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I was just thinking about this earlier today with respect to Mastodon and federated social networks. As someone who has been very actively using Mastodon for ye
by jfax 5y ago
I was just thinking about this earlier today with respect to Mastodon and federated social networks. As someone who has been very actively using Mastodon for years, it is frustrating — painfully frustrating — when people criticise it in the abstract. "It will never work" then why is it working? "People won't know how to sign up" it is easier to sign up than any the average email service - blah, blah, blah - actually it's not worth anyone's time answering these questions. Just use it. _use it_ for goodness sake.
- Alekhine 5y agoMy issue with mastodon is that exploring servers means creating a bunch of accounts. That's kind of annoying. I still like and use Mastodon, but there it is.
- TheJoYo 5y agoI don't even have a Mastodon account and I can explore servers remotely just fine. https://mastodon.social/explore https://mastodon.social/explore I might misunderstand what you mean by explore.
- eigengrau5150 5y agoMy issue with Mastodon is that it imitates Twitter a little too well. I keep finding people to block when looking for people to follow. The local and federated feeds are infested with spammers, self-righteous ideologues of all kinds, 4chan rejects, and bots. It just isn't worth the effort.
- TheJoYo 5y agoI suggest you find a smaller instance to join to have a more cultivated feed. I'm the only user on my instance so everything I see is there because I subscribed to it.
- buildsjets 5y agoThat sounds like entirely too much effort. No one will bother.
- eigengrau5150 5y agoThe only way to control the shit I see on the Federated feed and ensure Local isn't full of spam, SJW bullshit, and alt-reich foolishness is to run my own instance. I can't be bothered. Christ, I can't even be bothered to run my own website.
- TheJoYo 5y agoYah, i don't expect everyone to run their own server but luckily joinmastodon.org walks anyone through the process of finding a smaller instance.
- tomjen3 5y ago"It will never work" can mean so much. It will never be bigger than Twitter (almost certainly true), it will never work to spread my ideas to a wide audience, that may or may not be true.