Notices by Jeffrey Phillips (11thjeff@mastodon.social)

@Gargron In nautical terms, this is known as the "Sith Wayfinder", and it works like a map or a compass or a homing beacon or something, I dunno, whatever the plot needs it to do, we literally never see it again, oh, and you plug in some 1/8" stereo cables into it for some reason, what IS this franchise anymore anyway?

Amazing light work though! Hard to believe that's film and not some ultra-dslr. Where do you even get film negatives developed around here?

@Gargron Looks like #Caturday came early last week. Did you hear that Meta is removing politics from Instagram and Threads?
Now can we make Mastodon more political and viral-friendly? I'm still missing quote-tweets, and live feed reach.

@Gargron I still think you're pretty cool 🙂

@Gargron I really want to quote-tweet this sockless wonder. Please???
https://www.threads.net/@mosseri/post/C01zMgWp4V-

@Gargron @mosseri
lol, I can follow the big boss, but I can't follow myself. Ain't that just the way of the Valley...

@Gargron Looking at you, #Threads 😒

@Gargron @feinzer @Grant_M
The decline of Google is a bit of a separate discussion (and one I think we'd both find interesting). In short, I would blame the switch to machine learning over classic statistical pagerank. THey're given up crawling and indexing, and now it's more of an advanced auto-complete with some favored harbors.

@feinzer @Gargron @Grant_M I literally follow everyone I reply to or replies to me.
I do the same thing on Threads. Except it actually has an algorithm that seems to connect me with more and more of those people I end up liking and responding to and following.

@feinzer @Gargron @Grant_M To me that argument can be deconstructed by analogy to Google. People are always trying to game Google's algorithm. And they're changing it constantly (and kind of failing in recent years, imho). But can you imagine Google without an algorithm?

@Gargron @Grant_M Agreed. You should probably be promoting engaging content. Instead of just...leaving it up to users. It seems like that's what Threads does, and it snowballs from there. Asynchronous discovery of hot content is a powerful thing (and I think Threads is holding back compared to old Twitter, tbh)

@Grant_M @Gargron That's my whole point. I'm posting the same stuff. Threads moves content. Mastodon kinda buries it, in my testing.

@Grant_M @Gargron Well, then why let him win?

@Grant_M @Gargron Have you tried Threads?

@Grant_M @Gargron I mean...I think that's a very Mastodon attitude to take, and explains why the numbers are comparatively low. There was a big chance when Twitter busted to change that, but on the current trajectory this will be self-filtering. You may have your island.

@Gargron @Grant_M One of the first things I did when I joined. So...

@Gargron @Grant_M People don't really go to social media to be ignored and buried in the chron-feed.

They go to engage, and grow, and connect with each other, and share. Threads made that easier in 6 weeks than Mastodon in 6 months. And that might be worth examining.

@Grant_M I like a platform that functions out of the box. Seems like all that other stuff limits the uptake.

I find myself using #mastodon less and less, because nobody sees my posts, and following has slowed to a crawl.
Meanwhile I get dozens upon dozens of #Threads notifications every day and in a few weeks my account there has thousands of followers. @Gargron, we need to talk about what this says about algorithmic feed placement...

@Grant_M 202 followers

@Gargron 99°C, not great, not terrible...