Martin FowlerAug 6, 2023

+1 to @jwz 's argument that replies to posts on mastodon should be treated similarly to comments on blogs

https://www.jwz.org/blog/2023/08/mastodons-mastodonts/

Mastodon's Mastodon'ts

There are a few fundamentally broken things about how Mastodon posts work that are terrible vectors for abuse, as well as being bad for basic usability. Maybe they are fixable, I don't know. To be clear: I am a fan of Mastodon. I have been enjoying my time there much more than I ever enjoyed Twitter or Facebook or Instagram. And I am 100% in the "I won't touch anything Jack Dorsey has ...

Show threadDan Hugo (雨果丹)(แดน)

@mfowler @jwz

The assertions are a bit of a motte and bailey, with some very solid good points mixed in with what I will drastically simply to “this thing that is not a blog should be a blog.”

I have not posted yet to Followers Only (one of the standard Mastodon post options), does that hit anywhere near? How close to centralized Instagram-like should the pendulum swing, though?

My view, posting to a 3rd party platform has pros and cons, there is always 𝕏 to fall back on for great ideas…

Aug 6, 2023 at 5:17pmWeb
Show threadjwzAug 6, 2023
@DanHugo Blogs work, this doesn't. So yes. Be like blog.
Show threadDan Hugo (雨果丹)(แดน)Aug 6, 2023

@jwz

Everything should be a blog!
No simile, only metaphor.

I pondered checking this out, still might
https://github.com/tsileo/microblog.pub

Personally, I prefer self-publishing anyway, so I am not arguing against, just that your motte > your bailey.

GitHub - tsileo/microblog.pub: A self-hosted, single-user, ActivityPub powered microblog.

A self-hosted, single-user, ActivityPub powered microblog. - tsileo/microblog.pub

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