#fediux — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #fediux, aggregated by home.social.
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Egads... I am not going to hit "Filter this post" on 10 messages in a single long thread 🧵 . #mastodonux
Instead, I'm going to mute you for a day... or a week.
Also, I just discovered there is no activity on #mastodonux and #fediux tags, and that explains a lot.
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Egads... I am not going to hit "Filter this post" on 10 messages in a single long thread 🧵 . #mastodonux
Instead, I'm going to mute you for a day... or a week.
Also, I just discovered there is no activity on #mastodonux and #fediux tags, and that explains a lot.
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Some small rural towns stay connected through Facebook groups.
If you want to reach people in that small town, for social or commercial reasons — you post to that towns' Facebook groups.
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What could the Fediverse and Social Web learn from this?
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Some small rural towns stay connected through Facebook groups.
If you want to reach people in that small town, for social or commercial reasons — you post to that towns' Facebook groups.
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What could the Fediverse and Social Web learn from this?
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If not, what features could the developers of @funkwhale and BandWagon (@benpate) add that would allow accounts on their software to be used for release and show announcements, so you wouldn't need a second account on a micro-posting service for that?
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If not, what features could the developers of @funkwhale and BandWagon (@benpate) add that would allow accounts on their software to be used for release and show announcements, so you wouldn't need a second account on a micro-posting service for that?
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I dream of being able to store my online social presence, identity, and history just as — an (organized) set of static files.
A set that I control.
And, I can (if I want to) host myself. (I.e., I am the "source of truth" / "origin" for my files.)
RE: https://mastodon.social/@reiver/116018261922778583
#ActivityPub #FediDev #FediDevs #FediUX #Fediverse #FediverseUX
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I dream of being able to store my online social presence, identity, and history just as — an (organized) set of static files.
A set that I control.
And, I can (if I want to) host myself. (I.e., I am the "source of truth" / "origin" for my files.)
RE: https://mastodon.social/@reiver/116018261922778583
#ActivityPub #FediDev #FediDevs #FediUX #Fediverse #FediverseUX
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If you cannot get (most) regular people to write JSON-LD, JSON, or even HTML —
But, you might be able to get them (regular people) to write something similar to Markdown and INI —
Then, are there ways you could (explicitly or implicitly) encode JSON-LD type information, such as ActivityPub, into a Markdown-like or INI-like file — in a way where they (regular people) would likely include it?
I suspect — probably yes.
#ActivityPub #FediDev #FediDevs #FediUX #Fediverse #FediverseUX
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If you cannot get (most) regular people to write JSON-LD, JSON, or even HTML —
But, you might be able to get them (regular people) to write something similar to Markdown and INI —
Then, are there ways you could (explicitly or implicitly) encode JSON-LD type information, such as ActivityPub, into a Markdown-like or INI-like file — in a way where they (regular people) would likely include it?
I suspect — probably yes.
#ActivityPub #FediDev #FediDevs #FediUX #Fediverse #FediverseUX
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What kind of privacy and curation features would you like to see in fediverse software? #fediverse #fedidev #FediDesign #fediux
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What kind of privacy and curation features would you like to see in fediverse software? #fediverse #fedidev #FediDesign #fediux
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One person's request for Fediverse applications —
Alex wants to be able to choose what the preview image is for a video, chosen from the frames in the video.
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I can imagine editing tools (in Fediverse applications) would also be useful.
It is also common elsewhere for people to be able to use custom images for preview images.
#FediDev #FediDevs #FediUX #Fediverse #FediverseUX #PreviewImage #Video
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One person's request for Fediverse applications —
Alex wants to be able to choose what the preview image is for a video, chosen from the frames in the video.
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I can imagine editing tools (in Fediverse applications) would also be useful.
It is also common elsewhere for people to be able to use custom images for preview images.
#FediDev #FediDevs #FediUX #Fediverse #FediverseUX #PreviewImage #Video
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What one person wants from an alternative to a Twitter:
• choice of home-feed algorithm,
• editable posts,
• ability to moderate replies -
What one person wants from an alternative to a Twitter:
• choice of home-feed algorithm,
• editable posts,
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This is an area I think we could improve on the Fediverse —
Nested Comments
This (in the attached screen-shot) is from someone on Twitter who is also on Mastodon and Bluesky.
