malenaMay 3, 2023

Rad things about mastodon we take for granted

CW -these are amazing

Editing posts -hard to go back once you taste this

Alt text as the norm - (edit: you can be brief! edit it in later!)

Replies -option to delist them so we don’t clog the feed

Timeline curating -we have near infinite timeline options with filters, lists, local, federated, hashtags

Muting -we can choose a time period!

Character count -500 let’s you get an effing thought out

Ownership -we can own the damn thing ourselves

Show thread[Yaseenist] CauseOfBSOD  May 3, 2023
@seachanger and with other activitypub software, you have even larger character counts as standard, while still being able to talk to mastodon
Show thread[Yaseenist] CauseOfBSOD  
@seachanger Additionally, there is a standard mechanism to move between instances, transferring followers. This works across different software (except misskey and most of its forks, which only let you import mutes, blocks, and people you follow, although calckey implemented moving the follows of people who follow you with the standard mechanism)

This lets you change software semi-painlessly (you lose old activity) and move away from an instance if it does something you disagree with.
May 3, 2023 at 11:46amWeb