Notices by Eugen Rochko (gargron@mastodon.social), page 60

Looks like the rate at which mastodon.online users follow others has increased by 56% after the algorithm change (from 1.2K per day to 1.9K per day), so that's pretty good considering follow recommendations are kind of buried in the interface.

@sidereal @GossiTheDog It is really not that smart. Spammers have been targeting Mastodon for years. You can’t even reach Threads from Mastodon yet, and won’t be able to for months to come. They seem to be getting better at getting past the CAPTCHA. Our mod team tends to ban them pretty quickly though.

@fraying @Ooze I don't think they're worried about losing a significant percentage of their userbase through interoperability because they most likely believe they can offer an enticing experience (e.g. for people who want algorithmic feeds) and in terms of potential revenue lost I don't think Mastodon's 1.6M MAU would register next to their own 100M.

@fraying @Ooze The following is my understanding, partially speculative. They believe they can attract and keep creators who are tired of switching platforms on their platform by assuring them they would be able to leave any time without losing their followers, and given legislation like Digital Markets Act moving towards enforcing interoperability between platforms this might even become a regulatory requirement for them.

@Ooze @fraying If I want to use Instagram, they get my email, password, IP, browser version, screen size, operating system, which pages I visit and how long I spend there, access to certain parts of my phone; they get to show me ads and shape my interests through opaque recommendation algorithms. If I could follow an Instagram user from Mastodon, they’d get the profile I chose to make public on the World Wide Web, and I’d get the posts I want in my home feed. Tell me how this is equivalent.

@fraying Nobody prevents you from having different accounts and identities on the fediverse. But if you want to follow people from corporate silos without exposing yourself to those corporate silos you currently can’t. Lucky for you if everyone you ever want to talk to is on xoxo.zone. If not, you’re benefiting from interoperability right now.

@toxi @laubblaeser I appreciate that it wasn't edited heavily even if there are imperfections!

@Alexmak No, these are the same tag. Maybe your app remembers how you typed it.

@benny @mho Die Weboberfläche wird nach und nach modernisiert. Bei mastodon.online kann man schon einige Aufhübschungen sehen, da kommt noch mehr. Mastodon ist kein typischer Open-Source Projekt, da wir einen bedeutenden Teil unseres Budgets tatsächlich in UX-Design stecken. Das merkt man aber momentan hauptsächlich an den mobilen Apps. Wir haben einfach nicht genug Hände alles so schnell zu tun wie Leute es wollen.

@mho @benny Kann man das nicht für jedes der vergangenen 7 Jahre auch so sagen? Wer sich hier nicht in 2017 niedergelasssen hat, warum sollte der/die noch in 2018 kommen? Doch wir sind in 2023 stark gewachsen, von 200k auf 1.6M. Wächst im Moment nicht so schnell wie ich es gerne hätte aber bleibt jedenfalls stabil. Und wir arbeiten stets an Verbesserungen.

@larsfrommars Uni

@fixatedpersonsunit No

@evan @fraying Exactly. The idea of siloed communities is rather antithetical to Mastodon's mission and messaging. The whole point has always been connect to many places from one account. Of the 20 posts I scroll by on my home feed right now, they come from 20 different servers, some not even Mastodon. I don't have an account on each of them.

@eobet Indeed.

@eobet Misleading post. See my comments in that thread.

I hope that an organization as massive as Meta adopting #ActivityPub will send a signal that pushes Tumblr and other platforms that have been considering it over the edge in doing the same. Perhaps even Bluesky would consider replacing or at least supplementing their custom protocol with the @w3c standard for interoperability.

@jill https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2023/07/what-to-know-about-threads/

21@nick@norden.social Mastodon.

@sciencewrighter @timo21 I have been here for 7 years. People didn’t like seeing links to Twitter here before 2022.

@timo21 People don’t like seeing links to Twitter on here because it’s a non-interoperable platform and they are one way and commonly not official. That’s the opposite of the Threads situation.