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[–] [email protected] 27 points 4 hours ago

im gonna be real, this guy sounds like a loser. he talks about the progressive political lean and the porn as if they're BAD things

[–] [email protected] 22 points 4 hours ago

It's weird to me how obsessed some people are with proving to the world that their social media platform of choice is superior. The Fediverse works, we have content, and anyone who decides to seek out a platform that offers what the Fediverse offers can join. Tell your friends about your experience if they might be interested but if they don't stick with it you don't have to be all salty about it.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

Mastodon is lead by a singular developer that uses Ruby for his app that hasnt gotten a new feature in 2+ years and they dont accept pull requests from community members that have been adding features to third party apps that new users never learn exist because they get stufk between learning what a “fediverse instance” is

Meanwhile Bluesky has features twitter or any other platform dont have yet (custom algorithms, chronological feed with a couple posts from your custom feeds in between some chronological posts, adding custom moderators)

The protocol that Bluesky used also has a lemmy/reddit alternative too https://frontpage.fyi/ (in beta)

[–] [email protected] 17 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Yeah maybe posting it here doesn't really help?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

Nope. Every post I've seen about Bluesky has me confused for this exact reason. If it wasn't for people talking about Lemmy in mass on another platform, I'd have no idea what the Fediverse is.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 8 hours ago (3 children)

Mastodon would be fine if all I cared to follow was Linux news and if I understood German and Japanese.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 54 minutes ago

People tried to bring more content through bridges. Mastodonians promptly started crying about how it literally puts peoples lifes in danger. Some still have #nobridge tags in their profiles to this day, thinking it matters somehow in an open network.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 5 hours ago (2 children)

Yeah swear. Gardening would be fine if all I cared about was dirt and weeds.

Fucking me the change you wanna see. Invite your friends to use the platform and post your own shit

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 hours ago

Or I could go to bluesky where that change is already in place.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 hours ago

If all Mastodon wants is linux shit then only linux people are gonna stick around. Never mind that I get the exact same linux posts on bluesky from the same people on top of other topics I care to follow.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 hours ago

Hell yeah! Sign me up!

[–] [email protected] 15 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Mastodon isn't even the best micro-blogging service on the Fediverse.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Which would you say is best?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Now there's an argument to be had. I ave tried Mastodon and Firefish and found the latter to be far superior, feature-wise. I think Iceshrimp will be the *key fork that will finally the big breakout hit, especially with the Iceshrimp.net rewrite.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Lost me at .NET. Hard pass.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Misskey and the actual Forkeys are in TypeScript and Vue.js. And they all have the same bugs that you can't just simply get rid of.

Iceshrimp.NET is a rewrite of Iceshrimp in C#, that's why it's named Iceshrimp.NET. It promises to get rid of all issues inherited from Misskey because it doesn't have a bit of Misskey left in it anymore.

But maybe we need more rewrites in more languages to satisfy as many people as possible. A Catodon rewrite in Ruby on Rails for Mastodon fanbois and fangurlz, no matter what a chonker it'll end up being. Sharkey rewritten in PHP to satisfy those who like things as easy and lightweight as Friendica & Co. And even more because not few say that both C# and Ruby on Rails and PHP suck.

Or is there anything that doesn't suck at all? Go sucks because Google. Rust sucks because Mozilla. Python sucks because it's Python being Python. And so forth.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 37 minutes ago

Rust has almost nothing to do with Mozilla these days though.

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