Oh shit.
(Reading with my hands peeking through my fingers. What did you do this time, Rochko?)
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It can sometimes be a bit misleading when you get a lot of ideas and feature requests in a community, and the conversations become, “We definitely need feature X to grow because that’s what’s stopping people from using the platform.” While that’s true in some cases, the sad reality is that any flaw can be overlooked as long as the people you want to reach are there. And that’s why so many people are still using X, which, by the way, is an absolutely god-awful platform.
Okay, I actually agree with this.
I don't think we needed quote posts and that's why people weren't using the platform. I think it's just technical and fiddly compared to some other places where you accept the default experience, and that's why it's more popular.
Mastodon and the fediverse don't have an onboarding team. They actually don't even have a financial incentive to bring more people here. It's apples and oranges. It's DIY internet vs. a slick, corporate experience with tens of millions of dollars in investment capital. These two worlds just cannot ever exist on the same playing field, the difference in the level of exposure alone is ridiculous.
(I literally heard someone claim Mastodon had better hurry up and implement quote posts back in 2022 because otherwise Post News was gonna eat the fedi's lunch and now Post News no longer exists, so for all the claims about 'implement feature or else', I'm skeptical).
@oli
I remember the heated debates around whether to implement quote posts a while back.
If I recall Firefish had that functionality which almost nobody used. Most people seem to cope without it.
For me an important USP is the ability to create filters which I haven't come across on any other platform. I use and appreciate the filter function.
The instance I am mostly on has a 1000 character limit which is good enough for me. I occasionally feel the need for longer posts and use a #Friendica account for that. It also has mark-up capability which this Mastodon instance doesn't. Not something that bothers me.
I have come across a site that does carry #Fediverse adverts. Maybe more can be encouraged to carry them...
Trust and safety features are what people actually wanted, imo.
But I won't rant about the goddamned RSS feeds again. I wrote it once so I didn't have to keep doing that.
Because while people might not make a decision about joining the fediverse based solely on features, there are many people--myself included--who left the Mastodon ecosystem because of features it refuses to implement that already exist in other platforms.
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