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(DIR) Post #Asbx89mVL0qXXPt5Wq by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-03-31T10:43:02Z
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People are running role-playing games on the tumblr communities features and somehow it works really well.I'm fascinated by the ways that social media "features" almost never get used as intended. Tumblr tried to have this thing called "tumblr live" a few years back and everyone hated it. Communities have been better received. I wish we had something like "communities" here on mastodon. Imagine if monsterdon could be a little more ... contained.
(DIR) Post #AsbxVHAq1Em57rIFuK by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-03-31T10:47:13Z
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Yes it's charming to have warning posts about the incoming onslaught of #monsterdon posts each Sunday. The monsterdon people are very considerate all things considered. But, it feels like swimming upstream. We need a groups feature. I have thought about doing many fun things here, but rejected it because I don't want to spam people more than I already do. Groups ideally would have a customizable landing page, members list, the ability to view only posts from the group. Nothing huge.
(DIR) Post #AsbxxdAxoFRpTKsBAu by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-03-31T10:52:18Z
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The other very simple feature I wish mastodon had was a way to view one (1) most recent post from each person you follow in order with no repeats. People post at different rates and I often like to go through the people I follow and see what I missed. This feature would make newer users feel more included and boost engagement generally and it's just a fancy search query ... (read the post after this before responding with a "solution" please)
(DIR) Post #Asby04GA5EKM3BSxk0 by mattmcirvin@mathstodon.xyz
2025-03-31T10:52:45Z
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@futurebird Maybe there's an idea that Mastodon is Twitter-style microblogging, so it shouldn't have groups, you need to go to some other fediverse platform that has groups (Friendica? Lemmy?)But, of course, we hang around these places more for the people who are there as for the feature list (at least I do).
(DIR) Post #Asby2eraxjL89cD7Im by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-03-31T10:53:15Z
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I made a python script to do this, but I didn't know how to integrate it so it was on my phone and computer ... and what I really want is for *everyone* to have this kind of "check on everyone" reminder on their dash. So, I don't need anyone to tell me a way to do this. I know how to do it. I'm saying it should be a feature of the main software, not just asking for myself. (The perils of posting on a site with so many programmers means giving this kind of disclaimer. Ya'll are so helpful.)
(DIR) Post #Asby3rORrVaZIw9Ome by ApostateEnglishman@mastodon.world
2025-03-31T10:53:20Z
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@futurebird This is why I have a separate account for # monsterdon and other hashtag games. That way most regular followers won't get spammed. 🤷♂️
(DIR) Post #AsbyCb6nmFWJPA3xWi by temptoetiam@eldritch.cafe
2025-03-31T10:54:59Z
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@futurebird oh no! I want to read your fun things!
(DIR) Post #AsbydFCFM1StGRJdMu by ajsadauskas@social.vivaldi.net
2025-03-31T10:59:09Z
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@futurebird I mean, the Fediverse already has Lemmy, KBin, and MBin.So there's already an ecosystem of pre-built communities out there. All you would need is better native support in Mastodon (so basically every Mastodon instance is also a Lemmy or KBin instance), with better integration in the UI...
(DIR) Post #AsbzNSllDtCogExwzA by promovicz@chaos.social
2025-03-31T11:08:11Z
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@futurebird I wish that mastodon had "features" - instead of acting like a Twitter clone, including on a technical level. Why not, give users programmable feed rules? My own algorithm is not the algorithm that I fear.
(DIR) Post #AsbzPkfzcGxwnTMLi4 by promovicz@chaos.social
2025-03-31T11:08:35Z
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@futurebird I wish that mastodon had "features" - instead of acting like a Twitter clone, including on a technical level. Why not, give users programmable feed rules? My own algorithm is not the algorithm that I fear.
(DIR) Post #Asc07Clp2UMANgo2oi by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-03-31T11:16:28Z
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@promovicz It could even be a kind of fun tech feature where people could make and share various "algorithms" or "feed filters" ... imagine if I could make an "ant vision" filter that curated posts about ants...Or if you could get someone's curated "feed" for news or regional posts.
(DIR) Post #Asc0Mqex0xDWRH3FmC by promovicz@chaos.social
2025-03-31T11:19:16Z
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@futurebird Yes - you took the word "sharing" out of my mouth. The same goes for lists - why in heaven's can't I share those!? It would be much superior to sharing follower lists (mine are locked at the moment).
