I agree!!!
Speaking of critique, this reply thread on Mastodon by him is probably worth reading (regardless whether you agree or not) mastodon.kangaroopunch.com/…/112996284620400056
Comment on Technology Connections' thoughts on Mastodon
andrewrgross@slrpnk.net 4 weeks ago
I’m sorry he hasn’t liked it, but critique is how we get better. Hope Mastodon keeps growing.
hono4kami@pawb.social 4 weeks ago
AusatKeyboardPremi@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
The link isn’t operational.
hono4kami@pawb.social 4 weeks ago
Sorry, try this one mas.to/@TechConnectify/113056731556590285
AusatKeyboardPremi@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Thanks. This works. I fully agree with comments made.
Jesus_666@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Honestly, this suggests to me that the ability to defederate might be a bug rather than an issue.
If my instance doesn’t talk to the instance at foobar.example, I might be unable to see (parts of) relevant discussions. This is worse for a microblog like Mastodon than it is in the threadiverse but it’s still something to keep in mind even over here. And most non-enthusiasts don’t want to have to do that.
Email is an example of a successful federated platform and it barely has defederation support. But in general all mail servers can talk to all other mail servers as long as they provide the right look-at-me-I’m-legitimate signaling. That makes email easy to use for regular people no matter if they use Gmail or their cousin’s self-hosted mail server.
Perhaps that is how at least the non-threaded fediverse should work… However, that would also mean that some instance hosting heinous shit would keep being visible to everyone. It’s a tricky problem.
Kichae@lemmy.ca 4 weeks ago
It’s frustrating, because a lot of the interesting people to follow and engage with on Mastodon have also jumped to Bluesky, and the fedi crowd continues to crow about algorithms and brain rot, when the biggest reason people bounce off of Mastodon is the other people on Mastodon.
There’s a deep undercurrent of “angry, hostile nerd”. When people started flooding Mastodon in 2022, you could see the binary reaction of “Finally, the recognition we deserve!” and also “you’re in my house now, you fucking normie, and you’d better start acting like it”.
Unsurprisingly, the “fucking normies” noped out, either immediately, or as soon as they had another option that satisfied their objections with Twitter.
But we’re going to wring our hands and bitch about onboarding flows and the great sin of defederation, because it let’s us ignore that we are the problem.
independantiste@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
I don’t know how to word it, but what I really hate about mastodon is that the cancel culture is like 10x every other platform. As soon as you have a slight disagreement on something it’s because you’re a homophobe and a racist and an ableist and you hate autistic people and whatnot. If the word woke wasn’t so used by trump to mean not being a fascist, it would be reserved for this kind of people. Idk I don’t like that mastodon is basically full of self diagnosed neuro divergent people. There are two extremes on the political spectrum, there’s the facist and mastodonists. I understand why someone wouldnt want to stay on there, it’s genuinely not a good place to have discussions on
Kichae@lemmy.ca 4 weeks ago
It’s got a lot of untreated, traumatized people, and frustrated power nerds on it, and both groups let you know it with haste.
lambalicious@lemmy.sdf.org 4 weeks ago
You don’t understand why or how platforms like these got made, don’t you?
If enough people came in to “put them in their place”, the way you describe, this place would basically become Threads (or Twitter) anyway.