If I didn't have too many projects going on, I would consider learning #mastodon enough to see if I could have GitHub/Gitlab-style reactions. Arbitrary emoji to posts would be awesome.
@DNA Between getting book three published, book four finished, publishing three books in the next six months, writing a program to do static analysis to support refactoring novels for authors, writing a grammar checker, supporting two patreons, managing a publishing company, my day job, my family job?
Yeah... I'm barely getting those done, I don't need another. Besides, I've already adopted a couple OSS projects lately that I need forward momentum on.
@dmoonfire Killer. Four books. Dude, that's awesome. BTW, did you know my cousin taught writing in Singapore through an acquaintance of mine there? Seriously fucking small world. i was stunned. We were all like... whoa. So that's 3 writers in my immediate fam.
@dmoonfire Apparently only two of us are any good though. AHHAHAHAHAHAAHHA!
@DNA Awesome. Sounds like you have the writerly gene.
I'm hoping life will calm down enough for me to really start pushing the novels. Right now, I keep getting distracted by writing programs to support writing in addition to actually writing.
That and I might be stalling on Flight of the Scions since I've been working on that for ten years now and it is still missing that "spark" to make it awesome.
@dmoonfire what do you mean by "arbitrary" emoji?
*adds an 🐘 from a Chrome extension just in case it's relephant*
@DialMforMara I like the ability to add responses to posts without adding a whole new entry in timelines but also allows for a fairly flexible list of reactions beyond just 'favorite". Slack has a wide range of those, Facebook only has the five. https://octodon.social/media/vE3T_D7JESZIiEpUNYw
@dmoonfire Discord allows you to respond to a post with basically any emoji, including custom ones specific to the channel. Maybe there's inspiration there.
@DialMforMara Yep, same as Slack, Gitlab, and Github. I find it a good pattern and like it see it more with social networks.
@dmoonfire awwwwwwwwwwww, what's one more project at this point?