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Interests include content moderation/social media, internet culture, buildings/infrastructure, politics, elections, and maps. Oh, and volleyball.
GizmodoTwitter Cuts Search Bar Access for Unregistered Users https://gizmodo.com/twitter-elon-musk-social-media-api-search-bar-1850382363
Tim ChambersThis is brewing inside of #Meta. And other reports claimed it would have "ActivityPub" support meaning that in some ways would be "Fediverse-compatible" - who knows?
https://www.socialmediatoday.com/news/metas-twitter-alternative-barcelona-is-taking-shape/648482/
Dell Cameron 🐈⬛Few people know this, but the car company Tesla is not so named for Nikola Tesla’s trailblazing work in harnessing electricity; rather, his well-documented proclivity for buggering pigeons.
Jorge Caballero, MD👀 👀 👀 #FollowFriday came early this week! The latest update includes:
- Newly-redesigned with header images, the person's public bio, their avatar, 1-click following, and more!
- More categories and more profiles
- Dynamic recommendations: the profiles change every 6-12 hours based on who is posting, so you're always getting recommendations for the most active accounts
Check it out and let me know what you think!
Ethan J. A. SchoonoverThere are just too many asks for most people when it comes to Mastodon right now.
I say the following with great love for Mastodon, ActivityPub, and the Fediverse:
* Finding and following is too hard (if you are asking users to COPY AND PASTE to follow users from other servers? forget it)
* multi-server is good but onboarding and choice is overwhelming
* No search
* No surfacing
* No quote posts
So Mastodon, you've had half a year to think about this. Don't let Bluesky drink your milkshake.
Casey NewtonPLUS: My story for This American Life on Yoel Roth’s time at Twitter, before and after Musk took over, and what it tells us about the value of trust and safety teams. It’s now available in your podcast player https://www.thisamericanlife.org/797/what-i-was-thinking-as-we-were-sinking/act-two-3
New from me today: Even employees who are generally sympathetic to Musk are gobsmacked by the catastrophe of Twitter Blue https://www.platformer.news/p/twitters-badge-of-dishonor
Anil DashThere are also platform features that people might legitimately have different goals for. Bluesky makes content & people searchable by default, which Mastodon only does for hashtagged content. This aids discovery, but can also enable kinds of abuse. Fediverse partisans argue this constraint helps build healthy community, but many newer users find it a frustrating omission. Both platforms let you use your own domain, but it's much harder to do so on the fediverse right now.
Here are things we don't know: What Bluesky's trust, safety & abuse policies will look like at scale, compared to fediverse services. Mastodon and other fediverse services have been uneven at times, but have matured over years; Bluesky is still tiny and hasn't been tested at all. We don't know if Bluesky can scale, either technically or socially.