Here’s an example of why not having search is so awful. Last week, I recall a developer said he was a co-author of Activitypub (or maybe AP extensions), and said it could absolutely support Bluesky’s “FeedGens” concept. I can’t remember his account, and without search, my options are limited, unless I want to scroll for a few days. Might anyone know this particular dev? I want to help push for such an AP feature right now.

I'm a bit embarrassed to say that It's been a long time since I caught up with how the @Flipboard is evolving. It's just so well done, and chock full of features and ideas I once criticized it for not having. And now that it's partly integrated with Fediverse, I am seeing all kinds of new possibilities for it. I'm allocating a lot of time next week to studying it more closely, and seeing if it can become the foundation of a really cool curation idea I've been noodling for years.

I knew Twitter had arrived when I found it was eating up most of my morning, just catching up. I am experiencing that now in the Fediverse. Don't be misled by naysayers. Only commercial products should be judged on their short term viability. The entire paradigm is unliked centralized social media. There are no burn rates, advertiser priorities, monetization conundrums, or VC impatience to contend with. So stay the course. This is the model for the future of humanity's ability to communicate.

RESEARCH POLL #207

A year out, when the Fediverse is everywhere among business, government, family, school and friends, will you always be comfortable with things like: 1) contacting and discussing personal matters, 2) reaching out to agencies for help, or 3) yammering about a weird interest or hobby in front of your entire social graph of followers? Or will you prolly do what many on Twitter did: use another account just for things you don't want to over-share with your main social network?

We are at most, a few months away from apps with content and sharing mechanisms just not possible on Twitter or other centralized, closed-source platforms. That's when the momentum will really start to build for Activitypub and other protocols supporting federated networks. We have stop talking about it being a twitter "alternative" and start talking about is as an evolutionary step forward in global social networking. Because that's what it is.

@Gargron I saw this posted a batrillion times. Is there no spam cop for this kinda stuff in the masto core yet, or was this novel?

This #crossposter app can only post everything I post to both services. Would others welcome a tool that could do it selectively? So it only crossposts the items you specify as you post?

So as I just noticed, user profiles will embed, like most media. Any other special content cases I should know about?

Is there any sort of "Trending #Hashtag" feature?

Good mornings, MastoSocialites. Are there any user stats for this server, telling me how many of us come from where. I never want to be anywhere with too many of my fellow Americans. We're all either insane or depressed these days. (As you may have heard.(

Hey all, I am interested in finding ways and means to attract more of "good twitter" to the Fediverse. Not only because of the fear of hostile takeover there, but also, well…just because it's just time.

Masto felt like the best thing to explore first. Please ask your friends who might be interested in that ambition to follow me so I can harvest their insights and ideas? TIA

Good morning. Trying to survey the whole system and understand what might bring more folks from Twitter.

Never having followers on a new social network is always a problem. It was hard to keep folks interested in twitter's first year.

This is my 3rd toot. I was here back in the Identi.ca days, but I date myself (no one else will).