Brutkey

Glyph
@glyph@mastodon.social

@Gargron@mastodon.social @mcc@mastodon.social All the more reason to treat the user experience problems with Mastodon seriously, so that the people who are at the mercy of network effects and get sucked into new sites like Bluesky are relatively less harmed by them.

I agree with your point here but when it is coming from
you, personally, it smacks of defensiveness. I understand the impulse to be defensive here but the better thing is to double-down on making the UX better, particularly in terms of making public statements.

rakoo
@rakoo@blah.rako.space

@glyph@mastodon.social
There were experiments to provide a network-wide search. To create a thing so that you could look for people you know, or what was happening in the wide, across instances. But a part of the community disagreed with the very idea so no one wants to take the risk to run it again. Mastodon has problems, but to think that only the software or the project is blocking adoption is just deflecting blame.

@Gargron@mastodon.social @mcc@mastodon.social


Eugen Rochko
@Gargron@mastodon.social

@rakoo@blah.rako.space @glyph@mastodon.social @mcc@mastodon.social This is also something we've worked on for the past year: Fediscovery. A protocol for delegating discovery, search, moderation and other tasks that benefit from aggregation to external service providers. A Mastodon admin could connect their server to a FASP of their choice and receive an up-to-date trending feed, account search etc. It's not something you can't do on the fediverse, you just need to respect the consent mechanics.