Tisha Tiger / NeligerOne key difference between proprietary social networks and the fediverse is that the latter keeps getting better, rather than enshittify 👍
https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2026/03/a-redesign-for-profiles/
Frost, wolf of winter 🐺🎄
@tisha ehhhh this /one particular/ thing may not be bad (I haven't looked into it) but have you SEEN all the garbage they've been doing to Masto 4?
There's a reason we're still on 3 and just monkey-patching it.
@IceWolf I'm on 4.5.8 on my private instance, so I may not know what you're talking about 😅
@tisha Oh it started as soon as 4 came out.
There's the sidebar in mobile view
There's the whole """quiet public""" debacle (IT'S UNLISTED!!)
There's the whole CW warning bars thing
There's the awful shit they did to the report dialog, that was pre-4, but still indicative of Gargron's "let's make Masto feel as corporate as possible" mindset
betcha they're gonna make everyone's avatars circles sooner or later. Because everyone knows everyone is human and if you care about not getting your animal ears cut off you're Just Weird and should go away.
@tisha there's Brand Purple™ as well. Also pre-4 but also not great. We reverted that on our instance.
@IceWolf Ok, so I've known all of that change on my instance, yep!
I must admit, none of it bother my, and avatars already are rounded on Tangerine UI that I use 😅
But that's the nice thing about FOSS: everyone can use its own thing!
@tisha Sure, except also not, because it's a lot of work to patch stuff.
we have SO MUCH SHIT we gotta backport but we haven't had the time/energy
also "it's not enshittifying because you can fork it!" is like... no, it can still be awful and corporate-feeling even though it's still open source.