stoiclime

I don’t know what you mean by Wayland not being ready for general adoption. I’ve been using it on Fedora for a year now with no issues whatsoever.

Might be a Hyprland issue instead of Wayland, as I remember from the time I tried out Hyprland.

I agree with the Fedora recommendation. Just a all round great experience.

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I like Apple Music. It’s awesome even on Android, which is what I use.

The article says 80 percent of the users left. If you had more context, you would have got what I said.

And 80 percent of over 100 million users is still 20-30m active users.

Which adblocker do you use?

Never used one, (can’t afford to right now), but I adore the idea of the smaller flip ones. I would definitely take one if they reduced the crease in the future, it’s too noticeable right now.

I don’t like it because my feed gets flooded with low quality content that’s only there because the poster used that particular hashtag. It needs sorting like Reddit, so that I can keep the good quality content on top, but also have a chronological option if I ever get bored.

It makes no sense to choose chronological when you can make it optional. Bluesky is much, much better in this regard.

That’s my other issue with Mastodon, it’s development doesn’t seem that open, it feels like the head dude isn’t really open to change. When asked about fixing search, he said it was “intentional” and he wanted people to search less. Seems weird, let the users have the choice, right?

Heck, even Bluesky, which is VC funded feels more open than Mastodon at times.

I have selected some high-quality content to follow, but I still need to SORT through it. I’m into photography, but I don’t want to see people taking a mirror selfie and it being on the top of my feed just because it was the latest one posted with the hashtag.

Reddit (and Lemmy) solve this by giving me the choice. I can sort by Hot or Active, and get a balance between recent but upvoted posts, and if I need to, I can always sort by New.

The user needs to have options. Mastodon currently isn’t it for me, and won’t be until they add it. Until they do, I would take Threads with a following feed over Mastodon.

I also feel like Bluesky is the one doing this really well too. They have custom algorithms, that users can create and people can enable them in the settings, like community plugins. I really, really love that concept and would love seeing something like that on Mastodon.

I agree with you. Lemmy is way too aggressive about this.

The problem with Mastodon is discoverability. The fact that if I follow 10 hashtags, it won’t sort them on my homepage, but will be fully chronological.

Say I follow #photography. The top of my homepage would be the post posted 2s ago, no matter how bad it is. It is so hard to find quality content.

Now, Threads’ algorithm is pretty bad, but it’s still a lot easier to find quality content there instead of on Mastodon. Mastodon badly needs sorting by Hot, Active etc like there is on Lemmy.

The entire userbase of the Fediverse is a rounding error for Meta. We aren’t significant.

That’s why Mastodon is my choice.

It’s the best made app imo, with the best performance and design. If I had to rank them, I would rank Mastodon > Twitter > Threads > Bluesky.

I’m on both, and both vibes are pretty great. I prefer Mastodon simply because the app is superbly made, tiny file size, no trackers etc. Bluesky is a buggy mess right now. Also, 3rd party apps on Mastodon are amazing.