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THe problem with Mastodon is a) discoverability and b) Twitter-like UI. Both of which I find hard enough to not bother with it at all. (disclaimer - I never use
by Yizahi 8y ago
THe problem with Mastodon is a) discoverability and b) Twitter-like UI. Both of which I find hard enough to not bother with it at all. (disclaimer - I never used Twitter due to what I think is a horrible UI) I registered in Mastodon long time ago, when first articles appeared, followed some random maybe interesting people, tried writing a few posts and just dropped. I still have client installed on my phone but last time I opened it was half a year ago. And I use other social networks daily.
Instead of writing Twitter clone they should have done a LiveJournal of Facebook clone, with better interface, different approach to privacy and discoverability etc. But being Twitter-like it is simply not that interesting.
- messo 8y agoThe beauty of the Fediverse is interoperability. Friendica (a Facebook-like social network) is currently implementing the ActivityPub protocol, which makes it possible for Mastodon users to follow and communicate with people on Friendica servers. If you don't like the Mastodon UI you can always try Pleroma, PixelFed or a number of other ActivityPub projects offering wildly different UI's. It's early days still, but the Fediverse is growing steadily.
- artichokeheart 8y agoMastodon is only a client to the ActivityPub protocol. There are other clients that look more like Facebook. But yes discoverability is an issue because it's hard in a federated environment.
- artichokeheart 8y agoActually StatusNet had a good solution for discoverability groups. An equivalent is an outstanding issue for ActtivityPub https://github.com/w3c/activitypub/issues/328 https://github.com/w3c/activitypub/issues/328