Matt Edgar @mattedgar@mastodon.cloud
Service design, innovation, digital capability, geek history. Head of design @NHSDigital. Previously @stickpeoplehq. Views my own
Happy new year 2018
https://mastodon.cloud/media/jk7_fFIvRAIu5gK60FY https://mastodon.cloud/media/h6JT7F3ZXJANaNHI488 https://mastodon.cloud/media/UBJoQParbI6rIEZpzHs https://mastodon.cloud/media/RxUZCNAMjaxBiHmfMyk Look what my sons turned up when searching through my childhood computing stuff
Mastodon, Twitter and publics
Long ago, I wrote about the theory of social sites, with the then-young Twitter as the exemplar. As Mastodon, GnuSocial and other federated sites have caught some attention recently, I thought I'd revisit these theories.
A set of labels for my work in progress Trello board to help me work smarter. Someone else must have made this list better already, right? But who?
Phenomenal efficiency at completing low priority tasks belies my procrastination re the urgent and important
Annual parliaments!
Pleased to present my Annual Report Number Five https://blog.mattedgar.com/2017/04/15/annual-report-number-five/
Or you can build a system where someone with a particular need works with others and builds the thing they need, and bends media and communication to their will so they get what they need. That's empowerment to me. That's nothing about us, without us.
Mastodon instance idea! Show more
This is a good thing: help convert PDFs into an open database of local election candidates ahead of May 4. Takes just a few minutes to help out. https://democracyclub.org.uk/quests/
A pin standing on a bird standing on an extinct proboscidian
Context switching
Experimenting with my Mastodon Atom feed and Zapier to save these toots to my Pinboard https://pinboard.in/u:mattedgar/
@mattedgar sounds like something Richard Stallman would say.
If you haven't already, I highly recommend reading Stallman's rider document for his speaking engagements:
https://groups.google.com/a/mysociety.org/forum/m/#!msg/mysociety-community/zkyZpOXjgoQ/_8xyXSxv9zYJ
Some really hilarious stuff in there
I rather like the humble appeal to obviousness in the OStatus spec:
> "The authors recognize that most of this protocol suite was intended to work together in a natural way. They claim no originality or creativity in connecting their use. The authors hope that the obviousness of some parts of this specification are an argument in favor of its use."
People who know free software, is this a common thing?
Scaling out, not scaling up. What might be a natural upper limit on the size of any one Mastodon instance? Enough users to support a single admin or 2-pizza team on micropayments and tips; small enough that the moderation load never gets out of hand?
I'm supporting @TheAdmin on Patreon, and so should you: https://patreon.com/ValentinOuvrard
Feels like I've been here before https://blog.mattedgar.com/2016/11/19/what-are-you-doing-10-years-of-continuous-partial-attention/#re-de
Just setting up my Mastodon.
