Paul Sutton @zleap@social.cleverlibre.org

@freemo @design_RG I think I have that here, i mostly use Home and Notifications, tabs.

This thread has now made Notifications super active. :)

@freemo @design_RG Ah ok

@freemo @design_RG Does remote time line mean a post on here can be seen elsewhere? and responded to.

@design_RG @freemo
Cool, thanks for letting me know I will adjust by footer

@freemo @design_RG I can understand the reasons if the idea is to build something that looks / feels like Twitter, maybe if Twitter add this feature it will appear here too.

@freemo @design_RG Yeah that would be better.

@freemo @design_RG Good point, I think this thread highlighted an issue with the delete and redraft feature, which is a 'good' thing in that it can be looked at by the developers.

I actually like being able to go back in and make corrections though.

@freemo @design_RG :)

Yeah writefreely just works, it is simple.

@freemo @design_RG Yeah, I think it is time to ignore the cynics and not really worry about what they think unless they have actually been here and used the fediverse in some way.

@design_RG @freemo
Well this is on my personal blog, to add context, I am posting about various topics e.g freecodecamp or code club and saying I am happy to be contacted here on Mastodon.

This is due out Tuesday, hence scheduled

https://personaljournal.ca/paulsutton/what-is-the-fediverse

@freemo @design_RG
What I mean is people are just cynical and see what we have here as "esoteric." for one such word.

They already say no one uses it, being no one they know. So I was saying here that if they see users vs active users they will use that to justify their argument.

Given I have, over the last few days had some really interesting discussions on the fediverse, maybe it is time to just ignore them and just promote what we have here the best way I can.

@freemo @design_RG
Maybe I am so used to people being cynical about anything other than the mainstream stuff, I just seen the registered / active users stats as another attack vector for them.

Maybe leave it as it is for now. I am making a blog post later in the week to cover alternatives to mainstream social media.

Already made a post to link to explanations for the fediverse, activity pub etc.

@design_RG @freemo
I agree here, worth discussing anyway.

I am more thinking that the critics I come across will pick up on anything,

But if you consider that Facebook has what is it now 3 billion users, how many of those users are zombie, duplicate or robot accounts.

@freemo @design_RG

Fair points there, I was just thinking about how people may see the number of active uses vs registered users.

As an alternative we can come up with a text explanation to counter any arguments people may have for that.

@design_RG @freemo oops sorry.

@freemo @design_RG
A lot of good points here, not sure on the answers, hence the discussion.

I guess we need to know more about the users, but that would defeat the point of being here in a way.

@design_RG @freemo
I agree about purging unused accounts, partly as it helps to reflect the true number of active users, it also helps the admins, out a little.

How this is implemented needs further discussion.

@design_RG I agree here, another reason for that is 129 out of 982 doesn't look good,

The media would pick up on the 129 more than the 982.

I would +1 this strategy, unless there is objection from the Inactive users, put out fair warning then purge, that covers your back.

Keep up the good work.

@schestowitz Yeah right. MS have hidden agendas can can't be trusted, even if they have changed, their trust and reputation to many is in tatters.

@schestowitz I think there are going to be a lot of kids home schooled now, not just because of this, but schools have issues with bullying, racism, abuse, incompetence, and lack of inclusion and in some cases poor teaching.

We need to prepare kids for the 21st century, teamwork, problem solving, critical thinking and much more