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  • Imaniimanijoy@mastodon.social
    May 4, 2026, 2:53 PM

    I'm hosting @Mastodon's first ever Discovery Week in just a few days. It's a chance for the public to weigh in on the future of online communities.

    We'll be discussing topics like user-controlled algorithms, trust & safety, creator tools, and more. Your input will help steer Mastodon towards a more inclusive and impactful roadmap. Non-technical folks strongly encouraged to attend, and there's an async option if you can't make the live sessions!

    app.hi.events/event/7599/masto

    #mastodon

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  • RobotistryRobotistry@fediscience.org
    May 5, 2026, 1:10 AM

    @imanijoy @Mastodon Every time I see these posts talking about "Mastodon" as though it's a unitary thing that can be steered, I get confused.

    Is this about the back end (for example, whether algorithms other than chronological order will be available as standard on the server/instance side) or about the front end (for example, a specific app that someone who has an account on a server uses to read, write, and interact with posts)? Or both? And if an app is involved, which one?

    The last time I saw a bunch of stuff about "Mastodon" framed this way, it turned out to be an app-specific thing that made peoples' content warnings bad, but that didn't affect me because I don't use that app. But this sounds like it includes back end stuff that might affect me?

    So confused....

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  • Imaniimanijoy@mastodon.social
    May 5, 2026, 11:33 AM

    @Robotistry Understandable! While our focus for DW is on what we can change (Mastodon's official apps), key findings will be shared publicly for any app developers to benefit from. If you're using a third-party app, your participation is still encouraged for at least two reasons: (1) what's working for you elsewhere might provide insight about how we fix usability issues over here, and (2) some user requests might require changes to the API or backend, which could impact other apps.
    @Mastodon

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  • David B. :SetouchiExplorer:David@setouchi.social
    May 6, 2026, 4:15 AM

    @imanijoy I'm not totally sure what this entails, but I signed up.

    A good way to include non-technical people is to avoid using technical linguo, though... (a plague a lot of technical people suffer from)
    "Async"? I can guess what it means, but I'm not totally sure. Does it mean "on demand" in plain English?

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  • goetz 🚲goetz@chaos.social
    May 6, 2026, 7:48 AM

    @imanijoy @Mastodon can we get proper dual stack support from Mastodon software and mastodon.social please!

    Currently this is leading to a great fragmentation of the Fediverse.

    Maybe also a test instance for admins to debug and validate?

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