@GossiTheDog I don't think mastodon is the best designed system because your handle is tied to a domain and unless you buy a domain you will be stuck to a server but I don't know how to solve that efficiently
@GossiTheDog honestly, using ivory like I used Tweetbot, my experience is mostly exactely what I had with Twitter. The lack of "global" search for CVE or breaking news is missing though... so I follow journalists.
@GossiTheDog The absence of some accounts still on Twitter is annoying, malwrhunterteam, ZephrFish, reecdeep etc. Also the same toot popping up in my feed n times as it's boosted is a bit annoying. Still better than Twitter though!
@GossiTheDog sometimes I miss being called various slurs for Jews and having to use a crippled third party client because the API is limited to one terrible client
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For fedi more generally, fediblock seems pretty overbearing. There's a lot of guilt by association if you don't defed from the right people. If another admin makes a decision that people disagree with, there seems to be a tendency to just nuke the whole server which creates fragmentation.
For mastodon specifically, I don't like the dismissive attitude that people get when they request features. There seems to be an attitude that everything is precisely as it should be and any missing feature is intentionally missing. People who ask for something different are talked down to.
@GossiTheDog yes the content warnings are a bit silly as is the insistence on alt text for each and every image. The people pushing that on others are easily ignored though. One thing that annoys me a bit is that I see quite a lot of far left retoric, some of it a bit nasty and on the edge of scapegoating. But absolutely nowhere near as vicious as the rwnj’s on commercial social media. Overall I like Mastodon a lot.
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Anyone who has a problem with anyone’s post, can just keep scrolling. Real easy. So for me, intentional cruelty excluded, it stands to reason that those who think they are in charge of another person’s freedom of expression can kiss my ass in Macy’s window at high noon and tell me it smells like roses 🌹 (which it actually does) ✌️
@GossiTheDog pro and con to not having algorithms. Pro, I get everything as it is happening. Con, I log in and find massive reply threads that take too long to backtrack. I think this could be solved with a better interface for tracking threads, while keep algos out of the picture. Maybe like Reddits tiered comments, simply in design, no voting.
It can also few lonely and overwhelming to new people. If you didn’t use Twitter before it may be difficult to adopt Mastodon.
@GossiTheDog Mildly annoying image load times. So honestly, it's all good. I'm successfully ignoring any "you're not using Mastodon my preferred way" people, so that's never been an issue.
Not being able to see all the threads/replies without going to the originating server. I see a lot of dupes when I do, and I know that happens, but it seems worse because of this.
No quote toots. Like I guess leaving my replies as fully public will let my followers that it is intended for see it, but it just feels different.
@GossiTheDog@malwaretech I was getting hectored by a self-appointed guardian of Mastodon morality for not using a CW hashtag for Twitter-related posts.
I've been here six years, they've been here five months.
And, frankly, if you're too sensitive to be able to handle something in your timeline referencing Twitter, then maybe social media isn't for you. Do these people actually exist or is it just catsbummouthed guardians of morality badgering people just in case?
@davep@GossiTheDog@malwaretech One aspect I find weird about this attitude is that it puts the onus for filtering on everybody else, something that clearly will never happen on a platform with 10M users. Isn't the neat thing with mastodon that they can choose a client that filters as much as they like? I mean, if nothing else works, just feed every toot through a LLM before displaying it on the timeline! Prompt: "I don't like twitter. Will this trigger me: [toot here]"
@jaseg@GossiTheDog@malwaretech They can already filter, say, Twitter and Elon Musk. People are complaining about the use of birdsite and Elmo instead. Just add them to your filter then. It's quicker than badgering all perceived miscreants.
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