decided recently to do some wikipedia editing as a hobby — just finished adding my first entirely new section to an article about baked goods. what a RUSH
grant
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22 y/o data geek. lover of podcasts, writer of poetry and some creative non-fiction. in the real world, i’m a software product manager. he/him
a few of my interests:
#cycling #publictransit #trains #productmanagement #astronomy #sql #rstats #humanetech #literature #poetry #creativenonfiction
grateful for folks like @depthsofwiki and @molly0xfff for the inspiration to fall down this rabbit hole
@_jcken just as I suspected: the radio stations have been secretly turning everybody in the Bible Belt christian by playing all that gospel music
@johnmu Oh wow, interesting — thanks for the info. So this next release might actually make it *harder* for pages on Mastodon instances to be indexed on search engines?
Also great point about the multiple domains making it tougher, I hadn't thought about it but that makes sense.
John Mueller@grant they're normal webpages so they can be found and indexed in Google. To make that happen, Google has to find a link to the page, and there has to be indexable content on that page. Links happen when people post (link from their profile) and when people reshare posts (and of course from the rest of the web). The pages I checked also seem more or less indexable, so "#SEO" can happen.
question for #foss friends: how does Mastodon/Fediverse work with #SEO stuff? If a post were to go ‘viral’ one day on the platform, would it be searchable on Google?
It would be interested for servers to be able to somehow configure level of search-discoverability for a server; some might want to show up in search while others might prefer to stay mostly secluded.
honestly, I think the big thing holding back most people from joining and participating mastodon is the initial friction during sign-up.
as more people flood here, I imagine either Mastodon or some third-party apps will nail a way to make a UI that’s intuitive even for less-technical people.
GregWilson
fuuma(Moving to new htown)Make the net weird again. Hand write sites like it’s the 90s. Pick interesting domain names and make fan sites or random knowledge known to everyone. Don’t monetize anything. Spearhead new protocols like Gemini. Make mods for games on your site. Make FAQs for obscure games no one knows about. Make public software services available to anyone. Make a news site about a really random subject. Create music in all kinds of different formats. Most of all, do it because you want to!
Paul FordA thing that makes me very paranoid is that the mod labor is pretty obscured here because the UX tries to be familiar, and also the social dynamics are old Internet, i.e. you're not gonna get cancelled you're gonna get 3,000 words emailed to you at midnight about transgressions from a total stranger (I'm old Internet I've both sent and received those). I wish there was a big red DONATE button up top. Running one of these with say 10k users is a full-time job and I kind of hope...it becomes one, god that would be great, come on board and provide great fediverse systems to people, it'll cost $10/mo. I'll figure out how to donate in any case!