I don't know exactly how things work on Facebook because I never had an account there; my own frame of reference is Dreamwidth, where there are access lists and communities. Access lists are a way to restrict certain posts to your account as viewable to only certain users you've manually chosen. Communities are themed groups of users with moderators where generally members can make posts to share with others in the community. To me these are two very different features, but they're both valuable.
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Blogger and web hobbyist led here by the TechCrunch article.
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Anyone on here know how to make one of those link preview cards? I've seen posts on here that have them, but my own testing has proven unsuccessful.
Hi! After seeing a post on #Mastodon, I thought I'd make a profile here. At the moment, like others, I'm unsure how different this is to Mastodon, particularly as I'm not a tech person at all.
I realise that this isn't federated to Mastodon (yet?), but if it does, I imagine having a profile here and a profile on Mastodon would be redundant (?) – unless users want to have more than one profile, which I know many do (and I have more than one, too). And another thing, is there an app for this I can download for my phone?
@pjf From what I've seen, there's overlap and there's some differences. Mastodon is a kind of software for making websites. Bonfire is also software for making websites. The plan for Bonfire is to work on adding some features that Mastodon doesn't have, like groups, which I'm in favor of. You can find more information on their fundraiser page: indiegogo.com/en/projects/bo...
@Ianp5a @mayel @gilles @ivan isn't that what "Circles" on bonfire are supposed to do?
If we want ppl to move from #bigtech (and I belive that we want this) we need to provide an alternative - that is on-par with the most important parts of e.g., Facebook. One of those important parts is indeed "groups". If this is not present, noone will move.
Btw, I created a Circle - but cannot figure out how to post to that circle?
@jrossstocholm
My understanding is that Circles are how you set the privacy levels or interaction permissions for individual posts, which is a different kind of feature from Facebook groups.