Chris Messina

Had a great conversation with @mike on the history of the hashtag, why Elon is wrong about it, the future of social networks (vis a vis #ActivityPub, #ATProto, etc), and how LLMs may intersect with social media moderation.

This was a good one.

https://dot-social.simplecast.com/episodes/chris-messina

I expected coverage of the fediverse but none was to be found on the interior

Medien: 1

It appears that Threads is working on a Communities feature called "Loop", which might be similar to subreddits or X Communities.

All I can tell is that you'll be able to Join and Leave. 🤷🏻‍♂️

This is new as of Threads v352.0.0.

#NewThreads

Hatching some plans with the man, the myth, the legend... @Gargron!

Lots of great stuff in the works for the open, social web in 2024 and beyond!

Medien: 1

RIP mozilla.social?

"Scaling back investment mozilla.social: With mozilla.social, we made a big bet in 2023 to build a safer, better social media experience, based on Mastodon and the Fediverse. Our initial approach was based on a belief that Mozilla needed to quickly reach large scale in order to effectively shape the future of social media. It was a noble idea but one we struggled to execute. While we resourced mozilla.social heavily to pursue this ambitious idea, in retrospect a (1/2)

Very interesting listen considering that what @dansup is suggesting for the social web, Meta is doing between Threads, Instagram, and Facebook.

@photomatt 's suggestion to provide "adjustments" when sharing (intentionally) to other social contexts is worth considering given the reaction many are having to their Threads content appear on Facebook.

From: @davidpierce

https://mastodon.social/@davidpierce/111284796654263440

Friends of the #Fediverse — I'm looking for nominations of Makers on Mastodon! Share your best follows with me and I may be able to get them some extra visibility!

https://chrismessina.me/makers-on-mastodon

(Please reshare)

16 years after the DiSo Project¹ kicked off² to turn WordPress blogs into identity hubs of a vast, open, and decentralized social web, ActivityPub (the successor to ActivityStrea.ms) has now landed in core³.

This is huge for the fediverse! 🥳

Congrats @pfefferle!

https://wordpress.com/blog/2023/10/11/activitypub/

¹ https://diso-project.org/
² https://factoryjoe.com/2007/12/06/oauth-10-openid-20-and-up-next-diso/
³ https://github.com/Automattic/wordpress-activitypub

The first hashtag on Threads is #paidpromotion

https://www.threads.net/@chris/post/CxEXXz-PL8j/

Is it time for hashtags to evolve?

Well, they're about to on Mastodon due to an upcoming change in v4.2.0, advanced by @Gargron himself.

I have some thoughts.

https://medium.com/chris-messina/the-problem-with-the-problems-with-hashtags-35d4ba29b04d?sk=89627c83abff03705edb64fe59570415

#TheProblemWithHashtags