He seems to be a fan of the nested comments UI on Bluesky.
We have some great applications on the Fediverse. They could be made even greater with this improvement.
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This is an area I think we could improve on the Fediverse —
Nested Comments
This (in the attached screen-shot) is from someone on Twitter who is also on Mastodon and Bluesky.
He seems to be a fan of the nested comments UI on Bluesky.
We have some great applications on the Fediverse. They could be made even greater with this improvement.
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Something Fediverse related that I am working on —
Toddlerverse
Basically, what I have been thinking about is —
What would take to make areas of the Fediverse geared towards toddlers.
(The document I am writing is still a work in progress.)
(I am a parent of young children, so I have first-hand experience with kids usage of online media, including social-media.)
#FediUX #Fediverse #FediverseUX #SpreadFediverse #Toddler #Toddlers #Toddlerverse
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Something Fediverse related that I am working on —
Toddlerverse
Basically, what I have been thinking about is —
What would take to make areas of the Fediverse geared towards toddlers.
(The document I am writing is still a work in progress.)
(I am a parent of young children, so I have first-hand experience with kids usage of online media, including social-media.)
#FediUX #Fediverse #FediverseUX #SpreadFediverse #Toddler #Toddlers #Toddlerverse
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"Signal was great, but I wanted something I could truly own. Enter Matrix — a protocol, not a platform. I now run my own homeserver, complete with bridges, Maubot automations, and rooms that feel more like digital living rooms than rented chat spaces."
https://laurahargreaves.com/growing-my-fediverse/
RE: https://mastodon.laurahargreaves.com/@laura/115536140849221234
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"Signal was great, but I wanted something I could truly own. Enter Matrix — a protocol, not a platform. I now run my own homeserver, complete with bridges, Maubot automations, and rooms that feel more like digital living rooms than rented chat spaces."
https://laurahargreaves.com/growing-my-fediverse/
RE: https://mastodon.laurahargreaves.com/@laura/115536140849221234
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What is involved in moving your account from one server to another seems much, much more difficult than it should be.
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What is involved in moving your account from one server to another seems much, much more difficult than it should be.
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There are simple services that exist that — when a user fills-out & submits a <form> on the Web that simple service e-mails someone that data.
These simple services are alternatives to more complex back-end with a database.
An alternative to this alternative could be — instead of e-mailing someone the submitted data, send that data via the Fediverse using ActivityPub.
ActivityPub them. (Can “ActivityPub” be a verb‽)
Probably as a private DM.
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There are simple services that exist that — when a user fills-out & submits a <form> on the Web that simple service e-mails someone that data.
These simple services are alternatives to more complex back-end with a database.
An alternative to this alternative could be — instead of e-mailing someone the submitted data, send that data via the Fediverse using ActivityPub.
ActivityPub them. (Can “ActivityPub” be a verb‽)
Probably as a private DM.
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@cheeaun/115381698564197327
This is an argument for (also) having a recommendation-engine based feed.
(I.e., what some mistakenly call "the algorithm" or an "algorithmic feed".)
“I know the comparison here is 450 followers to 4,500, but follower number isn't indicative of the full picture. Think about TikTok, and how you can have 50 followers but have posts that reach millions of views.”
RE: https://cara.app/post/2e0d29d3-a57a-4b70-b0d0-9cefc15176ca
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@cheeaun/115381698564197327
This is an argument for (also) having a recommendation-engine based feed.
(I.e., what some mistakenly call "the algorithm" or an "algorithmic feed".)
“I know the comparison here is 450 followers to 4,500, but follower number isn't indicative of the full picture. Think about TikTok, and how you can have 50 followers but have posts that reach millions of views.”
RE: https://cara.app/post/2e0d29d3-a57a-4b70-b0d0-9cefc15176ca
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The WAFRN idea of custom themes is very cool, too.
Decades ago, being able to 'theme' and 'skin' things was common.
I like that WAFRN has this feature.
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The WAFRN idea of custom themes is very cool, too.
Decades ago, being able to 'theme' and 'skin' things was common.
I like that WAFRN has this feature.
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I would assume that, from an ActivityPub & JSON-LD point-of-view, that these WAFRN "bites" / "pokes" are probably some type of custom Activity type.
