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If that is what posts are called on that platform I will not use that platform.
Why does this name cause such a strong reaction in some people?
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"The original server" should also show relevant posts from other servers, unless they are blacklisted.
Need to have people on your home node following people on the other node for your own node to be aware. Really unfriendly to small nodes / people who run their own personal nodes.
Twitter has some pretty terrible content on it but I rarely encounter it. When I tried Mastodon most of the posts I was exposed to were in a language I could not identify, some sort of anime based post (often pornographic), spam, or just random people I've never heard of talking about there last jog or meal. Not a great experience yet.
70k users doesn't seem like that many...and I am not sure I'd call them "users" yet, technically I'm a "user" but I checked it out for a few months here and there and don't plan on ever going back. The entire experience felt really clunky to me and moving the pin seems like a tough pull that would take quite awhile. but you know just my opinion!
A small fraction of Twitter's users create most of the value of the Twitter network. Given that, I think the interesting question is what segment do those 70k fall into?
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Why does this name cause such a strong reaction in some people?
Some people hate fun and think the internet needs to be 100% professional at all times and only used by professionals.
I did, turns out they're in my phone :D
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"The original server" should also show relevant posts from other servers, unless they are blacklisted.
Need to have people on your home node following people on the other node for your own node to be aware. Really unfriendly to small nodes / people who run their own personal nodes.
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I agree, discovery was my biggest problem for a long time with Mastodon. Fortunately, most of the recent Twitter emigrés have been doing #introduction posts with tags about their interests, which makes them easy to find. Via the internal search, and with sites like https://fediverse.info/explore/people if they register for it. And people have also been sharing services like * https://fedifinder.glitch.me/ and https:/…
> Instead, the problem gets solved through collaborative effort, as it's meant to be. Exactly. It's the world wide web, people. It's about discovery and distribution and linkage. Centralization on this medium is not necessary; just convenient. This is what the early net was like when I got on it in 1990/1991. I ran a personal UUCP node on my Atari ST. When I got a telnet connection, I went and found lists of MUDs and…
Yes! I usually try to avoid posting "me too" replies, but this is what the WWW should be, IMO.
Remember webrings? We should bring that back.