@matnova.bsky.social Thanks!
@moonmehta Surprised there are no takers for this!
@manton Okay, please go ahead. Thanks.
@manton This post did not get crossposted to any of the four destinations of Mastodon, LinkedIn, Bluesky, and Medium.
@pratik Yes, hoping for it to get better with time too.
@pratik Sadly, that doesn’t work in practice. I’ve had my social network bios explicitly read “Not active here” and people would still follow me there 🤷🏻♂️. At the end of the day, people just browse and interact wherever it’s convenient for them, and that basically spans all networks in any active capacity.
@KimberlyHirsh Sadly, very true.
@soaproot Private emails, chats, and not too big messenger groups seem to be working better for me generally than the public Web.
@KimberlyHirsh Yup! Mostly wondering though how well it really holds since most social networks having algorithmic timelines and recommendations don't make them RSS-reader-like even in terms of browsing people and things you follow.
@soaproot Yeah. It is good to see the people who do post though.
@starrwulfe Thanks for your thoughts! Could you elaborate on the second point?
Also, I do curate some space magazines on @Flipboard like this one: flipboard.com/@moonmehta/space-moon-exploration-8oroi1iuy. Excited for Flipboard to fully federate.
@pratik Glad you got to experience your first total solar eclipse!
@manton Perfect.
@sod Totally understand! BTW what you do as a hobby is also much appreciated. In this case, your idea of what Micro.blog feeds should do has sparked many conversations and validated the need for such features.
@eumrz I’m glad that my posts inspired you to try this! Being able to easily reply to Micro.blog posts via the feed reader is a problem yeah, especially if you use the reply function often. I don’t, and I find that the added friction can counterintuitively help me focus on my larger purpose: living intentionally on the Web. So whether or not a solution works will also depend on what tradeoffs you’re willing to make. Good luck!
@pratik My posts, my replies to others anywhere on the Fediverse, and replies of others to my posts.
@eumrz What you’re seeing is correct in the sense that that’s what that feed is supposed to do. The reason it works for me is because of an additional factor. I don’t follow anyone via Micro.blog’s interface, and use an RSS reader for that. And so my Timeline here turns into a feed of my posts and all replies to my posts, which is what we want and which is different than the default feed offered on Micro.blog profiles at https://micro.blog/posts/username.json because that contains only my posts and my replies, not all replies.
@z428 Even if the title+link may not by themselves help figure out a CW or not, the accompanying text can. People can warn you in the post itself that be weary to click this link for X reason. This scales across every social network without a technical implementation of CWs that some networks, platforms, or servers may or may not follow. Ultimately, we can’t and shouldn’t control what others write, and it’s just best to follow, unfollow, mute, and block as desired.
@jsonbecker Which blog or platform was it? Don’t all free Wordpress.com blogs show the cookie banner?
@pratik Exactly. Besides, CWs don’t scale to all Fediverse compatible platforms either, so there’s no guarantee of seeing Mastodon posts the way it may have been intended anyway. If people really want CWs, put things behind a link. Let the title do the job.
@jsonbecker Perfectly poignantly put.
@z428 Yes, there are camps that have legitimate concerns but I think they picked the wrong/poor tool for the job. Mastodon and the Fediverse are a kind of tech that can’t be forcefully retrofitted to keep under precise control and consent as they’re, by definition, built to be widely connected! Many other tools that are easy to use and allow control over flow of people exist in the form of forums, Discord, messaging groups, mailing lists, etc.