Notices by Chris Messina (chrismessina@mastodon.xyz)

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!

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)

The first hashtag on Threads is #paidpromotion

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

Breaking news! It's late 2023 and CNN has finally added support for Dark Mode! 🙄

#ReleaseNotes #NewCNN

@Gargron I think the person I'm citing is myself?

Will clarify re beta 1.

Do you have a set of tests I can look at to better understand the behavior you've designed? I was relying on the screenshots in the Github issue.

Also, I was unaware of this: "as tags authored in non-Mastodon software that are not included in the body of the post would become visible for the first time"; are you saying that ActivityPub already supports non-inline tags on posts?

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

Elon wants to build X into the "WeChat of the West", an everything app for everyone.

Would he also impose these proposed Chinese phone usage roles?

https://www.cnn.com/2023/08/03/tech/china-minors-mobile-phone-limits-intl-hnk

I appreciate how Arc's members "signed" its 1.0 release.

https://arc.net/credits

Harkens back to Firefox 1.0 NYTimes ad I designed with the names of the ~10,000 donors that paid for it!

https://blog.mozilla.org/press/2004/12/mozilla-foundation-places-two-page-advocacy-ad-in-the-new-york-times/

TIL what happens when reports of CSAM hit a federated instance of Mastodon — with implications for any platform hosted on an .xyz domain.

Here's how my Mastodon account went down along with the entire mastodon.xyz instance:

https://thekinrar.fr/en/posts/xyz-suspension/

Threads, another ploy to hover up all your data.

RT https://mastodon.xyz/@chrismessina/110652622753172495

Great to see Flipboard add Mastodon and Bluesky support through their respective federated social web protocols!

https://techcrunch.com/2023/05/23/flipboard-becomes-first-to-support-bluesky-mastodon-and-pixelfed-all-in-one-app/

/by @Sarahp 👏🏻 @mike #DiSo