I think https://streetpass.social/ mastodon extension is a must have for all users of Mastodon. Such a nice way to know about all the amazing folks who create content that you are reading. Thanks @tvler for creating it
Most of these tests to ensure someone is a #millennial seem like things that anyone can figure out, but I don't see any possible way for kids these days to understand the #iPod scroll wheel #interface without seeing someone else use it first.
You mentioned a lot of things that I generally really enjoy about #kbin as well.
⭐ The admin @ernest is an incredibly hardworking, kind, supportive, and an all-around good person. This is my tip top most favorite thing because good leadership and communication is essential to a good and thriving community. Ernest is a star!
Same, he also gets bonus points for listening to, and implementing suggestions. Some of them have come quite quickly as well. These factors when combined have made me feel like I'm really a part of the community.
⭐ I enjoy making scripts/styles for kbin. kbin is the reason I began learning JS, HTML, and CSS. I am so happy I started learning, and it's all thanks to kbin.
Cheers to that, I actually use one of yours -- specifically the one that changes the layout of profile pages.
⭐ No malicious, tricky, over-calculated algorithm. It's very straight-forward and honest here. I love seeing a mix of upvoted/downvoted comments in comment sections too, rather than just top upvoted, because it makes me feel more apart of the conversation with everyone. Your contributions and thoughts won't get drowned out by upvoted witty remarks, that is truly unique to kbin (and maybe elsewhere on the fediverse?).
Agreed -- I think Mastodon also functions similarly. It makes #discoverability a bit challenging at times, but I'm open to experimenting with it.
⭐ kbin gives me the urge to contribute, interact, and create because our contributions have actual impact. Can't say the same for other sites. Everywhere else is lurk only.
Hard agree -- though it wears on me at times when I'm unable to get some engagement going after keeping at it for so long. I've changed my mindset about it a little while ago, so it's not too bad.
⭐ Tightknit but welcoming. kbin is small enough that I run into familiar people all the time, and I recognize usernames everywhere.
Agreed, and to add onto this -- profile pictures are pretty easily recognizable as well.
⭐ Authenticity. kbin is authentic and real. It's not pushing a product, not manipulating what you see, not building an ad profile. It is what a forum should be.
Yeah, adding on one of your points again -- it's very reminiscent of what #forums used to feel like. However, at the same time, it feels like something more due to the addition of #microblogging. #Microblogs may not be super popular on /kbin, but I think they're a stellar addition to the forum experience. I've had some nice back-and-forths with #Mastodon users from the comfort of /kbin's UI. I think there's more potential in what you can do with them, too.
#Kbin has a #feature to kind of deal with this called #collections. Instead of subscribing to all #magazines of a same type or even name, you can put them in a collection (or find a collection where somebody already did that) and then favorite that collection see all of those magazines in your feed. Splitting up the discussion is still not ideal but at least this lets you see all of it at once and increases #discoverability.
Today, I continue preparations for refactoring. Szymon updated the environment and added a spoiler tag in the markdown editor. Additionally, there were several fixes and improvements related to collections and the People page....
The "Add New" button is a nice update to the #Collections page -- should be useful for #discoverability and accessibility which hopefully inspires others to use this feature! Also glad to see that unfollowing a #Collection has been renamed from "Delete" to "Unlike". The spoiler tag update is also definitely welcome.
Love #RSS ? I'm not sure anyone noticed, but I added support for RSS on #gitlab topics a few months ago (topics are the tags you add on your project/repository to categorize it).
"In November, the US Repository Network (#USRN) will launch a pilot project aimed at improving the #discoverability of articles in #repositories. This pilot project involves the use of services from #CORE, a not-for-profit aggregator based at Open University in the UK."
@Ernest has pushed an update which allows users to request ownership/moderation of abandoned magazines. Ghost/abandoned magazines were fairly prevalent after the initial wave of hype due to users either squatting magazine names or becoming inactive for other reasons. Now is your chance to get involved, if you were waiting to do...
I think it's great that you're interested in this! It may be scary, but it can also be pretty exciting. I would say to start small. There might be a lot of things to consider: establishing rules, the overall vibe of the #magazine, your audience, the type of content you want to see, etc. Pick on one, focus on that for a day or so. If you plan on making new magazine, you'll be free to take your time with this. Growing niche magazines tends to be on the slow side. IMO, that's better for those who are new to this, so they can have time to acclimate to the tools and considerations you'll be presented with. It may also allow you to really reflect on the direction you'd like to take your magazine.
