#fediverseux — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #fediverseux, aggregated by home.social.
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1) What offers or promises have we made about the #fediverse, and decentralised social networks in general, to encourage people to try them?
2) Are they fulfilled?
* To what degree are they true?
* To what degree are they not (yet) true?
I'm assuming both parts of the 2nd question can be answered, for any answer to the first one, especially if we're commenting on first impressions as well as testable technical facts.
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Imagine a fediverse app gave 3 equally prominent buttons for posting text about a post; Comment, Reply and Whisper.
The difference is;
* a Comment is a text directed to a general audience, *about* the author's post (or the author themselves).
* a Reply is a text directed *to* the post author, and the accounts following them, and anyone else @mentioned
* a Whisper is a direct a text directed to the post author *only*, and anyone else @mentioned
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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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A UX improvement to @Mastodon that might increase usage of Content Warnings; stop counting the text in them against the 500 char limit. Give them their own separate (shorter) limit, maybe 200 characters or less? Something to consult on with people who think it's useful to write long Content Warnings.
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I noticed a new cirled question-mark icon next to my Fediverse address on my Mastodon account.
Tapping it exposed a pop-up.
It seems like it is a message to me.
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I just started reading the blog of @gilles. #HatTip to @mayel for the link to Gilles' homepage.
Anyway, I read this blog post;
https://blog.gillesdutilh.com/2025/03/the-pain-in-mansplaining/... and saw "fediverse reactions" at the bottom. So I tried putting that URL into the @Mastodon search bar. No dice.
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It would be good to have a UX checklist for new fediverse devs to work though as they implement ActivityPub, and for devs of established apps to check against when doing UX reviews. Things like;
* replies to posts made in other apps federate back to the OP server
* edits to those posts federate
* searching a URI for a post or actor in other apps retrieves it
Maybe with links to implementation tips for each point. An idea for ActivityPub.rocks?
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As I mentioned in a post a week or 2 back, the vanilla Mastodon web app is now better for most purposes than the third-party ones I've tried
(@enafore, @elk, @phanpy, happy to go into detail on why if this helps). Plus, now that I'm home I use my laptop a lot more (on mobile I tend to use native apps, which are pretty good; @moshidon, @Fedilab (?), @pachli).Using the Mastodon web app more has helped me understand the logic behind the Quote Post feature.
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#UX #FediverseUX #QuotePosts -
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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@datum
> but if a user can't be bothered to write a paragraph about themselves asking to join a server... then they're not going to fill out their profile, which means they will struggle to find anyone to follow or even interact with them. So here's a #UX suggestion; somehow combine the 2.
Ask them what their profile text would say if they're accepted, and have accepting the account autopopulate the profile with that text.
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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 -
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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"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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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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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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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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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 have a friend who has been teaching anthropology as an adjunct lecturer. They're keen to get into UX, in the hopes of finding more stable employment.
Can anyone think of a way to get funding to pay them to work on #fediverse UX stuff? Ideally for a year or 2, but even a few months would be better than nothing.
TBH I'm not sure what form this might take. Ideas on that welcome to. Maybe a freely-licensed framework for doing UX reviews for decentralised networks?
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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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"My strongest belief about the social web is that if we want it to succeed, we have to keep lowering the barrier to entry.
We have to keep minimizing the need for arcane language. We have to keep solving the things that people expect to work, but don't, rather than endlessly explaining how the underlying technology works. We have to create more familiarity with concepts people already know."
@johnonolan, 2025
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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.)