“Please don't be the person who explains to me the technical reasons for why #Mastodon currently works the way it does. That's not the point. Certain technical decisions were made, and these usability and abuse problems are the result. Those technical decisions should be revisited.”
‘Mastodon’s Mastodon’ts’ by @jwz: https://www.jwz.org/blog/2023/08/mastodons-mastodonts/
Some interesting points, but the bulk of them are not so much #Mastodon issues, but more generally #Fediverse issues relating to the underlying protocols used.
The only way of solving a lot of these issues would be to move to an unfederated solution... something like the platform previously known as Twitter.
Take your example of reply deletion. If you post on @social.sdf.org, what right do you have to delete my reply on @mastodonapp.uk?
Firstly, I think you're just a little off about underlying technical issues.
Yes, some of the criticisms come from the underlying protocol, but so many are right there in #Mastodon's choice to (for example) use or ignore metadata that's already included in #ActivityPub streams.
I wouldn't want to let developers pass the buck. They made these UI decisions, and presumably they will stand by them.
As for the exchange about rights of reply deletion, might I suggest instead of saying "what right do you have?" saying "how can you technically assure that I've deleted?"
I believe this is what you meant.
