 Developing Mastodon, I strive to use terminology that is familiar to as many people as possible so as to not put up unnecessary barriers in understanding. For this reason I am happy that we went away from calling posts "toots". It has always been a point of friction for people. Not that I dislike branding, quite the opposite, but in my experience receiving feedback over half a decade, it had a negative effect on the platform for little benefit.
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 One of the top frustrating things about having a growing audience is that you can not rely on any shared or historic knowledge. Everything has to be said with the assumption that the reader has not seen a single other word from you and knows nothing about you. Every thought or announcement has to inline all the fundamentals.
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 @Gargron Which sadly, ends up leading to putting off people who read it and have been around for a while, and go, "But why do you keep saying the same things... I wish you'd not repeat well known stuff." @Gargron Trading stocks/crypto has been a lot easier ever since I got in contact with Evelyn R. Greetings, @Gargron (Eugen)! I agree withe your perceptive comment. Personally find that the 500 character limit adds to my challenge when I write, assuming a reader has never read anything I have posted. Perhaps brevity is not one of my strengths! :shrug: Cordially, David Dickerson
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 @Gargron I participate in many film fest based communities, and yes. You can make one about nearly anything and send it to many film fests. Strad Style is proof positive. My film with an Indian production house is India and Eastern Europe auteur art that gets pop praise in Italy and is Arab Asian sensation. It’s Australian Indie and New York Jazz cult. The key is to win 7 awards minimum before distribution and find a good one. Our search index over here got out of sync a few weeks ago. It was the first time I've needed to re-import data into it in a long time. The command estimated a runtime of over 30 days to complete. So I've been working on optimizing the command.
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 Somebody gave Mastodon's official iOS app a 1-star review on the App Store because "there are too many Taiwan independence" [sic, translation]. That's a first! Also, Taiwan is a country.
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Language selection is now available in the Mastodon web app. Make sure your posts are seen by people who understand them! Supports quickly finding the right language with fuzzy search and remembers your most frequently selected languages.
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@Gargron is there a way to select more than one language? I'm writing German + English on one account , but if i choose one, people who filter, either don't see stuff meant for the german writing community or or the worldwide art community on my server.
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Just realized "Get started" and "Sign in" on the first screen of the iOS app got translated into "First steps" and "Sign up" in German which explains why I've been getting complaints that there's no way to sign in to an existing account 🤦♂️
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@Gargron You should not waste so much time on iOS development. I also used Xcode and Apple is one huge marketing hoodwink and a huge waste of money. @Gargron Hi! I think it would be best if the app(s) did not try to translate anything if people do not ask for translation. The Mastodon app is still completely in Finnish for Nordic countries. Is the goal to attract Twitter users? If so, I think the sign up/in needs to be way more simple and mirror what we see when signing up/in on a computer. Also there being several apps for Mastodon creates hesitation and confusion for new users. I don't use any app for Mastodon because of this. 😔 @Gargron That's not the only problem with the app. When i signed up via app, the Mastodon Social server was not in the list. It can only be chosen by signing up via website. I think that's a strange limitation. All possible servers should also be available via app signing up. Yesterday's stats: 3,007 alive Mastodon servers, 3,116,319 registered Mastodon users, 478,046 active Mastodon users
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So often what admins put into their server's short description is neither short nor description :tiredcat:
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@Gargron I would find it interesting where / on what hardware / at what cost an instance is hosted, as well as how/by whom the expenses are covered. Also, some hints on the motivation for creating an instance and (hopefully) longterm commitment to maintain it would be useful. Not sure all of this fits in a 'short description', though.  Not entirely sure how to tell feed readers that the inline image is a custom emoji and should not be stretched as wide as possible. CSS classes are meaningless and inline styles get stripped or modified. Would be nice to get something like rel=emoji going. @Gargron dope track. not my usual but it's pretty nice. Tells a story, has a neat visual (the triangle glows pink roughly during the chorus/refrains) 
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 @Gargron @sean That's one way to look at it, yes definitely; another though is to see it as practical (yet experimental) collaborative development towards social posts and social graph as migratable digital assets, and attempt at separating free speech from free reach... All still pie-in-the-sky (pun kinda intended), but still though.  @Gargron it is much worse than activitypub as it is implemented today in terms of assured deniability 🙃 Mastodon has a verification mechanism, though it looks different from Twitter's. We do not ask for your documents. Instead, if you have a website that you are known by, you can verify that you are the owner of that website. Link to your Mastodon profile from the website, either through a visible link, or through a <link> tag in the head of the document, with a rel=me attribute, and link back to that page from your Mastodon profile. It should then get a green checkmark, like @Mastodon.
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@Gargron @Mastodon hey @scrumtuous here is how to get.a green checkmark on mastodon :) Mastodon's Android app is now at 43,362 installs, getting us ever so closer to making us tip over from that "10,000+" text on the Play Store to "50,000+"
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@Gargron also toots = farts
@Gargron @evanoconnell here’s the thread re: “toot” terminology :)
@Gargron renaming "Toot" to "Publish" is not the best decision you've made.
There was (and still is) a whole culture built around that word.
You are now going to lose that culture.
Don't underestimate what a shared vocabulary means for a community.
"Toot" is the sound of a horn.
Should people stop playing brass instruments because it euphemistically also means to let go of wind (which itself is an euphemism).
Who else thought "tweet" was silly back in the day?
What a lost opportunity.
@Gargron renaming "Toot" to "Publish" is not the best decision you've made.
There was (and still is) a whole culture built around that word.
You are now going to lose that culture.
Don't underestimate what a shared vocabulary means for a community.
"Toot" is the sound of a horn.
Should people stop playing brass instruments because it euphemistically also means to let go of wind (which itself is an euphemism).