And that is why Mastodon is stuck at 15 million accounts, only a fraction of which are active in any meaningful sense.
The lack of search functionality, blocked by a purist ideology held by another fraction of the user population, may be elegant (in the nerdy Linux sense) but it is an architectural form of pre-crime censorship and control, which has had clear and obvious effects on the “community” and on these so-called “conversations,” turning Mastodon into a fast-moving river.
Brian Dear /
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2024-06-20 16:19:36
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