Being Left Behind EnjoyerYou know how to get people to leave platforms run by evil people?
Yes, that's right, by offering better alternatives and being super friendly and welcoming and actively working on recruiting people and evangelizing for the better platforms and most importantly by not being chastizing and gatekeeping misers.
Being Left Behind EnjoyerAnd this is working, but it's slow progress.
Mastodon in particular has UX problems that will be very hard to overcome that prevent mass adoption, foremost is that actual conversations (aka replies) are unreliable and slow due to the way posts are distributed. Quote post support was a huge first step to remedy this. I hope we'll see more updates on it.
Bluesky got a big chunk of former Twitter users, especially in some niches like for scientists and activists; they have great performance, reliable threading and replies and really amazing featuers like fully custom feedsβbut suffer from intransparent moderation and frankly insufferable leadership (still leagues better than Twitter or Facebook though).
(There's more than these, but these are what I use.)
VojtΔch HorkΓ½@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io Wait, wasnβt post reply fetching addressed in one of the last Mastodon updates? I think itβs this: https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/pull/32615
Being Left Behind Enjoyer@VojtechHorky@social.coop It's getting better but it's still broken in other ways.
Really the most sensible solution would be intermediary aggregation so especially smaller servers can fetch replies more efficiently.
Being Left Behind Enjoyer@VojtechHorky@social.coop The real issue is unfortunately the underlying protocol, I'm unsure if this can be overcome without breaking backwards-compatibility.
Perhaps they could add a second, more efficient protocol and slowly migrate to it.
Eugen Rochko@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io @VojtechHorky@social.coop What issues are you still experiencing with threads in up-to-date Mastodon?
Scott Edwards@Gargron@mastodon.social @thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io @VojtechHorky@social.coop I'm not sure if this is related but I just followed this chap on a different server and 30 min later I still don't see any of his posts.
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