• xe8
    14·
    4 years ago

    I saw this article on “hacker”news. For sure there are legitimate concerns about the Fediverse to be made. Maybe point 1 is one them - not being able to migrate data. But they don’t expand or make proposals on this, and instead go off on a tangent complaining about general online discourse and Twitter style microblogging in particular.

        • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆
          1·
          4 years ago

          Look like it won’t migrate the data, here’s what it says when I got to the option on my account:

          This action will move all followers from the current account to the new account
Your current account's profile will be updated with a redirect notice and be excluded from searches
No other data will be moved automatically

          However, you can do a data export and use the API to reload the data on the new account that way.

            • Niquarl
              1·
              4 years ago

              Why would you want to? Honestly asking. Toots are meant to be more in the moment.

              • fidibus@lemmy.161.social
                1·
                4 years ago

                I don’t care, I think it is fine the way it is. But the first point of the article is

                You can’t migrate your posts

                so that’s literally why I was clarifying that in the answer

                Worth noting that it’s perfectly possible to migrate data between instances.

                doesn’t really help here, because it is just partly true.

                So this is a fair point, if they really want this it’s a reason to leave. A dumb one at that imo but I am being downvoted here for just stating facts.

                • Niquarl
                  2·
                  4 years ago

                  Ok fair enough. I didn’t downvote you myself honestly you are saying anything that makes it reasonable to downvote imho.

  • adrianmalacoda
    13·
    4 years ago

    Their complaint seems to be that Mastodon/the fediverse is just “Twitter but federated” which as far as I am aware is exactly what it’s intended to be, and what it’s advertised as.

  • onlooker
    12·
    4 years ago

    I’ve just started reading, but I’ve already come across one issue with the article:

    All posts have a character limit, so we can’t say everything we want in a single post.

    If that’s the case, then why did they use Mastodon? Why not Plume or write.as, which are more suited for longer blog posts?

    • Ninmi
      8·
      4 years ago

      I believe it’s just Eugen not willing to remove the useless limits. People very rarely go past 400 anyway, but when you really have something to say, you have to start these stupid threads like you’d do in Twitter. I wish Mastodon would just start trunkating posts at a certain character/line limit, behind a “show more” button.

        • cheer
          4·
          4 years ago

          Mastodon is specifically developed to facilitate short Twitter-like posts. Consider moving to a different service altogether if you keep having issues with it.

      • Niquarl
        1·
        4 years ago

        Some instances allow a longer character limit. It’s really just an option that the admin decides, most admins just keep, the default. if you have a greater character limit then longer toots will be under “show more”.

          • Niquarl
            1·
            4 years ago

            Ok my bad. I didn’t know you couldn’t change it at all without using a fork. That’s a bit of a shame I think. To be honest the more I think about it Mastodon isn’t always the best thing to host anyway unless you are planning on a large community.

  • poVoq
    91·
    2 years ago

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  • tronk
    4·
    4 years ago

    I didn’t know them and it was a very interesting read. As other user have said, my experience in Mastodon has been very different to theirs. And, indeed, they are responding to their area of interest: privacy. However, if you go there with the political aspiration of not contributing to big data collection in the service of ads, that’s a whole different thing to be on the lookout for! Still, I admire their work. Thanks for sharing this!

  • ckeen
    3·
    4 years ago

    The advice to use RSS feed readers to follow accounts if you do not intent to reply to them is a much underused one. It is a great suggestion for following project announcements for example. Of course this is missing a lot of the fediverse shenanigans one might enjoy.

  • fidibus@lemmy.161.social
    3·
    4 years ago

    I am sorry but I also think this is kinda dumb.

    It was like a social media website, people looked for attention and money, spread falsehoods and several users were dogmatic and had the wrong opinion.

    lol

    Of course it’s totally fine they left. Maybe this shows that not every project/software project/activist team needs a social media account, just those who have the resources and actually like using it. But they could have known this before joining imo.

    • Niquarl
      4·
      4 years ago

      They must have had a very different experience from me if they saw people seeking attention and money on Mastodon… To be fair, mastodon is a social media thing so it’s weird that criticise it for being what it is.