@Mastodon Can't wait to see the new features! The Fediverse keeps getting better and better - I can't wait for it to be in a state I can recommend to friends and family. ^^

@Mastodon yay quote toots and search!!

this sucks and is only going to increase harassment of marginalized people

@Mastodon please no quote posts. One of mastodons greats strengths is that it encourages interaction over attention seeking.
Quote posts are a massive step backwards.

@Mastodon that new first screen on the official app is horrible tho. You should not prioritize a server over others, this just makes it more centralized.

@Mastodon ...

@Mastodon great!

@Mastodon when the new expewrience is live, what server are people going to be assigned to?

@Mastodon I did not ask for quote posts.

@Mastodon I would love to have the ability to have an account in a list without having them in my home timeline. I tried muting, but that also mutes them in the list.

The "official" @Mastodon app now sends new users to overloaded megaservers by default.

Don't use the official app, and don't recommend it to new users. It's turning into a dedicated mastodon.social app, and isn't good general Mastodon experience, by design.

@Mastodon Great new features, thanks. What do you mean by groups? Something like discussion groups or communities?

@Mastodon

i read the piece about the new onboarding experience, maybe i missed it but it doesn't seem to say what the actual onboarding experience is.

@Mastodon 🤯

@Mastodon God, did ypu lost your mind ? The absence of quote toots was specifically to reduce harassement, and proposing the flagship instance by default will ultimately kill the decentralized model.

@Mastodon I didn't ask for any of this

@Mastodon Oh no. That means Mastodon being unusable for the next days because timelines being overcrowded with either:

- fedipolice explaining why onboarding on 1 server as default is evil vs. the I-want-it-to-be-like-twitter crowd explaining that it must be so

- fedipolice explaining why quoted tweets are bad vs. „but-bluesky-has-it“ folk explaining why regular people need it. Both claim its because of marginalised people as well.

@Mastodon - Great news!

@Mastodon this is... Complex. It means that those of us who care about smaller #Mastodon communities will need to think about how to do our own proselytising and onboarding. This isn't to say that I think simplified onboarding is a bad idea, but there is a real problem here.

@Mastodon yay!

@Mastodon As someone who was very much frustrated these "Quality of Life"-type features might never arrive, this is so great.

@Mastodon yes!!!!

@Mastodon@mastodon.social what's changing with search? one of the things I miss from when I used mastodon was that the search made it really easy to search for specific posts that I saw before

@Mastodon A Little Wordy #15 🎨✅ 97% https://theoatmeal.com/wordy?date=05-01-23

@Mastodon very glad to see Mastodon and the fediverse evolving!

@Mastodon Not excited for quoteposts and searches to come around. Was enjoying the serenity of no dogpiles and living without trolls keyword searching for people to harass. Hopefully the masto community is above this, but I suspect history will repeat.

@Mastodon Say no to quote posts! It's a feature that turns toxic very quickly!

@Mastodon
> You asked for it, and it’s coming.
> Quote posts, search

funny cause i didn't ask

@Mastodon great to see improvements to UX being prioritised ❤️

@Mastodon I'm not sure a default signup to their server is optimum, but they do need a simpler onboarding process, so maybe this is better than the apparent confusion that so many people apparently have.

I would prefer a "round-robin" type of sign-up where servers which meet a certain criteria so far as terms of service, age, and maybe even size, are rotated through a default, with the person having the option of selecting a different default at sign-up.

@Mastodon yes! Really looking forward to quotes. ✨

@Mastodon The castification of Mastodon has begun. 😞

@Mastodon where can I see what is coming/planned please?

@Mastodon This is great!

@Mastodon
default server defeats the point of a decentralized network

@Mastodon wow thank you go fuck yourself. thanks for turning this place into another twatter

@Mastodon :toot:

@Mastodon @taylorlorenz lol

@Mastodon Great! Thank you.

@Mastodon

We just surpassed a👉 billion 👍 posts per month which validates the very real and engaged conversations happening across Mastodon and the wider Fediverse.

Whoo Hooo!!

@Mastodon Thanks for the new "onboarding experience" that NOBODY wanted!!

Growth above all!

@Mastodon hmm not sure 'becoming twitter' is really what most people here were asking for but go off i guess lol

@Mastodon for those who are replying “please no quotes”, it’s already implemented in several apps and even natively in iOS…

@Mastodon Very happy about quote posts and search! For those concerned about these features, I think opt-in controls should provide protection - but there are many legitimate uses and these are important features for some of us. Thank you for adding.

@Mastodon Interested to see what "search" is going to mean. My understanding was that the search function worked the way it did as a byproduct of the Fediverse..

@Mastodon Caved to the twitter crowd then...🤷🏻‍♂️

@Mastodon

#QuotePosts, text-based #search --- ouch. It will be important to see how these are implemented, but it feels like a climbdown. A move toward attention-grabbing broadcasting, away from attention-giving dialogue.

Whatever happened to the slow, considered, anti-viral ethos of classical #MastodonCulture? Awaiting implementation details, but I am sceptical.

