@floppy Fwiw I mean 90% being friendly and welcoming and supportive as human beings to other human beings and 10% maybe the software quality

@VojtechHorky The real issue is unfortunately the underlying protocol, I'm unsure if this can be overcome without breaking backwards-compatibility.

Perhaps they could add a second, more efficient protocol and slowly migrate to it.

@VojtechHorky It's getting better but it's still broken in other ways.

Really the most sensible solution would be intermediary aggregation so especially smaller servers can fetch replies more efficiently.

@randulo mastodon suffers from Linux syndrome, the first-run experience should be as nice as the elk client, yet instead the default web interface is slow (especially on first load) and very clunky especially for the most important feature, posting.

And this is working, but it's slow progress.

Mastodon in particular has UX problems that will be very hard to overcome that prevent mass adoption, foremost is that actual conversations (aka replies) are unreliable and slow due to the way posts are distributed. Quote post support was a huge first step to remedy this. I hope we'll see more updates on it.

Bluesky got a big chunk of former Twitter users, especially in some niches like for scientists and activists; they have great performance, reliable threading and replies and really amazing featuers like fully custom feeds—but suffer from intransparent moderation and frankly insufferable leadership (still leagues better than Twitter or Facebook though).

(There's more than these, but these are what I use.)

You know how to get people to leave platforms run by evil people?

Yes, that's right, by offering better alternatives and being super friendly and welcoming and actively working on recruiting people and evangelizing for the better platforms and most importantly by not being chastizing and gatekeeping misers.

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@vkc maybe they got bored of ranting about Apple

One way to identify if something is a fad or bubble is if the hypers and the doomers are actually the same people.

Neither are actually talking about the thing.

The hypers ceaselessly tell you that you will look bad if you don’t use the thing.

The doomers spin tales on how it will end your way of life or worse.

They both work to keep the thing in your mind while never actually talking about the thing, in an endless parade of manipulating your emotions.