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Mastodon is Rewinding the Clock on Social Media — in a Good Way (chrlschn.medium.com)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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.

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[+] [email protected] -14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I disagree. Paying to remove ads is one of the core problems with ads. If the only way to develop your software is either to frustrate them enough to pay to remove ads or have ads then your software shouldn't exist. You don't get to do something bad just because there is an option to pay them to stop doing that bad thing. That doesn't make it right. The whole concept is basically like a really mild protection racket.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is such an unbelievably naive take. People's time is worth something. Relying just on donations from a small percentage of users here and there is not going to cut it for someone who is developing the software full time.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

No, can't you see? There is no way to enjoy Lemmy without Sync.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

There are plenty alternatives which is great. I think it's just an absurd take to bash a solo dev who is working on an app as their full time job for trying to make money.