A purrito. #CatsOfMastodon
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A purrito. #CatsOfMastodon
You can can now click on the number of posts under each story on the News tab, and you'll see what people write about that story. Mind that whose posts show up depends on people's privacy settings, you won't see every post that contributed to the story trending.
As for fediverse accounts underneath link previews, for now this feature requires manual review from our side so that we can avoid the risk of malicious sites framing users as their authors, but we intend to build out a self-serve system to manage which sites you can be featured from very soon.
This profile preview features the first two lines of the user's bio and the first two fields (commonly used for information like pronouns or verified links) which should hopefully make people more informed about who they talk to before they do so (similar idea as the reply prompts we launched a while back on Android).
We've actually released two features today that I'm really excited about. One is, as you may already know, displaying the author's fediverse account underneath link previews. But the other is showing a profile preview when you hover a user anywhere in the web app, with a quick follow shortcut.
Mastodon powers over 9,000 different fediverse servers and is used by around a million people every month, but did you know the core engineering team is just two people? Well, I'm delighted to announce that now it's three people! Welcome to the team, @dave!
@Haste We're investigating this.
Here's a glimpse of this month's most popular publishing tools. It's just the data for posts made in June on mastodon.social:
- Web 23.9%
- Jetpack 6.5%
- Mastodon for Android 6.3%
- Mastodon for iOS 4%
- Tusky 3.3%
- IFTTT 3.2%
- Ivory for iOS 2.5%
- IceCubes 1.1%
- Mona for iPhone 0.7%
- Elk 0.4%
- Phanpy 0.3%
The rest is divided up between literally a thousand other sources. It means around 66% of users are posting from 3rd party apps and integrations!
One of the strengths of Mastodon is our API that allows 3rd party developers to create powerful integrations and full-featured apps on entirely equal footing with our own, with absolute confidence that there will never be a rug-pull. I've decided to check how the diversity of tools looked like in practice.
@healyn What is it?
I've been obsessively watching through the in person #BloodOnTheClocktower games on the #NoRollsBarred channel, it's so much fun.
@hello We believe the "DM" in question was actually posted by the author as public before deleting and re-sending as a private mention. There is no mechanism by which private mentions could be exposed to third party servers.
@dimillian Gross
Bad and naughty iPhones get put into The iPhone Wiggler
@aenea Angel investing is not the same thing as venture capital. Venture capital firms are a specific thing, and Biz is not part of that thing. Myself and other board members also disagree with Amir about AI. But he cares about Mastodon and he brings a lot of irreplaceable experience in law.
@aenea There is nobody from venture capital on the board. Biz is a founder. Amir is a lawyer who specializes in digital technologies. Karien is a philanthropist.
Me, feeding 2 people and 2 cats on a 60k EUR salary without benefits (because technically self-employed), reading those comments that claim a 501(c)(3) is some kind of nefarious scheme to hide money