Product Strategy Advisor to Mastodon Core team.
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Last Notes npub1rxsaaak8vdzlfg3lcsg2vnx8v9vnf98ec55v6qv0g4xhqu22kpzq9qjq60 Scott Jenson Could not agree more. We have to stop seeing people in such black-and-white terms. If someone disagrees with you, it doesn't make them a fascist. The desire to "kick out everyone I don't like" is short-sighted. The "Nazi bar" comparison massively oversimplifies the issue. Kicking out your perceived enemies does not result in paradise, just scorched earth. npub1rxsaaak8vdzlfg3lcsg2vnx8v9vnf98ec55v6qv0g4xhqu22kpzq9qjq60 Scott Jenson I like this post from Ian Coldwater. Slagging off users isn't a growth strategy. Now, you may not want growth, perfectly fine, but this is specifically calling out apps that want mainstream consumers npub1rxsaaak8vdzlfg3lcsg2vnx8v9vnf98ec55v6qv0g4xhqu22kpzq9qjq60 Scott Jenson I'm now in the habit of running my posts through an LLM just to check for blind spots or ways my words might be misunderstood. It’s actually proving to be helpful. npub1rxsaaak8vdzlfg3lcsg2vnx8v9vnf98ec55v6qv0g4xhqu22kpzq9qjq60 Scott Jenson I was so looking forward to pitching Part 2 of my "Future Desktop UX" talk at @nprofile…sjdl Akademy this fall. #Linux needs to be building for the future and I was looking forward to seeing what the #KDE community thought of this. But alas, the acceptance gods were not on my side and my talk wasn't accepted. npub1rxsaaak8vdzlfg3lcsg2vnx8v9vnf98ec55v6qv0g4xhqu22kpzq9qjq60 Scott Jenson @nprofile…zx6n My point is simple: this will never work. Why? npub1rxsaaak8vdzlfg3lcsg2vnx8v9vnf98ec55v6qv0g4xhqu22kpzq9qjq60 Scott Jenson @nprofile…3g4a @nprofile…zx6n I just had an exchange with a Skota engineer who claims to be fixing this very issue. He basically admitted to this being a request from the legal team. npub1rxsaaak8vdzlfg3lcsg2vnx8v9vnf98ec55v6qv0g4xhqu22kpzq9qjq60 Scott Jenson @nprofile…zx6n I care about the problem not this solution! npub1rxsaaak8vdzlfg3lcsg2vnx8v9vnf98ec55v6qv0g4xhqu22kpzq9qjq60 Scott Jenson @nprofile…zx6n not that many babies are actually left behind so they are over indexing on a problem that isn't that common? npub1rxsaaak8vdzlfg3lcsg2vnx8v9vnf98ec55v6qv0g4xhqu22kpzq9qjq60 Scott Jenson "Oh no! We forgot Timmy!" npub1rxsaaak8vdzlfg3lcsg2vnx8v9vnf98ec55v6qv0g4xhqu22kpzq9qjq60 Scott Jenson Is EVERYTHING in Helsinki open, clean, and beautiful? This is the ferry terminal npub1rxsaaak8vdzlfg3lcsg2vnx8v9vnf98ec55v6qv0g4xhqu22kpzq9qjq60 Scott Jenson I visited the Helsinki Library and it has a frigg'n makerspace in the middle of it! Laster cutters, 3D printers, Vinyl cutters, all for nearly free. It also has "video game rooms", general meeting rooms, 2 cafes and a restaurant! It's astounding what you can have if you fund public works. npub1rxsaaak8vdzlfg3lcsg2vnx8v9vnf98ec55v6qv0g4xhqu22kpzq9qjq60 Scott Jenson Personal Information access is the achilles heel of LLMs. They can do amazing things if you feed them all your stuff. (This is why Local LLMs are so promising, your data stays put) npub1rxsaaak8vdzlfg3lcsg2vnx8v9vnf98ec55v6qv0g4xhqu22kpzq9qjq60 Scott Jenson As far as I can recall, the Pope never issued an encyclical letter about NFTs or Crypto... npub1rxsaaak8vdzlfg3lcsg2vnx8v9vnf98ec55v6qv0g4xhqu22kpzq9qjq60 Scott Jenson @nprofile…9ry6 The "GoogleBook" coverage