(DIR) Post #Asc1twnfIxUIzgTSvg by Nostrodingle@masto.ai
2025-03-31T11:36:27Z
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@futurebird I’m sure I’m oversimplifying somehow, but it seems like a modified/alternate type of hastag would do the job: “Only people who follow ~#monsterdon or #monsterdon will see anything tagged ~#monsterdon.” Which, here comes the oversimplification, could just be a matter of readers dropping anything with a ~# tag by default.Automatically pulling the tag into replies to it would help naturally channel the big chatty discussions into opt-in-only affairs.
(DIR) Post #Asc2nAerTyvVtugmZs by whitneymcn@mastodon.xyz
2025-03-31T11:46:25Z
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@futurebird The thing I'd miss is casual discovery: I found the bloomScrolling hashtag, for example, because someone in my feed used it. That could be addressed in a variety of ways, of course, but I do like that side of it right now.
(DIR) Post #Asc2roLJsSQ48hlF6O by llewelly@sauropods.win
2025-03-31T11:47:18Z
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@futurebird but ... isn't the whole point of monster movies that the monster can't be contained?
(DIR) Post #Asc379GaMkhTNPrOFs by sebastian@mastodon.cc
2025-03-31T11:28:07Z
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@ajsadauskas @futurebird From my subjective observations, #group features in #Mastodon would go a long way in making people move from #facebook to here. #Groups is what keeps many users from #migrating. And user want to access these groups in one place, not several,they want the possibility to create them to just be there, not to have to code or integrate.
(DIR) Post #Asc3HXuvZPcij1ghXs by eigen@mattstodon.panar.ooo
2025-03-31T11:51:55Z
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@futurebird the thing I do, to address this use case (not fully, but pretty well, I've found), using built-in features, is to create lists of people I follow who match certain conditions. Usually, I read my home feed; but I have a list of "priority" follows, and a list of "slow-posting" follows: a small set of people whose posts I want to guarantee I see, and a small group (they have to be small for this to work really well) who posts infrequently. Then I can go look at the posts in each of these lists individually, and they're easy to stay on top of. I'm a strong advocate of introducing user-defined filtering, too, though.
(DIR) Post #Asc3K9inz8BUYLGJ8q by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-03-31T11:52:19Z
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@nev No. I will not share it because it's terrible and was mostly just screwing around trying to see if it were possible or not. To "use" it you'd need to have a terminal window open, save the result as a webpage then open it in a browser. It didn't even make a live feed, just a snapshot. And it's full of my passwords and stuff. I just can't see it being useful.
(DIR) Post #Asc4BV6vBxR8EmylMG by ajsadauskas@social.vivaldi.net
2025-03-31T11:38:21Z
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@sebastian @futurebird I'm wondering if Mastodon groups is something @Gargron would be willing to consider?And I know @dansup has talked about adding groups to @pixelfed. I'm wondering if the implementation will integrate with KBin and Lemmy?
(DIR) Post #Asc4BVyRywFquo1VnE by jasperb@mastodon.social
2025-03-31T11:53:25Z
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@ajsadauskas @sebastian @futurebird @Gargron @dansup @pixelfed I found this: https://fedi.tips/how-to-use-groups-on-the-fediverse/
(DIR) Post #Asc4BWqgjHdjd1OpKi by ajsadauskas@social.vivaldi.net
2025-03-31T12:00:28Z
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@jasperb @sebastian @futurebird @Gargron @dansup @pixelfed Interesting detail from that link: "Mastodon has been developing a built-in groups feature for some time now, but it hasn’t been released yet. From the screenshots posted so far, it seems it will be more of a Facebook Groups type forum rather than a public discussion list. (You can see highly technical details and screenshots of this upcoming Groups feature on their github page https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/pull/19059 )"However, it is unclear if Mastodon groups will work across the Fediverse or only on Mastodon. Guppe is platform-neutral, and will work on any kind of Fediverse server that supports microblogging including Mastodon, Friendica and others."https://fedi.tips/how-to-use-groups-on-the-fediverse/Lots of activity on the Github page around 2022 by @ClearlyClaire but not much since?Also, there's a video on how it'll work, and this note: "This PR is not intended to be merged outside of purely development environments until it's finished. While it has reached a pretty stable state, groups are a complicated topic, and the database model, API and protocol design may change before the PR gets merged, with no clear migration path between versions of this PR."
(DIR) Post #Asc5IOpb2LvSk9jFSK by sergiotarxz@social.owlcode.tech
2025-03-31T12:01:37Z
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@sebastian @ajsadauskas @futurebird I have experimented what a group can look like in Mastodon following a Palestine Support Group that boosted everything said and my timeline got filled of images of dead children.I am scared of the consequences of potentially unmoderated groups in Mastodon and I am also scared of what the moderators in case of existing for those groups will have to cope with.No one gets paid in Mastodon to deal with this kind of shit.
