If we were to do a regular online Fediverse meeting —

(Maybe once a month.)

WHAT DAYS OF THE WEEK WOULD YOU BE ABLE TO ATTEND?

A regular (online) meeting for Fediverse developers, for those who care about the Fediverse as a social movement, and for those who care about the success of the Fediverse.

Sunday?
Monday?
Tuesday?
Wednesday?
Thursday?
Friday?
Saturday?

(You can pick more than one day)

PLEASE REPLY WITH YOUR ANSWER.

#ActivityPub #FediDev #FediUX #Fediverse #FediverseUX #SocialWeb

If we were to do a regular online Fediverse meeting —

(Maybe once a month.)

WHAT DAYS OF THE WEEK WOULD YOU BE ABLE TO ATTEND?

A regular (online) meeting for Fediverse developers, for those who care about the Fediverse as a social movement, and for those who care about the success of the Fediverse.

Sunday?
Monday?
Tuesday?
Wednesday?
Thursday?
Friday?
Saturday?

(You can pick more than one day)

PLEASE REPLY WITH YOUR ANSWER.

#ActivityPub #FediDev #FediUX #Fediverse #FediverseUX #SocialWeb

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I spend time thinking about how this (the importance of files and file data-formats) intersects with user-experience (UX).

For example, what types of files could you get regular people to create?

I don't think you can get regular people en masse to write JSON (including JSON-LD).

I think even getting them (regular people) to write HTML is difficult.

Something similar to Markdown probably has the best chance or success. Maybe something similar to INI, too.

#FediUX #Fediverse #FediverseUX

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Something I said before (and felt even longer) is —

An open protocol is better than an app.

But an open file data-format is better than an open protocol.

I.e.,:

file data format ≫ protocol ≫ app

https://mastodon.social/@reiver/113495330687127439

With that in mind —

#FediUX #Fediverse #FediverseUX

I want a way to have a user-experience over a Fediverse "Group" that looks more like a Signal or Telegram group chat.

I know it is doable. Someone just needs to implement it.

(Maybe I will if no one else does it by the time I "finish" my current Fediverse projects.)

#ActorTypeGroup#FediUX#Fediverse#FediverseUX

Back then I imagined one way this could have been solved.

The Mastodon team tried to solve this by onboarding new users onto mastodon.social by default.

However, I imagined people not creating accounts at first, but instead just subscribing to people's outboxes — all done on the client side, so they didn't have to choose a server instance.

https://mastodon.social/@reiver/114070142883326241

Using ActivityPub outboxes like RSS / Atom / WebFeeds.

@tchambers

RE: https://www.timothychambers.net/2025/06/18/113327.html

#Fediverse#FediUX#FediverseUX

Back then I imagined one way this could have been solved.

The Mastodon team tried to solve this by onboarding new users onto mastodon.social by default.

However, I imagined people not creating accounts at first, but instead just subscribing to people's outboxes — all done on the client side, so they didn't have to choose a server instance.

https://mastodon.social/@reiver/114070142883326241

Using ActivityPub outboxes like RSS / Atom / WebFeeds.

@tchambers

RE: https://www.timothychambers.net/2025/06/18/113327.html

#Fediverse#FediUX#FediverseUX

Back in the year 2022 when the Twitter Migration was happening —

I asked people on Twitter who tried to join Mastodon but gave up — WHY they gave up

By far, the most common complaint I heard was — picking a server instance

It seem like a very important decision that they weren't prepared or ready to make that blocked them from joining Mastodon

They didn't understand it. And, they didn't want to do it. So they gave up

@tchambers

RE: https://www.timothychambers.net/2025/06/18/113327.html

#Fediverse#FediUX#FediverseUX

Back in the year 2022 when the Twitter Migration was happening —

I asked people on Twitter who tried to join Mastodon but gave up — WHY they gave up

By far, the most common complaint I heard was — picking a server instance

It seem like a very important decision that they weren't prepared or ready to make that blocked them from joining Mastodon

They didn't understand it. And, they didn't want to do it. So they gave up

@tchambers

RE: https://www.timothychambers.net/2025/06/18/113327.html

#Fediverse#FediUX#FediverseUX