Does MCM rate limit to keep from bogging down the new host server with rapid-fire requests? @tchambers Thank you, for the boost and the share and for taking an interest! 🙏 As a (former) Reddit user, I just joined #Kbin to watch and help support the potential #RedditMigration coming from that platform. Here is me there: @tchambers@kbin.social And I just supported @ernest the creator of the platform, and so should you: suspect next week he will need all the support the Fedi can give. https://www.buymeacoffee.com/kbin Lastly, I love the phrase for the Federated Reddit alternatives as "the Threadiverse." There’s also a new #kbin server run by the same admin as infosec.exchange (@jerry): https://fedia.io/ Microblogging admins putting up parallel instances in the #threadiverse is cool IMO (there are similarly parallel instances for #lemmy). Trying to find the best tracking for #lemmy usage after the #Reddit API and Apollo app ruckus. Seeing anecdotal signs of lots of new users, but trying to find a place that quantifies it on a daily updated basis: Here is Federation-info: https://the-federation.info/platform/73 I don't think #FediDb is updated daily, but rather monthly for now. Are there others sources for daily data over the last weeks? @tchambers Source: https://lemmy.ml/comment/419602 Hope #BlueSky changes these terms of use: https://twitter.com/ashleygjovik/status/1651686218319425570?s=46&t=SJq9hij4JmK6nQhFUm559w This is now live - in early preview mode - full site launches in May! 🔥 Love to hear any thoughts, ideas and ways we all together build this movement to #TakeBackSocial One of the things I love about the Fediverse is that it is growing in about 8 different directions and they all cohere. From #Fedidb look at the top software undergirding the Fedi: #Pixelfed, #WordPress, #Microblog #Peertube are all playing substantial roles...but are not "forks' of Mastodon but are entirely different apps, which benefit from Mastodon, and give value back to it. And are one Fediverse. cc: @manton cc: @pfefferle @tchambers @dansup @pfefferle @manton This does not align with self-reported stats on the-federation.info/#projects
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@tchambers @ivory @mammoth @IceCubesApp @MonaApp LOL but Yes!
@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!