I'm going to be doing a "Works On My Machine LIVE" episode with Rimu for Piefed.

Monday Aug 31st 00:00 UTC. I think?!? :D Time zones always screw me up.

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If this should go somewhere else, please let me know. :)

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than EVER!

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FIRESIDE FEDI LIVE!

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AND IN PERSON!

They said it couldn't be done! But we're doing it!

Talking with #fediverse #developers live and on stage!

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FIVE on ONE!

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Without a NET!

And this time the STAKES are even HIGHER!

Live studio audience!

RABID #Fedizens!

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WITH SPECIAL GUEST for the first time ANYWHERE:

JOHN MASTODON! Cancelled

This won't be just any normal show!  It's the show you've waited your ENTIRE LIFE to see!

We'll also be speaking with these following extraordinary people:

• Dan Supernault - @[email protected]

Currently building @pixelfed, @loops, @supapp, @fedidb, and more.

• Django Doucet - @[email protected] -

Django is a Social Web Developer and Instructor of Digital Design at NAIT (Northern Alberta Institute of Technology). He has contributed to various ActivityPub projects over the years, notably WordPress-ActivityPub, and is currently developing a Progressive Web App to push forward the unrealized potential of the ActivityPub Client API.

• Vagrant Cascasian - @[email protected] - 

Involved in various #FOSS projects such as #ReproducibleBuilds #Debian #Guix and so much more. Passionate about #Aikido and #Solar hobbyist.

• Matt Baer - @[email protected] -

#Founder https://writing.exchange/@write_as , https://musing.studio/

Lead #dev https://writing.exchange/@writefreely

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• Ben Pate - @[email protected] -

Ben is the nerd who's building https://emissary.dev/ - an #ActivityPub server for building custom social applications on the #Fediverse .

First app on this platform is a #music #sharing #server for indie bands, called https://bandwagon.fm/ . He's also working on https://atlasmaps.org/, a #social #mapping server for adding #Federated annotations to places in the real world.

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Pie or Cake?

Red, Blue or Green?

Best Fediverse Application?

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So I was just thinking, the way I look at PieFed is that I like to have the main site up, when I find an article I'm interested in I center wheel click it to open it in a new window and then keep going to find other articles. I then go look at all of the articles one at a time and then come back to the main website.

My thought is, what if hovering over the topic, or clicking it, caused a fly out. So the page splits and shows the article on the side or in a box hovering over the topic. A lot of times I just like to see the comments really and if I want the article then I just click through. But most times it's just to get a summary or make a quick comment. Think email client. Show the topics on the left and then clicking it opens the topic on the right.

Just a thought.

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I wanted to announce that I'm going to be speaking with Evan Prodromou, co-author of ActivityPub the protocol that powers the Fediverse, today 1400 US Eastern (UTC-4).

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VODs will be posted on https://tubefree.org/@firesidefedi for those interested in watching it later. Powered by Peertube. :)

I wanted to announce that I'm going to be speaking with Evan Prodromou, co-author of ActivityPub the protocol that powers the Fediverse, today 1400 US Eastern (UTC-4).

Livestream powered by Owncast.

VODs will be posted on https://tubefree.org/@firesidefedi for those interested in watching it later. Powered by Peertube. :)

Since I asked about memes, what about just clip art? This could add TONS of fun built into Piefed with connections to open clip art.

From their website:

What is Openclipart?

Founded in 2004, Openclipart is an online media collection of more than 180,000 vectorial graphics, entirely in the public domain. You can read more on the Wikipedia page.

https://openclipart.org/developers

Right now when I go to a post and read it, if I hit back, I go back to where I was at the point I found the interesting post. So I can keep scrolling from there.

However, if I leave a comment and hit back, I'm taken back to the post ( understandable ) but I hit back again and it takes me to the start of my feed. So I have to scroll through everything again to find where I left off.

Is there anyway to make it that I can get back to where I was reading?

Just now I used the classic "OH NO! Anyway" meme from Jeremy Clarkson. How many folks might have uploaded that before?

What if Piefed housed, or linked to some kind of service, that had a meme search.

This resolves 2 issues.

1. Interactivity is more fun and easier for users.
2. You can deduplicate storage. You'll no longer have 500 people uploading the same "OH NO! Anyway..." memes. This would also allow custom meme from other instances that could then be shared and grow the pool of built in memes, potentially deduping across all Piefed instances.

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I know lots of folks are talking about Monthly Active Users when it comes to health of the Fediverse.

We use that to compare social medias and even ourselves, a social network, to each other.

I argue we should be focused on user engagement. I know LinkedIn has "impressions", but idk what that means.

So I wonder if there's a good way to generate this. Someone posting is the highest, commenting, subscribing, liking, disliking, and follow on down. I guess that would be a statistical model? But with diminishing returns. One SUPER ACTIVE ANNOYING poster does not a network make, but "media" it does.

I don't have a clue how this would work statistically. But I theorize, that while we're smaller MAU, our user engagement is significantly higher when population size is accounted for.

Is there any data anyone knows of to back this up or disapprove it? I'm pro small.social though, so maybe I'm wrong. Any data scientists in the Fediverse? :-D

I like having piefed pull in peertube channels.

A few thoughts on this.

When I go to add the channel I have to add ! In front. It even errors and tells me I need it. So if it has to exist can Piefed check, if it's not there, Piefed manages it and adds it? It'd be a bit better end user experience.

Building on, having a way to do this is nice, but can it be merged into search? So someone searches name@server if it doesn't find an exact match can it just reach out and come back with it and say it's not added, but we can add it for you by clicking this button.

Idk the technical challenges, but this would also be massively helpful in smoothing out the experience.

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