RE: https://wedistribute.org/2025/10/wafrn-chaotic-good/
#ActivityPub #FediUX #Fediverse #FediveseUX #JSONLD #SpreadFediverse #wafrn
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I would assume that, from an ActivityPub & JSON-LD point-of-view, that these WAFRN "bites" / "pokes" are probably some type of custom Activity type.
RE: https://wedistribute.org/2025/10/wafrn-chaotic-good/
#ActivityPub #FediUX #Fediverse #FediveseUX #JSONLD #SpreadFediverse #wafrn
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It might be fun to make able to use your own custom verbs, too.
For example:
"Joe Blow has throw a water balloon at you."
I think it wouldalso be nice if other Fediverse software supported the displaying of these types of activities (even if they don't support creating them.)
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It might be fun to make able to use your own custom verbs, too.
For example:
"Joe Blow has throw a water balloon at you."
I think it wouldalso be nice if other Fediverse software supported the displaying of these types of activities (even if they don't support creating them.)
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I like the idea of having "fun" things that are part of (at least some of) the Fediverse.
The WAFRN idea of "bites" / "pokes" seems like one of them.
I would assume notifications for it might look something like:
"Joe Blow has bit you."
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I like the idea of having "fun" things that are part of (at least some of) the Fediverse.
The WAFRN idea of "bites" / "pokes" seems like one of them.
I would assume notifications for it might look something like:
"Joe Blow has bit you."
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If we were to do a regular online Fediverse meeting —
(Maybe once a month.)
WHAT DAYS OF THE WEEK WOULD YOU BE ABLE TO ATTEND?
A regular (online) meeting for Fediverse developers, for those who care about the Fediverse as a social movement, and for those who care about the success of the Fediverse.
Sunday?
Monday?
Tuesday?
Wednesday?
Thursday?
Friday?
Saturday?(You can pick more than one day)
PLEASE REPLY WITH YOUR ANSWER.
#ActivityPub #FediDev #FediUX #Fediverse #FediverseUX #SocialWeb
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If we were to do a regular online Fediverse meeting —
(Maybe once a month.)
WHAT DAYS OF THE WEEK WOULD YOU BE ABLE TO ATTEND?
A regular (online) meeting for Fediverse developers, for those who care about the Fediverse as a social movement, and for those who care about the success of the Fediverse.
Sunday?
Monday?
Tuesday?
Wednesday?
Thursday?
Friday?
Saturday?(You can pick more than one day)
PLEASE REPLY WITH YOUR ANSWER.
#ActivityPub #FediDev #FediUX #Fediverse #FediverseUX #SocialWeb
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I spend time thinking about how this (the importance of files and file data-formats) intersects with user-experience (UX).
For example, what types of files could you get regular people to create?
I don't think you can get regular people en masse to write JSON (including JSON-LD).
I think even getting them (regular people) to write HTML is difficult.
Something similar to Markdown probably has the best chance or success. Maybe something similar to INI, too.
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I spend time thinking about how this (the importance of files and file data-formats) intersects with user-experience (UX).
For example, what types of files could you get regular people to create?
I don't think you can get regular people en masse to write JSON (including JSON-LD).
I think even getting them (regular people) to write HTML is difficult.
Something similar to Markdown probably has the best chance or success. Maybe something similar to INI, too.
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Something I said before (and felt even longer) is —
An open protocol is better than an app.
But an open file data-format is better than an open protocol.
I.e.,:
file data format ≫ protocol ≫ app
https://mastodon.social/@reiver/113495330687127439
With that in mind —
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Something I said before (and felt even longer) is —
An open protocol is better than an app.
But an open file data-format is better than an open protocol.
I.e.,:
file data format ≫ protocol ≫ app
https://mastodon.social/@reiver/113495330687127439
With that in mind —
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I have found that I have wanted this, too.
I follow a lot of hash-tags. Which is great.
But, sometimes I just want to see a feed of just the people I follow without the hash-tag posts.
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I have found that I have wanted this, too.
I follow a lot of hash-tags. Which is great.
But, sometimes I just want to see a feed of just the people I follow without the hash-tag posts.
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This is a pattern that I've already seen people do on the Fediverse, Twitter, and other places.
Although, usually people take a screenshot of the post, and then mark-it-up.
It seems like Threads payed-the-cows-path and made something people were already doing easier.
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This is a pattern that I've already seen people do on the Fediverse, Twitter, and other places.
