Did the Mastodon web-UI stop showing you if someone is following you?

I have seen a number of people create read-only Telegram channels — that they post to, and their audience only reads from, and can comment to their posts.

It feels a lot like a micro-blogging profile.

Except that the presentation is different —

• Telegram doesn't have a concept of a home-feed, that would mix posts from different channels together,
• instead, the channel is a unit, and you see which channels have new posts (and how many are unread by you).

This has been asked for on the (broader) Fediverse for a long time, too.

(Longer than Threads has existed.)

Although, in practice, it is impossible to prevent it. Someone can take a screenshot of your post and comment on it — thus doing an ad hoc DIY quote-post.

RE: https://www.threads.net/@zuck/post/DHbavhJvRIn

I wish @Tusky had a "mentions" feed similar to Fedilab.

I.e., a screen (in the app) that only shows posts that "mention" me.

I get so many other non-mention notifications that I can (and at times often do) miss posts that mention me.

What about the Fediverse or Mastodon, etc, frustrates you or confuses you?

Farcaster seems to have Starter-Follow-Packs now.

I think this likely applies to the Fediverse, too.

Although, I don't think every social-media user it trying to gain and grow an audience. I think some people are just trying to make find friends or people with similar interests who are mutuals.

https://warpcast.com/jacque/0xf380b697

I think what @light wants is a Fediverse Custom Feed (rather than a List).

RE: https://mastodon.social/@light@noc.social/114162333801375136

When you press that button (in the screenshot), and publish a post on the Fediverse —

For most users on the Fediverse —

Not only are you publishing that post on your host's website, but —

YOU ARE PUSHING that post to people and machines (including strangers) across the Fediverse.

If you do not want that to happen, then — don't press that button.

Instead, consider a private message, or using something such as Signal.

This is one of the problems with centralized social-media — that your entire online existence and self can be deleted, and often, there is nothing you can do about it

That you can be unpersoned.

On the Fediverse (and other decentralized social-media (DeSo)) — you can protect yourself from this. You can self-host, and own and control your online identity & online self.

RE: https://twitter.com/SwittCraft/status/1895119128509456401

An article on what Tumblr was like as a technology and a culture. With a focus on GIF-sets.

https://cybercultural.com/p/tumblr-2012/

by @ricmac

"The emphasis [of Tumblr] was on fun and sharing, rather than writing and editing."

I noticed years ago that some people use Discord as an alternative to what was traditionally done with mailing-lists.

To keep a list of people. Maybe for a community. Many for an audience. And to be able to communicate with them.

Both people and businesses created these.

I see some people doing similar with Telegram.

Sometimes, with read-only Telegram channels. Although sometimes with everyone posting.

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Hash-Tags versus Group Actors

Hash-Tags and Group Actors seems to serve similar purposes.

("Communities" in Lemmy are Group Actors.)

I.e., a "place" where many people can post stuff — on a single topic, for a community, etc.

But at least currently, the user-experience (UX) is different.

This is the multi-lingual post UX that I'm talking about.

Thoughts on this?