@mike Good morning! I think I found a recently introduced bug in Flipboard's sharing feature. I work on @morehubbub and customers are reporting that Flipboard is no longer pulling in the og:description that is provided. Can someone on your team confirm this for us? I can provide many examples if needed. Thank you!
I plan on enhancing this support over time to include common instance URLs and remembering user input in a cookie (rather than localStorage, due to expiration).
🐘 ❤️ Introducing the Mastodon Favorites WordPress Plugin - display your favorite toots on your website.
I repurposed some previous code to create a new WordPress plugin to display your favorite toots. It is early and open. It will be on the directory in the near future. Please submit feedback and code!
@tedmielczarek Sending attractive email messages to large groups of addresses is still difficult. Which is why @buttondown et al exists. The value, unlike a typical blog, is that the publisher has direct access to the reader and - presumably - a direct line to their inbox which may _never_ change.
I love newsletters in that I like regularly published content on a schedule that feels as though it is written for a specific readership. But I prefer RSS as the delivery mechanism personally.
@davew I deleted my X account last March - so I haven’t checked it since. I don’t use Bluesky at all though I did sign up.
So, my focus is on Mastodon and Threads. Mastodon far and away has more interesting posts. Mostly people building or writing about the web or photography. Threads has been entertaining though. Once I can follow Threads accounts via ActivityPub I will.
Mastodon feels like a great forum whereas Threads feels too much like Instagram. Adam covets “creators” cuz $.
Big news on Threads. We now have a URL to help compose posts on desktop and mobile. I already have a build of @morehubbub ready to be released next week.
@tchambers@manton I agree. Early on I tried to help in whatever way I could. Even interviewing Manton multiple times to help the community understand M.b and what was coming next. But for some reason that ended. And M.b does zero marketing. I wish I could help. I’m still willing. I even wanted to help curate Discover!
I believe 2024 will be the year of ActivityPub. To borrow an analogy from Geoffrey A. Moore, the protocol has the momentum to cross the chasm from early adopters to early majority adopters. @Flipboard, Threads, @mozilla and others are adding to the velocity that started with the protocol’s authors and early adopters.