Interesting discussion on the approach to content filtering at #BlueSky.
Category: Social Activity
As has been recently reported, Substack Notes is quickly learning all the lessons other social network platforms have learned.
@mmasnick has a good article here on why trying to please everyone will just ruin the platform before it really gets off the ground: https://www.techdirt.com/2023/04/14/substack-ceo-chris-best-doesnt-realize-hes-just-become-the-nazi-bar/
And my own take on content moderation here, which broadly agrees with Masnick: https://dymersion.com/2022/11/the-moderation-conundrum/
It’s really awesome being able to post on the blog instance from a Mastodon client. It’s really tying together the feasibility of using it as my main account.
And the threads are coming together.
I broke #WordPress #ActivityPub posting the other day, so seeing if it’s fixed now.
Anyway, more to come!
Finally, I seem to have found a way for posts/toots from #WordPress to default to the ‘note’ #PostKind when posted from outside the WP interface. Now to find a way for the plugin to always respect the choice selected in the settings, as it currently doesn’t in this use case.
@sharearea I’m also not a #BlueSky user yet but I do like the account portability aspect. Currently with #Mastodon, if you switch instances you can’t carry over your posts. You can manually copy them over but then you lose all timestamp information. And theoretically I like the Speech -> Reach layer separation, which is tied with account portability, though it remains to be seen how it’ll really work. Elon promised that over at Twitter but didn’t follow through. Mastodon is no better in this aspect so it’s lead some, like myself, to attempt to keep post data in our own databases and push them out to the #fediverse.
Those other ones actually didn’t post as expected on other apps, so tried a modification in the AP code…
Using the #WordPress instance as if it were #Mastodon is very cool.