Aaron Parecki

Ryan Barrett https://twitter.com/schnarfed

Agreed! The CMS plugins, eg WordPress's and Drupal's, don't. For even less technical people, we recommend http://micro.blog. Choosing and registering a domain is as easy as choosing a username on Twitter, DNS is automated and invisible (!), webmention support is built in.

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I'm back on the road, this time in London! I'm actually back at the IETF meeting where I'll be talking with the Remote ID folks again! (But those meetings haven't happened yet so don't ask me questions about it just yet! 🙈)
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Jason Lengstorf ⚡️ https://twitter.com/jlengstorf • Nov 6
Yeah, I love the spirit of WebMentions but the implementation is too high a bar for many (most?) site owners. But maybe a man investment in UX / tooling makes more sense than trying something net new.

Yeah, frankly I don't think an alternative would end up being significantly simpler anyway once you start accounting for the things that are already established in the current ecosystem. There are tools and services now, and libraries, but we always need more!

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Contributions from: Finland, Kuwait, Spain, United Kingdom, United States

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Jason Lengstorf ⚡️ https://twitter.com/jlengstorf • Nov 5
I was just noodling on this. I don’t think I’m the right person to build it, but I wonder what an “RSS feed reader + discussion graph” looks like

- subscribe to RSS
- “reply” to posts by blogging on your own site with a meta tag
- readers use the meta tag to thread discussion

This is basically what we're doing with Webmentions. It's an old post, but surprisingly relevant all of a sudden: https://aaronparecki.com/2018/06/30/11/your-first-webmention

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kapowaz@mastodon.social https://twitter.com/kapowaz

This is called gaslighting, kids.

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Zack Bornstein https://twitter.com/ZackBornstein

You simply must admire the fact that Elon could do anything he wants every minute for the rest of his life, but instead he dutifully logs in every morning to get kicked in the dick and balls all day by his $44 billion group thread

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Now *this* is a blue checkmark I would pay $8 for:

@superplastic https://superplastic.co/products/blue-check-mark-enamel-pin

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Jake Sloan https://twitter.com/jakesloaninak • Nov 6
I wish they would just do away with it. 2x a year and everything gets messed up…

We're so close! Almost got rid of it this year, I'm holding out hope that next November will be the last time change.

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eevee ❎ https://twitter.com/eevee

it's interesting but feels far too coarse-grained. maybe masto needs something like public groups of related accounts so you can use those as a foothold instead

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eevee ❎ https://twitter.com/eevee • Nov 6
it's interesting but feels far too coarse-grained. maybe masto needs something like public groups of related accounts so you can use those as a foothold instead

Absolutely. There's some in-progress work on this, but I haven't been following it too closely. https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/pull/19059

Sadly the state of things is that until Mastodon itself implements this, it's pretty much a stalled idea in the larger Fediverse.

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eevee ❎ https://twitter.com/eevee

"i hate that mastodon is siloed. they should really rethink that"

boy do i ever have great news for you

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Alex Vranas https://twitter.com/breakdecks

Mastodon may not replace Twitter, but at least it has better leadership.

Meet Eugen, CEO of Mastodon Social:

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Amy https://twitter.com/lolennui

every explanation of mastodon makes me feel like I’m at a party and someone wants to play their elaborate card game everyone’s too drunk for

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eevee ❎ https://twitter.com/eevee • Nov 6
if mastodon is doing a piss poor job of conveying this then that is not all these people's fault, but the practical impact is that multiple verified twitter users with large audiences are lying about how mastodon works lol

I've always said the local timeline model of Mastodon was a bad idea. It's directly led to this idea of having to join a particular instance because of the community, and all the fallout from that around trusting the instance admin and such. Those concerns should be separate.

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PhotoJoseph https://twitter.com/photojoseph • Nov 6
I realized that looking at your profile, where you have an @ your own server. This ain’t your grandfather’s social network, is it.

Yup, forget about picking an instance, bring your own! #OwnYourData

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PhotoJoseph https://twitter.com/photojoseph • Nov 6
I have no idea what this thing is. Just signed up to park my name.

heh, well parking your name doesn't really mean anything because there are instances on domains all over the place and you're certainly not going to register on each one! Tho now that I think about it, you should be able to use your own domain for this: https://www.drupal.org/project/activitypub

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PhotoJoseph https://twitter.com/photojoseph • Nov 6
Apparently @aaronpk really wanted to follow… 😉

hahaha sorry! Your instance did things sliiiightly different than others, so I was having to test my code in production, which resulted in sending you a lot of these!

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jacqueline https://chaos.social/@jacqueline

everyone is jeering at elon musk, but whom amongst us can say that they’ve never spent too much money on domain name that they don’t know what to do with?

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