As #niche#communities tend to start slow, people will be hesitant to post content. Unfortunately, when content is rare, people are less inclined to post. This is a problem that reinforces itself, as others are unlikely to post when there is no content. You'll probably need to be "the first on the dance floor", so to speak, if your goal is to grow your magazine. This will likely test your patience, as you will probably be one of, if not the only active posters in your magazine. Picking a magazine name that might see usage in the #fediverse and #mastodon might prove useful for #federating content via the #microblog section. However, if you wish to pick a more unique name, more power to you. Something to consider, is that you may wish to create a sibling magazine that can accept a tag that would federate posts with regularity.
For example, I run @learnjapanese. However, most people will be unlikely to write #learnjapanese on Mastodon. However, I also run @japanese, which federates the #japanese tag from Mastodon instances. You can add additional tags in the magazine settings menu, which allows the federation of posts that contain other hashtags. I've pinned a microblog in both magazines' #microblogging sections to point to each other to increase #discoverability and awareness of related resources. Speaking of discoverability, Ernest recently implemented a #crossposting feature to /kbin that further increases discoverability and accessibility. Posting the same link/image to related magazines will allow users to see other magazines this content is posted to. This appears in the comments section of the thread, directly below the content of the post itself. Ideally, this would generate additional traffic and increase visibility for the smaller, but related magazines. This has been an extremely welcome addition, as someone who is moderating smaller magazines and trying to bring awareness without spamming advertisements.
If you have any further questions, please let me know. I have also subscribed to your magazine. Good luck. :)
@julia wouldn't it he better if :activitypub: clients were to properly handle #hashtags and if #discoverability wasn't useless because making it a hidden #OptIn setting means noone I know ever activated it successfully...
I think :mastodon: and other implementations should just have an option to display the # instead...
Sadly using hashtags is a necessarx evil because #FullTextSearch - even one's own posts - DOES NOT WORK!!!
Along with opt-in #FullTextSearch, recent upgrades to Mastodon allow for searching of profiles (and/or this feature has finally been turned on at mastodon/dot/online). #ProfileSearch
What does the setting to be discoverable on mastodon even actually do? I don't want people to be able to full text search my posts (because it's mostly spammers and harassment) so since they're putting both things on a single option I'll have to figure out if account discoverability is something worth getting harassed and spammed for, which is hard when I don't know what it actually does
"The real benefit of machine translation lies elsewhere, said [Vincent] Larivière. 'In an ideal world, the #metadata, #abstracts and titles of scientific articles would be available in [many] languages, increasing their #discoverability…Readers could then choose to translate the text into any language they want. We wouldn’t always have to use English.' "
@colo_lee@supernovae ditto. I want to use mastodon in a global and discoverable way to increase learning and serendipity. So I chose a geographic server, knowing that most interactions would be with other servers. #discoverability
Feedback is extremely welcome. This is a loving document, it can only be honed and get better with loving input from other users. What are your best tips for #creators?
Starting to get a little interesting for snow across the Oberon Plateau and maybe even for the Blue Mountains. ECMWF model is showing a transient or coastal low persisting perhaps for days. Not an East Coast Low at this stage although that term does get used a lot in the media.
I'm doing a detailed video via the community project.
May I suggest that you add hashtags to your posts.
That is the only way of discovery on mastodon, as people search & either follow or pin hashtags, as there is no algorithm to automatically suggest posts to users.
✨ What is your favorite thing about kbin? ✨
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RTR#31 Further refactoring, update Symfony to 6.4 and other deps
Today, I continue preparations for refactoring. Szymon updated the environment and added a spoiler tag in the markdown editor. Additionally, there were several fixes and improvements related to collections and the People page....
To those genuinely interested in moderating
@Ernest has pushed an update which allows users to request ownership/moderation of abandoned magazines. Ghost/abandoned magazines were fairly prevalent after the initial wave of hype due to users either squatting magazine names or becoming inactive for other reasons. Now is your chance to get involved, if you were waiting to do...