2024-12-01 17:15 UTC
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@geertaarts@mastodon.green 2024-12-01 17:52
@rauschma@fosstodon.org Thanks for all your contributions. What would be really useful is to have a very basic algorithm that places the posts with the most boost by the ones *you* follow at the top, and to make it one of the default options, particularly for the new users. Not having any algorithm whatsoever is probably the reason many of my colleagues became completely inactive.
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@leyrer@chaos.social 2024-12-01 17:55
@rauschma@fosstodon.org HTML is not programming☝️ *scnr* ;)
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@a1ba@suya.place 2024-12-01 17:57
@rauschma@fosstodon.org but can HTML be considered programming?
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@steveriggins@mastodon.social 2024-12-01 18:04
@rauschma@fosstodon.org I think the results are accurate but also skewed due to your base of followers. As someone who volunteers at an Apple User Group of mostly older people, there is very little chance they would make it through the mastodon signup or at the best end up on social. But asking the question is likely to turn them away as being too complicated.
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@ingridglomp@literatur.social 2024-12-01 18:08
@rauschma@fosstodon.org Thank you for all your work and especially for working on quote posts!
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@rauschma@fosstodon.org 2024-12-01 19:24
If you are looking for non-tech content on #Mastodon: * The sustainability crowd is really strong—you can check out who I’m following here: @light_bulbs@mastodon.green * I also have an account about language learning (but there are not as many accounts focussing on that topic—AFAICT): @langtales@mastodon.social
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@marcas@mastodon.ie 2024-12-01 18:35
@rauschma@fosstodon.org Normal user, i.e., I can use pretty much any app if I RTFM, and understand how things work *in terms of user interface*. I know nothing about what goes on under the hood, though I assume it involves tiny elves. I did not find it difficult at all to get up and running on Masto or to use it. Is it tricky to set up one’s own servers or instance or whatever? Or to custom-tailor things? Maybe! I don’t know or care! I just post things and read things others post. Works fine.
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@alterelefant@mastodontech.de 2024-12-01 18:36
@rauschma@fosstodon.org I am a software developer but don't run my own instance yet. No concrete plans, maybe in the future. For now just a regular user.
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@MadelineBodin@newsie.social 2024-12-01 18:38
@rauschma@fosstodon.org Normie user here. Rabidly against being fed by an algorithm. Introduced 4 fellow normies to Mastodon a year ago. None of them are still active. Problems I saw: picking an instance is a huge hurdle, too hard to find the people they want to follow, too few of the people they want to interact with are here, and low engagement with their early posts.
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@vosje62@mastodon.nl 2024-12-01 18:39
@rauschma@fosstodon.org i have enough knowledge, but I just want it simple to use. That's why I'm here.😂 (So I leave the tech stuff for the techies and 'complain' when things are not easy. 😉) #mastodon
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@MauroV1968@mastodon.online 2024-12-01 18:41
@rauschma@fosstodon.org I would say: yes and no. If you use Mastodon on the computer, it's not more complicated than Twitter or BlueSky. If you use it on the phone, in the mobile version... well, some improvements would be necessary 😉
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@MartyFouts@mastodon.online 2024-12-01 18:41
@rauschma@fosstodon.org I don’t think that being tech savvy makes much difference. I was very tech savvy before I retired but when I started on Mastodon in 2017 I had no idea how it worked socially so I eventually got bored and wandered off for a couple of years. OTOH I know several people who are not tech savvy who hung around for all that time. When people describe what they see as the problems with onboarding most of them seem social even though people keep suggesting tech solutions.