I do have an issue with the different services on the #Fediverse. I have 2 active accounts - on #Mastodon and on #Pixelfed. Anyone on the Fediverse can follow each of them, regardless of what service that other person is on, and there's no intrinsic way for them to know that one is supposed to be an image sharing account, while the other is a text-first microblogging one. People who follow my Pixelfed from a Mastodon will have a completely different experience from those who follow it natively.

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Varied experiences is one of those things that's either a bug or a feature depending on where one stands.

The idea of users having completely different experiences is a problem when some of the experiences are lackluster, BUT, on the optimistic side (maybe a theoretical side) that also frees UIs to give users different experiences they'd prefer.

I do like the idea of application developers tailoring their UIs to the needs of different users, empower users to look for the experience they want, even if it's different from someone else.

That being said, yep, it is a problem that many of these applications are struggling to really fulfill that promise.

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