Gregory's Server
I thought #opensocial was all about DEI? But lately it feels like it’s all about #Caturday. What about dogs, ferrets, pot-bellied pigs, and domesticated wolverines?
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Hitler was sentenced to 5 years in prison. But he only served 9 months due to a sympathetic judiciary and massive public outcry from his political supporters. If that sounds uncomfortably familiar, it should.
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 "Hitler fue condenado a 5 años de prisión. Pero sólo cumplió nueve meses debido a la simpatía de un poder judicial y a la protesta pública masiva de sus partidarios políticos. Si esto le resulta incómodamente familiar, debería serlo."  @shoq And that was not just some missbooking of hush money for a porn star, that was an attempted coup, people died, leftists doing the same thing would have been executed. So more like January 6th.  @shoq @patmadigan Trump has many more indictments to go. Our Court system should get those trials over with before the election. Trump is a convicted criminal and liar, but is he the most corrupt American who ever lived? America needs to know.
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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.  @shoq I'm trying to train myself to hit the bookmark feature when I encounter something like this — only most of the time, how do you know? 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.  @shoq @Flipboard Love hearing that, Shoq. Please let me know what you think. We're actively designing the next gen #Flipboard built on #ActivityPub so suggestions are particularly helpful right now. 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? Anonymous poll
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I'd want a less-public account for ONLY this.
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I'd want a less-public account for MANY reasons.
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Meh. No-issue. I have no secrets—from anyone!
34 people voted. 13
38.2%
Voting ended 19 Mar 2023 at 20:55. I was kinda hoping this question would get people's interest. It's a very important one for several reasons, so please boost it for your friends to answer, as well? This is a bigger issue than many contemplate at this early stage of fedi evolution. Twitter, Facebook and Tiktok were never going to be the default communications network for the planet. But the fediverse may well become that. And sooner than later. I'm trying to get a jump on some of the downstream issues that I think are inevitable. 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.
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 @shoq I know very, very little about these matters. A very simple user of modern tech. But even I can feel that this is right. It's funny. The baddies thought that destroying Alderaan (twitter) was the end of it but the resistance has atomized. #fediverse  @shoq I don't disagree, but that means some kind of "alternative" to the "Alternative to twitter" use case needs to start being broadcast. Something pithy that folks can grasp (read: tech journalism can't casually malign due to status quo relationships and more general audiences can wrap their heads around with a de minimus of effort). Not impossible, but I'd argue still not facile.   @shoq Actually, I did implement a spam detection thingie, but it is focused on a kind of specific, different case Automated spam counter-measures is an area of Mastodon development where I'd be really happy to get help 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? @shoq Mastodon shows previews for any links supporting either OpenGraph tags or OEmbed, except OEmbed of the "rich" type 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.( @shoq There's no "country" field in Mastodon so there's no stats on this. Best I could do is calculate % of selected interface languages 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). |
