Comment on An EXTREMELY Simple Guide to Mastodon
lgsp@feddit.it 12 hours agoI’m not sure, but i guess that it is replicating Twitter behaviour. I got used to that quickly.
But if you want a better experience you can easily find other front ends. I strongly suggest Phanpy that makes it really clear when a toot is part of a conversation/thread. It also does a lot of nice things like grouping boosts in horizontal carousels, collapsing long threads to avoid occpying the too many screens, and others, but it is still simple
klu9@lemmy.ca 11 hours ago
Phanpy
First impression: “That’s more like it!”
But then: “Wait… it’s still not showing me the OP followed by replies.” It shows me a reply, with some faded text above. I click on the faded text above, and still don’t get the OP, eventually click on a group of microavatars with mouseover text “Go to top” and an up arrow, and at last see what the hell it is people are talking about, with replies below. I try going through settings, find no way to get it simply show me the OP in the first place.
I guess I’ll have to keep trying out front-ends until I find one that works
in a way that is not obviously maddeningthe way I need it to.I’ll try Ask Lemmy. lemmy.ca/post/44479417
(And wondering again if I should try Mbin or Piefed, and what the difference is.)
lgsp@feddit.it 11 hours ago
Woah, I think you catchet the biggest problem I have with it immediatly. I’m thinjking of opening an issue maybe?
klu9@lemmy.ca 8 hours ago
Good idea. I wanted to search their Github Issues to see if they already have a request for this but then I realized I don’t know the correct technical terms to describe this. “Show OP with replies below directly in timeline”? Or “feed”? Or “home page”? Whatever is the porper Mastodon term for what it shows me when I load the main page.
KazuyaDarklight@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
Try Fedilab, unless I’m misunderstanding, I think it will more intuitive for you.
klu9@lemmy.ca 9 hours ago
Unfortunately, it looks like Fedilab is a mobile app only.
Also, I’ve installed it on Android and the default does not show the OP above with replies grouped below.
Looking at its settings, maybe one might affect completely missing OPs, “Remote Conversations”. I’ve enabled it and will see how it goes.
I can’t find any setting to make it show replies grouped below the OP.
KazuyaDarklight@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
Correct, it is mobile only. Unfortunately, I think I must be misunderstanding what you’re saying about the op stuff. This is my view, The way I think about it, at least, these are all “OPs”, ones with a plus sign next to the leftward arrow. Have comments. Image
And then if I tap, I get the op with its comments underneath it. Image