Erin KissaneJul 21, 2023

But what is the actual PROBLEM with Mastodon?? Said one hundred dozen people over several months of threads here. So I wrote it up.

It's too long, but we got bad doors, stilt-walking French shepherds, water bugs, a bunch of @/shengokai@zirk.us quotations, What The Fuck Is Up With Bluesky, and more.

https://erinkissane.com/the-affordance-loop

Show threadErin KissaneJul 21, 2023
I would bet actual money that I've got some nuance of Mastodon's functionality wrong in there so when you see that please do lmk. I thought about asking instance-running friends to preview it but I've taken up enough of their time this week.
Show threadTim ChambersJul 21, 2023
@kissane I think you got the tech nuances pretty right on actually. Maybe worth a note there that quote posts, and full text search, and filling in replies that are missing now have pretty much full consensus that they all need to be fixed, and added and are all in some part of the roadmap to add.
Show threadErin KissaneJul 21, 2023
@tchambers I thought I'd kind of gestured toward that, but maybe it's on the cutting room floor, there are so many words Tim
Show threadMichael RobertsJul 21, 2023
@kissane @tchambers You need to learn about sidenotes. Because I liked all those words and wouldn't have minded more of them.
Show threadErin Kissane
@vivtek @tchambers Oh there are at least 9-10k more coming in this three-parter, and that's if they don't spontaneously divide again.
Jul 22, 2023 at 12:28amWeb
Show threadMichael RobertsJul 22, 2023
@kissane I went through a brief spell of about thirty-five years where I couldn't read nonfiction, but it seems to be past now - thanks largely to the simple expedient of buying a tablet so I can read PDFs in bed and mark them up. Since I did that, I've actually been reading longer stuff at my desk as well. This post was *good*. I look forward to following up some of the interesting bits.
Show threadErin KissaneJul 22, 2023
@vivtek I was too tired to reply last night but I FEEL THIS ONE A LOT, my ability to read things is…highly variable. Although 35 years beats my streak.
Show threadMichael RobertsJul 22, 2023
@kissane I exaggerated for effect. It was really only about twenty-eight, since my masters. (Viv is twenty-nine this year so you know.)
Show threadErin KissaneJul 22, 2023
@vivtek sorry she’s WHAT
Show threadMichael RobertsJul 22, 2023
@kissane He, at this point, but yes HE TURNED TWENTY-NINE LAST WEEK and you and I are old old old
Show threadMichael RobertsJul 22, 2023
@kissane i mean that whole freakin linear time thing but still
Show threadErin KissaneJul 23, 2023
@vivtek Ah, I didn’t know yet! Happy birthday to him and also I related this “29”business to Peter who made a face like I’d broken the dishwasher.