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@realcaseyrollins @shebang I was trying to explain why I think Mastodon is stagnating and becoming obsolete. I speculate it's because Eugen is lacking the bravery and motivation he once had due to feeling demoralized.
@realcaseyrollins @alex @shebang When I first joined it used to push the TL down no matter where you were, that was really annoying.

@niggaflamebuttholeaids @mewmew @realcaseyrollins Oh. Then. umm.

Busshie? or how its spelt. One of them? One of mewmew’s servers lol.

I mean its his fork, surely he runs it somewhere….

@alex @shebang Huh. So people wanting to switch might be more of a culture thing than a User Experience thing? Or perhaps those are intertwined.

@shebang @realcaseyrollins I think Eugen feels demoralized that many of his users hate him. I think deep down he knows this whole "cancel culture" thing is not good, but he's too deep now to change gears. It's part of the Mastodon brand.

@gladicouldnthelp @Jdogg247 "Why can't we find a better mode of communication than text" tweets the disgruntled mentally ill manchild

@moonman Hmm...I don't think this is a good enough reason to remove romantic opportunities as a motivator for self-improvement

@alex @shebang Ooh, nice! I'm looking forward to this!

> It pushes posts down the screen while you're trying to read them.

I've been able to circumvent this by scrolling down slightly; it halts the feed and stops the scrolling.

@shebang @alex Hmm...is it the interface, or the backend? I actually prefer the interface, it's just way faster on the backend.

I do wonder for those who do not like the interface, why that is. seems to be designed with normies in mind, but to be honest is a lot prettier, is as smooth as any instance would be, and even has more features than . But neither have really caught on.

I look at the interface and go, "man, this looks kinda weird and nerdy", and I wouldn't be surprised if other's felt the same way. I could see people wanting to leave , but honestly I couldn't see them running to . IMHO, design-wise, looks the oldest out of the three, and looks the newest. IDK what the end result is, but it would be nice to see become the new . The interface looks too nerdy to have mass appeal, IMHO

@realcaseyrollins @shebang The timelines do auto-update, new posts just get captured in a queue you have to click to expand. Planning to make it a user preference in v1.1, but I don't think it's better without the queue. It pushes posts down the screen while you're trying to read them.

@realcaseyrollins @alex I agree with Alex here, I think Mastodon already feels dated somehow — mainly the direction the developers are going isn’t somewhere promising. Despite being the Capital of Cancel City, it has terrible moderation features even. Pleroma is upbeat and active, new stuff happening — stuff people actually want. There really isn’t a reason to use Mastodon that I can think of, with the sole exception of its language filtering.

Misskey is really fun, but its .. very quirky. I’m curious to follow its development though.

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