Fundamentally, mastodon (and twitter, bluesky, etc etc) doesn't really work for me.
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Fundamentally, mastodon (and twitter, bluesky, etc etc) doesn't really work for me. I'm just remembering the sense of confusion when I first joined twitter - the idea that you subscribe to a feed of everything that someone says, and not to topics or threads is just a bit bonkers. It must sort people into groups with weird niche common collections of interests. I've tried running more than one account for different interests but it doesn't really work for me.
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Fundamentally, mastodon (and twitter, bluesky, etc etc) doesn't really work for me. I'm just remembering the sense of confusion when I first joined twitter - the idea that you subscribe to a feed of everything that someone says, and not to topics or threads is just a bit bonkers. It must sort people into groups with weird niche common collections of interests. I've tried running more than one account for different interests but it doesn't really work for me.
@yaxu yeah I hear you. I have a lot of hope for things like https://nodebb.org/ -- it is the "forums" model where things are divided into conversations about topics, but critically it ALSO federates. So you-Alex could live on Nodebb as your primary driver, and I could post say a Tidal question and tag @/[email protected] and then you would see my microblog question/comment on the tidal subforum of the forum you maintain/watch
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@yaxu yeah I hear you. I have a lot of hope for things like https://nodebb.org/ -- it is the "forums" model where things are divided into conversations about topics, but critically it ALSO federates. So you-Alex could live on Nodebb as your primary driver, and I could post say a Tidal question and tag @/[email protected] and then you would see my microblog question/comment on the tidal subforum of the forum you maintain/watch
@yaxu for example, check this post out:
https://friend.camp/@darius/115214939204796516
I tagged the technical-discussion topic on the activitypub.space forum, and from my perspective it got boosted to a bunch of people, and from the forum and forum user's perspective it looks like this:
to me this is the real promise of federation, not just a bunch of microblogs on different servers
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@yaxu yeah I hear you. I have a lot of hope for things like https://nodebb.org/ -- it is the "forums" model where things are divided into conversations about topics, but critically it ALSO federates. So you-Alex could live on Nodebb as your primary driver, and I could post say a Tidal question and tag @/[email protected] and then you would see my microblog question/comment on the tidal subforum of the forum you maintain/watch
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@yaxu for example, check this post out:
https://friend.camp/@darius/115214939204796516
I tagged the technical-discussion topic on the activitypub.space forum, and from my perspective it got boosted to a bunch of people, and from the forum and forum user's perspective it looks like this:
to me this is the real promise of federation, not just a bunch of microblogs on different servers
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[email protected] [email protected] I'm here making it a reality!
Topical forums definitely have their place, and the federation aspect is icing on the cake as far as I'm concerned.
