This post is a follow-up to my previous one, Deconstructing the Mastodon client. My topic is a scenario that traditional Mastodon clients handle rather badly, wheres my home-grown solution handled it very well: lengthy and branching conversations.
Expectations and preferences around community contributions/interactions · mastodon mastodon · Discussion #36552
There is a long-running pattern of conversations on issues/PRs around some features getting quite heated and sometimes turning into personal insults, venting frustrations, borderline conspiracy acc...
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Lessons from Mastodon's False Start: Understanding AT Protocol and Bluesky's Dilemma - Nightflight
Mastodon Exit Interview
I am currently winding down the Mastodon bots I used to post sunrise and sunset times. The precipitating event is that the admin of the instance hosting the associated accounts demanded they be made nigh-undiscoverable, but the underlying cause is that it’s become increasing clear that Mastodon isn’t, and won’t ever be, a good platform for “asynchronous ephemeral notifications of any kind”. I’d also argue (more controversially) that it’s simply not good infrastructure for social networking of any kind. There are lots of interesting people using Mastodon, and I’m sure it will live on as a good-enough space for certain niche groups. But there is no question that it will never offer the fun of early Twitter, let alone the vibrancy of Twitter during its growth phase. I’ve long since dropped Mastodon from my home screen, and have switched to Bluesky for text-centric social media.
Perch - Terminal Social Client for Mastodon & Bluesky
Perch is a beautiful terminal social client for Mastodon and Bluesky. Read, post, and engage across social networks from your terminal.
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An unofficial guide to using Mastodon and the Fediverse
ewanc26/mastodon-markov
a Mastodon bot based on a set of posts digested by the Markov chain.
The Future is Ours to Build - Together
We’re pleased to introduce Mastodon’s new leadership team, and to share some other important updates.
Followgraph for Mastodon
Find people to follow on Mastodon by expanding your follow graph.
So uh, apparently $288/year is not enough to run a Mastodon service for ~3 users, and this is a known issue (masto.host/mastodon-content-retention-se…) with no solution (github.com/mastodon/mastodon/discussions…!
