Mastodon is Rewinding the Clock on Social Media — in a Good Way
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A comment on a Hacker News thread inspired me to contemplate why Mastodon is everything we loved about social media before…

In many ways, Mastodon feels like rewinding the clock on social media back to the early days of Twitter and Facebook. On the consume side, that means that your home feed has no algorithm (this can be disorienting at first).

Practically, it means that you see only what you want to see and only see it linearly. You never wonder “why am I seeing this and how do I make it go away?”. Content can only enter your home feed via your followed tags or handles and the feed is linear like the early days of social media.

  • wahming@monyet.ccEnglish
    124·
    1 year ago

    When’s the last time you developed and released a full fledged software project for free?

      • PurplePropagule@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        5·
        1 year ago

        Lemmy has gotten quite a bit of money in grants. It’s safe to say that without the grants allowing the lemmy devs to work on it full time, it wouldn’t be as functional as it is now. Getting grants really isn’t easy and that shouldn’t be the barrier to whether or not you can be compensated for your work.

      • wahming@monyet.ccEnglish
        23·
        1 year ago

        I am not opposed to developers funding their projects with ads

        Doesn’t sound like it from your initial statement

        You are currently using full fledged software projects that are free to use for anyone in the form of Lemmy and the ActivityPub protocol.

        I’m aware. I’m pointing out the irony that most people who bash on non-FOSS projects are rarely involved in the development of such themselves.

    • Izzy@lemmy.worldEnglish
      65·
      1 year ago

      If you are suggesting ads are the only way to fund software then you are mistaken. For example you can sell it for money to consumers.

        • Izzy@lemmy.worldEnglish
          611·
          1 year ago

          It still has ads. It can’t take the moral high ground of selling software if it also has a free with ads version to try and convince people to subscribe. Get rid of the ad version and only sell the software and then it will actually have some integrity.

          • wahming@monyet.ccEnglish
            93·
            1 year ago

            Wait… So you’re arguing… Less options is BETTER? That somehow if they took away the choice of seeing ads and made payment mandatory, instead of giving users the choice, that would be more moral?

            WTF?