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@derek

I want you to explain HOW the stated goals are in any way "wanting to end the free internet".

Even the third one, "amplify factual voices", while questionable, is in no way "ending the free internet" at all. Boycotting Mozilla on this goal alone is seriously harming the free software movement for no reason whatsoever.

And the other goals, such as transparency in social media algorithms & revealing who is paying for ads are undeniably a good thing.

@derek

In your video boycotting mozilla, you don't read the article and immediately jump to conclusions.

The article said "exploit the architecture of the internet" and you immediately assumed that Mozilla now wants to dismantle that architecture. If you had literally read for 30 seconds, however, you would have seen their goals, as described in the linked image.

Now I don't know about you, but all of these goals (except the third one) seem in line with the free software movement.

@darkdotfail

You can no longer search on nitter.dark.fail

Trying to search redirects you to the dark.fail twitter account.

Can you please fix this? nitter.dark.fail was my favourite nitter instance.

This isn't even possible by the way. Many instances don't allow you to sign up. How do I browse them without an account on Tusky? I just have to hope that the current instance I am using federates with that one.

I just don't see how any person can use federated services. You'd literally have to teach kids how federation works in school for them to be able to use it.

Currently, Twitter and Youtube is simple. It's one platform, and you can comment & video any video/tweet accros the platform.

It seems that you can click anywhere on the toot once you log in? Why is the UI so bad when you aren't logged in.

I just got an android app (Tusky) for Mastodon and it leaves me even more confused. I have to log in to use the app at all, and once I logged in I can only see toots from that instance or instances it federated with??

Why can't I choose instances I want to browse? Do I have to create an account on every single instance I want to browse (if it isn't federated)?

Can someone explain to me why Mastodon is so confusing and has a bad UI?

First of all, on the website, you can't click on a post to actually see more information about it. You have to find the tiny date and time posted button in the top left corner and click on that. On top of this, you can't see favourites/boosts/retoots unless you click&expand the toot.

Nitter, a frontend designed to access Twitter privately without Twitter's permission is 1000x times better. Why is this so confusing?