HerbiI had everything sending me emails, that was my universal inbox. At one point I got tired of notifications and clutter so, I turned that off. Now, the universal outbox would be nice, I still had to go to each service to respond if email reply was not supported.
aaronpkso normally i archive the reply context for posts i reply to. I'm going through my posts to find any that might be missing for whatever reason (like it's from an old twitter import). The first one that came up is not what I expected. I have a reply to a mastodon post that has been deleted. what should I do with my post?
barnabywhat does mastodon do with masto-native posts? I imagine that it keeps the replies but shows an empty reply context, like twitter? presuming the federation worked correctly and the server containing the reply context got notified about the original post getting deleted, that is
[tantek]i.e. for your content (your reply), you have to decide how much you care about it or not. for other people's content, I'm leaning towards taking more steps to respect their intentions, like deletion etc. at least on anything publicly displayed
benatkinI would have paid a lot of attention to this on Twitter if it happened a couple months ago, but I've been logged out of this for a couple weeks and am just watching from here and Mastodon :)
[tantek]someone switching a whole account (and thus all their past posts) to private would seem to imply they'd want that for their content elsewhere in any reply-contexts also
cambridgeport90[You guys should have seen my earlier diatribe on Twitter...only reason why I didn't @-mention Elon himself is because even though I don't like what he's doing, I still have a reputation to keep on Twitter, at least I think I do. But I'm just annoyed, because what about applications that have been riding the API for years? The one that posts stuff via WPTweets Pro to Twitter, it's been there forever, well, there have been a couple of
cambridgeport90[iterations, but it's mostly there. I wonder now; that, and what about other services that have cross-posting from their own applications? Micro.blog comes to mind.
ross[m]<capjamesg> "Re: UniversalInbox. I love..." <- i guess in a sense I do have my own pre, posting UniversalInbox, all my stuff starts it's life in Obsidian, the flow something like this: Obsidian -> my site -> posting elsewhere
aaronpkOh and now I remember one of the other twitter projects I haven't done that I might have to scramble to do real quick, which is to archive full twitter threads when I favorite a tweet at the top or bottom of one
ross[m]burying my head in the sand on twitter forensics/archaeology - just don't have enough time - but then again I did not ever use it seriously - on balance guessing there is some stuff I want to get out of there - if anyone spots a good guide for the lazyweb on mining techniques I would love to hear about it :-)
[schmarty]yep i have https://martymcgui.re/tags/ and i look through it from time to time, usually when i am making a new post and wondering if i have already got a relevant tag.
[Murray]jacky: I don't have a tags page, and I'm overdue an audit on them, but back in 2020 I did a deep dive into categories, removed a lot, and generally switched things up. Been pretty happy with them since 😊 I wrote about that here: https://theadhocracy.co.uk/wrote/the-taxonomy-of-me and now surface them as part of my site search (as filters)
LoqiIt looks like we don't have a page for "tag cloud" yet. Would you like to create it? (Or just say "tag cloud is ____", a sentence describing the term)
[Murray]This year I'd like to look at using tags to generate a true digital garden, so each one becomes an entry that lists all of the notes, bookmarks, and articles under it, but which I can also edit manually and add stuff to directly. We'll see how that goes 😅
[snarfed]re link text design/styling, from #dev...had to check what I do on my site, I ended up underlining links but not coloring them any differently, and color them blue on hover. I think that felt like the best compromise between focus, usability, and discoverability
[tantek]I've been using ASCII footnotes (e.g. ^1) for inline citations rather than hyperlinks in my recent 100days posts because I believe it helps reduce link click distraction while reading. Though I admit the (^n) punctuation can also interrupt the reading flow.
[tantek]If I'm linking every third word or something I think that becomes distracting for the reader, and for folks who can't help but click a link immediately when they scan over it.
[jeremycherfas]One reason I really want to implement sidenotes on my site is because they don’t really interrupt scanning, in my experience. But tricky to do responsively.
