FiXato<p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://toot.wales/@ChrisWere" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>ChrisWere</span></a></span> as someone with a low-end laptop, I liked the idea of Stadia. Unfortunately the monthly subscription wasn't something that fit my budget. In hindsight I kinda wished I had, because all the refunds sound lovely. xD<br>As for a title for your podcast, how about something like "(Thought-share / Share a thought) with Chris Were"?<br>One of the positive things of the Fediverse indeed is the bit more thoughtful comments. For instance compared to Instagram it feels less like a circlejerk where people just comment to get comments back, or otherwise promote their own account.<br>In a way it feels rather like the early and late <a href="https://toot.cat/tags/GooglePlus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GooglePlus</span></a>, but without the risk / guarantee that Google will just pull the plug. There are some things I wish would be added though, most notably:</p><ul><li>• consistent formatting support across protocols, or at least better fallbacks. This list being one example of that. On <a href="https://toot.cat/tags/glitchSoc" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>glitchSoc</span></a> I can use markdown to get a HTML-formatted list with bulleted list items. On plain <a href="https://toot.cat/tags/Mastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Mastodon</span></a> however the whole list semantics get lost, and to a significant portion of users it wouldn't be clear that it was actually meant as a list. So, as a compromise I have to try to remember to add a manual bullet list character (•) so that it will at least appear as a list on non-formatting-supporting platforms. On others however I'll now likely have two leading bullets, and it'll likely get pronounced by TTS engines.I rather wish that the markdown gets sent and received as plain text by the platforms that don't support HTML formatting, rather than the HTML-formatted output which then gets outright stripped on the display end. Content-warning support between Mastodon and <a href="https://toot.cat/tags/Friendica" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Friendica</span></a> is a similar thing.</li><li>• migration of posts / <a href="https://toot.cat/tags/NomadicIdentity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NomadicIdentity</span></a>. It's great that we can migrate our follows and followers and various lists between <a href="https://toot.cat/tags/Mastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Mastodon</span></a> instances. However, the thing I care about the most, my history of posts, would unceremoniously get left behind on the server. This isn't much of an issue if you are just moving servers because you like the community or features of another server better, as people can still access your older (public/unlisted) posts, but it is a loss when you migrate because the former server is getting shut down. I know that some Fediverse protocols do offer post migration, or even auto-mirroring, through nomadic identities, most notably those using the <a href="https://toot.cat/tags/Zot6" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Zot6</span></a> (or <a href="https://toot.cat/tags/Zap" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Zap</span></a> it's called now, I think?), but it'd be nice if Mastodon (which for better or for worse still feels like the leading platform of the fediverse) would also implement this, and if there was better support for migrating between these different platforms.</li><li>• better visibility controls. It'd be nice if I could limit some posts to just a list of users, without having to tag them individually (and thus have it treated as a DM rather than a regular timeline post). Again, this is more of a Mastodon specific limitation; <a href="https://toot.cat/tags/Diaspora" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Diaspora</span></a>* and Friendica (iirc) most notably do support this already, with Diaspora*'s 'aspects' probably being closest to <a href="https://toot.cat/tags/GPlus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GPlus</span></a>'s 'circles' feature.</li><li>• 'Collections'. This was probably my favourite feature of Google Plus. Being able to group your posts under topics without having to rely on hashtags. You could add a separate header image for the collection as well as a description, both of which were nice additions, but the killer aspect of it to me was that you could specify if people would automatically follow that Collection when they'd follow your account. And like-wise, I could unfollow specific collections from people I'd follow, or follow just individual ones of them without following everything they posted. This made it possible to follow just someone's Doctor Who posts, or to follow someone's generic posts without having to listen to their political ranting.Sure, Mastodon has the $userprofile/tagged/#hashtag filter (e.g. <a href="https://toot.cat/@FiXato/tagged/Collections" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">toot.cat/@FiXato/tagged/Collec</span><span class="invisible">tions</span></a>), but that is limited to public posts, and only supports a single hashtag at a time. Plus, you have to remember to use the right hashtag every time for each of your <a href="https://toot.cat/tags/collections" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>collections</span></a>. It feels like a hack, a bodge, rather than a full-fledged feature.</li></ul><p>As for some (hopefully regarded as constructive) feedback to your podcast: I felt like it repeated itself a couple of times, and could probably have been 5 – 10 minutes shorter (which, yes, is kinda ironic (?) criticism given the length of my post 😅). After the Stadia segment you had your closing segment, which then basically went on into a segment about the <a href="https://toot.cat/tags/Fediverse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Fediverse</span></a>, which I feel like could easily have been an episode of its own. For something I access through my Mastodon feed, I think 10 – 15 minutes is kinda the sweet spot when it comes to maximum length. (Though this might be more of a client-specific thing, as I couldn't continue scrolling my feed on Fedilab while listening, whereas that might've been an option on the web interface.)</p>