Although, usually people take a screenshot of the post, and then mark-it-up.
It seems like Threads payed-the-cows-path and made something people were already doing easier.
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I wonder if the user-experience (UX) could be improved.
Perhaps their front-end client app could warn them when an ActivityPub Group actor is included in the reply tree.
Although, as I said here:
https://mastodon.social/@reiver/114113739165883616— if you post anything publicly, strangers across the Fediverse may see it, too.
So, even if there isn't a Group actor, their message cloud still get around.
RE: https://atomicpoet.org/objects/f8f8a0be-3cb9-4aaf-9635-9eb02057d15b
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I wonder if the user-experience (UX) could be improved.
Perhaps their front-end client app could warn them when an ActivityPub Group actor is included in the reply tree.
Although, as I said here:
https://mastodon.social/@reiver/114113739165883616— if you post anything publicly, strangers across the Fediverse may see it, too.
So, even if there isn't a Group actor, their message cloud still get around.
RE: https://atomicpoet.org/objects/f8f8a0be-3cb9-4aaf-9635-9eb02057d15b
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I think it would be better if Forgejo / Codeberg (also) provided a QR code for generated access-tokens hexadecimal string.
Generating an access-token on your laptop, and then — manually typing in that (access-token) hexadecimal string into your phone is error-prone and tedious.
A QR code that you could scan from your mobile phone would help reduce that error and tedium.
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I think it would be better if Forgejo / Codeberg (also) provided a QR code for generated access-tokens hexadecimal string.
Generating an access-token on your laptop, and then — manually typing in that (access-token) hexadecimal string into your phone is error-prone and tedious.
A QR code that you could scan from your mobile phone would help reduce that error and tedium.
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I might have started coding this.
A group-chat UI on top of a Fediverse "Group" (i.e., ActivityPub Actor type "Group").
https://codeberg.org/reiver/chatfed
I made it as a PWA.
(It is definitely NOT done. It is barely the beginning. Basically, what you see in the screen-shot. Lots more work to do.)
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I might have started coding this.
A group-chat UI on top of a Fediverse "Group" (i.e., ActivityPub Actor type "Group").
https://codeberg.org/reiver/chatfed
I made it as a PWA.
(It is definitely NOT done. It is barely the beginning. Basically, what you see in the screen-shot. Lots more work to do.)
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What if we had a user-experience over a Fediverse "Group" (i.e., ActivtyPub Actor type "Group") that looked more like a group-chat.
I mocked up a desktop style UI for it.
(A mobile UI would be more condensed.)
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For FediCon I used Signal for group-chat. But I would have preferred to keep the conversation on the Fediverse. And, if a UI like this existed, I would have been able to do so.
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What if we had a user-experience over a Fediverse "Group" (i.e., ActivtyPub Actor type "Group") that looked more like a group-chat.
I mocked up a desktop style UI for it.
(A mobile UI would be more condensed.)
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For FediCon I used Signal for group-chat. But I would have preferred to keep the conversation on the Fediverse. And, if a UI like this existed, I would have been able to do so.
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I want a way to have a user-experience over a Fediverse "Group" that looks more like a Signal or Telegram group chat.
I know it is doable. Someone just needs to implement it.
(Maybe I will if no one else does it by the time I "finish" my current Fediverse projects.)
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I want a way to have a user-experience over a Fediverse "Group" that looks more like a Signal or Telegram group chat.
I know it is doable. Someone just needs to implement it.
(Maybe I will if no one else does it by the time I "finish" my current Fediverse projects.)
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Back then I imagined one way this could have been solved.
The Mastodon team tried to solve this by onboarding new users onto mastodon.social by default.
However, I imagined people not creating accounts at first, but instead just subscribing to people's outboxes — all done on the client side, so they didn't have to choose a server instance.
https://mastodon.social/@reiver/114070142883326241
Using ActivityPub outboxes like RSS / Atom / WebFeeds.
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Back then I imagined one way this could have been solved.
The Mastodon team tried to solve this by onboarding new users onto mastodon.social by default.
However, I imagined people not creating accounts at first, but instead just subscribing to people's outboxes — all done on the client side, so they didn't have to choose a server instance.
https://mastodon.social/@reiver/114070142883326241
Using ActivityPub outboxes like RSS / Atom / WebFeeds.