Notices by Corb_The_Lesser (corb_the_lesser@mastodon.social), page 2

@feditips Not questioning the why of it, just asserting it is a hindrance to increased adoption and that I don't think any amount of explaining to people who are already here is going to help attract and keep people who are not here.

@feditips This is the kind of thing that people testing the Mastodon waters run up against, don't like, leave and never come back.

No amount of education about instances and servers and what-not will attract and retain people who think of social media as an app and, justifiably, have zero interest in infrastructure.

@verge If I'm logged into Google, Youtube blocks me if I'm running Ublock Origin.

If I'm not logged into Google Youtube doesn't block me if I'm running Ublock Origin.

That seems relevant to the issue of privacy.

@feditips I'll look. I'm typically not happy with apps compared to using a browser.

@feditips If I follow X, I want to see all X's posts, whether or not they are replies.

if developers want to give users an option to hide replies to others by people they follow, that's fine. Developers should not arbitrarily hide posts from users.

@feditips That's a weakness. If users want to see everything posted by an account they follow, they should not need to find that account's profile page and go looking.

Especially for time sensitive matters and events. If I follow someone specifically to see their posts about a news event, I want to see them in my timeline, along with posts from the other accounts I follow for the same reason.