(DIR) Post #Asc5IQ1gatBsRwOPwG by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-03-31T12:14:28Z
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@sergiotarxz @sebastian @ajsadauskas The private nature of facebooks groups has always made me wary of interacting with them. I had a bad experience with a facebook group where I was critical of a user who the mods liked and they decided to blast post about my criticism in a misleading way. Because the group was private I couldn't easily ask for help from friends to feels less singled out without turning to posting screenshots and making more drama. So I just quietly left the group.
(DIR) Post #Asc5JB6FZjlgRhtE4u by gbargoud@masto.nyc
2025-03-31T12:14:37Z
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@futurebird I wish there was some kind of "algorithm plug in" system where you can define an algorithm for choosing which posts to show, hide, bring up to the top etc.I know that the discovery algorithms on most social media sites are terrible because they are optimized to get user engagement at all costs but they do have some positives like showing people accounts they wouldn't know about otherwise and hiding onslaughts of posts from one account and I would like to bring the good parts.
(DIR) Post #Asc5UAe9bIWgE3zPyC by sergiotarxz@social.owlcode.tech
2025-03-31T12:16:34Z
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@futurebird @sebastian @ajsadauskas Bad moderation is also a possibility of course, but that doesn't scare me as much as unmoderation.
(DIR) Post #AscEc5pgHYpPCQEYjY by mina@berlin.social
2025-03-31T13:58:51Z
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@futurebird I would absolutely adore a feature like this.I follow many people, many of them not posting to often, so frequently I don't have any idea what they're currently up to.
(DIR) Post #AscFIIlEbbFNSTHSdM by Gargron@mastodon.social
2025-03-31T14:06:30Z
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@futurebird The @phanpy client for Mastodon has a catch up feature which I believe works exactly as you describe.
(DIR) Post #AscFgDYlavRkHFqwam by foolishowl@social.coop
2025-03-31T14:10:49Z
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@futurebird Wow, that would be a nice feature.
(DIR) Post #AscFu1xVWVrCLs0mzw by MishaVanMollusq@sfba.social
2025-03-31T14:13:20Z
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@futurebird i totally missed yesterday’s cause i was offline doing social things in the flesh world.Better than muting
(DIR) Post #AscGkd2CvCFIOmI5Z2 by dp@bonn.social
2025-03-31T14:22:48Z
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@futurebird I think technically there is a groups feature already. Not sure if it can be utilized the way you imagine though. There is that service called https://a.gup.pe/ which generates group-accounts on the fly. Lemmy channels can also be followed as groups from Mastodon (but I think you can't directly post to Lemmy channels from Mastodon). Maybe those things are worth a look?
(DIR) Post #AscKDGuYYRVS2p3tFg by evilotto@sfba.social
2025-03-31T15:01:38Z
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@futurebird Hrm, it would be just a fancy search query.. so what masto needs is a way for users to define their own search queries.. and share good queries with others.. but without allowing computationally abusive queries, or just have a good caching layer? .. and then render it as a feed, like rss, so anyone could use a feed reader... Or the whole masto frontend IS just a feed reader.. hrm..Hey, if you don't want nerds, don't nerd-snipe 😅
(DIR) Post #AscLnwp6IuLoPZYv8i by gwcoffey@bookstodon.com
2025-03-31T15:19:28Z
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@futurebird This is a great idea and would also mean I mute a lot fewer people. Because definitely some people just fill the timeline and crowd everyone else out. I hate muting them entirely but it’s my only options right now.
(DIR) Post #AscYqVgaxFVgWI8UJE by Zerofactorial@noc.social
2025-03-31T17:45:35Z
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@futurebird If #monsterdon crew fivefold we would start to be annoying on Mastodon IMO. I like Mastodon without groups as a built-in feature. I haven't participated on group.pe, but Lemmy and kbin would be good solutions.
(DIR) Post #AscgtHRx8kIUrx7RoW by ainali@social.coop
2025-03-31T19:15:41Z
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@futurebird That's a brilliant idea! I would love to have that as a special catch-up column.
(DIR) Post #Asd7v5ZswsCjOFus76 by aeduna@aus.social
2025-04-01T00:18:35Z
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@futurebird i'd like something similar where i could set it to show me one of their posts a "day" - there's a few people who post a _lot_ (somewhat repetitvely) but I dont want to mute them and forget they exist either.
(DIR) Post #AslYgIvlY0oIv74td2 by Finnhits@eliitin-some.fi
2025-04-05T01:56:08Z
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@futurebird You DEFINITELY don't expect this, but I'm a seagull who refuses to land.