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@NoFreeParking Your Mileage May Vary on these decisions and experiences, of course. I just don't think that urbanists.social, or social.ridetrans.it should users should expect every post to be related to the purpose of the space. I think that type of rule would create a bad experience for an instance, and I would discourage server admins from setting that strict of an expectation; each person contains multitudes!

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@NoFreeParking Your Mileage May Vary on these decisions and experiences, of course. I just don't think that urbanists.social, or social.ridetrans.it should users should expect every post to be related to the purpose of the space. I think that type of rule would create a bad experience for an instance, and I would discourage server admins from setting that strict of an expectation; each person contains multitudes!

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@NoFreeParking Having tried this before, I find that maintaining those accounts separately has a social cost (you will lose cross-pollination of audiences and concepts) without significant benefit, and I usually find that maintaining separate spaces leaves me constantly questioning "Which audience is this for?" while 85% of my audience just wants it all anyway.

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@NoFreeParking Having tried this before, I find that maintaining those accounts separately has a social cost (you will lose cross-pollination of audiences and concepts) without significant benefit, and I usually find that maintaining separate spaces leaves me constantly questioning "Which audience is this for?" while 85% of my audience just wants it all anyway.

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@larsmb I also am sad about some of the UI effects here; I would really like to be able to more easily link to _my own_ posts with new context, without pulling people out into a separate web context.

That said, I think that the embedding behavior for linked posts is something we could see some clients change on, even without adding a "quote tweet" button.

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@larsmb I also am sad about some of the UI effects here; I would really like to be able to more easily link to _my own_ posts with new context, without pulling people out into a separate web context.

That said, I think that the embedding behavior for linked posts is something we could see some clients change on, even without adding a "quote tweet" button.

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@NoFreeParking I have spent a lot of time going back and forth on this over the years, and my feeling is that this level of separation is not worth it.

Random discovery of new interests of people I follow is a terrific part of engaging in social media, and "parking vs. portland vs. life" aren't distinct enough to be worth splitting, imo.

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@NoFreeParking I have spent a lot of time going back and forth on this over the years, and my feeling is that this level of separation is not worth it.

Random discovery of new interests of people I follow is a terrific part of engaging in social media, and "parking vs. portland vs. life" aren't distinct enough to be worth splitting, imo.

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I hear you're supposed to take pictures of your new bike on bridges when you get one. Sadly my new bike actually shipped broken, and I'm waiting on pieces to fix it, but I did get some pictures in before I realized that.

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I hear you're supposed to take pictures of your new bike on bridges when you get one. Sadly my new bike actually shipped broken, and I'm waiting on pieces to fix it, but I did get some pictures in before I realized that.

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@tw From folks who work inside Twitter, the number of people telling Elon "Hey, this is gonna be a disaster, please don't do this" was significant; and the amount of belief that he had that anyone might possibly abuse the blue check to impersonate someone was 0%.

Sadly, I expect the events of this weekend (when many blue-check people changed their names to "Elon Musk" and he instituted a new impersonation suspension policy on a whim) did nothing to teach him humility.

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@tw From folks who work inside Twitter, the number of people telling Elon "Hey, this is gonna be a disaster, please don't do this" was significant; and the amount of belief that he had that anyone might possibly abuse the blue check to impersonate someone was 0%.

Sadly, I expect the events of this weekend (when many blue-check people changed their names to "Elon Musk" and he instituted a new impersonation suspension policy on a whim) did nothing to teach him humility.

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@tw It has been confirmed that the intent is that anyone who pays $8/month will get the same blue check next to their name that currently "verified" people do; this is expected to roll out later this week.

To replace the "trust" relationship, there will be an additional flag for "notable" personalities, a la the flag icon here for government officials. (This feature has not been built or scoped out yet, so it's unclear what that will cover; this was added as an afterthought.)

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@tw It has been confirmed that the intent is that anyone who pays $8/month will get the same blue check next to their name that currently "verified" people do; this is expected to roll out later this week.

To replace the "trust" relationship, there will be an additional flag for "notable" personalities, a la the flag icon here for government officials. (This feature has not been built or scoped out yet, so it's unclear what that will cover; this was added as an afterthought.)

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@tw Well, it meant two things:
- Had paid someone some money *and*
- Served over HTTPS

Twitter was previously:
- Has impressed upon Twitter that you are Important Enough
- Which means it was treated as akin to "somewhat trusted" (a la "served over HTTPS")

And twitter future is:
- Has paid $8 to Twitter
- Which wrecks the implicit trust relationship, especially for underinformed folks, aka, no longer "served over HTTPS"

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@tw Well, it meant two things:
- Had paid someone some money *and*
- Served over HTTPS

Twitter was previously:
- Has impressed upon Twitter that you are Important Enough
- Which means it was treated as akin to "somewhat trusted" (a la "served over HTTPS")

And twitter future is:
- Has paid $8 to Twitter
- Which wrecks the implicit trust relationship, especially for underinformed folks, aka, no longer "served over HTTPS"

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@tw But also: Most of the birdsite discourse on this topic in the past few days has been around _changing_ a previous symbol of relative trust into being a "has completed KYC" badge. Verification on Twitter was middling as a feature, but changing the "trust" symbol to instead be a *status* symbol is a really bad idea.