[dave]Here's my latest weird web experiment: I asked a bunch of maker friends to tell me what their business would look like as a store in an 80's style shopping mall and then had midjourney try to draw them. I call it the Friend Mall https://itsdaves.site/friend-mall/
[tantek]The other idea this gives me is making that “what would your site look like as a classic shopping mall storefront” query something people could self publish (like a very specialized “summary” or “description” of their site, won’t get into the plumbing)
[tantek]Or for example a webring of those sites could present a virtual infinite mall presentation using images generated from such self-published text descriptions
[jeremycherfas]Yes, side notes are marginalia. But to me the vocabulary of footnotes, endnotes and marginalia seem foreign to the flexibility inherent in the web. And then one could add references or citations, which also have style hangovers from print.
[tantek]I see it as additive rather than foreign. The flexibility of the web allows more presentational freedom and thus we should use it creatively as such, including incorporation of prior visual and other techniques
[campegg][tantek] >> "If I'm linking every third word or something I think that becomes distracting…" As a counterexample, the ^n notation is also _very_ distracting when reading via RSS (this is from Reeder on Mac): https://campegg.com/media/images/footnotes.png
[tantek][campegg] yeah, [snarfed] & aaronpk had similar feedback so I’m going to prioritize turning the ASCII footnotes into Unicode. Might even hyperlink them to their expansions if I can figure a good way to generate the fragments
[tantek]Kinda wondering if anyone has that for their own personal site search. Eg I know micro.blog indexes use of emojis in posts for example though I don’t think you can search just your own micro.blog feed for a specific emoji
[dave]That reminds me I need to figure out whether I want to refollow twitter accounts that I imported into NetNewsWire or stop following the ones that haven't moved to Mastodon or a blog yet
aaronpk so normally i archive the reply context for posts i reply to. I'm going through my posts to find any that might be missing for whatever reason (like it's from an old twitter import). The first one that came up is not what I expected. I have a reply to a mastodon post that has been deleted. what should I do with my post?
[TMichelleMoore] [capjamesg] I would be interested in what you find regarding the bookmarks.
cambridgeport90[ this is a test.
starrwulfe I wonder if another influx of migrating pachyderms is imminent...
ross[m] burying my head in the sand on twitter forensics/archaeology - just don't have enough time - but then again I did not ever use it seriously - on balance guessing there is some stuff I want to get out of there - if anyone spots a good guide for the lazyweb on mining techniques I would love to hear about it :-)
[aciccarello] I have a tag page too. I should probably add counts as well. A lot only have one post.
[schmarty] yep i have https://martymcgui.re/tags/ and i look through it from time to time, usually when i am making a new post and wondering if i have already got a relevant tag.
[KevinMarks] I like the framing on this https://themarkup.org/levelup/2023/01/31/in-2023-resolve-to-fix-your-organizations-meta-pixel-problem
[benji] I have a tags page but dont check it often: https://benji.dog/tags
[Murray] jacky: I don't have a tags page, and I'm overdue an audit on them, but back in 2020 I did a deep dive into categories, removed a lot, and generally switched things up. Been pretty happy with them since 😊 I wrote about that here: https://theadhocracy.co.uk/wrote/the-taxonomy-of-me and now surface them as part of my site search (as filters)
Loqi It looks like we don't have a page for "tag cloud" yet. Would you like to create it? (Or just say "tag cloud is ____", a sentence describing the term)
[tantek] tag cloud is /tags_page
[jeremycherfas] One reason I really want to implement sidenotes on my site is because they don’t really interrupt scanning, in my experience. But tricky to do responsively.
[campegg] [tantek] >> "If I'm linking every third word or something I think that becomes distracting…" As a counterexample, the ^n notation is also _very_ distracting when reading via RSS (this is from Reeder on Mac): https://campegg.com/media/images/footnotes.png