mastodon 4.7.2I like building things.
I'm pretty pleased. Today I had a goal to make my own Instagram, and I did.
To be clear, "my own Instagram" just means having an images folder on my desktop that posts to the internet with an RSS feed. It's not a towering coding accomplishment or anything.
But I wanted to do it, I learned how, and I did. Feels good.
#react #nextjs #chatgpt
Every time I post something flattering about #mastodon I get a ton of attention.
Which is why Mastodon is great.
(waits)
People like to talk about the status quo like a static thing, but it’s not.
One year ago, the Russian army was considered strong. Twitter hadn’t yet been raided by Musk. Trump was in trouble but not as much as he is right now. ChatGPT didn’t exist. Same with MidJourney. Inflation was way up.
The new status quo is a more united NATO, an ascendant Mastodon, wild AI products, inflation going down month after month, etc
Much has changed, and don’t overlook that a lot was good.
On the Twitter abuse team, we sketched out this video to advocate for the idea of "Amy's First Minute, which said if users don't feel in control of their timeline within one minute of something going wrong, we'll lose them forever.
I think the same metric will apply to Mastodon as it grows.
@supernovae@universeodon.com I agree with everything you said, but also:
I used to fight abuse/disinfo at Twitter as a designer. For Mastodon to grow beyond early tech adopters, it'll have to figure out a few things:
1. Most people don't block and they certainly don't mute. They're more likely to just leave as their timeline gets more hectic or toxic.
2. Moderation is tough for sure. When someone is having a tough time, they're going to expect help. And they aren't going to think about overloading the system.
@kissane@mstdn.social I love http://rewind.ai for things like this. Not Mastodon but helps me a lot.
I'm working on my Firehose app (one RSS feed that blends a bunch of RSS feeds) and Mastodon images aren't showing up right.
So here's an image I can experiment with until it works right.
@hans@fedi.gerwitz.com @buster@me.dm I've always been a Medium fan but me toooooo
@Tengrain@mastodon.social @shoq@mastodon.social It’s also objectively hard.
I worked at Twitter and the research was clear: it took about three years for the average user to get a good timeline. Most people didn’t make it that far.
And Mastodon is objectively harder. Those findings would pop off the page in any usability test or comparison.
I work at @Replay@hachyderm.io where our small team is making a time-travelling debugger. Which sounds like marketing but it’s actually a Bret Victor-inspired technological achievement that started at Mozilla.
Today Replay joined Mastodon! ❤️🥳
I’ve been running an experiment with chatGPT where instead of opening new chats I’m saying everything in one really long chat. So it can really get to know me.
It opens up cool things like me saying what movies and tv I like, and it using that information to recommend music and books. Then, as I tweak those answers, it can use all that to recommend a totally new thing, like manga.
It’s been pretty cool.
@supernovae@universeodon.com Yeah, I can imagine. Hope it gets better for you soon!
I also need to see how CW tags work in RSS feeds, so...
A while back I drew a comic about Twitter's (then new) Bluesky concept. If you're interested in Twitter, Mastodon, or federated content, you might enjoy it.
https://www.hewrotego.com/plebe-14#bluesky
#mastodon #fediverse #twitter
A few months ago I tried running a Mastodon instance, and learned a lot. Then I shut it down and wrote a friendly farewell post that got a bit of traffic. Today someone pointed me to this blog post that linked to it: https://nolanlawson.com/2022/11/22/thoughts-on-mastodon/
But the link is now broken, so here's a summary for anyone who's interested ->
@robert_p_king Awesome, what's the podcast?
@Axomamma@mastodon.online Congrats!
See that big spike of red at the end? That's Mastodon.
Not sure how I feel about this.
*hurries to post insight to Mastodon*