has been nearly non-existent on this topic. I noticed even the ChromeBook Unboxed Youtube channel appeared to be excited by the change. Have you seen any insightful coverage of this? I sure haven't npub1rxsaaak8vdzlfg3lcsg2vnx8v9vnf98ec55v6qv0g4xhqu22kpzq9qjq60 Scott Jenson @nprofile…pq9l npub1rxsaaak8vdzlfg3lcsg2vnx8v9vnf98ec55v6qv0g4xhqu22kpzq9qjq60 Scott Jenson @nprofile…344s totally reasonable take. There is a lot of backlash against all big tech and AI is just too easy of a target npub1rxsaaak8vdzlfg3lcsg2vnx8v9vnf98ec55v6qv0g4xhqu22kpzq9qjq60 Scott Jenson You can hold both of these things in your head at the same time: npub1rxsaaak8vdzlfg3lcsg2vnx8v9vnf98ec55v6qv0g4xhqu22kpzq9qjq60 Scott Jenson @nprofile…7uhg At this point I would like to continue what you started in your post and talk about what the benefits of of mutuals are versus the benefits of friends I don't think these are fully articulated and so once we know kind of what you get with these it helps motivate the discussion so I'm not going to answer your question but say we should talk more :-) npub1rxsaaak8vdzlfg3lcsg2vnx8v9vnf98ec55v6qv0g4xhqu22kpzq9qjq60 Scott Jenson This post by @nprofile…7uhg was eye openning for me: "Mutuals are not friends". npub1rxsaaak8vdzlfg3lcsg2vnx8v9vnf98ec55v6qv0g4xhqu22kpzq9qjq60 Scott Jenson Using Mastodon often feels lopsided: positive reactions are subtle and small, yet negative comments are notifications right in your face! npub1rxsaaak8vdzlfg3lcsg2vnx8v9vnf98ec55v6qv0g4xhqu22kpzq9qjq60 Scott Jenson It's one think to hack on your own, it's ENTIRELY another thing to upload it to GitHub... It feels a bit... loud npub1rxsaaak8vdzlfg3lcsg2vnx8v9vnf98ec55v6qv0g4xhqu22kpzq9qjq60 Scott Jenson Sure, this is funny but what bothers me the most is that we don't even have a good way of talking about this. This is a foundational error state and likely implies other problems in how it works. npub1rxsaaak8vdzlfg3lcsg2vnx8v9vnf98ec55v6qv0g4xhqu22kpzq9qjq60 Scott Jenson Delays can kill your design. npub1rxsaaak8vdzlfg3lcsg2vnx8v9vnf98ec55v6qv0g4xhqu22kpzq9qjq60 Scott Jenson Good example of the particle-wave aspect of LLMs: These tools appear to do amazing things quickly, but they are often the wrong things. Something is still missing. npub1rxsaaak8vdzlfg3lcsg2vnx8v9vnf98ec55v6qv0g4xhqu22kpzq9qjq60 Scott Jenson @nprofile…q90h @nprofile…zswc If none of those work out for you, I've had good luck with tiny.cc npub1rxsaaak8vdzlfg3lcsg2vnx8v9vnf98ec55v6qv0g4xhqu22kpzq9qjq60 Scott Jenson @nprofile…9d4f Whatever, I don't care what we call it, I'm just saying it needs to stop. I'm not hearing you say that. npub1rxsaaak8vdzlfg3lcsg2vnx8v9vnf98ec55v6qv0g4xhqu22kpzq9qjq60 Scott Jenson @nprofile…9d4f and you're not going to be persuaded that people are leaving because reply guys are demoralizing to new arrivals. npub1rxsaaak8vdzlfg3lcsg2vnx8v9vnf98ec55v6qv0g4xhqu22kpzq9qjq60 Scott Jenson @nprofile…9d4f Respectfully, we're looking at very different feeds. I assume you've hear of the reply guys getting in peoples mentions telling people off for not doing alt text, or content warnings? THAT is why good people are bouncing and that is exactly why it *is* an echo chamber. If you don't conform to these rules, instead of, you know, just not following them, or blocking them, or hell, defederating their server (all of