@lari @petri the real issues for me on #Mastodon versus #BlueSky:
1) Onboarding difficulties killed a lot of initial interest. That has improved a bit, but there are still issues (empty feed problem).
2) Desperately poor UX in parts. E.g. the whole missing replies / missing posts is unresolved and extremely problematic.
3) Related to the above: development speed. Maybe it is underfunded, or there’s resistance but many issues have been sitting around for years.
@Setok With regard to this, realize that a lot of the problems come out of engineering decisions made long ago that would be very difficult to change course on at this point.
It's not merely a matter of throwing programmer time to tweak some UI functionality.
It's more akin to deciding to build a car and later on complaining that really you wanted to fly but this vehicle doesn't do that.
It's pretty hard to change course at this point without starting over.
@Setok Oh my point was more to say, don't hold your breath waiting for fixes to these complaints.
If they are real annoyances for you, then you should probably put serious consideration into the alternatives.
If this platform isn't table to serve its users well, then it already is and will always be behind.
