This is really interesting! I was not at home last couple of days - hope to read all the threads I have missed soon! But I'm particularly interested upon which kind of mutual aid extension you were thinking at? (We currently have a offers/needs draft, but curious if you were thinking to something else in particular apart from crowdfunding)
I don’t know if custom emojos are implemented yet, but this seems required to add them to your username, and I don’t want to assert my priorities or needs upon someone else, but these two examples I’ve made show this is a feature a lot of people rely on and will expect. I could as well add the :autistic: emojo (the rainbow infinity loop).
Sorry for the flood, I’d like to add that as you can guess with the descriptions of the two images, the image based on the 1979 pride flag was meant to appear first (i.e. at the left, following the latin reading direction).
So of course I'm autistic and recovering from a web burnout so I'm trying to express myself as plainly and literally as possible, but I'm not complaining, and I'm very excited about boundaries basically following a Unix permissions model, this is something I've advocated for a few months ago. I'm just tired atm.
Indeed, if I create a web page, even if it's a microblog or plain WordPress blog post, I should still be able to control who can modify the page (by replying) or who can view it. This is infosec 101, whether the file is public or not.
It must be especially hard to implement and I believe Mayel and Ivan are geniuses for tackling this challenge, and I'm so glad and grateful they're doing it. I'm also very proud to contribute to this beta, and I hopee it will pacify the Fediverse (a bit).
What can I say? It's fair to assume that Twitter has a team dedicated to checking the Mastodon changelog to accomodate their users and avoid migrations, and I think we should try to bring features that are adversarial to their fascist business model (e.g. developing addictions and enabling aggressions to make their users feel endangered and force them to check their notifications periodically). I'd happily make a few suggestions to make more Twitter users migrate here. This isn't everything the :verified: LGBTQIA+ emojos are about, they're about bringing validation to people who were modelised so they wouldn't find it on Twitter of course, but it's part of it.
Sorry for the flood again, but I'd like to add, obviously, that making the best ActivityPub server and getting some traction in mainstream media will force Twitter to make its user experience more livable.
There are, for example, people who just need to feel listened to without advice or judgment, and of course the local TL does a lot of good to them. I have no advice to give to Bonfire contributors, but I'll think a bit about what else we could do for them.
I don't feel Bonfire as a Twitter clone but rather as something much more ambitious, and I know I've implied otherwise and I'm sorry. Honestly, I feel mad about something and this is the first time using social media doesn't only avoid fueling this, but also calms me so much.
Hmm, maybe a built-in mutual aid function? @BonfireBuilders #bonfire_feedback
Kinda unrelated and I don't want to see Twitter implement crowdfunding, but maybe we could define:
This is a bonfire demo instance for testing purposes
