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Daily Digest for Tuesday, Feb 25, 2020

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Post Activity in Mastodon - to show or not to show

For the most part I appreciate the design decision that the #mastodon developers made to not show reply/boost/fave numbers on the feed lists, because it puts more focus on the content and less on gaming an algorithm for popularity or “engagement”.

http://monkinetic.blog/uploads/mastodon-post-activity.png

but I also realize that this makes it harder to know if there are responses! For example, this post by Jun on #playviscious actually has an interesting thread that I’m learning from, but nothing in the UI signifies that there is more content to find connected to the post.

I wonder if there could be an additional affordance in the #UI that there are replies (boosts and faves not so much)?

#ui #mastodon #playviscious

Steve Ivy

Googling Latasha Harlins, 1976-1991

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Steve Ivy

Performative communication is a lie

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Steve Ivy
Steve Ivy

Bourne movie #soundtracks make the best hacking tracks

http://monkinetic.blog/uploads/BourneIdentityfilm.jpg

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Steve Ivy

The other day I complained that Mastodon did not have a “this post has replies” indicator. I was wrong.

http://monkinetic.blog/uploads/mastodon-replies-indicator.png

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