Notices by Dom DeLorenzo (dominick@indieweb.social)

@tchambers things are looking so grim. It's like Wiley Coyote before he looks down and realizes he's run off the cliff.

@scottjenson @tchambers
I've seen open discussion around UX, but it's fraught because:
1. The Mastodon team has limited dev resources and is spending most of them on improvements to security and scalability (which are arguably a higher priority).
2. Because of (1), people feel bad criticizing the UX

The cool think about Masto, however, is that it's openness allows other teams (e.g. Elk.zone, Phanpy.social) to build their own compatible UI layer on top of Mastodon.

@scottjenson @tchambers
I'm using Phanpy right now, which solves a ton of UX issues (e.g. making it clear who is replying to whom in a thread), but I really like the approach Elk takes to spacing, typography, lists, and account previews.

It would be great if the Mastodon team took some cues from either of these projects, but I'm happy to continue using them as my primary way of accessing Mastodon in the meantime.

@ummjackson Not to respond for Aral, but yeah, basically. Aral wrote about the phenomena himself back in November: https://ar.al/2022/11/09/is-the-fediverse-about-to-get-fryed-or-why-every-toot-is-also-a-potential-denial-of-service-attack/