A round-up of the weeks Social Media interactions. Some are funny, some youโll need to read the conversation to understand the context.
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Waiting for Labour voters to accuse the Toryโs of putting the UK into a huge recession even though the Toryโs have been giving away money faster than Labour ever could.
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@wuwei thinks we might be understating when we said "Tiny" Source
@jamie sent us congratulations. Source
@tpheine says it's OK for men to cry. Source
@silkevicious wondered if we were getting married again? NEVER! Source
@stardot wondered if we were drunk? Source
@penguin42 discovered our cunning plan to get the Government to pay for half the Reception Family Meal. Source
@MunkyBone says we scrub up well. Source
@antiphase we're still mystified by the Michael J Fox reference but Ant has beautiful skin so we'll let him off. Source
@basil sent us a 'snot bubble' picture. Source
@ghostdancer is sending us Raspberry Pi Cluster porn. Source
@mjjzf says it's the one occasion you're allowed to blubb. Source
@beni has never heard of housing and land scams. Source
@andyc said a lot of people are idiots. Source
@wyliecoyoteuk reminds us that not every country has a Land Registry like majesty's country does. Source
@Multilanguman wonders if the wedding venue is a family property. Source
@VK7HSE thinks we have to say the missus looks good. Source
@FeruzM says Ecency is Esteem in a different coat. Source
@steevc said we got lucky. Luck had nothing to do with it. Source
@tibfox says he is only going to post in German coz nobody who speaks English wants to talk to him. Source
@TraciYorkWriter wants an image repository set up on Hive. It's not a terrible idea it's just it's already being done by others. Source
@xj74b8nw says Brave Browser is "Passive Income" Source
@NathanMars7 spawned a blog post on Hive for us. Source
@Moeknows_poetry told us about d.buzz Source
@ahmadmanga said they would be interested to see an embedded service. De we detect a smidgen of cynicism? Source
@FrankSEC42 has been putting 42 Tonne on his Ikea chipboard. Source
@johneyreacko has the same sort of clients we do. Source
@marijocnt says our daughter knows us too well. Source
@jacpl regrets posting her pants widdling story on Facebook instead of Hive. Source
@slobberchops says we are like a Boomerang, we keep coming back. Or is that a bad penny? Source
@nathanmars subscribes to the "Circle of Trust" theory but Trust is a Chicken and Egg question. Reputation scores are a good indicator in our opinion. Source
@steevc wrote a great reply. we especially like "Keep complaining" Source
@pompe72 Monty Python - "Look at these shoes!" Source
@gooddream Puppy Love. Source
@unklebonehead says he's good with being sent to Coventry. Source
@stav doesn't let his wife see puppy videos. Source
@lilchillgirl isn't used to puppy videos after just getting out of bed. Source
How do I get a mention? Just reply to one of our posts on any of the social media sites.
How can I help? Sharing this post on your timeline would be awesome! It would mean all your followers will see it and your followers might not be our followers.
I'm honoured to be included in this pantheon of examplaries.
Mate, I can't keep you out of it. You're my most consistent interlocutor. ๐
(Look it up like I did.)
#Seriously
I'm a compulsive commentator. I think Hive could be more social that it currently is.
The problem is, there's nothing in the UI to encourage people to engage in idle chitchat like for example Twitter. I'm happy to reply to your comment thread like on this post but I don't feel comfortable creating a post for example and saying "Hey @steevc how's the piles?" To give you another example, I would love to message @stav and say "Where have you been for the last few days?" but again the only way to do that on Hive is to create a post and hope Stav looks at "Mentions" which again is pretty naff as that should be a "Notification"
This is what I mean when I say "Stop telling people to create a separate community on Discord and improve the UI on @PeakD or @Hive.blog so people can send a simple message to each other or the community at large."
Well you can comment on someone's last post, but I see what you mean. It ought to be possible to create a sort of non-private messaging facility. We have private messages via transfer memos, but that is not much used. It's a matter of someone building it into the front ends. I've not looked at the new Dapplr mobile app that seems to encourage micro-blogs.
I'm not saying Hive can be everything to all people, but it's an option that most people could make some use of. You don't have to write posts if there is content you like to just follow and comment/vote on. From what I know it offers more than Wordpress and plenty of people use that. It will never be Facebook or Twitter, unless it gets some radical changes, but does it have to do all those do? I don't see people writing long blogs on Facebook.
Honestly, it's trivial. And would, I think, kill the current Twitter take up trend too. The only reason you're seeing an upsurge in Hive users spending time on Twitter is because like me they dislike Discord and it's a way of interacting with fellow users without any set topic. For example I can go on Twitter and say "Morning @nathanmars how you doing" and a few others can jump in and before you know it we have a quorum. Whereas currently with Hive you have to wait for someone to check your account and see if you posted anything.
Actually there is a Hive-based BBS/chat thing at Open Hive. Sign in with Hivesigner. Just needs people to be using it.
I'm in the OpenHive.Chat now
I want it to be personal. You should stay [in English], I haven't done any of this to you yet! https://www.cannon-linux.co.uk/2014/07/compliment/
It must take you ages to put these posts together. I'm glad you do though, they're always interesting!
And thanks for the inclusion again kind sir. ๐ค
It all depends on the amount of replies. This one took about five hours mainly because I have to type it all out manually as each platform uses their own code and format some of which my website doesn't like. Mastodon is a bitch because some of the users like to muddy the waters when it comes to their base site. Remember, Mastodon is Federated so you don't send to a single location like Twitter for example. Then, once I've posted on my site, I actually have to almost rework it for Hive because Hive doesn't like the widgets on my website so I paste all the content then fix all the HTML and reintroduce all the elements Hive said "You're having a laugh mate! We don't use that here!" LOL
I think you have far more patience than I! I'm far too lazy to do all of that, so appreciate your efforts. ๐
It's why I don't post that much. :-)