which I would be fine with) people feel so privileged that they get in these new comers face and tell them "you're doing it wrong". npub1rxsaaak8vdzlfg3lcsg2vnx8v9vnf98ec55v6qv0g4xhqu22kpzq9qjq60 Scott Jenson @nprofile…t78d I'm not arguing with that logic. I'm not saying you HAVE to like him. I'm trying to understand why people can't just ignore him. npub1rxsaaak8vdzlfg3lcsg2vnx8v9vnf98ec55v6qv0g4xhqu22kpzq9qjq60 Scott Jenson @nprofile…t78d Actually you said "It depends on what they're posting". My point is that, outside of anything that violates server rules, it shouldn't MATTER what they are posting. Let them post and be ignored. npub1rxsaaak8vdzlfg3lcsg2vnx8v9vnf98ec55v6qv0g4xhqu22kpzq9qjq60 Scott Jenson @nprofile…t78d So you're saying people can only post here if YOU think they're ok? npub1rxsaaak8vdzlfg3lcsg2vnx8v9vnf98ec55v6qv0g4xhqu22kpzq9qjq60 Scott Jenson @nprofile…v9vp I agree with everything you're saying. This conversation has become far bigger than I intended. All I wanted was to say "it would be nice if we had a bigger tent" npub1rxsaaak8vdzlfg3lcsg2vnx8v9vnf98ec55v6qv0g4xhqu22kpzq9qjq60 Scott Jenson @nprofile…v9vp npub1rxsaaak8vdzlfg3lcsg2vnx8v9vnf98ec55v6qv0g4xhqu22kpzq9qjq60 Scott Jenson @nprofile…6p92 and that completely misses my point. It's not about 'having an instance" it's about actively going after people you disagree with. Just read the replies I've been getting. I'm being told to leave the fediverse, I'm being called racist, people are making ad hominum attacks, etc. npub1rxsaaak8vdzlfg3lcsg2vnx8v9vnf98ec55v6qv0g4xhqu22kpzq9qjq60 Scott Jenson @nprofile…elnu @nprofile…gydz have you read the replies to my post. They are ACTIVELY proud of the fact that AI isn't welcome here. npub1rxsaaak8vdzlfg3lcsg2vnx8v9vnf98ec55v6qv0g4xhqu22kpzq9qjq60 Scott Jenson @nprofile…elnu @nprofile…gydz npub1rxsaaak8vdzlfg3lcsg2vnx8v9vnf98ec55v6qv0g4xhqu22kpzq9qjq60 Scott Jenson @nprofile…0cqh I HAVE had a complex day, thank you ;-) I just have to backpedal here and admit I made a clumsy comparison. I just wanted to say "I want a bigger tent and letting more voices in, like say this AI guy is a good test for our ability to do that" npub1rxsaaak8vdzlfg3lcsg2vnx8v9vnf98ec55v6qv0g4xhqu22kpzq9qjq60 Scott Jenson @nprofile…gydz my point exactly npub1rxsaaak8vdzlfg3lcsg2vnx8v9vnf98ec55v6qv0g4xhqu22kpzq9qjq60 Scott Jenson @nprofile…ldvp No! This was a sincere effort to explore this issue. npub1rxsaaak8vdzlfg3lcsg2vnx8v9vnf98ec55v6qv0g4xhqu22kpzq9qjq60 Scott Jenson OK, this is going even MORE sideways so I need to make a few things clear: npub1rxsaaak8vdzlfg3lcsg2vnx8v9vnf98ec55v6qv0g4xhqu22kpzq9qjq60 Scott Jenson @nprofile…9ew3 @nprofile…5dxw But that is a slippery slope. I realize this might seem contentious but I believe it's is exactly the same mechanism that chased away black twitter in 2022. If we celebrate our culture, to the point that we are happy we are excluding others, it can cut both ways. npub1rxsaaak8vdzlfg3lcsg2vnx8v9vnf98ec55v6qv0g4xhqu22kpzq9qjq60 Scott Jenson @nprofile…7gzr @nprofile…5dxw I think the "Black Twitter" migration of 2022 would disagree. npub1rxsaaak8vdzlfg3lcsg2vnx8v9vnf98ec55v6qv0g4xhqu22kpzq9qjq60 Scott Jenson @nprofile…5dxw That is a personal choice and one which I totally respect. But I do think Mastodon should be big enough, and open enough, to allow an "AI community" to