Now there's an argument to be had. I ave tried Mastodon and Firefish and found the latter to be far superior, feature-wise. I think Iceshrimp will be the *key fork that will finally the big breakout hit, especially with the Iceshrimp.net rewrite.

[–] Bookmeat@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Lost me at .NET. Hard pass.

[–] Takumidesh@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Why?

[–] greywolf0x1@lemmy.ml -2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

micro$hit

[–] JupiterRowland@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Misskey and the actual Forkeys are in TypeScript and Vue.js. And they all have the same bugs that you can't just simply get rid of.

Iceshrimp.NET is a rewrite of Iceshrimp in C#, that's why it's named Iceshrimp.NET. It promises to get rid of all issues inherited from Misskey because it doesn't have a bit of Misskey left in it anymore.

But maybe we need more rewrites in more languages to satisfy as many people as possible. A Catodon rewrite in Ruby on Rails for Mastodon fanbois and fangurlz, no matter what a chonker it'll end up being. Sharkey rewritten in PHP to satisfy those who like things as easy and lightweight as Friendica & Co. And even more because not few say that both C# and Ruby on Rails and PHP suck.

Or is there anything that doesn't suck at all? Go sucks because Google. Rust sucks because Mozilla. Python sucks because it's Python being Python. And so forth.

[–] vga@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Rust has almost nothing to do with Mozilla these days though.

[–] JupiterRowland@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 month ago

No, but it used to. And that's enough for some people.

I bet you that there are people who steer clear of anything related to BASIC not because it's a kiddy language, but because it was invented by Bill Gates.

[–] GhiLA@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

A summary of the standard mastodon front page:

News report about Trump
The temperature in Sudan
The travel trajectory of a plane carrying people you've never heard of, going somewhere you've never heard of.
A penis
Ai art of Bart Simpson and a worm from Dune
An AOC quote
Furry porn, diaper optional
A Linux distro professing a new update
Someone's Chaos Space Marine (it actually looks really nice and they really took their time)

I like it in a flea market kinda sense but, I mean, come on, man.

[–] matcha_addict@lemy.lol 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I'm not really following what's the issue here? Sounds like a wide variety of content that is the perfect medium to find people to follow so you can get a more filtered and curated feed, which mastodon comfortably supports.

I don't know any social media that boasts a decent news feed that you put 0 information into.