I HATE :
- Users who put 20 hashtags on their toot
- twitter cross-posting toot
- bot which pollute timeline with pre-formated stupid toot
Let’s continue the list !
I can’t stand so many things about the twitter style of social media.
- Based around following people: not communities or topics. If I follow a person, I have to see all of their posts no matter how unimportant to me it is. I might like a person’s input on star trek, I really don’t care if they’re drinking their second red bull that morning.
- There are tags, but no voting, no sorting, and no moderation, so they’re mostly garbage.
- No way to see what’s popular: or sorting based on voting whatsoever. Updates stream in, which means you can’t subscribe to more than a few people unless you want your entire day to be gone.
- Length-limited content emphasizes gotcha soundbytes, and not discussion.
- No tree-based commenting: meaning I have to click into a lot of threads just to see replies.
Related to your first point: that’s why I believe the Peertube’s aproach (and old Deviantart’s too) is the best: every user has a single account, but they can have many “channels”/streams/folders/tags that you can follow. That way, you can follow someone’s specific content and not everything they do. I think tumblr did/does the same too, in addition to allowing you to follow tags.
a more simple system :
- all toot should have 1 and only one hashtag
- Give the possibility to follow a person/specific hashtag
Hmm… It does work as folders and channels in other platforms and it is very simple. The biggest con I find is that many people like to tag a lot :/
Related to the first thing: your saying that makes me realize I enjoy person-centric social media more than content-centric social media, and it does make me wonder how a platform can promote the best of both worlds. (idle general speculation, not lemmy-dev-content)
Most of my Mastodon content is “personal” in the sense that it’s idle chatter / bad jokes that I want to share with internet friends–but then I have a few posts that are more boostable like “here’s a blog post about how to do X”. Ideally, I’d want to be able to add that to a community/topic after I’d made the original post, since it’s typically only then I realize something fits (one thing that Instagram gets credit for is counting tags from comments, which allows this after-the-fact organization).
At some point we want to add user following to lemmy, so we can plug into the rest of the fediverse. So you’d see both user and community posts on your main feed.
The only one I know that gets this right, is unfortunately facebook. They have both the typical user / friend following, but also facebook groups, which can be very large and get a lot of posts.
I don’t really follow a whole lot of social media, so I didn’t really see it that way. But now I can kinda see why FB is still so popular. Looking forward to what lemmy becomes!
There is a risk of stalking with that. If you add it, make it possible to see who follows you or disable the option to be followed.
AFAIK, some instances have a way to view popular posts on the “/explore” page. The instance I just migrated from had it, but the one I am on now doesn’t, so it isn’t all of them.
On the first point, I very much agree. The problem becomes, will these “topics” as Twitter calls them have to be handmade by the admins, or will it be done with AI? And how would it be done?
On the third point, certain instances have a trending section, and even for those that don’t, you can still see what’s trending in Fedilab.
Near complete lack of threaded conversations, meaning it’s anywhere between annoying and impossible to track a complicated discussion with many people talking about different aspects. That’s why I’m so excited about Lemmy.
totally agree. when I ask people why they stay on Facebook, they reply : ‘groups’ I hope mastodon will integrate ‘group’ feature.
Check out guppe groups (e.g. @retrocomputing@gup.pe)
The development process isnt great, most decisions are just made because Gargron likes them better, user feedback is ignored for the most part. Hopefully we can do better for Lemmy :)
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well, I tried plemora, diaspora, friendica…but the problems is when you begin , with no followers, it’s just an empty space. In mastodon, the ‘noise’ in the local timelines is addictive for beginners.
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The only thing I really hate is the polarization. I like hearing different viewpoints from people who disagree with me, but oftentimes people will outright block you for disagreeing with them, or even associating with “the wrong people”.
Well but isn’t that their freedom to block whoever they want?
People who won’t stop talking about Twitter. My dude you’re preaching to the choir. Let’s just let past stay in the past and talk about how we can make mastodon better. Twitter cross posting people are definitely on my list as well.
I honestly don’t mind the hashtags because without a proper search function hashtags are the only way you reach other instances.
I’m having that feeling on Lemmy at the moment with Reddit topics, like holy cow I know it’s a dumpster fire, let’s find a new event horizon shall we lol
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i hate some stuff on mastodon but I admit it’s an excellent platform to connect people : 4 millions users and growing success is a sign. I think mastodon (user focussed) and Lemmy (Topic focussed) are both sides on the same coin : both are opposite but both are necessary in the coin.
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But you should agree, mastodon has brought a lot of people in fediverse. (And me too). At I grateful to mastodon for it.
- No subfederation/subversive timeline. There is a midground between your instance and the part of fediverse known by your instance fellows. This is a highly craved feature by instances based on transformative justice. This problem is virtually solved in Lemmy with communities. I wonder whether you have ever considered communities of different instances (with the same name?) may federate in the future development of Lemmy. :thinking face: At the end of the day, it is sorta automatic cross-posting.
Blocks don’t really work. If someone of other instance shares (retoots) your toot and has contact with a blocked instance/user, the blocked instance/user can see that toot via the intermediate instance.
at this point I kinda like the twitter cross-posting bots… . . I wish you could respond to them. . .kind of a universal mastodon twitter account with sub-accounts … .also maybe a bit of promotion of mastodon on twitter . . …probably not doable
I thought about it as well.
I’ve always hated the cross-posting Toot it is annoying to see
- The Mastodon API is poorly documented.
- Impossible to login using your userid, and if you forget what email address you registered with there is no way to get your email address using the API if you normally login over via API.
- The web UI is fat – uses too much RAM.
- All nodes disable searching for phrases - you can only search for userid or hashtag.
- No universal way to mention Twitter users. It would be useful if Mastodon users could mention twitter users as a way to make it possible to gather msgs to those not yet smart enough to switch to Mastodon.
Well if mastodon implements a group system that would be perfect, I love the smash community on Twitter but I refuse to follow most of them lol.
But I must say that being in Mastodon makes you change your behavior so most of the toxic people on Twitter wouldn’t like to hang out in Mastodon.