form, even thrive. npub1rxsaaak8vdzlfg3lcsg2vnx8v9vnf98ec55v6qv0g4xhqu22kpzq9qjq60 Scott Jenson As this conversation is spiraling a bit I want to make a few things clear: npub1rxsaaak8vdzlfg3lcsg2vnx8v9vnf98ec55v6qv0g4xhqu22kpzq9qjq60 Scott Jenson @nprofile…9ew3 but our numbers are steadily going down. We are NOT in a steady state. You won't be able to have this place if we just keep going the way we are. npub1rxsaaak8vdzlfg3lcsg2vnx8v9vnf98ec55v6qv0g4xhqu22kpzq9qjq60 Scott Jenson @nprofile…2gzr The number don't lie, active users on Mastodon are going DOWN not up, we're hemorrhaging users, most likely because we're chasing many of them away with these 'purity tests'. I certainly am not experiencing this diversity you are referring to. npub1rxsaaak8vdzlfg3lcsg2vnx8v9vnf98ec55v6qv0g4xhqu22kpzq9qjq60 Scott Jenson @nprofile…35yu And you have every right to do that. But do that with filtering/blocking/hashtags. Don't do it by chasing away people that want to be part of the community. "Gatekeeping" is not a good look for an "open social" network. npub1rxsaaak8vdzlfg3lcsg2vnx8v9vnf98ec55v6qv0g4xhqu22kpzq9qjq60 Scott Jenson @nprofile…edcp But that's the very definition of a mono-culture. A vibrant community allows all of these topics, encourages them even. Then, with filters, who you follow, hashtags, and blocking you get the feed you want. npub1rxsaaak8vdzlfg3lcsg2vnx8v9vnf98ec55v6qv0g4xhqu22kpzq9qjq60 Scott Jenson Is #mastodon becoming an echo chamber? This post from @nprofile…a6hr has me questioning our community. The Mastodon team is finally getting some traction, the product improvements are increasing, The #UX is improving, yet people posting on multiple platforms are making comments like this. It's confusing. npub1rxsaaak8vdzlfg3lcsg2vnx8v9vnf98ec55v6qv0g4xhqu22kpzq9qjq60 Scott Jenson FOSSism · /ˈfɔːʃɪzəm/ or fawsh-iz-um · noun npub1rxsaaak8vdzlfg3lcsg2vnx8v9vnf98ec55v6qv0g4xhqu22kpzq9qjq60 Scott Jenson @nprofile…sdk8 That it does.... I've done it 4 times and I never want to do it again npub1rxsaaak8vdzlfg3lcsg2vnx8v9vnf98ec55v6qv0g4xhqu22kpzq9qjq60 Scott Jenson I'm in Big Sur, CA (a beautiful natural area on the California coast. I'm staying at a small upscale motel and in the parking lot is a Black CyberTruck with the plates "DrkMAGA". npub1rxsaaak8vdzlfg3lcsg2vnx8v9vnf98ec55v6qv0g4xhqu22kpzq9qjq60 Scott Jenson @nprofile…6f0h Thank you. Can you tell me more why I shouldn't use this app? It's opensource which seems like it should be in the "good guys" camp npub1rxsaaak8vdzlfg3lcsg2vnx8v9vnf98ec55v6qv0g4xhqu22kpzq9qjq60 Scott Jenson I am fascinated by local-first AI products. I'm starting to play with https://meetily.ai/ as everything stays local, nothing is uploaded to a server. npub1rxsaaak8vdzlfg3lcsg2vnx8v9vnf98ec55v6qv0g4xhqu22kpzq9qjq60 Scott Jenson This is an excellent example of what OpenSource can do, doing work funded by groups that care. I hope we can bring more money into OpenSource to tackle even more issues like this. npub1rxsaaak8vdzlfg3lcsg2vnx8v9vnf98ec55v6qv0g4xhqu22kpzq9qjq60 Scott Jenson I'm assuming many people would are tagging @nprofile…saqv in this... npub1rxsaaak8vdzlfg3lcsg2vnx8v9vnf98ec55v6qv0g4xhqu22kpzq9qjq60 Scott Jenson Best joke of the Oscars. npub1rxsaaak8vdzlfg3lcsg2vnx8v9vnf98ec55v6qv0g4xhqu22kpzq9qjq60 Scott Jenson @nprofile…8qd7 I'm so sorry you're