Notices by deutrino (deutrino@mstdn.io), page 28

@Gargron

I'm thinking as I type here, and as an aside (and without having kept abreast of developments), I really wish the best to the forking folks, because I suspect there's a bit of a schism in the community: a big chunk of folks like, use, and want high discoverability, and a big chunk of folks absolutely do not want it, and I suspect in the long run this may need to be solved either by a fork or by configurable features. With that out of the way... (cont)

@Gargron

Common thread in all of this: it's the cool people and cool stuff they post which makes Mastodon sticky. Not celebs, but people with common interests that post a high density of amazing stuff.

I came to Mastodon as a very experienced social media user and started following breadcrumb trails from hashtags and the local timeline, and quickly found lots of cool people to follow. Most users (even tech savvy ones) seem not motivated enough to do this. (cont)

@mhu2141ai I absolutely disagree with that. There are loads of busy and distracted people in the world who would make great additions to the fediverse, some of my friends included. The concept of joining a new social network is already a tiring one for many people. To maintain the current status quo - where joining this one is a research project - is just a form of gatekeeping.
@kai

@lordbowlich

I do think that this discussion further underscores the need for painless instance migration. It will be really good for Mastodon.

@Gargron @InspectorCaracal

@Gargron

In my opinion, with such a checkbox filter, the best defaults for Mastodon would be "open" checked and "safe" unchecked, as I believe randos checking out the network would least likely have (or cause) a bad experience with these settings. Opinions will surely vary. It may be diplomatic to leave them both unchecked and force the user to select in order to populate the list, though that creates friction.

@InspectorCaracal @lordbowlich

@Gargron I decided to name the speech/moderation philosophy buckets "safe speech," "open speech," and "PvP" to start. One can hopefully extrapolate what I mean by those for the purposes of this discussion.

I think a good compromise for an official instance picker would be a checkbox filter for "safe" and/or "open" instances with a *one sentence* explanation for each checkbox. The lists would be human curated.

@InspectorCaracal @lordbowlich

@Gargron Lo these many months ago I hoped to create Yet Another Instance Picker that integrated speech philosophy as well as uptime and activity (some handwavy metric based on # of toots per monthly active user) because those were the three most important factors in my mind... (cont)
@InspectorCaracal @lordbowlich

@Gargron Integrating the instance picker into the registration flow sounds like a great way to lower friction, but I strongly echo the issue with rules - there needs to be a VERY low friction way to avoid dropping people into instances where the CoC or blacklisting policies won't agree with them. Instances with heavy moderation or blacklisting aren't good choices for users unless they know they want those features.
@InspectorCaracal @lordbowlich

@hinterwaeldler
Fourth'd - everybody I've managed to coax into using Mastodon disliked the Tweetdeck UI and, though neither them converted to active users so far, the two people I further coaxed into installing Mastalab greatly preferred the 1-column mobile UI, as do I. There's nothing wrong with the Tweetdeck UI for those who use and like it, but new users who never used Tweetdeck are like "wut."
@oct2pus @Gargron @InspectorCaracal

@moormaan Yeah I am definitely going to try elementaryOS on an old laptop soon. Thanks for the info!

More than 600 United Methodist clergy and laypeople have signed a formal denominational complaint against fellow United Methodist Attorney General #JeffSessions, condemning his role in ... separating children from their parents along the U.S.-Mexico border.

[...] If no resolution can be reached, [the] case could go to a committee on investigation or eventually a church trial.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2018/06/19/united-methodists-church-complaint-jeff-sessions-border-policy/713986002/

#USpol #Immigration #FamiliesBelongTogether

tfw you lost your install notes and need to do an emergency reinstall months later and the magic badram info is retrievable from your masto account @catoutofbed

@timapple Thanks for the info! :)

Shiver me timbers mateys, here be a story about a drag and drop direct file transfer app to use with friends: https://medium.com/elementaryos/appcenter-spotlight-transporter-7c9db2472f37

@timapple Are you seeing many bugs with Mint 19 now that you've used it a bit? I've had a very mixed experience with 18 after having a really great experience with 17, and I need to reinstall my main machine because I accidentally /boot on 2 hours sleep :x

@ChrisWere Are you seeing many bugs with Mint 19 now that you've used it a bit? I've had a very mixed experience with 18 after having a really great experience with 17, and I need to reinstall my main machine because I accidentally /boot on 2 hours sleep :x

Hrrrrrrrg okay does anybody know how buggy the latest #Ubuntu #MATE is or isn't?

The number of bug reports in the comments on the #LinuxMint19 Cinnamon beta announcement blog post is not encouraging after suffering through #LinuxMint 18. I know they recently reorganized their dev teams with a major new focus in quality but if 19 is as buggy as 18.... meh I think I might just switch to an Ubuntu flavor. My machines both need a reinstall *now*, one of them doesn't even boot due to me sleep-deprivedly overwriting /boot.