@arriven Yeah, I don't have a better option either.
But maybe by articulating this, we can actually pressure some to show up, whether using ActivityPub/Mastodon or something else.
@arriven If that happens, I think it would be good.
But at the risk of being a bit blunt, none of the current instances or servers seem to be (remotely) up to the task. Do any have a large and experienced professionally paid moderation staff?
Maybe mastodon.social does, I at least hope so. But I'm worried.
I hope that changes soon and a really committed and effective platform/ecosystem emerge soon. As you say, the demand is now *hilariously* arrived.
Twitter is like GitHub, but built on a super annoying proprietary tech stack that means I can't just take my repository and go somewhere else if they make a colossal mistake.
So it ends up corrupted and hijacked.
But Mastodon w/o a GitHub-like ecosystem foundation will end up like `git` did before IMO:
Fragmented, confusing, w/o power or reach.
Social movements that relied on power & reach won't work there. Tehy won't be effective, and just result in like-minded communities echoing...
First try at articulating my dissatisfaction w/ Mastodon:
Mastodon & the whole ActivityPub / fediverse system feels like `git`, or more generally DVCS (this isn't about `git` specifically).
This is good & necessary.
But it needs an *ecosystem* to be great.
It needs a GitHub.
This is what Twitter actually provides to me.
@jyasskin The different conduct & moderation approaches are as you say the probably dominant concern.
Still left with little or no way to choose sadly -- super unclear how I'm supposed to figure out whether the moderation is "good" essentially from the outside.
Really annoyed at seeing 10%+ performance swings based on using `const T&` vs. `T`...
Seemingly not because of anything I'd expect (avoiding a load). No no...
Because using the reference requires preserving 2x the number of callee saved regs.
:sigh:
I really want the #CarbonLang input argument feature...
@thephd I'm worried it verges into Vim for Twitter... or Linux From Scratch for Twitter...
I'm really sad about having to think about and care about so many different things to use this tool....
Thinking about servers a bit...
mastodon.social seems like a solid default, and funding it helps fund overall development on mastodon. But it's a bit overloaded it seems...
But I hardly even know what options there are, much less which would be best...