Sonya Mann ✅The most unfortunate feature of Mastodon is that you can't see many posts outside of the instance that you're on. Not such a big deal if you're on mastodon.social with most of the other people, but it's brutal if you're elsewhere. Possibly a value-killer. GnuSocial seems to handle this better? I'm not certain about the parameters of the behavior in either case. @Gargron
The concept of the Fediverse is awesome, but Mastodon doesn't seem to really work with it. Like someone else on a GnuSocial instance (lolsob) said, based on the current implementation there will be the Mastoverse and the Fediverse with wonky, limited integration.
It's still cool! I'm still here for it! And hopefully these issues can be worked out. #notahater
Rysiekúr (old account)@sonya they have to be worked out, otherwise we will end up in a segmented Fediverse, which will not make any sense due to the #NetworkEffect https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_effect
@rysiek yup, this basically has no future otherwise
@sonya and if you want to cry a bit, ready this thread on the #FedSocWeb #W3C mailing list: https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-fedsocweb/2013May/0058.html
Federation has been technically possible for years, but many devs had "precious snowflake" mentality regarding "their" protocols. That's what gives me hope with #Mastodon - it's not reinventing the wheel, works with #GNUSocial. #KeepCalmAndFederate
🏴☠️🏴☠️KODO🏴☠️🏴☠️@sonya That's why I wish mastodon was just a gnu social web client rather than a whole server implementation. I'm only here for the new user experience. I've been on 'federated social' for years and years now
@kodo even if Mastodon itself crashes and burns I think I'm going to try to integrate federated social into my regular media routines, I like the chatroom vibe
then again I already have a group of Slack friends that I'm neglecting
@kodo in your experience how does Mastodon differ from the rest of federated social?
@sonya the UX of the website is the only thing that is keeping me here.
@kodo I actually kiiiiiinda prefer GnuSocial in some ways... really the best pure UX is Twitter itself, although it has other problems
@sonya I tried to. The problem is the user experience sucks on most implementations I've seen. If you want "chat room" check out http://riot.im its an actual federated chat room network