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matt  

Welcome to all our new writers! 👋 Glad you've found our little spot in the fediverse.

If you ever need help, feel free to reach out to me or anyone else in the community. Also: an avatar, bio, and post will go a long way toward helping you connect with more people 😊

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matt  

Sometimes you want to take a picture, capture how the morning light looks filtering through the trees; your cooled skin; the sound of birds.

But you can never smell the air in that photo. You can't look around to see the rest of the world from that spot you stood, capturing a split second of light.

The only way to remember it is to sit for a while; feel it as deeply as you can; accept that it'll never be as good as it is right now.

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Write.as  

@matt took some time to talk about the origins behind @write_as , where it's headed, and what he's learned along the way in building usable software for creative expression. Thanks to everyone for backing our mission and making the project more than we could've imagined!

Check out the interview here: starterstory.com/how-to-build-

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dansup  

An academic paper about social networks misspelled Mastodon, Pleroma and Pixelfed lol

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Jonathan Beckett  

I guess this is "Hello World" :)

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Write.as  

New Year Sale 

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matt  

Just booked my travel to Brussels for ! Looking forward to attending for another year.

If you'll be there or in the area, let me know! Would love to meet up and chat in person.

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Write.as  

v0.11.2 is out now! This is an important update that fixes bugs with federation, among other things — we recommend all admins upgrade.

Read more on the @writefreely blog: blog.writefreely.org/version-0

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Apple  

Hi writing.exchange, I'm Apple! I'm a writer trying to reach out to fellow writers, and am new to Mastodon. Anyone wanna show me the ropes of this instance?

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MaineBot for 2020 Champion  

Thinking about a summer that never was

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matt  

Added a new tool for reading Medium articles in peace:

makemediumreadable.com/read

You can also grab the article as Markdown -- maybe even publish to !

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Jake LaCaze  

"Some of what's truly good for us is bad for them. So let's not rely on them to tell us when we finally have privacy, or digital wellbeing, or whatever will comfort the masses today. We know what real privacy feels like, even online. All we have to do is acknowledge what we've lost and take the smallest of steps to reclaim it."

write.as/matt/iprivacy

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Write.as  

Write.as Cyber Monday sale 

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matt  

And of course this ignores implementations like @darius's Hometown (github.com/hometown-fork/homet) that display Articles in their entirety, making the post + comment perhaps a little less needed. But I still think it'd be nice to have.

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matt  

(I think it's more noticeable with Articles because Mastodon only shows a title and the link. Which is oddly terse in social media land.)

One way to enable this while reducing abuse might be to let the publishing Actor (i.e. the post author) specify other Actors that can boost and add a comment. So e.g. @ matt @ write.as could allow: @ matt @ writing.exchange, and I could get the effect I'm after.

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matt  

One time I really wish Mastodon had quote-tooting is when I'm sharing ActivityPub Articles (i.e. blog posts).

Would be awesome to natively boost a post with a little personal comment added, especially to aid in a fediverse conversation around the post. Otherwise you get what we have right now: every post is "Shared without comment."

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Matt  

iPrivacy write.as/matt/iprivacy

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Matt  

Self-Checkification write.as/matt/self-checkificat

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Matt  

"Alternative to Social Media" write.as/matt/alternative-to-s

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Bearded Pen  

Hey Mastodon and Writing Exchange. Thanks for having me.

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Matt's Dev Log  

A recent idea I had: what if WF federated Notes instead of Articles in certain situations? I just tweaked this instance so that if there's no newline in a post, it'll come out as a Note. Otherwise it'll be an Article, like normal. Thoughts? Reply to @matt@writing.exchange.

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noblogo  

hello everybody
this is the noblogo.org account, an italian instance.
We'll share the most important article from the website here.

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