having to deal with this. These people need to get some perspective. This is the very crowd that chased away the "great Twitter wave"of 2022 and I'm so tired of them. They are literally ruining the culture here. npub1rxsaaak8vdzlfg3lcsg2vnx8v9vnf98ec55v6qv0g4xhqu22kpzq9qjq60 Scott Jenson @nprofile…ncqh I'd likely just the fact that it's a slower rollout. Part of being federated is that not all servers update at the same time. npub1rxsaaak8vdzlfg3lcsg2vnx8v9vnf98ec55v6qv0g4xhqu22kpzq9qjq60 Scott Jenson When I see a really good post and want to quote post it, I'm sad when it's quoting is disabled. I get it, it's their clubs and I respect that. npub1rxsaaak8vdzlfg3lcsg2vnx8v9vnf98ec55v6qv0g4xhqu22kpzq9qjq60 Scott Jenson Preach! npub1rxsaaak8vdzlfg3lcsg2vnx8v9vnf98ec55v6qv0g4xhqu22kpzq9qjq60 Scott Jenson Just updated to the latest Android drop for my pixel 10 and I love this new minimal icon theme. It significantly reduces the intensity of the display. npub1rxsaaak8vdzlfg3lcsg2vnx8v9vnf98ec55v6qv0g4xhqu22kpzq9qjq60 Scott Jenson My issue isn't with the team that shipped this feature but with the politics of the internal Android team. The watch knows I have a Pixel watch! That error message could have been so much better but I expect they weren't allowed to do the work to a) give a better message and/or b) nudge the watch to update. npub1rxsaaak8vdzlfg3lcsg2vnx8v9vnf98ec55v6qv0g4xhqu22kpzq9qjq60 Scott Jenson I just updated my pixel 10 pro and was told I could turn on watch notifications when my phone is left behind. Sounds cool so I tried to turn it on and I get this message. My watch is a pixel 2 (fully updated btw). I am fully enmeshed in the Pixel ecosystem and I get a message like this. npub1rxsaaak8vdzlfg3lcsg2vnx8v9vnf98ec55v6qv0g4xhqu22kpzq9qjq60 Scott Jenson test npub1rxsaaak8vdzlfg3lcsg2vnx8v9vnf98ec55v6qv0g4xhqu22kpzq9qjq60 Scott Jenson @nprofile…sdk8 I feel you. I've built two things this month that I'm sure is complete noob-dreck yet keep hitting incredibly frustrating issues thinking "Surely someone has figured it out!" npub1rxsaaak8vdzlfg3lcsg2vnx8v9vnf98ec55v6qv0g4xhqu22kpzq9qjq60 Scott Jenson @nprofile…r8yz Yeah the xxx: pattern was popularized by Gmail almost 20 years ago and people haven't really moved on. I'm sure there are better ways to do it. npub1rxsaaak8vdzlfg3lcsg2vnx8v9vnf98ec55v6qv0g4xhqu22kpzq9qjq60 Scott Jenson @nprofile…r8yz I was thinking along those same lines! How could search be make a bit more obvious for people that would like these tools? It's a challenge to be sure and it's not really clear how often people need these tools but it's a lovely sub-problem to consider. npub1rxsaaak8vdzlfg3lcsg2vnx8v9vnf98ec55v6qv0g4xhqu22kpzq9qjq60 Scott Jenson @nprofile…r8yz SUPER useful thank you. npub1rxsaaak8vdzlfg3lcsg2vnx8v9vnf98ec55v6qv0g4xhqu22kpzq9qjq60 Scott Jenson @nprofile…ctsm Do you even remember the fevered discussions about Crypto? If you opposed that you were also a dinosaur. Look how well that turned out. npub1rxsaaak8vdzlfg3lcsg2vnx8v9vnf98ec55v6qv0g4xhqu22kpzq9qjq60 Scott Jenson @nprofile…jq5c Just go to featured hashtags and click on the tag. It gives you a feed of just that hashtag. I know, I know, it's far too hidden npub1rxsaaak8vdzlfg3lcsg2vnx8v9vnf98ec55v6qv0g4xhqu22kpzq9qjq60 Scott Jenson @nprofile…ctsm well, you're a pleasant person to talk