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Mastodon announces new European non-profit, change of CEO

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Re: Mastodon announces new European non-profit, change of CEO

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Post by jeromegv »

ekimekim wrote: post #5

> ownership moves to a new not-for-profit entity based somewhere in Europe, with the exact location still to be finalized. The organization is currently headquartered in Germany, where it was a nonprofit until its charitable status was stripped last year. So it sounds like Mastodon was run by a non-profit, but the non-profit ran afoul of some legal issues, and they're now creating a fixed version? This seems to be ad…

> This seems to be administrative details, not news.

The CEO is stepping down. Also the copyright/ownership of the name won't be owned by the founder, but by a separate non-profit. Those 2 news are significant.

Re: Mastodon announces new European non-profit, change of CEO

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Post by dgrin91 »

andreamonaco wrote: post #19

I'm not very optimistic about the technical direction of Mastodon. Mastodon had a minimal HTML-only interface before, you could read posts and replies of each profile. They removed it some time ago, now you just see a blank page if you don't have JS, and I think it's a huge mistake; it was a clear albeit small advantage over mainstream social networks.

The hilarious dichotomy of HN - this post says UX is going wrong because of JS requirements and HTML only was better, while the one below (currently this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42682927) says UX is getting better.

Re: Mastodon announces new European non-profit, change of CEO

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Post by jeromegv »

andreamonaco wrote: post #19

I'm not very optimistic about the technical direction of Mastodon. Mastodon had a minimal HTML-only interface before, you could read posts and replies of each profile. They removed it some time ago, now you just see a blank page if you don't have JS, and I think it's a huge mistake; it was a clear albeit small advantage over mainstream social networks.

You can still get every user access through RSS

And you can add the /embed suffix to any mastodon post url, to get a javascript-free version.

But I understand its not the same as maintaining a JS-free version of their web UI. To be fair, with the little budget and little workforce they have, this was likely not high on the priority list.

Re: Mastodon announces new European non-profit, change of CEO

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Post by jeromegv »

darthrupert wrote: post #10
solarkraft wrote: post #3

Mastodon is on the right track. They’ve been doing so much right, the UX has improved considerably. I think there’s some mainstream appeal, but there are also ecosystem issues that aren’t solved easily, as well as a lack of algorithmic curation, which a lot of people deem very important.

How has the UX improved? I just checked my Mastodon account and it's exactly as I remember it.

Some of the changes are listed here: https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2024/10/mastodon-4.3/

Re: Mastodon announces new European non-profit, change of CEO

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Post by mikae1 »

andreamonaco wrote: post #19

I'm not very optimistic about the technical direction of Mastodon. Mastodon had a minimal HTML-only interface before, you could read posts and replies of each profile. They removed it some time ago, now you just see a blank page if you don't have JS, and I think it's a huge mistake; it was a clear albeit small advantage over mainstream social networks.

I actually love the official web client. So much that I never open Tusky (or Elk).

Have you tried https://brutaldon.org?

Or perhaps you're the type of person that'd be willing to self host https://codeberg.org/grunfink/snac2 or https://humungus.tedunangst.com/r/honk?

Re: Mastodon announces new European non-profit, change of CEO

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Post by andreamonaco »

dgrin91 wrote: post #23
andreamonaco wrote: post #19

I'm not very optimistic about the technical direction of Mastodon. Mastodon had a minimal HTML-only interface before, you could read posts and replies of each profile. They removed it some time ago, now you just see a blank page if you don't have JS, and I think it's a huge mistake; it was a clear albeit small advantage over mainstream social networks.

The hilarious dichotomy of HN - this post says UX is going wrong because of JS requirements and HTML only was better, while the one below (currently this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42682927 ) says UX is getting better.

Yeah I noticed that hahaha

Re: Mastodon announces new European non-profit, change of CEO

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Post by gargron »

kps wrote: post #16
solarkraft wrote: post #3

Mastodon is on the right track. They’ve been doing so much right, the UX has improved considerably. I think there’s some mainstream appeal, but there are also ecosystem issues that aren’t solved easily, as well as a lack of algorithmic curation, which a lot of people deem very important.

> the UX has improved considerably. Does the default web client respect `:prefers-color-scheme` yet?

Yeah.

Re: Mastodon announces new European non-profit, change of CEO

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Post by andreamonaco »

mikae1 wrote: post #27
andreamonaco wrote: post #19

I'm not very optimistic about the technical direction of Mastodon. Mastodon had a minimal HTML-only interface before, you could read posts and replies of each profile. They removed it some time ago, now you just see a blank page if you don't have JS, and I think it's a huge mistake; it was a clear albeit small advantage over mainstream social networks.

I actually love the official web client. So much that I never open Tusky (or Elk). Have you tried https://brutaldon.org ? Or perhaps you're the type of person that'd be willing to self host https://codeberg.org/grunfink/snac2 or https://humungus.tedunangst.com/r/honk ?

I didn't say anything bad about the web JS interface, I said that having also a minimal HTML-only option was good.

Anyway I will try that site, thanks!

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