@TechConnectify Yea, I agree with you. The work is being done, but painfully slow. Hopefully it’ll be ready when/if Bluesky enshittifies

@TechConnectify @wonkothesane

Just went to a bluesky "tweet". Couldn't see it because it requires you to have an account on BS.

How does anyone push accounts off a federated system?

@TechConnectify @wonkothesane I also got complaints from a regional server who said every post of mine got reported for no reason so they limited my account. I moved to the big one in hopes they have decent policies, but I don't post much here.
This is pretty ridiculous considering who I am and what I'm doing.

@TechConnectify @wonkothesane I've heard that too.

There is something super personal about the interface here.

The flip side is I know I see your posts every week.

@TechConnectify @wonkothesane just saw a new brilliant youtube that argues that the friction (work to put in) is good and necessary: https://youtu.be/QEJpZjg8GuA

@TechConnectify @wonkothesane

Little confused when you say culture that isn't trigger happy to push big creators off the platform.

So from my perspective, I have shared your video in two places and star'd the post.

I don't have optics on any aggressive actions towards you, but I'm also not looking THAT hard. In what ways are people trying to push you off?

@TechConnectify @wonkothesane Can you expand a bit more on the "trigger-happy to push people off the platform" bit? I'm curious as to what pattern you have seen.

@TechConnectify I'm in the middle of your 'tube video. Great observations.

My complaint with masto is that even years later, my feed is still only populated with people I manually tracked from that place - I wish there were some sort of "for you", as even seeing stuff boosted by friends doesn't lead to much new discovery. Maybe it is just a problem of someone with a smallish following count. Not having network-wide search is the real deficiency.

'tube subscriptions. Since I decline to have a google account, I accomplish the manual "subscribe" solution via my own "tube feeder" software - just an external website that tracks select channel ids. Works great.

Now - how to get my kid to sit through your well thought-out Cloud Bad video?

@TechConnectify @wonkothesane Alright, ramble warning. TL;DR you're right and more people on here should be doing something about it.

I honestly think that more people should be lighting a fire under Mastodon for this. There are plenty of improvements that have been proposed to it going back years but a lot of them have been ignored under the "benevolent dictator for life" model, which Mastodon is only now preparing to move on from. It's resulted in it falling far behind and letting Bluesky run laps around it effortlessly. That and there really needs to be more UX people in FOSS.

As for the culture, someone higher up really needs to start taking a harder stance against the constant scolding that some people do. Yelling at someone to content-warn a post under something that the original poster didn't even know was a problem or condescendingly saying that someone should switch to Linux for the apparent crime of using Windows, even for reasons outside of their control (e.g. not everything works under WINE or a VM), is a huge issue that somehow hasn't been addressed.

And, well, there's the everything else about decentralized, federated networks that result in a very awkward experience for those coming from centralized platforms, but Mastodon seems to be working on that so I can at least give them that. Maybe the "it's scraping our posts, white techbro" sect can chill at least a little bit once FASPs get implemented.

@TechConnectify what tools are you missing here?

Today I noticed that @TechConnectify has an account here in addition to #BlueSky and I was just about to ask how the two platforms compared for that sort of usage. And then I saw that my question had already been answered 🙂

I think this is a very useful bit of feedback for #fediverse / #mastodon from exactly the sort of content creator that a lot of you want to see coming to this platform.

I would only add one other thought, I'm suspecting the character count limits between interfaces to the two platforms might also be significant to TC.

Otherwise I had been wondering about whether it's better to have accounts on both platforms or just to use those gateway services between the two.

(Also, I don't know, maybe I should be doing a quote post with this, because it does seem to break the stream of conversation, but I don't know)

@TechConnectify@mas.to we don't push popular creators off the platform, we just hold them to the same expectations as everyone else. Things like alt text is very important here and there are cultural nuances that need to be learned. Guess what though, I learned them just fine by listening and changing my behavior to accommodate that.

@TechConnectify so the first time you said this, I had a knee-jerk reaction to it. But then I thought about it, and damn it if ya an't right about it.