greg ✓✅⍻✔☑√

@impiri
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greg is a ux person in durham, nc.
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tech for people, not profits
cities for humans, not cars
work for each other, not capital
websitehttps://greg.gossett.me
cohosthttps://cohost.org/impiri
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Show threadgreg ✓✅⍻✔☑√Jun 6, 2024

@cabel it's nicely balanced and feels like its own thing instead of a bunch of jumbled stuff elbowing in on a regular box of raisin bran

for whatever reason, the CRUNCH on the right has a lower time-to-semantic-satiation for me

greg ✓✅⍻✔☑√May 31, 2024
please understand that the rich and powerful exist in a different reality than the rest of us when it comes to facing actual, meaningful consequences for their actions
Show threadgreg ✓✅⍻✔☑√May 31, 2024
@rgb it's more Content for the Content Machine, and that's the important thing
Show threadgreg ✓✅⍻✔☑√May 15, 2024
@foone can it still have the turquoise light?
greg ✓✅⍻✔☑√Aug 6, 2023
gregAug 6, 2023
more thoughts on #firefish after using it as my main #fediverse tool for a bit:
- the web app is way far ahead of every other microblogging web app. tons of nice interface touches, discoverability of all the cool features is good, and it's customizable in a way most web apps aren't.
- it does what i want it to do between 90% and 100% of the time, which isn't ideal but is good enough to make it my daily driver
- channels are a very good idea and will be even better when/if they federate to other servers
- "recommended" is a great way to get an admin-curated version of the normal federated firehose
- server-specific emoji and reactions are a good idea in general and work very well here

i'll probably end up migrating my relatively ancient (so, 2017) mastodon.social account over here. i hope more folks give firefish a shot; it's a little bit more intimidating than mastodon, but it's a lot more exciting right now
greg ✓✅⍻✔☑√Aug 1, 2023
gregAug 1, 2023
which way western man
Show threadgreg ✓✅⍻✔☑√Jul 30, 2023
- boosts of the same post by multiple follows show up multiple times (so, like mastodon)
- you can mute accounts on the main timeline while keeping them in lists, which is super nice to have on the server rather than managing through apps
Show threadgreg ✓✅⍻✔☑√Jul 30, 2023
- the lethallava.land server is snappy and full of interesting folks
- sadly, neither .battlefield nor .clock are available TLDs
- the firefish web interface is visually appealing and performant
- threads from remote servers can act a little wacky if you try to back up to the initial post (same as mastodon)
greg ✓✅⍻✔☑√Jul 30, 2023

some unsolicited thoughts on firefish (fka calckey) after a few days of using it (as @gg) instead of mastodon:

- importing follows from mastodon was super easy
- the "social" timeline (follows+local) is a *fantastic* idea and my new favorite way to browse
- the formatting options are cool; it occupies a good place between the plaintext of mastodon and the css crimes of cohost
- you can designate your account as a bot or a cat(!)

Show threadgreg ✓✅⍻✔☑√Jul 28, 2023
@caseyliss it’s mostly reliable when using it through the keyboard shortcut bar; invoking the browser extension craps out more often than not for me 😞