A UX improvement to @Mastodon that might increase usage of Content Warnings; stop counting the text in them against the 500 char limit. Give them their own separate (shorter) limit, maybe 200 characters or less? Something to consult on with people who think it's useful to write long Content […]
reiver is your username on this server. Someone on another server might have the same username. mastodon.social is your server that hosts your profile and posts. Just like you can send emails to people using different email clients, you can interact with people on other Mastodon servers – and with anyone on other social apps powered by the same set of rules as Mastodon uses (the ActivityPub protocol).
I noticed a new cirled question-mark icon next to my Fediverse address on my Mastodon account.
Tapping it exposed a pop-up.
It seems like it is a message to me.
#Fediverse #FediverseUX #Mastodon
I just started reading the blog of @gilles. #HatTip to @mayel for the link to Gilles' homepage.
Anyway, I read this blog post;
blog.gillesdutilh.com/2025/03/the-pain-in-mans...
... and saw "fediverse reactions" at the bottom. So I tried putting that URL into the @Mastodon search […]
It would be good to have a UX checklist for new fediverse devs to work though as they implement ActivityPub, and for devs of established apps to check against when doing UX reviews. Things like;
* replies to posts made in other apps federate back to the OP server
* edits to those posts […]
As I mentioned in a post a week or 2 back, the vanilla Mastodon web app is now better for most purposes than the third-party ones I've tried
(@enafore, @elk, @phanpy, happy to go into detail on why if this helps). Plus, now that I'm home I use my laptop a lot more (on mobile I tend to use native […]
![From Noah Smith (@Noahpinion@twitter.com):
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Because this platform [Twitter] no longer shows news headlines, today I found myself searching Google News instead of searching Twitter for news about breaking events, for the first time in many years.
Every other change to the platform so far has been cosmetic, but the removal of headlines [from OpenGraph cards] disabled a core functionality. Twitter was always a news feed; now it's just a series of images and seemingly random comments.
This opens the door for real Twitter-disrupter to emerge -- not a Twitter clone, but some thing that gets people posting breaking news that's more targeted and relevant than Google News.
Whoever figures out how to do that will make a lot of money.
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From Noah Smith (@Noahpinion@twitter.com): """ Because this platform [Twitter] no longer shows news headlines, today I found myself searching Google News instead of searching Twitter for news about breaking events, for the first time in many years. Every other change to the platform so far has been cosmetic, but the removal of headlines [from OpenGraph cards] disabled a core functionality. Twitter was always a news feed; now it's just a series of images and seemingly random comments. This opens the door for real Twitter-disrupter to emerge -- not a Twitter clone, but some thing that gets people posting breaking news that's more targeted and relevant than Google News. Whoever figures out how to do that will make a lot of money. """ """
Some people want BREAKING NEWS.
RE: twitter.com/Noahpinion/status/171070...
#FediUX #Fediverse #FediverseUX #SpreadFediverse
From Joscha Bach (@Plinz@twitter.com): "I will leave twitter/X when another platform gives me a timeline based on my own choice of algorithm, an unconditional edit button and the ability to delete individual replies."
What one person wants from an alternative to a Twitter:
• choice of home-feed algorithm,
• editable posts,
• ability to moderate replies
RE: https://x.com/Plinz/status/1685945305320329216
#FediDev #FediDevs #FediUX #Fediverse #FediverseUX
"Signal was great, but I wanted something I could truly own. Enter Matrix — a protocol, not a platform. I now run my own homeserver, complete with bridges, Maubot automations, and rooms that feel more like digital living rooms than rented chat spaces." […]
What is involved in moving your account from one server to another seems much, much more difficult than it should be.
#FediUX #FediverseUX
There are simple services that exist that — when a user fills-out & submits a <form> on the Web that simple service e-mail someone that data.
These simple services are alternatives to more complex back-end with a database.
An alternative to this alternative could be — instead of e-mailing […]
RE: https://mastodon.social/@cheeaun/115381698564197327
This is an argument for (also) having a recommendation-engine based feed.
(I.e., what some mistakenly call "the algorithm" or an "algorithmic feed".)
“I know the comparison here is 450 followers to 4,500, but follower number isn't […]
If we were to do a regular online Fediverse meeting —
(Maybe once a month.)
WHAT DAYS OF THE WEEK WOULD YOU BE ABLE TO ATTEND?
A regular (online) meeting for Fediverse developers, for those who care about the Fediverse as a social movement, and for those who care about the success of the […]
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I spend time thinking about how this (the importance of files and file data-formats) intersects with user-experience (UX).
