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Does anybody else have trouble with the way Mastodon organizes their conversations? It isn't just a straightforward branching thread. I think. I'm not sure. May
by swayvil 4y ago
Does anybody else have trouble with the way Mastodon organizes their conversations? It isn't just a straightforward branching thread. I think. I'm not sure. Maybe it's the app I'm using (tusky). It's just hard. Or maybe it's hard to do branching threads ui in the screen space of a phone. I don't know. Reddit and hacker news seem to handle it okay
- yborg 4y agoMy biggest problem with Mastodon, although Twitter has the same issue, the quoting convention creates context if the reply poster adds it, but tweets with lots of replies are similarly a morass. Someone is building a threaded Mastodon client, currently macOS only. https://mastodon.social/@terhechte https://mastodon.social/@terhechte Early days, and kind of slow, but looks promising.
- swayvil 4y agoThe threaded style works great. Easy. Time-tested. You'd think everybody'd just stick with that.
- bentcorner 4y agoI'd love to have a tree-view client for activitypub. Not sure if anything like that exists already.
- mariusor 4y agoI made one in the form of a link aggregator: https://brutalinks.tech/~marius/2e6cf5a8-ffa8-4fca-b4cd-8e0c9a584a75 https://brutalinks.tech/~marius/2e6cf5a8-ffa8-4fca-b4cd-8e0c... The thread is built from this object: https://federated.id/objects/2e6cf5a8-ffa8-4fca-b4cd-8e0c9a584a75 https://federated.id/objects/2e6cf5a8-ffa8-4fca-b4cd-8e0c9a5... and its replies.
- donio 4y agoI believe this is a client issue. The Mastodon client API gives enough information to render a thread tree but most clients don't take advantage of it yet. Fedilab on Android has a nice tree-like thread view.