@hkrn

Mastodon is a well-intentioned but half-baked idea, poorly implemented. It is fun, but not an effective communication medium.

@jakob @hkrn

That is one of the problems of the fediverse: its is fragmented into many more or less incompatible platforms. Few users have the time to check out more than one, or migrate between them.

The fediverse itself is a half-baked idea, poorly implemented. The old USENET worked because it had a much better overall design.

@jakob @hkrn

It is not just the user interface, it is the very basic design of the fediverse.

One of the annoying features is that the same post shows up again and again in my feed, every time someone I follow boosts it. The old USENET avoided that by keeping track - in my local machine - of the messages I had already seen. Like any email server does. But the fediverse cannot do that, because it cannot keep such memory anywhere...

@lxo

I can see that an app could keep track of the messages I have read (like the old mail and Usenet readers did). Or a centralized service like Xitter and Whatzap. But how could a browser-based AND decentralized service do it?