Shane Curcuru 🐈

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Show threadShane Curcuru 🐈Apr 11, 2017
@pillarist @qinaliu @Naimish
Excellent points. In any case, unless you specifically make a toot private when you send it, assume any toot will be archived on the internet forever, one way or another.
#Mastodon #Feature #Idea: instance-side policies on bots, including optionally disallowing follows/toots from known bots appearing on the instance. Only works when you know it's a bot, but would still be nice.
Shane Curcuru 🐈Apr 11, 2017
Show threadpillaristApr 11, 2017
@qinaliu @Naimish @ShaneCurcuru on the bot front, #nobot only works for bots that adhere to that protocol/custom. other instances have quickly evolved from Follow Bots to Census Bots to Ambassador Bots to "You should walk to the Embassy yourself" to Bot Trap Bots, depending on ones feelings on mass/wide Federation versus "organic" Federation.
Shane Curcuru 🐈Apr 10, 2017

@shel (D20 FTW!)
Remember, #FOSS and open source is built by #people. Sometimes companies too, but in Mastodon's case, by people doing it in their spare time. So... "Be excellent to each other".

And while "patches welcome" might seem rude when you ask for feature X, fix bug Y, or whatever, that's how it works.

Complaining that Eugen should do something is like complaining to a random stranger at a bus stop they should paint the bench - a specific color.

Show threadShane Curcuru 🐈Apr 10, 2017
@qinaliu @Naimish
Thanks Qina for the human-focused documentation - still a ways to go to explain Mastodon's differences from twitter to normal humans (i.e. who don't do technology).
Also, is #nobot meant to be "don't follow me bots", or "I'm not a bot?"
Hmmm. #Mastodon #feature #Idea: automated Turing test for bot detection. :rofl:
Shane Curcuru 🐈Apr 10, 2017
Qina Liu✅Apr 9, 2017
Here's what I learned by spending a weekend on #Mastodon and my attempt to explain @acw's 🍍. Please correct me if I'm wrong about anything and boost for any #newbie making #introduction #introductions. Also thanks to @Katharsisdrill @dredmorbius @nolan @markov & many more for #MastodonTips: https://medium.com/@qinaliu/what-i-wish-i-knew-before-joining-mastodon-7a17e7f12a2b
Show threadShane Curcuru 🐈Apr 7, 2017
@Mike Oh, I understand that. But in the web client, look at my reply to you. There's an avatar, then a BOLD text "ShaneCurcuru" of my display name. Then there's the @name@instance of my userID in non-bold font.
My point is normal humans will often see the bold name first, which is *not* unique, leading to confusion until someone points it out to them. :thinking:
Show threadShane Curcuru 🐈Apr 7, 2017
@ian @Mike @tomhusband Yup, it's all still very new for Mastodon features - at least in terms of the huge influx of new users. Still a long way to go in terms of non-geek usability, and especially better search and super-easy-to-find docs on how local/federated visibility works.
People also need to understand while your ID is unique - it's tied to the instance you login on - your displayed name is not. "Ian" on this instance is probably not "Ian" on others.
/cc @ShaneCurcuru