And an #onboarding process that sends everyone to one mega instance seems to be the opposite of #federation building.

@Mastodon Didn't ask for it. Especially the default server. Prioritizing growth over the ideology of that made mastodon what it is, will just turn it into a shitty Twitter clone. Since it's not possible to migrate post content from instance to instance, switching instance will be very painful. Also will be interesting how you are going to scale to a mega-instance, without forking out or making the main software more complicated to operate for small instances.

@Mastodon re-centralizing? 🤔

@Mastodon Isn't full account migration at the top of most requested features as well?

@Mastodon Please tell us this is optional and opt in rather than opt out. After all, we don't like scrapers, leaving it as opt out would only assist in more of these.

@Mastodon Contrary to what some other folks are saying, I think having a default server for new sign-ups is a decent solution, since that seems to be a big stumbling block for a lot of folks.

@Mastodon
The first two are unwelcome - search should be opt-in, or you'll get the worst of bird-site over here...

@Mastodon I don't love this, but I can see why it simplifies onboarding for many people.

@Mastodon it remains a philosophical question as to whether quote boosts are a good idea. BUT...it's what people want. Will I use it? Yes of course. Time will tell if it was a good thing or not.

@Mastodon not convinced by the "using mastodon.social by default is good for decentralization" argument. There are ways to suggest different servers in nice ways (but it's more difficult, sure).

@Mastodon So the solution to easier onboarding everybody should create accounts on mastodon.social. See, this is why people are flocking to Bluesky.

@Mastodon Great news! Thanks for your efforts.

@Mastodon This is great, and comes on the heels of some research that shows that Quote posts are not a uniquely toxic feature! https://absolutelymaybe.plos.org/2023/01/12/quote-tweeting-over-30-studies-dispel-some-myths/

@Mastodon OK, can I ask for no quote posts?

@Mastodon to bad that mastodon.education still cant be found from join.

@Mastodon just make sure we can opt outta search and we're good

@Mastodon federation *is* your product. Do better with the onboarding experience, you can’t just recommend your own massive central server.

@Mastodon

⚠️ [BUG] App onboarding is directing new users to join mastodon.social by default

https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon-ios/issues/1023

@Mastodon Yay, really excited for search especially.

@Mastodon Thanks, I really want more #HinduExtremists and indian #fascists to be able to sign up through .social without proper moderation philosophy and exercise, and be able to poison the #fediverse. /s

@Mastodon i'm cool with quote posts, i just hope there's an option so folks can disallow it on their own posts as desired. maybe per-post, but definitely per-account.

@Mastodon all of this news delights me, sounds great and looking forward to it. Thanks! ✌️

@Mastodon quote posts PLSSSSS

@Mastodon Quote-posting was always going to be a sensitive one. Hopefully, it'll be implemented with enough thought to protect those that could be most vulnerable to abuse.

I'm def looking forward to be able to search my own posts. Have lost count of how much I relied on doing that on hellsite to find refs to past work I did, etc.

@Mastodon hooray for quote posts!!!

@Mastodon Huzzah!

@Mastodon

As others already mentioned, not sure, if this goes into the right direction...

... regarding groups, technical details of implementation would be nice.

@Mastodon
I never asked for quote posts, or full text search.
Hopefully these things are opt-in at a user level, preferably at instance level.
Will the ability to be searched/quoted only apply to those on the latest version, or will users be able to quote people on slightly older Masto versions.
I know that it was possible previously to implement ElasticSearch, which had a tendency to bring all but the beefier servers to their knees - will this overwhelm smaller servers?

@Mastodon Please add voice post

@Mastodon not sure how I feel about quote toots...

Default server is great though. Can't get a single real life friend on Mastodon right now cause the server selection option is confusing/overwhelming to non-tech folks. This will certainly help with that. Hopefully server migrations can get a bit easier so decentralization can still work fluidly.

@Mastodon@mastodon.social finally catching up to what the better alternatives had for ages! ​:amazed:​

@Mastodon @husku

@Mastodon Excellent! Thank you for all the hard work!

@Mastodon this seems awesome to me, I really fail to see how this would restrict or harm decentralization but I expect to see a lot of that argument being thrown around in the next few days.

@Mastodon Fuck off, Gargon

@Mastodon this is amazing. to folks worried about centralizing things too much, what's the point of a social network that's pure as the driven snow but as barren as antarctica?

@Mastodon The people who think this is the wrong move are wrong btw. Thank you and good job.

@Mastodon Congratulations!

@Mastodon You should've put out polls to see what the popularity would be for any of these "features". :blobcatgrimacing:

@Mastodon
Translation of toots?

@Mastodon Ok, quote toots are cool, but having mastodon.social as the default instance is a terrible idea! Mastodon is going to become another Twitter if we keep going in that direction, and nobody wants that.

@Mastodon Centralizing new signups onto mastodon.social by default could create a problem long-term. I worry that you guys won't be able to handle the moderation load, and that it makes the ecosystem vulnerable to purchase by a bad actor.