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   Harald Eilertsen (harald@hub.volse.no)'s status on Thursday, 21-Dec-2023 07:23:51 JST Harald Eilertsen

   • Matt 🌻
   @Matt 🌻 Why not one of the other fedi servers? There's a lot of interesting stuff out there, and Mastodon is way too dominant as it is.
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     Bø!rge (forteller@tutoteket.no)'s status on Thursday, 21-Dec-2023 07:23:45 JST Bø!rge

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     • Matt 🌻

     @matt @harald Firefish? PeerTube, BookWyrm, Mobilizon (since you mention other stuff than text based networks)?

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     Matt 🌻 (matt@oslo.town)'s status on Thursday, 21-Dec-2023 07:23:46 JST Matt 🌻

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     @harald Haha 😆
     Well, maybe so.

     I have very specific UX preferences when it comes to web apps.

     PixelFed is doing an okay job but really falls on its face with the UX of some core functionality.

     Hubzilla has all the character of Bootstrap version 1 without any additional styling.

     Pleroma looks like it was made in 1999.

     Misskey might be okay, but they use Lolis to promote the software.

     What am I missing?

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     Harald Eilertsen (harald@hub.volse.no)'s status on Thursday, 21-Dec-2023 07:23:48 JST Harald Eilertsen

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     • Matt 🌻
     @Matt 🌻 I can understand the first reason. The second is just uninformed bullshit :)
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     Matt 🌻 (matt@oslo.town)'s status on Thursday, 21-Dec-2023 07:23:49 JST Matt 🌻

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     @harald Two reasons, really:

     Main reason: It's beyond my technical know-how to self-host a server and so I'll use masto.host

     Second reason: Everything that isn't Mastodon is under-developed and just a bit shit.

     I like the idea of doing what mozilla.social is doing though and running a different front-end like elk.zone -- but that's probably not an option to me if I'm using masto.host.

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     Bø!rge (forteller@tutoteket.no)'s status on Thursday, 21-Dec-2023 08:25:13 JST Bø!rge

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     • Matt 🌻

     @matt @harald Yes, absolutely!

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     Matt 🌻 (matt@oslo.town)'s status on Thursday, 21-Dec-2023 08:25:14 JST Matt 🌻

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     • Bø!rge

     @forteller @harald What I'm stating is not a problem exclusive to ActivityPub / Fediverse software, by the way.

     The whole FOSS community has a design problem. Sometimes, just sometimes, you get a group of people contributing to an project who have enough design competence between them to make something look good, or they luck out and find a designer.

     But so, so many projects have either bad UX/UI designers or (mostly) no UX/UI designers on their projects and it shows.

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     Matt 🌻 (matt@oslo.town)'s status on Thursday, 21-Dec-2023 08:25:16 JST Matt 🌻

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     • Bø!rge

     @forteller @harald Firefish is the only one of those that looks okay, in my opinion. Not great, but okay. And there's not much app support for that, according to their website.

     Peertube is trying, bless it. I want it to be good but Framasoft really do need to find some good designers.