Jeff C. 🇺🇦 @jeff@indieweb.social

@MonaApp A quick question: Is block implemented in Mona (on iOS or macOS)?

I see mute but can’t find the block functionality.

@arstechnica

@mmasnick Priority is awesome. A few years ago I emailed them on Thanksgiving Day with some minor customer service issue I had, expecting to hear back the following week, and shortly after the _founder_ (hi Dave) replied to me with a helpful answer.

Their bikes are wonderful, but so is their company.

@IceCubesApp Making it optional is the way to go. 👍

@mattblaze Agreed on both counts.

That said, quote posts are actually on the roadmap, per @Gargron. They’ll likely have extra controls to prevent pile-on abuse.

Search seems like a harder nut to crack, both from a technical perspective and a Mastodon-political one. I’m pretty much resigned at this point to waiting for the number of new users to outnumber the existing, vocally anti-search ones before progress is made.

@dimillian @its_john_davis We should all file a feedback for this.

developer.apple.com/bug-report

It’s a pain, but…

@timbray What’s funny is that, in theory, an acquisition should allow for greater economies of scale to allow for (at minimum) the same level of service at the same price.

Doesn’t usually seem to work that way in practice, though.

@maxleibman @AbandonedAmerica “Staying and fighting” Twitter by remaining on Twitter is like throwing wadded up dollar bills at someone you dislike and claiming that every impact is doing something positive.

@blowdart @AbandonedAmerica I got my copy several weeks back. It’s an impressive piece of work.

I hope that there will be a follow-up one day.

@arstechnica Meh.

@jensimmons For what it’s worth, I love the work you and your team are doing and am heartened to see so much important progress lately.

I’m sorry that you’re having to deal with this, but please know that your efforts are still appreciated.

@bigzaphod This is one of my pet peeves, and an excellent indicator of general attention to detail in a given app.

@shacker They’ve trained humans to close the doors behind them as soon as they go through — and to pay for their HVAC needs.

@bigzaphod @sanguish “That Guy Sucks” pretty much sums up much of the past several years, to be honest.

@shacker @atomicpoet It’s a cultural issue rather than a technical one, I think.

CWs are a useful feature, but they’ve been overused to the point where you have to tap through to find the most innocuous stuff so often that you may as well just keep them turned off. And I do.

I have no clue how it became the norm on here, but I hope that as more people join Mastodon this norm is diluted a bit because it seems awfully performative rather than useful overused this way.

@mttvll Also: In my observation, those who complain about subscriptions largely occupy a space in a Venn diagram greatly overlapping with people who simply don’t like paying for software at all.

Sure, they say that they’ll pay for a one-time unlock, but there’s a reason why so many apps are moving to a subscription model. When push comes to shove they don’t actually do it (or insist on an unsustainably low price).

You don’t have to appeal to everybody, least of all cheapskates.

@mttvll Subscription pricing is the way to go. It’s simply more sustainable.

You can also offer a one-time option, but don’t only offer that. And make sure it’s at least equal to 3 years of the subscription so that it’s worth your while.

$5 is fine, but you could probably charge $8-$10 a year. Don’t undercut yourself — you don’t need to sell to everybody, just give the people who are actually willing to pay at all a fair price. Ignore the freebie-seekers.

@mttvll You might want to check out Slopes by @parrots — he has put an exceedingly large amount of effort on his payment screen and it might serve as an inspiration.

That said, this looks like a decent start. Probably best to get something out the door soon and iterate on it, I think.

@mttvll 🤞🏻

@jamesthomson @pixel Has anyone written up how this was implemented anywhere?

@simon @andybaio @kissane That’s a pretty shortsighted impetus, if true. It just means that 3rd party clients will be all the more compelling by comparison, with people quote-tweeting using them anyhow.

@Migueldeicaza @9to5Mac I’ve never seen one of these articles quantify the green bubble thing in any serious way. It’s always just an anecdote.

If I were Gen Z I would be low-key angry at being stereotyped as being so vapid and superficial.

@carnage4life @alesplin Lots of people whistling past the graveyard on this.

Lots of people acting as if they can will it away simply by dismissing the technology vociferously enough.

@bigzaphod I’d love to replicate this, but with an Apple ][ emulator.

🤔