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StreetPass: Find Your People on Mastodon
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#32I love the name, Nintendo's StreetPass was such a cool tool. It was awesome just finding someone random to play with in an airport or waiting room.
Maybe I'm missing something about this one, then. How is detecting "me" Mastodon links on Web pages similar to discovering people who are online near you? Or as that not what Nintendo's did? Anyway, thanks for any insight.
I guess that it finds people "near" to you in the sense that you visit their site.
An actual mobile app that worked like StreetPass that broadcast your Fediverse address via Bluetooth would be fun, except that it would hardly ever find anyone unless you are at a conference.
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#33It's a solid improvement but the move from Twitter to Mastodon is not happening[1]. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34693037
The point of Mastodon is not for everyone from Twitter to move there.
True, and good point.
It’s also completely counter to the popular narrative of people who now hate Musk (but lately used to love him).
Let’s not pretend that Twitter hate has anything to do with technology or intended uses.
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#34Earlier quoted context omitted.
Not everyone I think. I'm still on Twitter mostly because I for the life of me can't figure out how Mastodon works. I think I'm just too old for this.
It's actually pretty simple. Just sign up to any instance/server. It doesn't really matter which one. You can follow and interact with anyone, regardless of which server they signed up for. Then it's just like Twitter for the most part. I feel the "multiple instances" aspect of Mastodon really confuses people. Highlighting it to new users is not working in their favour.
Does the instance one registers on become part of their identity?
I think this is the thing that always made me pause - I didn’t want to pick a server I’d regret later.
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#35Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's actually pretty simple. Just sign up to any instance/server. It doesn't really matter which one. You can follow and interact with anyone, regardless of which server they signed up for. Then it's just like Twitter for the most part. I feel the "multiple instances" aspect of Mastodon really confuses people. Highlighting it to new users is not working in their favour.
Does the instance one registers on become part of their identity? I think this is the thing that always made me pause - I didn’t want to pick a server I’d regret later.
> Does the instance one registers on become part of their identity?
Yes. You can't transfer your posts, you can't transfer your filters, and you can only transfer followers if the server cooperates.
> I didn’t want to pick a server I’d regret later.
This happened to me: https://lapcatsoftware.com/articles/mastodon.html
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#36Earlier quoted context omitted.
You're assuming that Mastodon users are all Twitter refugees. I assure you, this is not the case.
I know that after initial influx, Mastodon is losing momentum and activity. Both from the article linked and my own experience. Theoretically, Mastodon could tap some previously untwitterized microblogging niche but I haven't seen that.
This changes nothing about my original comment. Whether Mastodon is popular or not, growing or shrinking, "Twitter light," or microblogging-fed is entirely irrelevant to the original topic in question.
If you have something useful to say about StreetPass or social account discovery in general, please do contribute.
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#37Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's actually pretty simple. Just sign up to any instance/server. It doesn't really matter which one. You can follow and interact with anyone, regardless of which server they signed up for. Then it's just like Twitter for the most part. I feel the "multiple instances" aspect of Mastodon really confuses people. Highlighting it to new users is not working in their favour.
Does the instance one registers on become part of their identity? I think this is the thing that always made me pause - I didn’t want to pick a server I’d regret later.
Sort of, similar to how an email domain does and how others might perceive you based on whether you have an @hotmail, @gmail, @outlook address.
I'm using mastodon.social since I signed up years ago, but if I were to create an account today, I'd just look for the coolest sounding instance that has a lot of users. Like the other comment mentioned, you can always migrate to a different one (although you might lose your post history, you'll keep all your followers/followings).
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#38Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's actually pretty simple. Just sign up to any instance/server. It doesn't really matter which one. You can follow and interact with anyone, regardless of which server they signed up for. Then it's just like Twitter for the most part. I feel the "multiple instances" aspect of Mastodon really confuses people. Highlighting it to new users is not working in their favour.
Does the instance one registers on become part of their identity? I think this is the thing that always made me pause - I didn’t want to pick a server I’d regret later.
Yes and to my knowledge whomever set up the server will have full access to your private DMs so choose wisely.
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#39It's a solid improvement but the move from Twitter to Mastodon is not happening[1]. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34693037
That was a funny news story because I'm sure it was a case of Hanlon's razor, but had they talked to any old school fedi admin they would know that the user retention is normally between 20 and 40%. So if that holds true for the latest twitter waves, we won't just lose 30% of active users, we'll lose 60%!
No service has 100% user retention, and unfortunately the Mastodon software was counting each new sign up and login as a monthly active user.
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#40I love the nod to the 3DS StreetPass. It would be nice to have this built into a Mastadon mobile app rather than a browser extension.
I'm not sure I understand what you're suggesting—this extension is useful because it can basically passively surveil every single site you visit to determine which ones have Mastodon links, and make a list of them in the background. The whole point is that you don't have to take any additional action to seek out these links, you just collect them passively by browsing the internet already. How could a mobile app poss…
The original street pass feature of the Nintendo 3DS would let you “passively” play some games with other 3DS players you encountered in real life (even and especially when your 3DS isn’t even opened). That way you would check your 3DS later and see the players you bumped into during your trip.
I think OP is suggesting to have a similar thing for Mastodon. Users would keep the Mastodon app running and other users you meet along the way would be added to a list. (I’m not specifically fond of the idea, but just try to bring in some clarity and context here.)