Post #640253
2026-03-14 09:27 UTC
@jannem@fosstodon.org @lina@vt.social I know all this. But the discovery is still bad and the network is still very much awash in one specific kind of person (Linux user/nerd/open source/anti-AI/at least vaguely leftist). Which is far as fine as it goes but it just overwhelms everything else. And also, maybe sometimes I want to see pictures of birds - I do not want to follow hashtag-bird and then see every single picture of a bird everyone on Mastodon ever posts. It’s a poor alternative to an algorithmic feed or good discovery system.
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@j0ebaldw1n@mastodonapp.uk 2026-03-14 09:30
@jannem@fosstodon.org @lina@vt.social I’m not sure anyone at the Mastodon product team, or its various evangelists, have really ever understood (or even really cared to find out) why half the network just stopped posting the moment Bluesky invites started proliferating - or in some cases they seem to actively welcome it for weeding out the unbelievers. @kissane@mas.to’s piece from 2023 still rings extremely true today: https://erinkissane.com/mastodon-is-easy-and-fun-except-when-it-isnt