Mastodawn

Matt Blaze Dec 20, 2022

About a month ago, I observed that two main things I found lacking here vs. Twitter were accounts from professional creatives (artists, etc) and discussion of breaking news.

The creatives have definitely started to arrive. But the breaking news has been much slower. However, it also seems like breaking news is starting to disappear from Twitter.

I wonder what will fill that gap. Perhaps it will be here, eventually.

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Alex Gizis

@mattblaze discoverability is an issue, the way mastodon works today, every news outlet should put #news on all their posts so it would be easy to see (or hide from) the news. Maybe they should agree on a set of hashtags (#biznews , #politinews) But they don’t, so kind of hard to find.

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Alex Gizis Dec 20, 2022

@mattblaze #ActivityPub has a sense of Articles and Notes. #Mastodon just smashes them all down into Notes (or toots as we casually call them). I wonder if Articles should be a thing, and if they should be quote-tootable (but not notes/regular toots). I don't know, just an idea.