@SirTapTap Sometimes I wonder if making something open-source and community-made switches the difficulty to nightmare due to a glitch in the universe engine.
@SirTapTap I don't understand people's draw to Bluesky... I honestly used to think it would be neat, if it ever launched. Then Mastodon popped up and I went.... Well, there is what I wanted!
Main concerns I still see from people is, it isn't intuitive, and I don't see what I want to see.
I will agree with at least the second one, but that's because I run on my own instance that barely federates with the outside world XD
@SirTapTap You can see clearly where corporate moguls are putting their cash: a platform that can be easily monetized rather than space which is ruled and dies on community.
@SirTapTap The other day I tried looking up the current number of Mastodon users, and the first several Google hits that popped up were various tech platforms insisting on numbers between 1-4 million and declining. 🫤
@SirTapTap thing is that this doesn't rely on some profit seeking corporation to keep up maintenance and explain their decisions to a panel of VCs shark tank style in order to keep it running.
Mastodon can continue to grow while they loudly proclaim its death over and over.
@gabboman Not very social or much of a network then.
Social networks are supposed to have 'everyone' on them and let YOU choose who you engage with. Facebook's biggest fuckup was the algo feed so you no longer had the ability to curate what you interacted with.
Almost everyone else followed suit. When I only followed 50 people and there was no algo, it did not matter how many people were on Facebook.
@SirTapTap Yeah, someone at some point did a study and found that the vast majority of people used QTs to draw engagement from their community into a discussion from an external community. It was rarely used within communities to communicate. It was a recipe for context-free dogpiling (sometimes rightly so like with Bean Dad, but more often for nefarious stuffs).
@GrayGooGirl The only time I saw it used half-positively was within roleplay communities, where it was basically used (mostly by clout fishing accounts tbh) to force both parties to "advertise" the other participant to their followers.
Not the WORST idea bc growing as a roleplayer can be hard, but it is a NIGHTMARE for following a fucking conversation and prevents people from muting a convo they don't want to see. And god help you if you need more than 280 characters
@SirTapTap@GrayGooGirl
I think quote tweets do have an important implementation flaw: they are treated as a new thread. They should be treated like any other reply, just one that shows what they're replying to. That would make them tend to bring more people into the existing conversation rather than fork it.
@SirTapTap To be fair, the official Mast IOS app UI isn’t as good as the web experience, I don’t want twitter like UI but I think it would be nice if I can enable 2FA without bringing up an inapp browser, I recognise the iOS app is a community effort tho so I wouldn’t complain too much about it
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