4 months ago
It is interesting looking at users on different platforms and how they deal with replies to their posts.
On one side, you have pre-X Twitter style micro-blogging platforms like Mastodon, which are primarily designed to broadcast your thoughts, and are not really designed for discussions. Many users of these platforms consider people who reply to their post as #replyguys and generally don't like people replying to their posts, especially if someone disagrees with them. And even if they want replies, the UI is not conductive of conversations since people have to actually mention them for them to see the reply. And, ironically, there is no way to prevent someone from replying to your post.
On the other side, you have platforms that are designed for conversations, like Facebook-style platforms and forums, and replies are not only expected, but encouraged. When you don't get replies is when you get worried. And the UI is designed specifically for having conversations, where you can see the entire conversation in a threaded view without someone mentioning you. And, interestingly enough, if you were the one who started the conversation, you can turn off comments (unlike Mastodon).
Completely different paradigms, and completely different user interfaces. What one group sees as a net negative, the other group sees as a net positive.
On one side, you have pre-X Twitter style micro-blogging platforms like Mastodon, which are primarily designed to broadcast your thoughts, and are not really designed for discussions. Many users of these platforms consider people who reply to their post as #replyguys and generally don't like people replying to their posts, especially if someone disagrees with them. And even if they want replies, the UI is not conductive of conversations since people have to actually mention them for them to see the reply. And, ironically, there is no way to prevent someone from replying to your post.
On the other side, you have platforms that are designed for conversations, like Facebook-style platforms and forums, and replies are not only expected, but encouraged. When you don't get replies is when you get worried. And the UI is designed specifically for having conversations, where you can see the entire conversation in a threaded view without someone mentioning you. And, interestingly enough, if you were the one who started the conversation, you can turn off comments (unlike Mastodon).
Completely different paradigms, and completely different user interfaces. What one group sees as a net negative, the other group sees as a net positive.
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All of this technical detail is true @jupiter_rowland, but beneath all of this is the point you made in your earlier comments. That there is a huge social gulf between the vanilla Mastodon user, who sees themselves as using a social network called Mastodon, and the fedizen who understands that Mastodon is the dominant software in the larger social network we call the fediverse.
@scott
All of this technical detail is true @jupiter_rowland, but beneath all of this is the point you made in your earlier comments. That there is a huge social gulf between the vanilla Mastodon user, who sees themselves as using a social network called Mastodon, and the fedizen who understands that Mastodon is the dominant software in the larger social network we call the fediverse.
@scott
@hosh This means that I keep discovering new platforms on my Friendica account that were previously completely unknown to me. That's very exciting.
@hosh
Hubzilla already has the database fields for it, but it is not fully implemented.
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If we detected the name of other platforms, via webfinger or other means, there are existing database fields that can store this information. Then it would just be a matter of displaying it in the UI.
platform logo with post: that sounds like a nice feature to have.
Hubzilla already has the database fields for it, but it is not fully implemented.
In the
sites table, it records the name of project in the site_project field. But right now it is only recording Hubzilla and Streams sites names. So "Bunny of Doom" is one of the "projects" listed (which is a Streams instance where the project name was changed). But any other platform, this field is being left blank. In the
xchan table, where it lists all of the channels your server knows about, it has a field called xchan_network that tells you if they are using Zot6, ActivityPub, or Diaspora. You can see this displayed in the directory. If we detected the name of other platforms, via webfinger or other means, there are existing database fields that can store this information. Then it would just be a matter of displaying it in the UI.