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about mastodon. i love centralized social networks because you can search for any post, regardless of the date of its creation, any person, any community. in mastodon, however, this does not work.

when you register on a small instance, people's profiles are empty, there are no posts, hashtags do not work.

if you register on a medium-sized instance, it's already better, but there are still people who are not subscribed to from someone from your instance and their profiles are empty, and even if someone is subscribed, only posts which are shown are ones that were created after the subscription of person from your instance, older are not, and the person may have been maintaining this account for a lot longer, post history preservation is broken. hashtags are already available, but still not all of them, because not all posts are available too (hashtags work like a filter for post).

if you register on a large instance, small ones will defederate from you and you will see neither their hashtags, nor interesting people, nor their posts.

there is a feeling of distortion of reality, which is a nasty feeling in itself.

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[–] originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com 19 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

you cant walk into a brand new thing and expect a mature feature set. it makes you sound like a coked up 12 year old.

everything youre complaining about are known quantities/features in the works in this brand new, still wet behind the ears protocol.

also; formatting. use some.

[–] dameoutlaw@lemmy.ml 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

It’s not brand new. Mastodon is nearly 8 years old and ActivityPub 5-6 years old. It’s still early but I wouldn’t call it brand new

[–] originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com 2 points 11 months ago

theres also the idea that age to maturity is irrelevant if the protocol is shit. ie, smtp

so it would take devs longer to account for the shitty protocol.

[–] FarLine99@lemm.ee -1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

if I was complaining about the lack of a post translation button - yes, that's about features. emojies - same. but I'm talking about the architecture of the federation, the foundations on which the social network is built. and it seems to me that the pillars on which mastodon stands have big cracks. for example, the problem with profile post history was written back in '16 on GitHub, but nothing was ever done. there are good people there - the only reason why I'm there.

[–] Apollo2323@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)

You know why the problem with profile post history has been fixed? Because Mastodon is not a company for profit it is a free and open source. If you want the problem to be fixed learn how to code and submit the fix , donate so they can hire more people or stop complaining about this. Contribute and make this place better.

[–] FarLine99@lemm.ee 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

would love to help financially, but fing politics interferes. Russia. foreign cards/transfers are blocked and very high dollar exchange rate.

[–] Apollo2323@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Oh shit , well be safe my friend! Good luck

[–] FarLine99@lemm.ee -1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

❤️

even though Ukrainians need safety way more, i hate politics