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What kind of toot do you like the best?

  • Textoot (72%, 470 votes)
  • Imagoot (16%, 108 votes)
  • Videoot (1%, 11 votes)
  • Polloot (9%, 62 votes)
651 voters. Poll end: 2 years ago

Evan Prodromou reshared this.

Please please please please please
Give a hoot! Don't polloot.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xYp0jEZ3HJg
@samphillips because we here in the fediverse believe in restorative justice, we've decided that in penance for your egregious poll, you'll be required to produce a similar video, starring yourself as Tooty Prodromodon, in a PSA that warns against polluting the tootstream.
Missing option: pooptoot
Your polltoots look like you're doing a research for a paper or a talk.

Are you?
@drq no, I am just curious about the world.
I need an "all of the above" option, picking a favourite is too hard!

But I'll vote "Polloot" just because it's you. 😍 😄
I only voted the way I did to not hurt your feelings 😉
Poots on newts in boots

https://youtu.be/hg9Eq_gxJLo
This pollout could have been a textoot.

Evan Prodromou reshared this.

Textoot but with links to the media they want to share.
Hypa, Hypa, toots with links to their sources for reference are pretty and I like'm.
all the toots. They're good toots, Bront.
* Metatoot

Evan Prodromou reshared this.

may I interest you in brainpoot (brainfart toot)? :blobuwu:
You're my favorite Pollooter.
I might have picked "Imagoot" over "Textoot" if I didn't already prefer to post my images on Pixelfed...
No toot; it's not a good term.
This is wildly skewed. My social connections are so much more interesting when I have pictures, video and interaction. I like text, but it's a cool medium.

Also, poll Toots are officially the bronze medalist most popular Toots!
My favourite Toots are pictoots. I never get to vote in these polls, though!
I'm sure this sounds obvious, but the interface and controls for adding images to posts (in the clients I've used) are awkward and underpowered in comparison to an image-first app like Instagram. Tusky refers to them as "attachments" even, which frustrates me every time. Point being, I don't see any reason users ought to have to choose to be on a "pic network" vs a "word network" ... can't we steal the UIs from both and put them together?
@n8 I agree. Any ActivityPub server can distribute any activity object type. The division of your social graph by object type is a relic of the venture-funded commercial social network world. I'm really unhappy to see that model replicated on the fediverse.
who is the best?

  • Noted Internet hero Evan P (0 votes)
  • Despised actor Kevin James (0 votes)
  • Show results (0 votes)
Poll end: 2 years ago

Evan Prodromou reshared this.

Got yourself a 😛ixelfed: Pixelfed account yet? Or following some of those?
I still think that for visual media it would be better to use dedicated services like #PixelFed or #PeerTube, optionally with boosts on Mastodon.
@oblomov I disagree.

You should have one social graph, and different API front ends to make different kinds of stuff to share with that social graph.

The one-content-type-per-graph is a relic of the commercial social networks.
@oblomov I liked the contextual social graphs we used in OpenSocial - your app would run in a context and get the graphs (and activities) of the viewer and the context (which could be another person's profile, or the people associated with a place or firm, depending on the viewed context).
Beettoot or celerytoot.
@james@oblomov sending to lists is also important here.

My pictures of skunks and grapevines are open to everyone. My pictures of my family are for my family.
@james

(Long reply, sorry.)

First of all, my remark about the choice of service to share different media is related to the current system, not to how I wish it could be. There are other Fediverse platforms that have better support for different media types, and if you were using that I wouldn't have suggested using different services for different media.