gargron

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by gargron 4y ago
Number one priority for onboarding is giving new users something interesting to see. We've made big strides in this direction this year. There's a new "Explore" screen in our official apps that shows trending posts, hash
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by gargron 4y ago
Mastodon is used by German and European government agencies (e.g. social.bund.de, social.network.europa.eu). There was a real-life meet-up of Mastodon users a few hours away from where I live last month. Jan Boehmermann, a German comedian
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by gargron 4y ago
Why the obsession with total registered users? Do Twitter or Facebook even publish that data? I cannot find it. Every number they use is based on MAU or DAU. Which is because the registered users number is quite meaningless. It just goes up
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by gargron 4y ago
To be fair, that sentence has only been there for a couple days. We redesigned our project homepage completely. Some of the copy is still in flux.
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by gargron 4y ago
The author seems under to be under the wrong impression that Mastodon servers are isolated communities (and therefore compares them to subreddits). This is incorrect. Mastodon is a platform where a server of your choosing hosts your account
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by gargron 4y ago
Mastodon considers 20 people in a hashtag as trending because people don't use hashtags for new topics very often, and the hashtags that do get used often and regularly are exactly the opposite of "trending". And because tren
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by gargron 4y ago
Despite the name of your source, it seems to consider less than half of existing Mastodon servers. According to my own crawler, the up-to-date active user count is 540,258.
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by gargron 5y ago
I think you can just make Mastodon send e-mails through your GMail account if you're going that route.
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by gargron 5y ago
The friction you are describing is when you leave Mastodon's web app and go on the public pages of different servers (that have no way to know who you are because they are separate websites with separate cookies). You do not have to le
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by gargron 5y ago
The metric for "it works" is whether people successfully get started and continue to use the platform. For commercial companies this coincides with them making money. Even though Mastodon is a non-profit and does not and has no wa
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by gargron 5y ago
Chronological home feed is our selling point. You can also opt-in to notifications when specific accounts post if you don't want to miss them (bell button on profiles). Finally, you can also split your home feed into lists. However, no
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by gargron 5y ago
If you are self-hosting for yourself, you can make-do without an e-mail server. You'd have to create an account from the command-line (`tootctl accounts create aquova --email=you-login-with@this --confirmed`) and turn on TOTP 2FA once
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by gargron 5y ago
To allow people to review their followers before accepting them ("follow requests") all subscriptions in ActivityPub require the followed actor to send back an Accept activity. This, and the Webfinger requirement to confirm the us
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by gargron 5y ago
Mastodon's central feature is the home feed. You can successfully use Mastodon without ever looking at any of the firehose feeds.
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by gargron 5y ago
Linked from the banner below the post: https://joinmastodon.org
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by gargron 5y ago
For news stories, moderators can approve publishers (e.g. techcrunch.com) and then they don't need to review individual links anymore (though the ability to override this for individual links remains). Same for posts and authors. If a
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by gargron 5y ago
Yes, there are visual indicators that the post has been edited, similar to how it is on GitHub.
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by gargron 5y ago
If you support subscribing to RSS feeds maybe you'd want to also support ActivityPub? Let your users follow Mastodon accounts and vice versa, become part of the growing fediverse.
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by gargron 5y ago
You are describing Mastodon [1] [1]: https://joinmastodon.org
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by gargron 5y ago
Would you care to finish reading the sentence you're quoting the first part of? > As far as personal feelings are concerned, of course we would prefer if people so antithetical to our values did not use and benefit from our labour,
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by gargron 5y ago
It is not that the admin tools do not correctly keep track of old media, it is that the judgement over what to keep is left to the admin since it is not so simple to programmatically decide whether a resource being currently unavailable thr
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by gargron 5y ago
We definitely want to improve content/people discovery. One recent addition was the follow suggestions you get when you first sign up. It pulls up the most popular/proactive accounts in your language. Trending tags should also hel
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by gargron 5y ago
Hi, yes, you can move your followers to another account, and export/import other contacts. Perhaps not entirely without the old admin's cooperation though.
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by gargron 5y ago
I've just opened the YouTube frontpage from a private window to see what it's like. There is literally nothing on there I'd want to click on. I think the value of YouTube is in 1) being able to link to a video 2) subscribing
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by gargron 5y ago
Any chance of this becoming part of the ActivityPub fediverse?
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by gargron 5y ago
It's not a Ruby gotcha, it's a Rails routing gotcha. You can specify alternative formats on any path, e.g. you can access /path to get HTML (or whatever the "default" format for that controller method is) or you can
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by gargron 5y ago
> My recollection is that to be listed in their directory of instances, you need to abide by the content rules created by key Mastodon people, and those instances in turn are required to only peer with other instances that follow the sam
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by gargron 5y ago
We at mastodon.social don't copy our blocklist from anybody and don't consider ourselves to be on anyone's "side". Our blocklist is of a quite reasonable length for 5 years of operation and based on personal experie
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by gargron 5y ago
It's joinmastOdon.org, not joinmastAdon.org. We don't own the misspelled domain. I wonder how many people fall prey to it though.
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by gargron 5y ago
It's self-contained by default and as you follow outside users it starts receiving their posts and so on. You don't have to participate in the whole fediverse.

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