In the words of Fatboy Slim, "we've come a long long way together." Here, @miaq breaks down Flipboard's federation journey so far.
"We could [federate Flipboard] with a quick flip of the switch but we’ve chosen to act more intentionally," she writes. "We’re taking measured steps to test, learn, and ensure that everything we’re doing stays true to our values and those of the fediverse. Maintaining quality is top of the list."
Despite the despicable mangling that #Mastodon does of non-Note #ActivityPub objects, I'm getting more and more annoyed when opening a link “in-app” (e.g. by dragging it to the search field) doesn't work, because it's not a link to an AP service.
"The promises of the fediverse can “solve a pretty huge distribution problem,” Patel said. Instead of spending time building a presence on other platforms for their benefit, a publisher can do that on their own sites — while giving readers the ability to see those posts on other federated platforms." https://digiday.com/media/why-publishers-are-preparing-to-federate-their-sites/
Been trying out following podcast feeds on here via https://podcastap.com
Seems to work. You really don't have to sign in with your fediverse account to try. Just use search and find the ActivityPub feed address to input into your client search area. #podcasts#activitypub
How many people read but never post on social media? I think it's pretty high. You need an account to track who you are following for that, but that's it. Isn't this kinda like the podcast experience, where people have an app and an account there but nothing is public? Or consider how most people use YouTube.
Perhaps the #SocialWeb could learn from this. First get people on an app. Setting up their app account gives them an #ActivityPub ID on the developer's default server. Move on from there.
I'm adding new profile fields to #Smithereen, so I would like to ask the fediverse about what kinds of contact info one would expect to be able to add to their profile. So far I've seen:
Personal website/blog
Matrix
XMPP
Telegram
Signal
Phone number
Twitter
Email
I've not yet seen these in fediverse profiles but they are mainstream enough that won't hurt to add:
@grishka
I'm not sure Iif I've got the gist of what you are planning to do, but my understanding is that you want to add dedicated fields in the user's profile for their social contact info. If that's the case, then I wonder why jot letting the user to define the field names? Something similar to what mastodon does. The benefits are: