8 days ago
With Discord announcing age verification globally, people are searching for alternatives. But a Discord alternative on the open social web might just look structurally quite different.
15 Jun 25
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05 Apr 24
24 Dec 23
An article from six years ago about six reason why Mastodon sucks.
One fun thing is that the reason the guy registered was to protect his name from name squatters. But he only did that on dot cloud.
Anyway, #6 (lack of good apps) is still a huge problem (but that’s mostly a problem with how Android and iOS does notifications), #2 and #5 are features rather than bugs (at least they’re why I’m into Fedi and not X), and #3 and #4 was changed (thankfully). And arguably #1 has been ameliorated by non-Mastodon fedi servers like GoToSocial, honk, Pixelfed and Tootik. Although as much as I hated calling posts toots, I never minded the Mastodon name for the server app itself. I kinda like it 🦣
31 Dec 22
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07 Jan 19
Comentary on the shortcomings of ActivityPub