@darius woohoo! that's awesome!

*tries to imagine Musk or Zuck getting 16% of their users in a room*

@dansup whoops, only after seeing the "P" in the monochrome logo did I realise it's there in the coloured one too! 😅

@darius never thought of it this way! So you're saying "@-example hello" should be considered a "thread" even if it's the first post (and threads should be given some kind of special treatment such as not showing on the timeline unless someone is directly involved)?

I think the "leading @" detection may be simpler than you say: Mastodon always knows when something is an @-mention so wouldn't we just have to check if the first @-mention is also the first word or there's some text before?

@ted

@darius @ted I've seen many projects with all the functions but no polish, so maybe it's a good thing Mastodon didn't try too many optimisations before the formal UI/UX people came in! 😛

As someone who hasn't used Twitter much, though, I'm quite happy with the look and feel—it's pretty polished and professional and I've rarely been frustrated! Looks like apart from the algorithms (and things like the quote-toot debate) we've got things sorted

@Gargron I sometimes operate my magazine's Twitter account but usually use Mastodon. The way I think of followers are different on those platforms.

With Twitter it's "Ooh look, a follower! How many followers do they have? Will they be awed enough by our follower count if we follow them back? Can I get them to boost my reach somehow?"

On Mastodon it's more like "Ooh, a new person? What are they like and what do they do? Are there things we have in common that we can talk about?"

@dansup "Compatibility, not competition"—idea for the next t-shirt! 😉

@darius are you now clear on how to make multiple-choice polls?

@darius that's a big happy face!!

@feditips noted and will do! 📝