For example, what types of files could you get regular people to create?
I don't think you can get regular people en masse to write JSON (including JSON-LD).
I think […]
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Something I said before (and felt even longer) is —
An open protocol is better than an app.
But an open file data-format is better than an open protocol.
I.e.,:
file data format ≫ protocol ≫ app
https://mastodon.social/@reiver/113495330687127439
With that in mind —
#FediUX #Fediverse […]
From @jrovu@mastodon.social: "On #Mastodon, how can I see a feed of posts from JUST the people I am following?" From @hobbs@dobbs.town: "is that not the Home feed? I guess boosts are there as well." From @jrovu@mastodon.social: "My Home feed shows content from hashtags I follow as well - I use the hashtags as a way to get exposure to interesting people/posts (diverge), then I would like to follow those people directly without the additional noise (converge)"
I have found that I have wanted this, too.
I follow a lot of hash-tags. Which is great.
But, sometimes I just want to see a feed of just the people I follow without the hash-tag posts.
@jrovu
RE: https://mastodon.social/@jrovu/115272977024399931
#FediUX #Fediverse #FediverseUX
"Thriendly tip ✨ You can mark up Threads posts on mobile. Underline, circle and highlight words — or cross them out — and draw arrows for emphasis. Stay tuned for more updates that make it easier to get creative and share your takes 🫶" ---- "To quote a post with markup, just tap the repost icon under a post, then “Markup.”"
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This is a pattern that I've already seen people do on the Fediverse, Twitter, and other places.
Although, usually people take a screenshot of the post, and then mark-it-up.
It seems like Threads payed-the-cows-path and made something people were already […]
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I have a friend who has been teaching anthropology as an adjunct lecturer. They're keen to get into UX, in the hopes of finding more stable employment.
Can anyone think of a way to get funding to pay them to work on #fediverse UX stuff? Ideally for a year or 2, but even a few months would be […]
I wonder if the user-experience (UX) could be improved.
Perhaps their front-end client app could warn them when an ActivityPub Group actor is included in the reply tree.
Although, as I said here:
https://mastodon.social/@reiver/114113739165883616
— if you post anything publicly, strangers […]
I think it would be better if Forgejo / Codeberg (also) provided a QR code for generated access-tokens hexadecimal string.
Generating an access-token on your laptop, and then — manually typing in that (access-token) hexadecimal string into your phone is error-prone and tedious.
A QR code that […]
"My strongest belief about the social web is that if we want it to succeed, we have to keep lowering the barrier to entry.
We have to keep minimizing the need for arcane language. We have to keep solving the things that people expect to work, but don't, rather than endlessly explaining how the […]
I might have started coding this.
A group-chat UI on top of a Fediverse "Group" (i.e., ActivityPub Actor type "Group").
https://github.com/reiver/chatfed
I made it as a PWA.
(It is definitely NOT done. It is barely the beginning. Basically, what you see […]
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What if we had a user-experience over a Fediverse "Group" (i.e., ActivtyPub Actor type "Group") that looked more like a group-chat.
I mocked up a desktop style UI for it.
(A mobile UI would be more condensed.)
...
For FediCon I used Signal for group-chat […]
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I want a way to have a user-experience over a Fediverse "Group" that looks more like a Signal or Telegram group chat.
I know it is doable. Someone just needs to implement it.
(Maybe I will if no one else does it by the time I "finish" my current Fediverse projects.)
#FediUX #Fediverse […]
A recent thread here, about the epic blog posts by @tchambers, got me to wondering;
Is anyone hosting spaces for fediverse UX collaboration? I'm looking for friendly, in-depth, *constructive* discussions. Chat rooms are OK, but forums are better.
Spaces I already know about;
Matrix […]
As a fediverse power user, I'd really like to have 2 separate feeds populated by my follows;
* Firehose; anything that someone on the service I use, including me, might find interesting.
* Home; stuff I definitely want to read on a regular basis
Is this an experience anyone else can relate […]
Back then I imagined one way this could have been solved.
The Mastodon team tried to solve this by onboarding new users onto mastodon.social by default.
However, I imagined people not creating accounts at first, but instead just subscribing to people's outboxes — all done on the client side […]
Back in the year 2022 when the Twitter Migration was happening —
I asked people on Twitter who tried to join Mastodon but gave up — WHY they gave up
By far, the most common complaint I heard was — picking a server instance
It seem like a very important […]
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