1) What offers or promises have we made about the #fediverse, and decentralised social networks in general, to encourage people to try them?
2) Are they fulfilled?
* To what degree are they true?
* To what degree are they not (yet) true?
I'm assuming both parts of the 2nd question can be answered, for any answer to the first one, especially if we're commenting on first impressions as well as testable technical facts.
Imagine a fediverse app gave 3 equally prominent buttons for posting text about a post; Comment, Reply and Whisper.
The difference is;
* a Comment is a text directed to a general audience, *about* the author's post (or the author themselves).
* a Reply is a text directed *to* the post author, and the accounts following them, and anyone else @mentioned
* a Whisper is a direct a text directed to the post author *only*, and anyone else @mentioned
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Some small rural towns stay connected through Facebook groups.
If you want to reach people in that small town, for social or commercial reasons — you post to that towns' Facebook groups.
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What could the Fediverse and Social Web learn from this?
A UX improvement to @Mastodon that might increase usage of Content Warnings; stop counting the text in them against the 500 char limit. Give them their own separate (shorter) limit, maybe 200 characters or less? Something to consult on with people who think it's useful to write long Content Warnings.
I noticed a new cirled question-mark icon next to my Fediverse address on my Mastodon account.
Tapping it exposed a pop-up.
It seems like it is a message to me.
I just started reading the blog of @gilles. #HatTip to @mayel for the link to Gilles' homepage.
Anyway, I read this blog post;
https://blog.gillesdutilh.com/2025/03/the-pain-in-mansplaining/
... and saw "fediverse reactions" at the bottom. So I tried putting that URL into the @Mastodon search bar. No dice.
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It would be good to have a UX checklist for new fediverse devs to work though as they implement ActivityPub, and for devs of established apps to check against when doing UX reviews. Things like;
* replies to posts made in other apps federate back to the OP server
* edits to those posts federate
* searching a URI for a post or actor in other apps retrieves it
Maybe with links to implementation tips for each point. An idea for ActivityPub.rocks?
As I mentioned in a post a week or 2 back, the vanilla Mastodon web app is now better for most purposes than the third-party ones I've tried
(@enafore, @elk, @phanpy, happy to go into detail on why if this helps). Plus, now that I'm home I use my laptop a lot more (on mobile I tend to use native apps, which are pretty good; @moshidon, @Fedilab (?), @pachli).
Using the Mastodon web app more has helped me understand the logic behind the Quote Post feature.
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#UX #FediverseUX #QuotePosts
I dream of being able to store my online social presence, identity, and history just as — an (organized) set of static files.
A set that I control.
And, I can (if I want to) host myself. (I.e., I am the "source of truth" / "origin" for my files.)
RE: https://mastodon.social/@reiver/116018261922778583
#ActivityPub #FediDev #FediDevs #FediUX #Fediverse #FediverseUX
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If you cannot get (most) regular people to write JSON-LD, JSON, or even HTML —
But, you might be able to get them (regular people) to write something similar to Markdown and INI —
Then, are there ways you could (explicitly or implicitly) encode JSON-LD type information, such as ActivityPub, into a Markdown-like or INI-like file — in a way where they (regular people) would likely include it?
I suspect — probably yes.
#ActivityPub #FediDev #FediDevs #FediUX #Fediverse #FediverseUX
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