Better crossposting support. Web view shows you communities that something has been crossposted to and has an easy crosspost button. Would like to see the same in Sync

Migration on Mastodon is really not good enough to use it for switching accounts. Unless you just never post and only follow people

I can only assume that the issue is that they’re trying to reduce the number of calls to the original instance. If you’re just scrolling by, you only see the post that’s cached on your own server, and it doesn’t communicate with the original instance until you open the post. Making it so that every time some scrolls by a post it contacts the original instance sounds like it massively increases the amount of traffic to the original instance which goes against the idea of software that supports smaller, self or community hosted servers.

And then they’ll cancel anything they didn’t spam the front page with and blame it on low viewership

Pixelfed is the federated alternative, not sure if it’s open source though

Well shit, time to find an alternative

Well feeling less bad about switching to a OnePlus now

I’m convinced that it’s purposeful sabotage on Apple’s part because if there’s one Android user in a group chat iMessage fucks up images/videos/effects for all recipients. So being the lone Android holdout gets you pressured to switch

It’s not even “apps only” since they still show sponsored shows at the top. Probably only a matter of time before more ads worm their way in.

It literally isn’t random. They’re good enough that they were able to geofence Apple to hide the fact they were tracking users

Glad it’s not just me that feels this way. There are certain words that it just seems to refuse to auto-complete no matter how many times I try or how slow I go. Feels like it’s biased towards commonly used words and cares less about what you’re actually typing

It’s a theft deterrent

This has been happening to me for a while prior to the latest update. At least a month, as I noticed it when posting about the Lost Caverns of Ixalan spoilers. I thought it was just a feature that Sync hadn’t implemented yet. I can edit comments just fine but posts, both on my instance and on other instances, are unable to be edited. I’ve logged into the web front end and confirmed I can edit posts that way, so it’s not due to specific instance rules.

For Microblogging so far I’ve used Mastodon because it seems to have the most feature complete apps from what I’ve seen (Megalodon and Tusky are both good). For the most part they interface together, I follow people on Misskey.

While it’s got a good amount of activity I don’t use it as much as Lemmy since the advantage here is that things are sorted into communities so it’s easier to find good content. You can follow tags on Mastodon, but because it has no real algorithm and the “toots” are less substantial than Lemmy submissions I find that you get a lot of banal status updates. It also has to compete with Bluesky which has more name recognition being made by ex-Twitterites that also draws more users away from it. If you can find good people to follow it’s good but I think we’re still waiting on a critical mass of people to move from the former site.

Sometimes just holding up that mirror is enough to remind people. I think we overestimate how much bad activity on the web is active maliciousness and how much is the occasional poorly thought out post on a bad day

Megalodon, though I do like Tusky as well

Hashtags dump a bunch of stuff into my feed that I just don’t care about. I just want a good way to sort search results by something other than chronological order so it’s easier to find people to follow, a chronological timeline is fine as long as I can choose what shows up there

There’s not really much evidence that targeted ads work any better than random ads. Plus they already have a point of data to serve ads: what video the user is watching.