Like, imagine if you changed the "lock" icon for SSL from meaning "HTTPS" to "pays Google to host the domain name".

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@tw But also: Most of the birdsite discourse on this topic in the past few days has been around _changing_ a previous symbol of relative trust into being a "has completed KYC" badge. Verification on Twitter was middling as a feature, but changing the "trust" symbol to instead be a *status* symbol is a really bad idea.

Like, imagine if you changed the "lock" icon for SSL from meaning "HTTPS" to "pays Google to host the domain name".

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@tw I think it could, but I think that it does devolve the trust problem back to the "domain names are actually not good enough for the average user". Even as a technical person, recognizing that celebrity.social and ceIebrity.social are different is something I'll probably only pick up from context, not from "being smart enough to notice the difference".

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@tw I think it could, but I think that it does devolve the trust problem back to the "domain names are actually not good enough for the average user". Even as a technical person, recognizing that celebrity.social and ceIebrity.social are different is something I'll probably only pick up from context, not from "being smart enough to notice the difference".

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@dl If I've contributed to that in any way, I apologize!

Overall, I felt like Fediverse became a useful place for some folks after the ~2018 wave, and I expect it will be an ongoing part of our social media fabric going forward ~indefinitely.

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@dl If I've contributed to that in any way, I apologize!

Overall, I felt like Fediverse became a useful place for some folks after the ~2018 wave, and I expect it will be an ongoing part of our social media fabric going forward ~indefinitely.

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@bikepedantic The inbound side is quite nice. The outbound pinch through the right turn onto Beacon remains terrifying; thankfully usually cars are going slow, but it's still a mess.

I know it's still under construction, but it's still really bad :/

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@bikepedantic The inbound side is quite nice. The outbound pinch through the right turn onto Beacon remains terrifying; thankfully usually cars are going slow, but it's still a mess.

I know it's still under construction, but it's still really bad :/

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@gunadi I'd say yes: "Collectively managed by radical queers, who believe that cities are for us too. #VisionQueero #GayTowns #acab 🏳️‍🌈🚒🌆🌼🔰🐈♿️🍆🍭🗼⛺️🚡🌳🦋🕺🏽🌈♋"

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@gunadi I'd say yes: "Collectively managed by radical queers, who believe that cities are for us too. #VisionQueero #GayTowns #acab 🏳️‍🌈🚒🌆🌼🔰🐈♿️🍆🍭🗼⛺️🚡🌳🦋🕺🏽🌈♋"

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I voted.

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I voted.

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Debirdify is very convinced that the most relevant place for me to be on Mastodon is towns.gay, which... fair enough.

(It's a very small instance, meaning the three people I follow there are 4% of the total people on the instance.)

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Debirdify is very convinced that the most relevant place for me to be on Mastodon is towns.gay, which... fair enough.

(It's a very small instance, meaning the three people I follow there are 4% of the total people on the instance.)

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@jyasskin @Log3overLog2 Yeah, seems about right. The boost ended up showing up for me about an hour after I think it happened.

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@jyasskin @Log3overLog2 Yeah, seems about right. The boost ended up showing up for me about an hour after I think it happened.

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@Log3overLog2 At the moment I'm trying to figure out why I didn't get notified of either your boost or your reply and had to navigate back here manually to see it... kinda screws up that whole "federated" vibe!

(hoping this is just technical glitches, but may accelerate migration to a new instance.)

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@Log3overLog2 At the moment I'm trying to figure out why I didn't get notified of either your boost or your reply and had to navigate back here manually to see it... kinda screws up that whole "federated" vibe!

(hoping this is just technical glitches, but may accelerate migration to a new instance.)

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@Log3overLog2 In any case, I came primarily because I wanted to note that https://mastodon.social/settings/impor t has a "Upload a CSV following list to import", so at least you could do this work in a spreadsheet and then import it, rather than 3-4 clicks each time, if that is your preference. (I do not claim this is an ideal workflow...)

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@Log3overLog2 In any case, I came primarily because I wanted to note that https://mastodon.social/settings/impor t has a "Upload a CSV following list to import", so at least you could do this work in a spreadsheet and then import it, rather than 3-4 clicks each time, if that is your preference. (I do not claim this is an ideal workflow...)

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@Log3overLog2 From within the Mastodon webapp, I'm able to click on a federated person, which takes me to https://mastodon.social/@eloquence@soc ial.coop -- ie, I am in "my" instance, but seeling them in their profile. From there, the "follow" mode skips everything else.

But unfortunately, https://mathstodon.xyz/@crschmidt@mast odon.social doesn't seem to exist? I don't understand why this isn't working...

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@Log3overLog2 From within the Mastodon webapp, I'm able to click on a federated person, which takes me to https://mastodon.social/@eloquence@soc ial.coop -- ie, I am in "my" instance, but seeling them in their profile. From there, the "follow" mode skips everything else.

But unfortunately, https://mathstodon.xyz/@crschmidt@mast odon.social doesn't seem to exist? I don't understand why this isn't working...