Post #2075825

2024-12-01 17:15 UTC

I often read that Mastodon is too complicated for “normal” people. I’m curious: How tech savvy do you consider yourself to be? I’d especially love to hear from #1 people. My list of upcoming Mastodon improvements: https://2ality.com/2024/11/mastodon-weaknesses.html :mastodon: Boosts appreciated, to get as varied a sample as possible! UPDATE: So much great feedback. Thanks everyone!

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@geertaarts@mastodon.green 2024-12-01 17:52

@rauschma@fosstodon.org Thanks for all your contributions. What would be really useful is to have a very basic algorithm that places the posts with the most boost by the ones *you* follow at the top, and to make it one of the default options, particularly for the new users. Not having any algorithm whatsoever is probably the reason many of my colleagues became completely inactive.

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@leyrer@chaos.social 2024-12-01 17:55

@rauschma@fosstodon.org HTML is not programming☝️ *scnr* ;)

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@a1ba@suya.place 2024-12-01 17:57

@rauschma@fosstodon.org but can HTML be considered programming?

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@steveriggins@mastodon.social 2024-12-01 18:04

@rauschma@fosstodon.org I think the results are accurate but also skewed due to your base of followers. As someone who volunteers at an Apple User Group of mostly older people, there is very little chance they would make it through the mastodon signup or at the best end up on social. But asking the question is likely to turn them away as being too complicated.

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@ingridglomp@literatur.social 2024-12-01 18:08

@rauschma@fosstodon.org Thank you for all your work and especially for working on quote posts!

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