* <> Mastodon Created: 6/16/2017, 7:06:27 AM Using Mastodon leaves me feeling like I'm settling – or like I'm endorsing a status-quo that I fundamentally disagree with. Creating a libre-Twitter is a great idea, but microblogging/shitposting is not the be-all of social media. Mastodon is a nice application, but by only supporting the notice activity object – "tweets" – it sort-of misses the point of a libre social/pub-sub federation. If an OStatus server (GNU social, Mastodon, etc.) can't at least provide notifications to users for the receipt of activity types that it doesn't know how to handle, then it's A) a complete failure for users, and B) it discourages the development of new post types/applications. Already we've seen that polls and events, fully functional in GNU social (and before) are -- Excerpted from: PUBLIC NOTES (H) http://alph.laemeur.com/txt/PUBNOTES-H ©2017 Adam C. Moore (LÆMEUR)