I’m not a tech person and never really thought about ANY of this prior to Elon musk buying twitter a year ago, but popping onto baby bluesky has highlighted for me just how dynamic and mature mastodon actually is. It gets a LOT of criticism and omission from mainstream journos, but the reality is that mastodon is a fascinating and very user friendly global group project, and deserves some credit for what it has, not just (appropriate and important) criticism of what it lacks
@seachanger Agreed! Some of the things it lacks are relatively straightforward to fix.
I agree that for POC and LGBTQA+ groups, Mastodon often sucks, and we collectively need to figure that out pronto - I'd bet on the Fediverse coming up with some kind of solution over private cos. with priorities in conflicted places though.
Or neither, of course. But I'm glad there's a new model - FB, Twitter, Discord etc are pretty clear demos of what doesn't make for a safe community.
All that said, I’d love to see masto continue to evolve in ways that make joining (and starting instances) much easier for regular people, BIPOC and people who don’t enjoy thinking about tech features! Would also love to see quicker adoption of features people are calling for, like opt-in quote toots.
Also, more humility & dialogue pls on how to make the fedi mirror the demographics of our planet: more ownership and participation from the global south, more BIPOC leadership and participation
@seachanger 1+ on the humility. Mastodon can be shaped but some minds are closed to changes that would make it more accessible. Not invented here syndrome.
@ericsfeed as mastodon grows their influence wanes. I love the idea that no one group gets to define the vibes. It’s customizable and we get to use it how we wanna
@MoiraEve yes! If you look at my reply to you here it should say “unlisted” meaning i have selected an option that won’t appear in the timelines of people following me! This keeps their main timeline mostly important or primary posts rather than long winded convos in the replies. I don’t always remember to do it, but I thought of it because blue sky is having trouble now with all posts going in everyone’s timeline including long thread replies.
@seachanger I deleted Twitter, IG, and Facebook in 2019, now I found out about these "Fediverse" apps, not bad. Not bad at all, although I'm not as active but I come on every other day or so.
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Currently i just use webview on desktop and fedilab on mobile. I am pretty sure that you can select dark mode on both if this is what bothers you. If not, please tell me what.
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Fedilab is somewhat ok about this, until it goes too deep. In that case you will have to press on particular comment to see only it's replies.
@rolle I think many will end up being incorporated in blooski as a result. Kind of like the ideologue who runs for office and who may not win but whose platform gets adopted thereafter by any one who wants to capture the zeitgeist
@seachanger Maybe. But I'm pretty sure Bluesky will never have all the same benefits than Mastodon and this is why I'll be here. I'm sure their business model will not allow it to ever be installed on people's own servers.
@arnandegans organizing now with a small group to host a server for Alaskans. We have a domain and are coding now. I helped develop rules and code of conduct with a group. We all pitched in money. Alaskan.social should be up soon and we’re excited!
@arnandegans that said I’ve really appreciated being able to land and spend my first year on mastodon.online where barriers to participation are low and the server is very functional
@seachanger 🥥 Ah, so obvious, Malena! A blessing on your house for taking the time to decrease my ignorance and the mystery that is #Mastodon just a bit. Thank YOU! 🥥
@neil@seachanger even better, the char limit can be increased by server admins. although not sure if that then stops your posts going to servers that enforce a lower limit?
@seachanger@neil wonder if you can then click to go to the rest of the post on the original server. might have to test this with a long post of my own, then view it from another server.
@seachanger I guess I'm not sure how it works. I thought new people did not have to choose a server, period. I'm one of those who find this all very confusing. Thanks for any help you can give.
@gotlucky well no matter what everyone needs to be on a server. Maybe now they automatically put you on one of the large ones unless you pick a different one… I understand it can be super confusing! Kind of like learning a new language.
@seachanger Interestingly, editing posts is one of those per-instance features. The instance I'm on allows delete-and-re-draft but doesn't allow modification.
Being able to approve follow requests without people just showing up has done wonders for my anxiety levels. Though it's been years since I've been on Le Birdhouse. Can't remember if they allowed that option or not.
@seachanger I have 1000 character limit on mine, but Jesus ppl, learn to be concise and get to the point. I'm starting to just scroll past long posts cuz there's just too many.
@MattO the content warnings that allow you to hide the post behind a heading! On the ivory app it shows as a triangle warning icon in the menu below your post as you type
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