I have to agree with a lot of this. I find it very hard to follow enough of the right folks in order to get an interesting timeline here. Search just does not work. General attitudes are surprisingly anti-social for a social media network, with old-timers often complaining about how new-comers post. (1/2)
https://erinkissane.com/mastodon-is-easy-and-fun-except-when-it-isnt
However, I strongly believe in the goals of building an open source, federated network of social media servers. Lemmy has demonstrated, in my opinion, that these issues with Mastodon are not a result of the federated model, but in many cases are intentional aspects to reduce interaction, which simply drives folks away from the platform, especially non-technical people. You can have cross-server likes and working search without making a platform toxic! (2/2)
@soller It's Mastodons core desing, the goal is to build a social network rather than a social media platform so it's about interacting with others rather than publicity. That has it's fair share of downsides but I really like it, find me another platform with such a great community because I think while it's better than Reddit that's where Lemmy can't keep up.
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It's all about the hashtags. And following those. And going from there.
@jan There is no mechanism to follow hashtags in the official mobile app for Android. These days, the mobile apps are going to be a major entry point for new users, they may never use another client but the official mobile app.
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@soller @jan The fact that there is “an official app” is an issue IMHO. The whole point of networks like this is that there’s a variety of servers and clients, but having an “official app” gives a single one greater status above the others (where, honestly, all should be considered equally valid choices).
Imagine if email of XMPP had “an official app”. It would just distort the playing field for all others.
