Post #1577766
2023-07-21 07:00 UTC
@kissane
But we are so used to the monoliths of microblogging that we look at mastodon, as an activitypub implementation, and impress on it the same monolithic tendencies.
The UX for Tusky is strikingly different from the UX of the official Mastodon client. When reading over your explination of following someone from a remote instance I had to go verify the current flow of the mastodon web UI: because it used to give you a remote follow box that asked for your mastodon handle. (cont.)
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@irick@this.mouse.rocks 2023-07-21 07:14
@kissane We're talking about choices that are being made at such a hyper-local level. Is the instance running the glitch-social fork? Are they running pleroma? This is the core of the fediverse. Your view of it is going to be colored by the client you choose. The capabilities within the protocol are far more expansive. Quote toots are more than possible within the protocol, and implementing them within a client would cause a conversation about interoperability. (Cont)