to... npub1rxsaaak8vdzlfg3lcsg2vnx8v9vnf98ec55v6qv0g4xhqu22kpzq9qjq60 Scott Jenson @nprofile…jq5c This looks great and I applaud you for trying this out. You *can* do this with the current web version of mastodon, it's a bit more clunky than your approach. npub1rxsaaak8vdzlfg3lcsg2vnx8v9vnf98ec55v6qv0g4xhqu22kpzq9qjq60 Scott Jenson @nprofile…ctsm Actually, this specific video is getting lots of discussion in the UX groups on LinkedIn and most of the senior designers feel quite the opposite. This is a take only junior person, working at a large company, that hasn't much experience would make. It confuses prototyping speed with UX insight. npub1rxsaaak8vdzlfg3lcsg2vnx8v9vnf98ec55v6qv0g4xhqu22kpzq9qjq60 Scott Jenson My favorite use of the Edit command on #Mastodon is to quickly fix a poorly thought through post with a large "EDIT:" at the top. It keeps the original post but redirects it and stops a cascade of replies. It's much more reasonable than just deleting the post. npub1rxsaaak8vdzlfg3lcsg2vnx8v9vnf98ec55v6qv0g4xhqu22kpzq9qjq60 Scott Jenson @nprofile…2e5r ooooh, that's a cool trick! Thanks npub1rxsaaak8vdzlfg3lcsg2vnx8v9vnf98ec55v6qv0g4xhqu22kpzq9qjq60 Scott Jenson The fact that I got an answer within minutes shows how awesome this community is. Thank you everyone for helping me out when I should have just done a simple web search first.... npub1rxsaaak8vdzlfg3lcsg2vnx8v9vnf98ec55v6qv0g4xhqu22kpzq9qjq60 Scott Jenson @nprofile…5dxw <smacks forehead> npub1rxsaaak8vdzlfg3lcsg2vnx8v9vnf98ec55v6qv0g4xhqu22kpzq9qjq60 Scott Jenson Hello #mastodon friends! npub1rxsaaak8vdzlfg3lcsg2vnx8v9vnf98ec55v6qv0g4xhqu22kpzq9qjq60 Scott Jenson I've been posting on both Bsky and Mastodon and usually find far more engagement on Mastodon. But this last post was eerily identical... npub1rxsaaak8vdzlfg3lcsg2vnx8v9vnf98ec55v6qv0g4xhqu22kpzq9qjq60 Scott Jenson @nprofile…2ptt funny you should mention that... npub1rxsaaak8vdzlfg3lcsg2vnx8v9vnf98ec55v6qv0g4xhqu22kpzq9qjq60 Scott Jenson @nprofile…2ptt Oh I remember Eliza as well. I was more pointing out the VC hype cycle which launched dozens of totally useless companies and every CEO was talking about how chat bots were inevitable. Sounds so eerily familiar to today.... npub1rxsaaak8vdzlfg3lcsg2vnx8v9vnf98ec55v6qv0g4xhqu22kpzq9qjq60 Scott Jenson Me: I'm so old... npub1rxsaaak8vdzlfg3lcsg2vnx8v9vnf98ec55v6qv0g4xhqu22kpzq9qjq60 Scott Jenson @nprofile…s303 Now you're just trolling people in NY npub1rxsaaak8vdzlfg3lcsg2vnx8v9vnf98ec55v6qv0g4xhqu22kpzq9qjq60 Scott Jenson I just went through my Twitter archive from 2007-2022 and used a simple Python script to see who I interacted with most. Here are the top 10 people from my archive. I couldn't be more pleased (and not really surprised) So exciting they all appear to be on Mastodon. Below is the the list with Twitter handle, count. I've found your mastodon handles below. npub1rxsaaak8vdzlfg3lcsg2vnx8v9vnf98ec55v6qv0g4xhqu22kpzq9qjq60 Scott Jenson @nprofile…x0qa exactly. This is why I'm treating this topic as something potentially quite difficult. One of the incredible values of the fediverse is that I use multiple clients to manage my account and I'm worried that encryption will make that nearly impossible. npub1rxsaaak8vdzlfg3lcsg2vnx8v9vnf98ec55v6qv0g4xhqu22kpzq9qjq60 Scott Jenson @nprofile…x0qa I just found https://holos.social/e2ee