Paul Frazee

other kinds of signals, you can get, you know, text queries running in there, which a lot of them are a lot of them are kind of operating off of like a smart hashtag in a way where they're just looking for particular topics that are being discussed. Honestly, you can get really far with just social graph limitations plus text query, right?

other kinds of signals, you can get, you know, text queries running in there, which a lot of them are a lot of them are kind of operating off of like a smart hashtag in a way where they're just looking for particular topics that are being discussed. Honestly, you can get really far with just social graph limitations plus text query, right?

Like the basic object being these are these are people that are experts in this topic. And here's the topic and let's get a feed going.

Like the basic object being these are these are people that are experts in this topic. And here's the topic and let's get a feed going.

I got, I got, I got a timeout and give like a, you know, I'm glad Mastodon is there pursuing the same mission. I'm just going to say that. And then we could move on.

I got, I got, I got a timeout and give like a, you know, I'm glad Mastodon is there pursuing the same mission. I'm just going to say that. And then we could move on.

Yeah, I mean, I have to agree. I mean, there are also times where I'm just kind of like, you know, today I'm in the mood for a more quiet thing, you know, and that's, I've got feeds for that, you know, or today I'm actually like voraciously consuming the stuff. I read all my fees and now I'm going over to the one that shows me more of the fire hosey kind of experience.

Yeah, I mean, I have to agree. I mean, there are also times where I'm just kind of like, you know, today I'm in the mood for a more quiet thing, you know, and that's, I've got feeds for that, you know, or today I'm actually like voraciously consuming the stuff. I read all my fees and now I'm going over to the one that shows me more of the fire hosey kind of experience.

Like just whatever you're vibing on that you can, you can get there. Yeah.

Like just whatever you're vibing on that you can, you can get there. Yeah.

Yeah, I mean, I wish I could say it was like, aha, you know, like we're in a way. I will say from a technical point of view, it felt really good. Actually, this is we're kind of talking about like the experience of like the engineering side, the product side. I'll just actually tell the whole story. Like we initially did not do custom feeds. Initially, we did something called scenes.

Yeah, I mean, I wish I could say it was like, aha, you know, like we're in a way. I will say from a technical point of view, it felt really good. Actually, this is we're kind of talking about like the experience of like the engineering side, the product side. I'll just actually tell the whole story. Like we initially did not do custom feeds. Initially, we did something called scenes.

Scenes were like a hybrid between a community and a custom feed because we knew what we were aiming for, but we didn't quite have it right. And the way that a scene worked was that the members of a scene, when some number of them liked a post, it would trend automatically within the scene.

Scenes were like a hybrid between a community and a custom feed because we knew what we were aiming for, but we didn't quite have it right. And the way that a scene worked was that the members of a scene, when some number of them liked a post, it would trend automatically within the scene.

So you can kind of see there's some approximate thinking there and you would actually get like a notification whenever your post trended within a scene. And we obviously didn't think this through very well because people would create scenes of like three people. And so then suddenly you're getting like your post is trending, like the same two people would like a

So you can kind of see there's some approximate thinking there and you would actually get like a notification whenever your post trended within a scene. And we obviously didn't think this through very well because people would create scenes of like three people. And so then suddenly you're getting like your post is trending, like the same two people would like a

post and then he would trend in five different scenes that they're all in with just three people in it. So that wasn't brilliant. But the other thing that also jammed that up completely was nobody understood this idea. It was like weirdly like both a community and not a community. And people were like, how do I post into it? You don't, no, you don't do that.

post and then he would trend in five different scenes that they're all in with just three people in it. So that wasn't brilliant. But the other thing that also jammed that up completely was nobody understood this idea. It was like weirdly like both a community and not a community. And people were like, how do I post into it? You don't, no, you don't do that.

It just shows things that you're liking. So like we did that first. And I are probably the very many people seeing the product. We pulled it out. We just like, this is quite terrible. We pulled it out and we brought in the custom feeds thing as an alternative. I think in many ways it was kind of taking a bigger swing.

It just shows things that you're liking. So like we did that first. And I are probably the very many people seeing the product. We pulled it out. We just like, this is quite terrible. We pulled it out and we brought in the custom feeds thing as an alternative. I think in many ways it was kind of taking a bigger swing.