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I think we both agree there are things that Mastodon should never do, even if it increases retention, like highly addictive features. A line needs to be drawn
by progval 5y ago
I think we both agree there are things that Mastodon should never do, even if it increases retention, like highly addictive features.
A line needs to be drawn somewhere, and it is not clear to me that Mastodon did, as a project; because it keeps pushing what I (and other early adopters) consider anti-features in the name of new user retention.
For example, trending toots would have been unthinkable four years ago while trending tags were being designed, but trending tags eventually led to that.
- progval 5y agoThe OP release notes announced "As we value safety, these new features come with their own moderation tools–nothing will show up in trends unless reviewed by one of the server’s moderators first." Just a week later, here is a pull request adding an option to allow trends without reviews: https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/pull/17977 https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/pull/17977