Gregory's Server@ShallowWater @jonty You're kidding, right? Threads that don't show their history? Mastodon links that take you offsite? Broken search, if available at all, so your past posts basically go down the memory hole? Inability to migrate your posts? Unclosable hashtag-typing popups that insist on a surplus space after the hashtag? Images and videos getting mangled to terrible quality but in a way that sometimes even *increases* their size? It's endless.
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 @ShallowWater @jonty Yeah, I'd MUCH prefer someone temporarily finding a way to get a gag handle (until they patch it) than years and years on end of major usability bugs unpatched. Thanks. If there's any "hastily made beta software", it's Mastodon, only it's stayed in this state for years on end. And as for "BSOD", I've had *plenty* of Mastodon server downtimes and other issues come up. None at Bluesky. If Mastodon were just hastily made beta software, it would have died. The things you listed look like warts to me. @ShallowWater @jonty Hey, guess what? A huge number of people came here fleeing Twitter, made accounts, and got so frustrated and left. The vast majority, actually. It's visible in the account creation vs. active users numbers. It's visible in my own experience with friends. And guess what? Those people are now going to Bluesky instead. Good. I wish them well on bluesky. But it was pretty stinky when Taylor Lorenz showed up here and started demanding immediate changes "or the journalists will leave." It never occured to her that she was being treated to the kindness of strangers, who built Mastodon on a shoestring, and gave it to her for free -- no $8 blue check subscription service charge. @nafnlaus @ShallowWater |
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You compare those to using a whole domain as your handle?
I am amazed at what Mastodon is with a $300K/year budget.
I suspect most of the things you list are in fix requests, and they will get to it when they can.
But jamming hastily made beta software out the door is crazy. Bluesky, post.social, and every other twitter wannabe trying to get rich quick.
I still don't run into much trouble here. Certainly no BSOD.