Tim Chambers @tchambers@indieweb.social

Preemptively done for this instance...

Assuming that Trump will try to decentralize and federate out his content from his new social network that he forked from #mastodon. #Fediblock

Thank you @thegibson and @isolategab

#IsolateTrump

#mastodon, #matrix and other #decentralized social accounts are all still seeking good uptime today. Just sayin’….
#FacebookDown

@Gargron Specific to #Mastodon:

"There is precedent for open source communities to push back against those who seek to use their tools to promote hate speech. One such case is Mastodon, an open source social media community which has waged a long-running war of attrition against an influx of far-right users from Gab – a war which, as of December 2020, they appear to have won."

Important research out from ISD looking at how hate groups & extremists use open-source platforms - including #WordPress and #WooCommerce. It does a great job of showing some ways to address - while still respecting the open-source ethos.

While it focuses on them, #Mastodon is given a shout-out, one model that the other platforms should look to in this...

cc: @Gargron

https://www.isdglobal.org/digital_dispatches/extremists-are-flourishing-behind-well-built-websites-thanks-to-open-source-tech/

Hi #Mastodev, wonder if something could be coded into #Mastodon to make the Federated feed a bit more useful.

I stay away from it for the same reason I stay away from alogrithmic feeds on FB or Twitter or YT....I want something less noisy and cluttered.

Am NOT suggesting anything like an algorithm, but maybe ways to change settings on Federated feeds to suss thru them more? Even user-configured anguage filter, or keyword filters, might help.

I’m really liking the new official #mastodon app for iOS…. But are lists not yet a feature? Hunting around for where to find my accounts lists to no avail. cc: @Gargron

Question to everyone: I have been very impressed with the voluntary #Mastodon' server covenant.

Has any other server-based self-hosted open-source platforms done something akin to this?

I'm familiar with other attempts at contributor covenants, but not other server based ones... But hope there are others out there....

https://joinmastodon.org/covenant

So many of these features are already in #Mastodon btw, like bookmarks.

Others seem like an easy lift for future versions... Editing toots is almost already akin to the Undo Tweets feature... #Mastodev

https://blog.twitter.com/en_us/topics/company/2021/introducing-twitter-blue.html

Lots of tweaks, fixes, and additions in #Mastodon RC 3.4: https://github.com/tootsuite/mastodon/releases/tag/v3.4.0rc1

#Indieweb tech and #mastodon get a shout out 28 minutes in talking about breaking down the social media silos: https://youtu.be/MPfyZZrQPA8

Hi #mastodev folks: is there any effort in the works to make "remote follow" and "remote boost" etc, of posts something less than a 4 click experience? #Mastodon

The more I think about #mastodon features that would be strategic, the more I think folks should build in features and tools for hyper-local communities to use. Lean in on "instances" intended specifically for networks of a dozen (or at least under 100) friends and family. In essence a replacement for "FB groups."

The #Fediverse certainly do more, but that seems like a strategic opportunity. In essence what Darius Kazemi has been thinking about for a while.

https://www.fastcompany.com/90373954/done-with-facebook-and-twitter-heres-how-to-start-your-own-private-social-network

This would be a good feature to add to #Mastodon:

"Now you can decide who can respond to your posts. Your choices of who can reply:

Anyone.
Only people you follow.#
Only people you mention in the tweet.

https://techcrunch.com/2020/08/11/twitter-now-lets-everyone-limit-replies-to-their-tweets/?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cudGVjaG1lbWUuY29tLzIwMDgxMS9wMjU&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAGU2KgajKjPkEkhiD4JYe2ewLj4G2fLlr9oPe3ZFzDO5Pb0lgdwAPEHQm9htRfERmtvvNSTL2XrBEF4bFvt6rt1cL9uVrw7WCotiMxG-DTxNdOe4ihbAENGgyxrcmNbHFovUq212n0LRx3H7Ezh82yizSjIZZEs7frA9U4KMJJzS

And since you can mention no one, you can make it so that no one can respond to a post.

cc: @Gargron #mastodev

Hi #Mastodev or #Mastodon types: is there a way to create what is functionally a "list" where you can see all the public posts form Instances?

For instance if I wanted to be sure to see all the public posts from an instance like this. It's almost a customized "Federated" view:

https://fediscience.org/public

Posting this here, too. #Mastodon #fediverse

#Mastodon has already built so many of these ideas in. Which ones do you think are good ideas and still lacking inside Mastodon or the #Fediverse?

https://onezero.medium.com/what-a-better-social-network-would-look-like-355e0a05ef0d

Wonder if #mastodon could securely implement GIF reactions like GIPHY into it in a fashion akin to how Signal did...while still supporting privacy....

https://signal.org/blog/giphy-experiment/

Interesting to see the #Mastodon users accounts getting pretty close to passing 4 million users.

An idea: @Gargron and other #mastoadmins Wouldn't this be served by a stand alone #Mastodon instance just for doctors allowing publicy anonymous posting? Would need some for of verifying doctors into it but could be anonymous to the outside world

#COVID19

Someone really needs to build a web based wizard-like tool helping those who want to #deleteFacebook and Instagram migrate as much as can be salvaged from their social friends and content over to #mastodon and #pixifed. #fediverse