Please, liberals. Stop the thinkpieces on why Mastodon is bad. I get it, you prefer the for-profit social media where you already have clout and where "progressiveness" is telling people off for writing "folks" instead of "folx" instead of a genuinely different model for web-based interaction.
@heydon what of you just think the UI is clunky and makes it hard for people to join/use?
@cferdinandi I'd say that was dishonest in most cases. If I can use it, it really can't be that hard, because I give up with a lot of interfaces. And it's objectively an easier/better interface than LinkedIn or Facebook.
@heydon and yet, I STILL find it clunky and unwieldy and am able to use it solely because I persist despite how hard it is.
I think it’s dishonest to categorize Mastodon as anything but very clunky at best
@cferdinandi @heydon Basic stuff such as posting, liking, boosting & commenting is fine imho.
Integrations between instances could definitely be a lot better. Threading within comments is a mess.
I'm confident these things will be improved over time as the system reaches maturity though. I think in the long run, this place has a lot going for it.
@Tijn @cferdinandi For me the clunkiness (simplicity / lack of features) is what *makes* it easier to use. Even the threading is simpler... although I agree it doesn't shpw the relationships it might.
@heydon I'm hardly a connaisseur, but from what I understand it also shows different comments based on the instance you view a post on. That sort of stuff is not ideal.
@Tijn What do you expect? The posts you're shown depend on what your instance (and you, as a user) can see. If your instance is trigger-happy on defederation, you'll be missing on a lot of content, but that's not the software's or the protocol's fault, but your admin's.
If you don't want to miss anything (or at least would prefer to have control over what you miss), you should join a free speech instance and take care of your own moderation (which is not hard at all, by the way).
