gargron

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by gargron 10mo ago
It did not happen in public, and is not related to any public events.
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by gargron 1y ago
ActivityPub is embraced by: - Threads - Flipboard - WordPress - micro.blog - NodeBB - PeerTube - Pixelfed - GoToSocial - Akkoma - ...and countless smaller projects It is by no means just Mastodon.
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by gargron 1y ago
ActivityPub can be used for both public and private messaging, though I don't think the e-mail standard needs to be retired anytime soon.
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by gargron 1y ago
Firefox is still a great browser with probably the best devtools.
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by gargron 1y ago
I'm sorry, but by what metric are musical bands "dead"? I'm asking because I follow a lot of bands that are actively releasing new music and touring across the US and Europe. Not to mention the musical festivals.
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by gargron 2y ago
Yeah.
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by gargron 2y ago
Arguably, Bluesky being spun off from Twitter and having Jack Dorsey as one of the founding members is a somewhat Meta-like advantage, in a sense of immediate legitimacy in the press and networking opportunities/connections in Silicon
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by gargron 2y ago
Mastodon has changed quite significantly since a few years back. We take product design seriously and spend a sizeable amount of our resources on improving usability and reducing friction. If you could, please try again, and let me know how
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by gargron 2y ago
Do you not think that Meta onboarding its 2 billion Instagram userbase into Threads had something to do with it?
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by gargron 2y ago
Why do you believe that about Mastodon?
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by gargron 3y ago
What in your opinion are the pain points in the current sign up process?
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by gargron 3y ago
mastodon.social runs nightly releases off of our GitHub. Anyone can run nightlies to get these features. Or wait for the stable. What's hacky about this feature?
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by gargron 3y ago
> But the thing is, I just hate the Mastodon UI. It's so clunky. I hope this situation improves once we finish hiring a product designer. Personally I don't think the web client is as bad as some people make it sound, but I kno
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by gargron 4y ago
This PR is just one part of item MAS-86 on our public roadmap [1] "Markdown formatting for posts" which is meant to enable users to use code spans/blocks and bold and italic text as championed by the Elk third-party app [2].
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by gargron 4y ago
The choices aren't "just break compatibility with all de facto standards" and "come up with your own base standard". You can work on an extension to the protocol that everyone can adopt and move to if it's real
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by gargron 4y ago
Rewriting the user's entire database on each delete sounds like it might become a problem. Especially as some users like to automatically delete old posts on a regular basis.
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by gargron 4y ago
"Fuzzy blinky UI features" is what people actually care about though. You can have all the theoretical bells and whistles in the protocol but if you don't have a flagship application that people can use for their everyday nee
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by gargron 4y ago
You're about to reinvent JSON-LD.
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by gargron 4y ago
This is not right. First of all, what do you mean by "PublicInbox"? Are you referring to the optional sharedInbox attribute, which allows delivering a payload to a whole server at once instead of iterating over the personal inbox
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by gargron 4y ago
ActivityPub, the protocol, doesn't actually tie your identity to your homeserver. Webfinger (which is the protocol responsible for the username@domain addresses) is not part of it. In fact, even Webfinger doesn't actually "ti
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by gargron 4y ago
I cannot relate to this way of thinking. That's about the entire city of Manchester. Do dozens of people live in Manchester? 500K is vastly more than any average person can ever hope to have as followers on Twitter; it's not a cei
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by gargron 4y ago
ActivityPub is a common language that allows describing "actors", "activities" and "objects" -- and as such, can describe any kind of social platform, from blog, to forum, to social media site, be it for photo
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by gargron 4y ago
It is self-hosted because you can host it yourself.
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by gargron 4y ago
I hope this project goes somewhere, but I feel like it may be too early for a public launch. I also think it may hurt the project to position itself so clearly as specifically a TikTok alternative given how difficult it is to replicate TikT
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by gargron 4y ago
While Mastodon can be used for small server purposes (e.g. server-of-one) it is really geared towards professional use - providing a service to thousands of users and scaling up horizontally. Looking beyond technical requirements, so many o
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by gargron 4y ago
Half a million MAU.
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by gargron 4y ago
It's a decentralized social media protocol. More rich and versatile than RSS.
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by gargron 4y ago
Mastodon does not pull content from Twitter.
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by gargron 4y ago
PostgreSQL and Redis are a constellation of half-dozen databases?
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by gargron 4y ago
Saying it as the person in charge of developing Mastodon, probably the most likely reason more servers don't charge for access is that it's not built into the software, so it would require either customizing the code or manually s

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