which explains how keys are generated per message and using the actor in activit Pub allows the sender to know if the recipient is capable of receiving an encrypted message. It seems pretty slick and looks like it's almost ux-free with a few unanswered questions. npub1rxsaaak8vdzlfg3lcsg2vnx8v9vnf98ec55v6qv0g4xhqu22kpzq9qjq60 Scott Jenson @nprofile…x0qa I did just check out Hollo (Hollos?) and it appears to be a server for just 1 account so it's not clear HOW it's handling this. (I'm not going to install it for just kicking the tires) npub1rxsaaak8vdzlfg3lcsg2vnx8v9vnf98ec55v6qv0g4xhqu22kpzq9qjq60 Scott Jenson @nprofile…n0m2 it really depends on the cross between originality of the idea and the clarity of the vibe coding. npub1rxsaaak8vdzlfg3lcsg2vnx8v9vnf98ec55v6qv0g4xhqu22kpzq9qjq60 Scott Jenson @nprofile…9ry6 you're slipping man. I expect much more heat from you... npub1rxsaaak8vdzlfg3lcsg2vnx8v9vnf98ec55v6qv0g4xhqu22kpzq9qjq60 Scott Jenson @nprofile…rh4q all fair questions! All I can say is that there are many within the community that are quite adamant that DMs must be encrypted. The most common reason is that they don't want admins to spy on their posts. npub1rxsaaak8vdzlfg3lcsg2vnx8v9vnf98ec55v6qv0g4xhqu22kpzq9qjq60 Scott Jenson @nprofile…gc5w Agreed! These are the type of fixes I'd like to consider IN ADDITION to continuing to work on backend encryption npub1rxsaaak8vdzlfg3lcsg2vnx8v9vnf98ec55v6qv0g4xhqu22kpzq9qjq60 Scott Jenson @nprofile…2fx0 Thank you. This has been mentioned by others as well. I can see how this behavior could be problematic. npub1rxsaaak8vdzlfg3lcsg2vnx8v9vnf98ec55v6qv0g4xhqu22kpzq9qjq60 Scott Jenson @nprofile…f2tg No one is saying encryption is off the table. Just that I wanted to start with low hanging fruit (bucause the improvements are so much easier. Others are working on the encryption (it's a VERY hard problem) npub1rxsaaak8vdzlfg3lcsg2vnx8v9vnf98ec55v6qv0g4xhqu22kpzq9qjq60 Scott Jenson @nprofile…9mae Exactly. My hypothese is that most PMs are scoping outisde of the public discourse and are not in need to encryption. This doesn't mean it's not a good long term goal! Just saying lots of usage does not require it npub1rxsaaak8vdzlfg3lcsg2vnx8v9vnf98ec55v6qv0g4xhqu22kpzq9qjq60 Scott Jenson @nprofile…2gus Could not agree with you more! Do you have any ideas on how to improve threads? Any products that do it well for example? Branching threads are a bit like merging PRs, the dependency tree can get crazy complex! npub1rxsaaak8vdzlfg3lcsg2vnx8v9vnf98ec55v6qv0g4xhqu22kpzq9qjq60 Scott Jenson @nprofile…jknr Oh I plan to! But it helps to have a conversation first so I know WHAT to put into the poll... npub1rxsaaak8vdzlfg3lcsg2vnx8v9vnf98ec55v6qv0g4xhqu22kpzq9qjq60 Scott Jenson @nprofile…2gus @nprofile…7qas npub1rxsaaak8vdzlfg3lcsg2vnx8v9vnf98ec55v6qv0g4xhqu22kpzq9qjq60 Scott Jenson @nprofile…tg5j You're not the only person asking for this. It's a resonable suggestion (but I can't comment on the implementation complexity) npub1rxsaaak8vdzlfg3lcsg2vnx8v9vnf98ec55v6qv0g4xhqu22kpzq9qjq60 Scott Jenson @nprofile…7qas Well first of all we have a shipping product (warts and all) and improving it is important to do even outside of encryption (I mean I hear your point but I'm saying we'll improve the UX independently as, honestly, it's got lots of issues that need fixing.)
