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Babu Menos 💬

@brian

Here’s to hoping; though it sure *looks* like mastodon.social is attempting to grow (even more). But I (and many others) might of course be wrong. We’ll see.

1 May 2023 at 20:02 | Wall-to-wall | Open on sunny.garden
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Brian Pepple :fedora: :python:

@babumenos I guess I don't see that as a bad thing.

Most new users could really care less about the whole 'federation'-side of the fediverse, they are just looking for a service that will replace Twitter.

The solution that the Masto-devs have implemented is most likely their best option for providing that.

1 May 2023 at 20:25 | Open on pepple.us
Babu Menos 💬

@brian

Exactly why I perceive it as a bad thing. Mastodon has been *different* from Twitter and with very good reason. Now it tries to become the new Twitter which is disheartening for long-standing users. And the answer is mostly, “pffft, get used to it.”

1 May 2023 at 20:31 | Open on sunny.garden
Brian Pepple :fedora: :python:

@babumenos As with pretty much any service things change to meet the communities needs.

I've been using Mastodon since around late 2016 or so, and it's *pretty* different than how it was in the beginning. Such is life.

1 May 2023 at 20:38 | Open on pepple.us
Babu Menos 💬

@brian

Of course things change. I’m just not sure if changing Mastodon so as to better resemble Twitter is a good change, that’s all. But let’s stop at this point; as I wrote earlier, we’ll see.

1 May 2023 at 20:45 | Open on sunny.garden
Matthias Schlegel

@babumenos @brian I guess Mastodon must change to compete. Question is: where are the limits?

1 May 2023 at 21:43 | Open on troet.cafe
Babu Menos 💬

@matschlegel @brian

I hear you, and at the same time I think, Why is there a competition? Why does Mastodon have to compete? Why on earth does Mastodon have to take on all the Twitter folk who do not even bother to dig a little deeper and learn a few steps? In my perception, they came here and immediately started complaining how complicated it all was—and actually, they are the ones who want everything to be like it was before (Give us our Quote Tweets! Make everything searchable!) although they had been the ones moving. This is upside-down, I think.

@matschlegel @brian

I hear you, and at the same time I think, Why is there a competition? Why does Mastodon have to compete? Why on earth does Mastodon have to take on all the Twitter folk who do not even bother to dig a little deeper and learn a few steps? In my perception, they came here and immediately started complaining how complicated it all was—and actually, they are the ones who want everything to be like it was before (Give us our Quote Tweets! Make everything searchable!) although they...

2 May 2023 at 6:33 | Open on sunny.garden
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