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soyagi

@ soyagi @yiffit.net

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  • Feature request: shortcut to community info when tapping the community image

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  • No, which is why I posted here.

  • Feature request: shortcut to community info when tapping the community image

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  • I'm on 0.0.41 and it does nothing.

  • Being subscribed to similar communities on multiple instances and seeing duplicates

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  • There is discussion on going at [email protected] currently about new rules. Users posting the same story from the same source will be blocked by an automod. I asked about users posting the same story from different sources, and apparently that's absolutely fine. So expect this problem to get a lot worse before steps have to be taken to make it better :/

  • Being subscribed to similar communities on multiple instances and seeing duplicates

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  • There is discussion on going at [email protected] currently about new rules. Users posting the same story from the same source will be blocked by an automod. I asked about users posting the same story from different sources, and apparently that's absolutely fine. So expect this problem to get a lot worse before steps have to be taken to make it better :/

  • Being subscribed to similar communities on multiple instances and seeing duplicates

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  • Not all clients support this (yet). I only found out about this recently and have to go to the browser to use the crosspost feature.

  • What are some changes or improvements that you would like made in yourself or the world?

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  • I don't like this one, sorry. I think it would be better to help people realise that facing hardships in order to achieve a dream isn't a guarantee of success. Rather, it's okay to fail and not everyone will succeed.

  • What's a good music app for android to access your local files?

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  • Only Telegram Premium subscribers can protect themselves from unwanted voice messages

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  • No, anyone on Telegram can block incoming calls. Voice messages are different.

  • Six reasons Mastodon won't survive

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  • This is a clickbait headline. I think we should try to avoid these here. At the very least give the main points of the article to avoid giving unnecessary traffic to potentially meaningless articles.

    For everyone's benefit, and for the help of discussion (which is what we want here) here are the main six points from the article:

    Let's look at everything Mastodon gets wrong.

    1) Terrible name

    Mastodon implies large, slow, frozen, and dead for thousands of years. The logo is cute, but the service right now stinks almost as badly as a thawing woolly mammoth.

    2) There is no single Mastodon

    In trying to satisfy a spike of new users, Mastodon broke the cardinal rule of social media: it separated them into silos and made it hard if not impossible for them to all socialize. This unfortunate design makes Mastodon feel more like a bunch of chat rooms rather than a cohesive, growing social network. The Federated Timeline helps, but it's not the default view.

    And I get that having a decentralized social media platform, Mastodon creator Eugen Rochko's big idea, helps create safe zones from groups and topics, but it's really a terrible approach that will lead to a stagnant growth and way more opinion bubbles, which is the last thing we need.

    3) Toots

    In trying to be the anti-twitter, Mastodon's Rochko chose the dumbest and most ridiculous post name possible: Toots. This too-cute take-off on Tweets literally hurts me every time I say and do it on Mastodon.

    4) Handles are meaningless

    User handles do show up in Toots (blech!) but not in the URLs for users' Mastodon homepages. Giving users numbers (mine is 995) instead of identifiable website addresses makes Mastodon feel amateurish.

    5) Where is everyone?

    If you can't find people by name, then how can you follow them on Mastodon? Someone in one local Mastodon timeline may not appear in another (Sorry, Mr. Shatner). To see everyone (at least I think you see everyone), you have to troll the Federated timeline, open a Toot (blech!) and add them there. Twitter and other social networks already have this stuff figured out. Why is Mastodon better? It's not!

    6) Apps feel like a science project

    I started using Mastodon in Safari. It was not a good experience. At least there's an app...or apps.

    There is no one app called Mastodon. Instead, you can find a Github list of apps for the open-source project. Apps like the iOS-based Amaroq let you log into any of the many Mastodon "instances" by typing in the name. Nope, there's no list of instances because I don't think anyone knows just how many Mastodon instances are out there.

  • How are you managing your interaction with redundant communities?

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  • To be honest, I don't even know what instance I'm looking at most of the time. My app doesn't show the instance name, only the community name, and the community names are often all identical across instances.

  • Feature request: single line breaks

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  • I wasn't talking about markdown language. I was talking about the end user experience. In my email client for example, I can write a single line break and it is formatted as such. The end user shouldn't have to know/worry/care about the underlying technology; the technology should work to meet their needs.

  • Feature request: single line breaks

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  • Thank you for the explanation. Good to know single line breaks are possible. However, other web services allow the user to use a single line break and it's displayed in the same way. While you give a good technical reason why it is this way, I'm not convinced it's the most user friendly approach.

  • Feature request: show instance in community info

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  • It could be added in the community info, just under the name of the community.

    For example:

    Jerboa

    [email protected]

    Created two years ago

  • Brussels is set to use funds normally reserved for building roads in poorer EU states to boost weapons production across the bloc.

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  • There's this:

    The EU’s ruling treaty prohibits “expenditure arising from operations having military or defence implications”.

    Then this:

    Thierry Breton, the European Commissioner responsible for ramping up weapons production, told a news conference: “Our analysis is that it is totally compatible with the treaty."

    Which is it?

    “Yes, investing in our defence will allow us to defend our democracy. And this is what we need to say to our fellow citizens.”

    Oh, we've seen exactly this justification used many times before...

  • Has Jeroba not been working really for anyone else?

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  • What are some examples of modest dictators in history?

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  • Kekkonen of Finland, if you stretch the definition of dictator a bit.

  • Walk in -terapia kamppailee näkyvyyden kanssa

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  • I think the main reason people haven't been using these services is because they're organised by the church. People will assume you have to be religious or a church goer to attend, or that the help received will be "let Jesus into your life", etc.

  • Finding Content?

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  • Look at communities you're interested in?

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    Do you feel you are above or below average?

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  • Working alone to beat competition is common. Thoughts?