Some people think #Bluesky is “fun”. However, I find it anxiety-inducing and stressful. I’m not the only one who thinks so. A few autistic people say the same thing.
#Calckey seems “fun” to me because I can make it be what I need it to be. For example, it’s nice that I can create antennas devoted to my special interests.
This makes following a conversation much easier, especially in long threads with many participants.
It's a major usability improvement, and makes Mastodon much easier to use.
https://mastodon.social has comment threading right now, and only on the native web. This feature should be available on other servers and clients with a future update.
See screenshot as an example.
How do you feel about the addition of this feature?
Sorry, the sabotage of Twitter is not a “disaster for democracy”—it’s the logical and inevitable endpoint of surveillance capitalist control of our communications infrastructure.
Those who control a message’s delivery system control the message.
Twitter was always owned by surveillance capitalists—it NEVER served democracy.
I also don't regret having an opinion on someone else's opinion.
Rather, I regret not using the best words possible to present those opinions.
For example, I tagged someone multiple times in a long thread. I thought that was being polite because it would notify them of exactly what was being said. But others perceived that as harmful.
Like #Friendica, /kbin can ban trolls from participating in groups.
Unlike Friendica, you can remove posts local to where the group is hosted.
Unfortunately, the offending comments still appears in user timelines because other Fediverse servers do not delete after comments are removed locally.
Another alternative could be #Calckey which supports groups through "Channels". However these do NOT federate.
This is how the New York Times describes Mastodon: “a Twitter clone sliced into communities”.
I don’t think that’s a good description but maybe I’m quibbling.
Nevertheless, until Mastodon supports groups, I don’t use it for the communities. I use Friendica instead for that feature. In fact, I don’t think most Mastodon users realize that’s possible on the Fediverse.
But maybe the New York Times is referring to servers as “communities”.
It's because he could be having a much better search experience if he weren't on mastodon.social.
Other Mastodon servers have better search capabilities. For example, https://universeodon.com, run by @supernovae, has better search than mastodon.social. If @jeffjarvis migrated his account there, he'd be in business.
Most Mastodon users don't know they have more options!
The creator of Friendica, Hubzilla, and Zot is creating a Fediverse Identity Manager. It is 70% complete.
I don’t know what this will be like exactly. But because @mike is the fellow who’s also brought nomadic identity to the Fediverse, I suspect this will be a big deal.
