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   Rob Shearer (rvcx@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 11-Apr-2025 11:39:42 JST Rob Shearer

   As I end-of-life my Mastodon sunrise/sunset bot, it seems an appropriate time to vent my complaints about Mastodon as a platform. https://v.cx/2025/04/mastodon-exit-interview

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     Eugen Rochko (gargron@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 11-Apr-2025 11:39:41 JST Eugen Rochko

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     • Robert Boler

     @rcbo @rvcx Dismissed by whom?

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     Robert Boler (rcbo@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 11-Apr-2025 11:39:42 JST Robert Boler

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     @rvcx Thanks for the respectful & thorough notes. I absolutely love what the federated web is trying to do, and Mastodon is my only “guilt-free” social site.

     But as a UX designer (and a guy who wants his non-techie friends to feel comfortable enough with the federated web to move over from Insta / X), it’s hard seeing concerns about usability (and your other points) dismissed in order to keep the club small.

     I hope this inspires change, either at here or a new site.

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     Rob Shearer (rvcx@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 11-Apr-2025 11:55:26 JST Rob Shearer

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     • Robert Boler

     @Gargron @rcbo https://mastodon.social/@GroupNebula563/114316140685393692

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     Eugen Rochko (gargron@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 11-Apr-2025 11:59:30 JST Eugen Rochko

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     • Robert Boler

     @rvcx @rcbo This is not an employee or representative of Mastodon, their view does not reflect on or affect the design and usability of the platform.

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     Miakoda (hellomiakoda@pdx.social)'s status on Saturday, 12-Apr-2025 03:30:39 JST Miakoda

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     @rvcx
     @solar_portland

     Oh. Well damn it.

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     Miakoda (hellomiakoda@pdx.social)'s status on Saturday, 12-Apr-2025 03:41:00 JST Miakoda

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     @rvcx
     I only had time to skim for the moment, but my initial reaction is that I disagree.
     You're right that Mastodon doesn't work like old Twitter. That's because it is something entirely different. I have community here, as opposed to random shit some alg decided I wanted to see.
     I follow a few hash tags, and boop, there's new people to follow that are relevant to my interests.

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     waifu (waifu@mai.waifuism.life)'s status on Saturday, 12-Apr-2025 04:00:03 JST waifu

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     @rvcx@mastodon.social
     Seen thousands like you
     I was here before you and will be here after you leave

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     Rob Shearer (rvcx@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 12-Apr-2025 04:02:14 JST Rob Shearer

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     • waifu

     @waifu Congratulations on your complacency.

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     H. Faust (hfaust@shitposter.world)'s status on Saturday, 12-Apr-2025 04:03:40 JST H. Faust

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     @rvcx @waifu Hey, it's the person I was talking about in the morning. Good riddance.
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     waifu (waifu@mai.waifuism.life)'s status on Saturday, 12-Apr-2025 08:04:06 JST waifu

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     • H. Faust

     @hfaust@shitposter.world @rvcx@mastodon.social I think he may be just confused

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     Flanker (flanker@decayable.ink)'s status on Saturday, 12-Apr-2025 11:40:00 JST Flanker

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     people tend to like posts that are good. you should try posting good posts.
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     ĐØⱠⱠ (doll@decayable.ink)'s status on Saturday, 12-Apr-2025 11:40:23 JST ĐØⱠⱠ

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     • Flanker

     Like and subscribe for more useful fedi hacks!

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     Encyclopædia Autistica (Order Now!) (mrsaturday@shitposter.world)'s status on Saturday, 12-Apr-2025 11:52:25 JST Encyclopædia Autistica (Order Now!)

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     @rvcx I for one kneel before your devotion to providing the Fediverse extremely available and largely useless solar cycle trivium and wish you the greatest of success on Blueth Social doing the same
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     Hoss Delgado (hoss@shitpost.cloud)'s status on Saturday, 12-Apr-2025 12:18:33 JST Hoss Delgado

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     Real name real face posters rarely have anything interesting or insightful to say. You sacrificed the natural candor of anonymity for no reason, considering you are a nobody whose name carries no weight and thus has zero reason to be freely shared with strangers online. You have never posted an opinion that wasn't sanitized, either consciously or unconsciously.
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     Hoss Delgado (hoss@shitpost.cloud)'s status on Saturday, 12-Apr-2025 12:25:17 JST Hoss Delgado

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     • waifu
     I don't think some retard who has a bio full of personal background and employment history just laying around on the open web readily available to any psycho who has a bone to pick and wants to fuck up your life should be calling anybody else "complacent", just saying.
     https://v.cx/rob
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     pepsi_man (pepsi_man@poa.st)'s status on Saturday, 12-Apr-2025 12:27:57 JST pepsi_man

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     @rvcx
     Why are you gay?
     @waifu
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     Robert Boler (rcbo@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 15-Apr-2025 10:04:25 JST Robert Boler

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     • Eugen Rochko

     @Gargron @rvcx Not by you, to my knowledge. Generally, the sentiment of replies from folks here when I mention the need for it to be easy for non-techies to join, is a reaction of fear. Like it’s best as exclusive club.

     That, and a few other UX barriers to “normie” usage (e.g. easy cross-server interactions & global-ish search) still make it a hard sell to friends. #UX was mentioned as a big barrier in a “Fedi House” event at SXSW.