The Fediverse deserves a dumb graphical client

What about Akkoma?

Adële is building and hosting small but really nice things in the spirit of the internet as I knew it before the Great Enshitification Malaise Era we are living in.

Thank you Adële.

Note to myself: stop commenting and update your damn gemini capsule

No, there's tons of backlash against the "le reddit chungus" era of memes like doggo pupper smol bean etc.

Might be unrelated to the specific GUI discussion but I absolutely hate how there is no threaded discussion on Bluesky or Mastodon (or Twitter which they desperately try to mimic for some reason). You have to use "@username" which does nothing useful when clicked.

You can barely select text on a post. If you click on it, you lost your place and go inside the post?

Why aren't comment GUIs like those of HN, lobsters or the old reddit-style not more popular?

I think I understand why YouTube, Facebook and Twitter intentionally cripple usability by only allowing 1 level of replies and (ab)using the @username way to discuss things - to cater to stupider people with less attention span, to keep discussions lighter and broader and to show more of the top level comments. But all of these would've been accomplished if there were more "show more" buttons, like new reddit does it. It's still dumb as hell but at least it keeps the discussion threaded/nested.

Off topic, but I just realized when I collapse something on HN, it sends a request to HN telling it it's collapsed. Useful for when reloading a page, but I would love a setting that makes the collapse client-only with no requests (and maybe no persistence on reloading).

Anyway, I never used any social media, including Twitter, save for the occasional link I found that I use Nitter or XCancel for. I was really hoping to finally participate in the new fediverse but when I saw the UI decisions, I don't see a point. Twitter clones and alternatives can still be Twitter-like without the dumbing down of the threading/nesting of the comment sections.

Edit: Forgot to mention both Bluesky and Mastodon load much slower than HN or Lobsters or reddit with or without Tor.

I think Dillo developer will love this.