Notices by Tom Casavant (tom@tomkahe.com), page 5

@BeAware @matt If you haven't seen their other 2 videos on the history of the internet, they're pretty great. And it's a pretty good build up to this one

@BeAware ha, no that's a unpressed button that you can click on
https://most-followed-mastodon-accounts.stefanhayden.com/

Flipboard just dominating the follower counts

@FandaSin @BeAware Yes this is possible and I think it's been discussed as a solution. The concern, last time I was reading about it, is that malevolent servers could poison a link preview and send fake images along with the url (this argument against this is you're already 'trusting' the server if you're federating with them, so that trust should extend to link previews)

Another proposed solution was just having servers wait a random amount of time before fetching the link preview so not every server is requesting the preview at the same time

@BeAware Hm, https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:s6j27rxb3ic2rxw73ixgqv2p/post/3l2mvuppsul2y this worked for me

Whoever they're quoting doesn't seem to work though

@BeAware sweet, I was running into a similar issue trying to pull in older web posts over the bridge

@BeAware can you put the bluesky URL at the end of https://fed.brid.gy/r/ when you're searching for it?

so like:
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:dva7yud3d2pgf5b4tpgmw2ac/post/3l2lf4b7ssc2k

@BeAware looks like Moshidon has this feature

@BeAware
I'm not sure how easy it is to tell if a post requires you to be logged in if you're already logged into bluesky

https://github.com/snarfed/bridgy-fed/issues/1267 this was proposed the other day though which would help

@BeAware which is absolutely a fair complaint! Like I said I don't like the current popular suggestion. But that's why it's the opportunity for people (who are significantly better at design than me) to debate the logo because I also don't like meta's version for the exact same reason and that's gonna be the one we end up with 5 years from now.

Hell, I'm sure there's a way to take the current fedi logo and modify it slightly so it does work in flipboard's (or tumblr or Ghost or whoever else joins in the near future) design language and I feel like it's an important discussion to have now before everyone just ends up with Meta's boring version.

@BeAware I get that and I also don't particularly like ⁂ as the option. But the idea that we can't find some more useful logo because it'll confuse people when most people are unaware of the Fediverse's current branding seems off. If there's any time to debate the logo it'd be now before all these massive companies with hundreds of millions of users settle on a logo w/o the input of the open-source side of the fediverse.

I doubt Threads will ever move on from their version, but Flipboard has signaled they're willing to change out the logo they're using

@BeAware I dunno, personally I don't like the current fediverse logo. Tried to make it look good on a site a couple months ago and gave up and just put the mastodon logo in there instead, which probably isn't great for a network defined by many different servers.

Threads introduced their own fediverse logo probably for the same reason Flipboard adopted Threads' version- that it's pretty difficult to make it look good in different scenarios- which means assuming we stick with :fediverse: the default for everyone else will probably end up being Meta's version

I love #Flipboard and what they're doing with federating, but I wish they didn't include '&utm_medium=activitypub' in all of their URLs because I just can't search for that ActivityPub anymore.

I honestly don't know if this is on Flipboard or if Mastodon's search just shouldn't include the url params?

Sweet, BridgyFed DMs you now if you're replying to a bridged account and you haven't bridged yet

@BeAware the first one looks good. that 2nd one's just a link preview, no?

Ohio State has its QB @cfb #CFB

@espn https://flipboard.com/@espn/headlines-7ulb4v5fz/-/a-7CDKuuPVReSuSOQJBgigaw%3Aa%3A3195382-%2F0

@cfb @espn really wish we had native quote post support. These never look great

Any secret #Bengals fans show up on the social web in the last year, now's the time to reveal yourselves to the 3 of us who already exist

@nfl

What if we compromised and made #NFL preseason games count for 1/2 a game instead of 0*

* to be reassessed after the end of this bengals game

@ricmac Is the BBC research department still running an instance or did they conclude the experiment?