mattbk @mattbk@social.coop

So tired of tech evangelists praising xyz Thing without considering how "normal", non-tech people are able to interact with said Thing.

:: shuffles to microphone :::: shuf
:: awkwardly stares at shoes ::
:: clears throat, looks up ::

...Uhm, hello? Anybody there?
...
I'm new here. I'm a software engineer living in SF Bay Area. Very curious about social.coop in particular and in general about better ways of interacting, working and being together and in society.

:: waves ::
#introduction #sfbayarea #SocialCoop

@dansup Trending hashtags are a discovery feature, and the crowd who was attacking this seems to be against any and all discovery features. I don't see how trending hashtags, possibly with admin moderation, would not be a great discovery feature for any social media app.

All it costs to fulfill the average person's needs for digital services is a $5 per month VPS instance. It's even cheaper if you buy a single board computer and host your services at home.

We've been letting companies steal our personal data and sell it to the highest bidder and destroying democracy in the process all to save what? A coffee a month?

This is one of the worst deals in history.

#privacy #selfhosting

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@paulfree14 @Gargron

Idea.

Choses an (informed) arbitrary number for a healthy base of users for an instances. Say 20-200 users then base the ordering on user GROWTH in this range.

Then new instances are responsible to push there install into view and they should then organically grow with referrals based on visibility before dropping back to self grouth after they reach a sustainable size.

Healthy "federated" grouth rather than a few huge instances.

Just one idea.

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