#fediux hashtag - Bluesky

3 months ago

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

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3 months ago

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

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4 months ago

"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." […]

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5 months ago

What is involved in moving your account from one server to another seems much, much more difficult than it should be.

#FediUX #FediverseUX

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5 months ago

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 […]

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5 months ago

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 […]

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5 months ago

The WAFRN idea of custom themes is very cool, too.

Decades ago, being able to 'theme' and 'skin' things was common.

I like that WAFRN has this feature.

@news @deadsuperhero

RE: https://wedistribute.org/2025/10/wafrn-chaotic-good/

#FediUX #Fediverse #FediveseUX #SpreadFediverse #wafrn

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5 months ago

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I would assume that, from an ActivityPub & JSON-LD point-of-view, that these WARFN "bites" / "pokes" are probably some type of custom Activity type.

@news
@deadsuperhero

RE: https://wedistribute.org/2025/10/wafrn-chaotic-good/

#ActivityPub #FediUX #Fediverse #FediveseUX #JSONLD […]

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5 months ago

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It might be fun to make able to use your own custom verbs, too.

For example:

"Joe Blow has throw a water balloon at you."

I think it wouldalso be nice if other Fediverse software supported the displaying of these types of activities (even if they don't support creating them.)

@nextcloud […]

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5 months ago

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I like the idea of having "fun" things that are part of (at least some of) the Fediverse.

The WARFN idea of "bites" / "pokes" seems like one of them.

I would assume notifications for it might look something like:

"Joe Blow has bit you."

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@news […]

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5 months ago

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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6 months ago

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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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6 months ago

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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 —

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6 months ago

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

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6 months ago

"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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7 months ago

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 […]

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7 months ago

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 […]

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7 months ago

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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7 months ago

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.)

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For FediCon I used Signal for group-chat […]

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7 months ago

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.)

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9 months ago

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 […]

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9 months ago

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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9 months ago

For those that want to use a (user-controlled) public-key as a basis of an ID on the Fedivese to help enable account and data portability —

Using public-keys could work.

But, there are some issue to address:

№1:

how do we enable key rotation,

№2:

how do we enable users to have multiple […]

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9 months ago

""" Alternatives I've been slowly uploading my back catalog to my channel on Floatplane, though not all my content is there yet. Some in the fediverse ask why I'm not on Peertube. Here's the problem (and it's not insurmountable): right now, there's no easy path towards sustainable content production when the audience for the content is 100x smaller, and the number of patrons/sponsors remains proportionally the same. I was never able to sustain my open source work based on patronage, and content production is the same—just more expensive to maintain to any standard (each video takes between 10-300 hours to produce, and I have a family to feed, and US health insurance companies to fund). YouTube was, and still is, a creative anomaly. I'm hugely thankful to my Patreon, GitHub, and Floatplane supporters—and I hope to have direct funding fully able to support my work someday. But until that time, YouTube's AdSense revenue and vast reach is a kind of 'golden handcuff.' The handcuff has been a bit tarnished of late, however, with Google recently adding AI summaries to videos—which seems to indicate maybe Gemini is slurping up my content and using it in their AI models? Maybe the handcuffs are fools-gold, and I just don't see it yet. """

An interesting quote from @geerlingguy .

The TL;DR is that — for him to use PeerTube or any other Fediverse alternative to YouTube — he would need to be able to make a living from it.

He is not the only one who has expressed this sentiment.

This is […]

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