mastodon 4.8.0-nightly.2026-10-06Whatever crosses my mind on tech, internet, federated social, etc.
Infrequent poster; I spend enough of my time on screens as it is, so I prefer to go touch grass and connect with the universe. I build things for other people who feel the same.
Founder of @frequency@frequency.app, a followers-only federated photo-sharing app for your friends and fam 💜👯♂️🌄
Formerly GitHub, ModCloth, PivotalLabs, UC Berkeley
I haven't been here much lately.. for the first few months it was because I was on maternity leave, but lately it's been because I'm spending my time on the Atmosphere instead. Especially since they are working on seriously implementing private data, it feels more and more like that protocol fits my needs more than ActivityPub.
I appreciate all the work that's been done here, but the easy data hosting and portability, dns usernames, and composable architecture on atproto are killer features.
RE: @briankrebs@infosec.exchange
Cool, where’s the class action suit to join to get my refund for all the tariffs I had to pay since this was enacted?
Android users: do you install apps from alternate app stores?
I last had an android as my main driver in 2013 and used to run a jail broken OS, but have no idea how common installing non play store apps is these days
@benpate@mastodon.social @scottjenson@social.coop Hey Ben, yeah, I totally agree- threads still make sense for public posts since there is often so much branching. The private use case really depends, but since it’s often 1-1, it feels less necessary to have the complexity of threads. Definitely debatable tho depending on preferences.
If threading stays in private messages, I’d love to see the 1 & 2 UX you described. I think of slack as another example of decent threads UX, but don’t like it nearly as much.
