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.
🏴☠️🏴☠️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