Adding better search functionality to any platorm is tricky. You want people to be able to find each other quickly and easily. But doing so inevitably leads to more possibilities for harassment.

#search #mastodondevelopment #opensource

Hello all, got a few bits of feedback for #mastodon any #devs #dev interested? #mastodev #mastodevs #mastodondevelopment #MastodonDevelopers #MastodonDeveloper #mastodondev #mastodondevs

@vlrny Alt text would be a good job for AI. It could recognize the photo and describe it automatically. I voice text, but Auto-AltTxt would be awesome.

How about that. #mastodondevelopment? #AIAltText

Some form of Mastodon Digest is what I want in my Mastodon client natively! I'd love to see a tab for this that brings up "posts you might have missed in the last 24 hours"
https://social.jvns.ca/@b0rk/109722489383419112

#MastodonDigest
#MastodonDevelopment
#MastodonApp
#Tusky

Nice to have you on board @mozilla, but we need more than another instance:

"If you buy into the idea that #Mozilla should be spending resources on #Mastodon, at the very least [they] could do something meaningful like finance and supply labour to build better moderation tools, end to end #encrypted DMs or some other meaningful effort. Yet this is not what is proposed."

Source:
https://post.lurk.org/@shibacomputer/109548784095427843

#encryption #MastodonDevelopment #encryptedDMs #e2ee

#mastodondevelopment Where do us sftwr developers go to help with development? I will check out github mastodon. Wondering what the dev community is like here.

Après quelques semaines d'usage de #mastodon, je me rends compte qu'il n'est pas exempt de certains défauts de twitter.
En particulier une conception qui incite au "doomscrolling". Le fait de faire défiler un fil d'actu en perdant la notion du temps.
J'ai quelques idées à ce sujet que je vous invite à discuter :
#mastodondevs #mastodondevelopment

I think the main thing about joining Mastodon that stymies brand-new folks is server selection:

- You are immediately given an overwhelming list of instances to select from
- You may have little to no context about what it makes sense to even think about when choosing one
- Front-loading server selection puts the *least* familiar aspects of Masto in front of you first (federatedness) rather than the *most* familiar (globalness)

Some ideas:

(1/2) #onboarding #mastodondevelopment

@mastodon design tip, make it look like Twitter and indent the posted content a bit out from the avatar icon. Kind of layout like newspaper article style. Etc. #design #mastodondesign #MastodonDev #mastodondevelopment

TIL if you create an application that has users authenticate to their #Mastodon instance, you must have an app registered on that instance as well. Logical, but means that your app needs to keep a store of all those secrets and keys somewhere as they get created for each instance.

Interesting that the mastodon api endpoint is public to create apps…but see the reason for it now. #mastodondevelopment

https://docs.joinmastodon.org/methods/apps/

TIL if you create an application that has users authenticate to their #Mastodon instance, you must have an app registered on that instance as well. Logical, but means that your app needs to keep a store of all those secrets and keys somewhere as they get created for each instance.

Interesting that the mastodon api endpoint is public to create apps…but see the reason for it now. #mastodondevelopment

https://docs.joinmastodon.org/methods/apps/

Now this place is a bit busier I think the software could do with a bit of de-duplication in the various feeds. I keep seeing the same thing several times when different people I follow boost them.

#mastodonDevelopment #featureRequest

I'm kinda curious how UX designers could help contribute to Mastodon since it's an open source project (technically?)?

#UX #Mastodon #MastodonDevelopment #UXdesign

Would really like to see images at full resolution, or even a full screen view when you click on them.
#MastoDev #MastodonDevelopment #MastoFeatureRequest

I was looking at the Mastodon GitHub PRs especially around version bumping and there’s a ton of Dependabot PRs that I’m not sure how I can help move over the line without commit access. Is there an “approved” way to contribute in this situation? #MastodonDevelopment #github #OpenSource

Did you know #Mastodon only has about one thousand people across all these sites who are providing financial support? In addition to supporting your local instance admins, if you can please consider donating to Mastodon development.

https://www.patreon.com/mastodon

https://en.liberapay.com/Mastodon/

https://opencollective.com/mastodon

#MastodonApp #Feditips #MastodonDevelopment #Dev #Funding #Fediverse