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Played with Mastodon today, and from what I can tell it's 2009 Twitter except instead of blocking the places you don't want to hear from, you're getting some host's blocklist applied for you. While it's understandable that people don't want to host objectionable stuff on their own computers, there's a sort of a survivorship bias where the majority of users you'll meet see wholesale domain blocking as a positive, if only because anyone who feels otherwise isn't there. If you prefer to maintain your own personal filters and don't want to own a server, there's a few select instances that filter almost nothing but the most abusive spammers and ban-evaders, but it's not particularly intuitive to sleuth out where they are (and one is currently closed registrations due to the flood of users Mastodon overall is getting after Musk.) The lack of any kind of trunk backend that everyone talks to also makes things like a universal search impossible. People from other servers that have good diplomacy with yours will show up, but apparently a search only includes external accounts if someone on your host follows them? A bit difficult to "find" people that way, with most people suggesting you 1), use Twitter, and 2) search Twitter for 'mastodon' and filter results to people you follow only. Perhaps instead of a hundred social networking sites that have just ten people to a hundred thousand people each hosting their own search history, we also need some sort of dedicated search indexing service. However, as someone who remembers ancient old dial-up BBSes, the whole cross host messaging aspect feels weirdly familiar. Craptacular! fucked around with this message at 10:40 on Nov 7, 2022 |
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