Gotta say, the actual UX here in the fediverse at least equal to Twitter now, and possibly better in some parts.
Takes a bit more effort to get set up here, and the comparison is only possible because pieces continue to off of twitter at an alarming rate, but a couple months ago I would not have expected have that view before year’s end.
In a hilarious moment of irony, my first couple attempts to post this failed and I screenshot it.
Even more amusing is that this would normally be a fairly serious flaw, were it not for the fact that I was completely unable to reply to any tweets on the bird all for like 6hrs yesterday.
It is a bit unnerving to be at the whims of server owners..what are their long term plans? Will they adequately block bad instances?
One thing to note is that there may be some loss in ux due to a lonely instance not learning of other instances until you interact with them. I'm not exactly sure of the details. You do have a good amount of followers so that might not be an issue.
You could also implement a fork if you wanted (like glitch) which allows for some extra features.
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