Archiving my Twitter, Facebook and other social network activity
@bethskw Totally agree. One of the first things I do when I set up a new phone or install a new app is pare down the notifications to the bare minimum.
My list is similar to yours — direct messages from actual people get both visual and audio alerts — though I do allow visual-only notices on email and social media replies (but not likes or retweets).
Misread an email with the subject, “Are you fired up and ready to vote?” as “Are you *fed* up and ready to vote?”
Yeah, that too.
@dansup Nice! Being able to reliably find my own stuff is what makes a service feel more permanent/solid than ephemeral, which is one of the reasons I look at Flickr as a slowly building gallery and Instagram as something ephemeral (even though it really isn’t).
@jusdepatate @switchingsocial My understanding of SSB is that it’s *only* self-hosted instances. You host it directly on your own computer or other device, and it will sync posts to/from your friends’ devices when you’re both online.
My take on GIF: Pronounce it however you want, but don’t claim that the other way has no precedent in a language that contains both “gift” and “gin.”
@Satsuma Oh, yeah, the support-your-admin model is definitely healthier!
I’d like to see something other than the current attention-based-surveillance-and-advertising model become the norm.
But as long as that’s the business model, I’d prefer a world where they found it more profitable to make things better for the rest of us than continue to make things worse.
@Satsuma Of course – that’s a large part of why a lot of us are here on Mastodon, after all.
But there’s some manipulation inherent in any structured interaction.
The fact that we can boost, favorite or reply, but not quote, is a deliberate choice on Gargron’s part.
The character limits, the number of images, visibility of CWs, the size of the edit box, column width, all of these things influence how people use the app.
@Satsuma I remember @anildash mentioning changing the size of the text box on (presumably) Movable Type & finding that people would write longer or shorter posts based on that, even though the length limit itself hadn’t changed. The UI influenced people’s choices.
The monster/human relationship in Monsters, Inc. is upended when it’s discovered that laughter produces more power than screams of fear.
It’s like the opposite of social media discovering that anger produces more engagement than cat pictures.
Imagine if social media discovered something *positive* that drove more engagement than anger?
Local Target’s Minecraft event is a bit disorganized, but the kiddo found all the stickers for the scavenger hunt. And was willing to stop at 2 toys & leave, which was a nice surprise.
I found this old post I wrote on how Marvel or DC would have milked Lord of the Rings as an “event” comic book, with tie-ins, spin-offs, and character spotlights…
…and realized it’s not that far off from what the Hobbit movies actually *did*.
What If…Lord of the Rings had been an “Event” Comic?
@LOLspam I’d forgotten just how many of these quotes were weird euphemisms.
Interesting: Plume authors and blogs both show up as profiles in Mastodon, but (so far, anyway) I can only follow an author, not a blog.
Cloudflare is launching a gateway for IPFS.
On one hand, I’ve thought it was a cool idea since I first heard about it. (And now I’m thinking of that cache problem with HTTPS sites and high-latency connections.)
On the other hand…it’s a lot easier to remember and type ‘example.com/whatever’ than a hash value.
@Virelai Yeah, that’s one reason I’m keeping mine around after moving to this one. I also have it following my alts on smaller instances, to make sure their hashtagged posts will show up at least in mastodon.social
@Virelai I believe it searches posts that the instance you’re on knows about already, without calling out to other instances. So it’ll show you hashtagged posts from:
– the local timeline
– remote users that local users are following.
– remote toots that have been boosted or searched by URL on this instance.
@VirelaiI’ve found that searching on a small instance like booktoot.club turns up fewer results than searching wandering.shop or mastodon.social, but if I search for a hashtag on a bigger instance, then copy the URL of a toot over to the search box on the smaller instance, the smaller instance will find it the next time I search for that hashtag.
Smart UI on Instagram: if you start to unfollow someone with a private account, it reminds you that if you change your mind, you’ll need to request approval again.
I know it’s not done yet, but when I saw I could boost from PixelFed, I had to try.
1. Follows, likes & replies don’t federate back to Pixelfed yet.
2. Replies do appear on my profile here & on the OP on Mastodon instances where I am following this account.
3. Neither the OP nor replies show up on Mastodon instances where I’m not following this account.
4. I can search the OP on another Masto instance, but it doesn’t see the replies.
It’s an understandable typo, but the “lethal level” and “legal level” of a substance are *very* different things!
At least one hopes so…
That said, I can definitely think of times when I would want to discuss someone else’s blog post/article/whatever *without* reporting back everything I say.
And times when I wouldn’t want to see everything *they’re* saying when they link to something of mine.
I also like the idea of boosting a blog post and having replies federate as comments.
We’ve all been trained by FB to discuss on the network instead of at the source. That fragments the conversation, and while sometimes that’s a good thing, sometimes it helps to, well, centralize.
Everyone who’s asked me for help using IFTTT with Mastodon has asked *here*, not on the blog post, so they haven’t seen other people who had the same problem & how they fixed it.