Peter SterneDec 19, 2022
The New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, CNN and Associated Press have all posted guides to using Mastodon, which in turn have been syndicated by numerous local news outlets. That matters. We're rapidly approaching a situation where the media will refer to things happening "on Mastodon" the way they referred to Twitter in, say, 2013.
Show threadKevin JohnsonDec 19, 2022

@petersterne
This is so great to see!

Twitter was helped to become the de facto public square because journalists would incorporate it into their articles & reports. I'm really glad to see this starting to happen to Mastodon. I hope it continues.

It really felt as those journalistic winds shifted this week after Elon pissed off the journalist community.

Show threadAdam FieldsDec 19, 2022
@digitalbits @petersterne it’s a really big problem that it’s so difficult to follow someone or interact with a post when you’re viewing it on their server that you’re not logged into. That’s a huge barrier to adoption of incorporating posts into other articles.
Show threadMark LoundyDec 19, 2022
@fields @digitalbits @petersterne I’m not seeing those barriers. I easily follow and interact with many users on other instances.
Show threadAdam FieldsDec 19, 2022
@markloundy @digitalbits @petersterne Through a timeline or app that's relatively easy. But if you get a permalink to a post, and you're not logged into the instance it's on, and you try to interact with it in any way, you get these cumbersome popups. Copying and pasting the url of the post or user into your own server is not a low friction pathway. I think there are chrome extensions that will make this simpler, but that's not a widespread solution.
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@fields @markloundy @digitalbits @petersterne

People need to be educated to use the share button instead of copying the link from their browser address bar

Show threadAdam FieldsDec 20, 2022
@meganox @markloundy @digitalbits @petersterne how would that help?
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@fields @markloundy @digitalbits @petersterne

it gives you a permalink that will show anyone the toot from the point of view of their own instance so no login prompt and no need to paste into search

Show threadPeter SterneDec 20, 2022
@meganox @fields @markloundy @digitalbits Does the permalink show the post from the POV of the instance of the person sharing it or from the POV of the instance of anyone who clicks on it? The former doesn’t necessarily solve the problem. The latter would be incredible but I’m not sure how it would work.
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@petersterne @fields @markloundy @digitalbits

it should show anyone who clicks it the POV from their own instance which is why the login doesn't get shown

i'm not sure how it's implemented, whether uris in a specific format are rewritten by the client, all i know is i haven't had any problems since i started using it

if someone does post a link that takes me to a different instance, rather than logging in again, i just copy the whole uri to the search box on my instance, it's a lot quicker

Show threadPeter Sterne
@meganox @fields @markloundy @digitalbits Interesting, though it doesn’t seem to be working on mobile web (or any of the mobile apps) for me.
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