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"Getting bored" is a feature, not a bug. Also a side effect of not having dozens or hundreds of people who have KPIs to optimize for "engagement".

• danielheath 6y ago
  Yes, but also no. You can get bored because you aren't being fed a curated stream of engagement-boosting content; but you can also get bored you don't find an interesting community. Mastodon has no unit of community smaller than "the local timeline", and it's really not cheap / easy to run your own (due to very high RAM requirements). By way of comparison, 'one subreddit' is a group you can follow and post to from your main account. You can look at a single accounts post history, but the common case is to follow moderated interest groups. There aren't good ways to participate in interest-specific communities on mastodon (I'm not just whinging; I've tried to improve the situation but it's genuinely difficult at an ecosystem level).
  • im3w1l 6y ago
    Pleroma runs fine on a $50/year vps fwiw.
    • danielheath 6y ago
      And an hour or two to stand it up, and a domain name, and an email host since you have to respond to abuse@. A new subreddit is two minutes and there is no reason why a federated system has to be markedly harder.
      • lokedhs 6y ago
        An instance is not a replacement for groups, and it's most definitely not similar to a Reddit community. What you want is, well, "groups" which is a feature that GNU Social had, and which is eventually going to come to Mastodon and Pleroma. A lot of people seem to happily use Twitter which also doesn't have a concept of groups.
    • emptysongglass 6y ago
      I wish Plethora had a solid docker-compose available officially because the current installation method is not great.