What is involved in moving your account from one server to another seems much, much more difficult than it should be.
just small circles 🕊
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There are simple services that exist that — when a user fills-out & submits a <form> on the Web that simple service e-mail someone that data.
These simple services are alternatives to more complex back-end with a database.
An alternative to this alternative could be — instead of e-mailing someone the submitted data, send that data via the Fediverse using ActivityPub.
ActivityPub them. (Can “ActivityPub” be a verb‽)
Probably as a private DM.
There are simple services that exist that — when a user fills-out & submits a <form> on the Web that simple service e-mail someone that data.
These simple services are alternatives to more complex back-end with a database.
An alternative to this alternative could be — instead of e-mailing someone the submitted data, send that data via the Fediverse using ActivityPub.
ActivityPub them. (Can “ActivityPub” be a verb‽)
Probably as a private DM.
Box464
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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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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 —
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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.
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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 —
I have a friend who has been teaching anthropology as an adjunct lecturer. They're keen to get into UX, in the hopes of finding more stable employment.
Can anyone think of a way to get funding to pay them to work on #fediverse UX stuff? Ideally for a year or 2, but even a few months would be better than nothing.
TBH I'm not sure what form this might take. Ideas on that welcome to. Maybe a freely-licensed framework for doing UX reviews for decentralised networks?
"My strongest belief about the social web is that if we want it to succeed, we have to keep lowering the barrier to entry.
We have to keep minimizing the need for arcane language. We have to keep solving the things that people expect to work, but don't, rather than endlessly explaining how the underlying technology works. We have to create more familiarity with concepts people already know."
@johnonolan, 2025
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.)
Tim Chambers
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A recent thread here, about the epic blog posts by @tchambers, got me to wondering;
Is anyone hosting spaces for fediverse UX collaboration? I'm looking for friendly, in-depth, *constructive* discussions. Chat rooms are OK, but forums are better.
Spaces I already know about;
Matrix: #fediverse-devs-ux:matrix.org
Forum: https://discuss.coding.social/
Curious to know if there are others.
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A recent thread here, about the epic blog posts by @tchambers, got me to wondering;
Is anyone hosting spaces for fediverse UX collaboration? I'm looking for friendly, in-depth, *constructive* discussions. Chat rooms are OK, but forums are better.
Spaces I already know about;
Matrix: #fediverse-devs-ux:matrix.org
Forum: https://discuss.coding.social/
Curious to know if there are others.
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Tim Chambers
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As a fediverse power user, I'd really like to have 2 separate feeds populated by my follows;
* Firehose; anything that someone on the service I use, including me, might find interesting.
* Home; stuff I definitely want to read on a regular basis
Is this an experience anyone else can relate to?
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As a fediverse power user, I'd really like to have 2 separate feeds populated by my follows;
* Firehose; anything that someone on the service I use, including me, might find interesting.
* Home; stuff I definitely want to read on a regular basis
Is this an experience anyone else can relate to?
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Erik Kemp 🇪🇺
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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.