Notices by Thomas 🔭🕹️ (thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io), page 9

@VojtechHorky It's getting better but it's still broken in other ways.

Really the most sensible solution would be intermediary aggregation so especially smaller servers can fetch replies more efficiently.

@randulo mastodon suffers from Linux syndrome, the fist-run experience should be as nice as the elk client, yet instead the default web interface is slow (especially on first load) and very clunky especially for the most important feature, posting.

@baldur Like they sometimes tweak system prompts even after the fact, and because it's a non-deterministic system that can cause completely different things to break.

@jaypeach53 I'm using a 128 MB CF card in this camera btw... :) that's MB, not GB

(fwiw you should be able to find lower capacity CF cards on e.g. eBay, if you have more cameras it's good to look for "lot of memory cards", it can be much cheaper that way.)

@baldur The biggest case against it from a business perspective is that it's even worse than vendor lock-in, you lock in to specific version of a thing a vendor provides that might go away any day, unannounced and completely break your stuff.

It doesn't even matter if it works or not.

@realms is "grit bin in Brum" a British English tongue twister

And this is working, but it's slow progress.

Mastodon in particular has UX problems that will be very hard to overcome that prevent mass adoption, foremost is that actual conversations (aka replies) are unreliable and slow due to the way posts are distributed. Quote post support was a huge first step to remedy this. I hope we'll see more updates on it.

Bluesky got a big chunk of former Twitter users, especially in some niches like for scientists and activists; they have great performance, reliable threading and replies and really amazing featuers like fully custom feeds—but suffer from intransparent moderation and frankly insufferable leadership (still leagues better than Twitter or Facebook though).

(There's more than these, but these are what I use.)

You know how to get people to leave platforms run by evil people?

Yes, that's right, by offering better alternatives and being super friendly and welcoming and actively working on recruiting people and evangelizing for the better platforms and most importantly by not being gatekeeping misers.

Minolta Dimâge EX (1.5MP, 1998)
#ShittyCameraChallenge #SooC

@galaxis yeah, there's a lot of those, e.g. we're in a group for corn insensitivity; literally the only place on the internet where people post which specific foods (like brand/product/packaging) are problematic, etc.

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@thomasfuchs/115870932174046525

I would like to add that Mastodon is the only platform I've ever gotten a death threat on.

@LittleFrank So disabled people with e.g. specific allergies should just die because the owner of the platform is an evil man?

@vasyasovari the organizers pick platforms based on _where people are_

@lemgandi It's cool that you have some snarky reply to me, but people stalked me and my wife with death threats across social networks.

There’s a lot communities (for example specific types of disability or various minorities) which are only found on Twitter or Facebook.

Please get off your high horse and don't blame victims of abuse.

Really, if you rant about "how no one needs to be on X" you sound like someone blaming women for being on abusive relationships.

@lexinova people die from contaminated cheese or other food elsewhere all the time, e.g. in Europe where cheese doesn’t have to pasteurized

Heads-up, if you’re in the US check your fridge, there’s a recall of literally deadly cheese https://www.delish.com/food-news/a69945915/pecorino-romano-recall-class-i-listeria-ambriola/

cyberpunk hacker to clanker fluffer pipeline

Programmers used to distrust corporations. But now they’re willing unpaid fluffers for “AI” tech giants.

https://bsky.app/profile/amyhoy.bsky.social/post/3mbzt7bqtck2g