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It did not happen in public, and is not related to any public events.

ActivityPub is embraced by: - Threads - Flipboard - WordPress - micro.blog - NodeBB - PeerTube - Pixelfed - GoToSocial - Akkoma - ...and countless smaller projects It is by no mean…

ActivityPub can be used for both public and private messaging, though I don't think the e-mail standard needs to be retired anytime soon.

Firefox is still a great browser with probably the best devtools.

I'm sorry, but by what metric are musical bands "dead"? I'm asking because I follow a lot of bands that are actively releasing new music and touring across the US and Europe. Not t…

Yeah.

Arguably, Bluesky being spun off from Twitter and having Jack Dorsey as one of the founding members is a somewhat Meta-like advantage, in a sense of immediate legitimacy in the pre…

Mastodon has changed quite significantly since a few years back. We take product design seriously and spend a sizeable amount of our resources on improving usability and reducing f…

Do you not think that Meta onboarding its 2 billion Instagram userbase into Threads had something to do with it?

Why do you believe that about Mastodon?

What in your opinion are the pain points in the current sign up process?

mastodon.social runs nightly releases off of our GitHub. Anyone can run nightlies to get these features. Or wait for the stable. What's hacky about this feature?

> But the thing is, I just hate the Mastodon UI. It's so clunky. I hope this situation improves once we finish hiring a product designer. Personally I don't think the web client is…

This PR is just one part of item MAS-86 on our public roadmap [1] "Markdown formatting for posts" which is meant to enable users to use code spans/blocks and bold and italic text a…

The choices aren't "just break compatibility with all de facto standards" and "come up with your own base standard". You can work on an extension to the protocol that everyone can …

Rewriting the user's entire database on each delete sounds like it might become a problem. Especially as some users like to automatically delete old posts on a regular basis.

"Fuzzy blinky UI features" is what people actually care about though. You can have all the theoretical bells and whistles in the protocol but if you don't have a flagship applicati…

You're about to reinvent JSON-LD.

This is not right. First of all, what do you mean by "PublicInbox"? Are you referring to the optional sharedInbox attribute, which allows delivering a payload to a whole server at …

ActivityPub, the protocol, doesn't actually tie your identity to your homeserver. Webfinger (which is the protocol responsible for the username@domain addresses) is not part of it.…

I cannot relate to this way of thinking. That's about the entire city of Manchester. Do dozens of people live in Manchester? 500K is vastly more than any average person can ever ho…

ActivityPub is a common language that allows describing "actors", "activities" and "objects" -- and as such, can describe any kind of social platform, from blog, to forum, to socia…

It is self-hosted because you can host it yourself.

I hope this project goes somewhere, but I feel like it may be too early for a public launch. I also think it may hurt the project to position itself so clearly as specifically a Ti…

While Mastodon can be used for small server purposes (e.g. server-of-one) it is really geared towards professional use - providing a service to thousands of users and scaling up ho…