Bryan Cantrill

And, uh, like you're just never going to end up with that on Mastodon. Um, it's just not going to happen and you need, and also, or, or, or Paul, the, the shake test, are you, I'm not sure if you, uh,

so the the real acid test for social networking is like if you're in the bay area and you feel that you just felt a quake oh yeah and um and i'm sure you know this but um the uh you should know that blue sky has passed this test with flying colors because we didn't just have a quake we had a tsunami warning recently

And my phone, like every other phone in the Bay Area, exploded with what I assumed was an Amber Alert. You're like, tsunami warning on a quake? I didn't feel. My first thought is like, this is like an IT error somewhere. This is like a missile alert in Hawaii. And, uh, but it's actually obviously real.

And it was, what was really interesting was blue sky was just, just exploded with, you know, people talking about it, talking about the, the, uh, tsunami know your zone site, uh, is down. You can't get a database handle to know your tsunami zones and no one can figure out if they're going to die in a tsunami or not. The, and blue sky.

And I, and what I also really loved is then my geo sciences feed on blue sky, uh,

was great i mean it was it and the and meanwhile on the other side it was just like they're all it's all garbage so i mean it was it really passed this test with flying colors um could you talk a little bit about the feeds because this is something that again i've really i i think feel i've started to make use of i haven't done enough with but i absolutely love and it's really kind of a first class thought in the way you built the thing

Absolutely struck gold. Yeah.

Timestamp ordering of the people you follow. It's like, oh, you're interested in the tsunami that may be coming to your place in an hour? I don't know. You should follow more geologists. Maybe in the next life, you'll follow more geologists.

You should have done that. You should have been carefully following geologists. You're like, okay.

You can't say I, but we know that I actually just love the idea of loving Mastodon.

Well, in the feeds also, Adam, what you're saying about like, it's one of those ideas that you know is an important idea whose time has come because you're immediately like, why are we doing it some other way before? Like, this is, you know what I mean? It's... Not that it's not at all obvious because it obviously wasn't.

But the fact that you – I mean, it's one of these things where you – Paul, you all made a bunch of good decisions that built on one another. And then out of this comes this, I think, artifact that's going to be, I think, more and more important as time goes on because I think that –

you get to bring your entire self because all of us consist of like different things and different things at different times. And the feeds allow to allow, give us agency over that, which I think is extremely important.

Steve, can you explain what that feed is? Because I love that and you had talked about it in your post about how AdProto works.

I love that. Yeah. And I, I think it's, it's so, and I think we're just going to see a lot more experimentation in that. And again, giving people more agency, you know, Adam perversely what it reminds me of, and sorry, Paul, just to go overly Gen X on you here, but the, the day MCA died, I wanted to just listen to all of his music from beginning to end and,

And Pandora is like, let me give you something that sounds like the Beastie Boys. I'm like, a man is dead, Pandora. I'm not interested in your algorithm right now. I am mourning a dead musician you need to actually give me. And that's when I'm like, I'm going to Spotify. I'm not coming back.

Yeah. He's lived this extraordinary life that you've missed because you just couldn't take it anymore. It's like Mr. Peanut on Twitter. I finally muted Mr. Peanut because I couldn't take the ads. Jesus. So, I mean, Paul, this must have been one of these breakthroughs that you just kind of like...

feeds must have felt like a lot of things were clicking I mean it's such a I mean actually let me ask this did you kind of know immediately like oh of course this makes a ton of sense or was it when you started experimenting with it you saw it

Yeah, I agree with you that there's some UX things that you could probably do to... But I think that the bones are really, really sound on this one.

And I also think that you've got... The thing that I also loved about it, just like being able to follow my geosciences feed and my earthquakes feed during the tsunami warning, is that you are able to... I mean, there's so many... Part of what made Twitter great