petersuberJul 29, 2023

Excellent diagnosis and recommendations by @kissane.
https://erinkissane.com/mastodon-is-easy-and-fun-except-when-it-isnt

I'm a committed #Mastodon user. But I sympathize with the complaints she has gathered and understand why they drove many users away.

All of us who are here and committed to stay should take them seriously, especially if we want more people from our networks to give Mastodon a try (not deterred by its reputation), like what they find (not deterred by their experience), and decide to join us.

Show threadMarshall Abrams
@petersuber @kissane Great essay. One point not mentioned, perhaps because it matters less to people who use social media the most: Algorithms on commercial sites, despite bad goals and consequences, can put missed, older posts that you would want to see at the top of your feed. With Mastodon, I have to watch it constantly to catch interesting things (so I don't). Even though my home feed consists mostly only of people and tags I've followed. Not sure if exbird did this well, but FB and IG do.
Jul 29, 2023 at 7:52pmWeb
Show threadMarshall AbramsAug 2, 2023
@petersuber @kissane Illustrating what Mastodon lacks for those who don't watch their feed constantly: Often I see a post in the local feed of a slow server by an account I'm following on mastodon.social. I would have never seen the post on mastodon.social, though, unless I scrolled many posts. Some platforms e.g. FB improve this. I don't want abusive for-profit algorithms, but how about the ability to opt in to an algorithm that tends to move to the top unseen posts by user-selected accounts?