@aaronpk Ah nice. Are you using something homegrown or Pleroma or is there another ActivityPub compliant thing out there I haven't encountered?
@aaronpk Ah nice. Are you using something homegrown or Pleroma or is there another ActivityPub compliant thing out there I haven't encountered?
@aaronpk Haha so says another self-hosted instance-of-one user :)
As an aside, do you experience weird caching things? I do think most beginners should join a populated server because otherwise they are going to be seeing a lot of seemingly-blank profile pages when they click through to profiles of people who are mentioned that their instance hasn't interacted with before
I think the idea that a new Mastodon user is supposed to pick an instance based on affinity/interest is the number one thing that prevents people from joining. I think there needs to be a retooling of the messaging to make it about trust.
People don't join email services because of affinity. They do because they trust. They trust Google will be around for a long time. Or that hushmail won't sell their data. Or that Hotmail is easy to use. Etc etc.
@aaronpk There is a tweet import! But I want to rethink it, because often importing thousands of tweets kind of overwhelms the normal blog posts. I may disable it until I can separate tweets out better.
Expecting a lot of new Micro.blog users over the next few weeks. This week: Twitter mismanages how to deal with Alex Jones and Infowars. Next week: Twitter streaming API gets shut down for third-party developers.
Is there any way to post a message SOLELY to your local timeline? That would be pretty cool.
We had a thrilling afternoon at the newly remodeled Space Needle. 🤩
The floor is glass! The walls are glass! The benches are glass too.
@aaronpk They made the Blue Screen of Death much prettier in the last 20 years.