David Gravanita @dgdas9@mastodon.social
In short, a general annoyance. When I'm bored, I'll make some stupid comment, otherwise, expect only favs and reboots (whatever they're called) from me.
Things that make me happy:
- journalists who use the correct information you give them to write their piece
- who don't overdramatize something that doesn’t need to be dramatized
- that check and double check their sources
:heart:
Those journalists get a thank you text :smile:
Also: am I the only one who interpreted the closing down of the flagship mastodon.social instance from sign ups as near treasonous to the platform's future? It creates confusion, makes the process of acquiring users more difficult, and makes the core product worse because of the issues that stem from federating between instances.
Yes, maybe it'll be good for the federated network, you never want a single instance to dominate, but the federation's interests are not the same as the networks'
I'm talking about http://www.theverge.com/2017/4/7/15183128/mastodon-open-source-twitter-clone-how-to-use
I do like more media attention, hopefully more users will come because of it.
When your social network is so difficult articles are written to explain it, you know you have a problem (and this is different in nature from having a platform's meta and customs spelled out)
Another fundamental problem with Mastodon: the federated and local timelines, that include all users, will naturally push users towards a more limited number of conversations, maybe only one or two. Marginal conversations, however interesting they may be, won't reach bigger audiences because of all the noise (on the other hand, abuse is less incentivised). This will limit the overall reach and potential of the network.
(Sorry for spamming, correcting a stupid mistake; Do add an edit button next)
It's entirely too difficult finding people to follow and the whole,
"scroll through this massive feed and randomly follow people based on one toot you liked"
isn't really sustainable. What's the solution?
Perhaps we need a Follow Friday type of thing?
running a federated mastodon behind a .onion is like wearing green camo at the shopping mall
stats on all #mastodon instances so far :)
TOTAL :
105 instances and 69722 users
TOP 10 instances :
mastodon.social 41703
mastodon.xyz 5627
social.targaryen.house 3622
social.tchncs.de 2878
octodon.social 1273
mastodon.cloud 1056
social.lou.lt 941
hostux.social 854
awoo.space 732
memetastic.space 549
witches.town 536
@usercount does that represent the whole network, or just the mastodon.social instance?
Suggestion: when I click the link to a user's page, could that open inside the web app, and not in a seperate window. Example:
Using Mastodon, you will learn all the French lessons of la joie de vivre: le amour, la fromage, and the little je ne sais quoi about why frenchies are always very very angry.
"Sorry, my instance wasn't federating" is the new "Twitter bug made me unfollow you" is the new "I didn't get the email" is the new "My mom didn't give me the message" etc.
(man, 500 characters means the Twitter joke where you overflow the character limit doesn't really translate. RIP lamejoke)
There should be a "sticky" style column here with a few notes for noobs like me. Explaining what the hell this, how it works etc... Sort of like the sidebar of subreddits.
As you can see my account is anti-verified
There must some sort of issue with the local and federated timelines: they don't update in real time, and sometimes toots appear out of order, jut now the first one I see is from an hour ago, the toot right bellow is aged one minute, and I haven't seen any new ones pop up.
