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

submitted 1 year ago by pnutzh4x0r@lemmy.ndlug.org to c/fediverse@lemmy.world

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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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[-] Izzy@lemmy.world 119 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Put it simply I just hate ads. Anything that puts in ads is terrible. Including Sync for Lemmy who seems to have completely missed the point of getting the hell away from Reddit.

The next terrible thing is automatically generated content and bots, but I guess those are also really just ads.

[-] emptyother@programming.dev 66 points 1 year ago

I disagree. I hate ads with a passion too. But as long as we can pay a sum to remove it, it is fair to have a free option with ads. A kinda unlimited "demo".

We are fools for thinking anyone would give away their own time and effort for free forever. We have completely lost the perspective of how much things should cost because of how much we've taken for granted that was paid for with our personal data. And the biggest fools is those who think most software developers and server admins can live reliably on donations alone.

Though Youtube is taking the ads a bit far, maybe. One shouldn't scare away users before they have even become customers.

[+] Izzy@lemmy.world -9 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] Neve8028@lemm.ee 9 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] Geert@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

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

[-] Neve8028@lemm.ee 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.