Because every time the NDP has tried to push electoral reform, voters tell them they don't care about the party's pet project. It comes across as tone deaf and academic when they push it.
Basically, the electorate does not like the NDP, and they cannot push any idea that actually makes the country structurally better without being burried in bad faith arguments. And they've become very responsive to bad faith arguments in the last 15 - 20 years or so.
I know. But the post is about Mastodon.
As far as I know, Mastodon doesn't even support assigning a default feed.
Simplify user sign up. No one cares about servers, and I think this is one of the biggest thorns in the side of the fediverse in general.
I cannot stress this enough. This complaint has to die. It's OK for the fediverse to not be ready for everybody yet. But the idea that we need to hide the fundamental building blocks of it, rather than retrain people for a different technology, has to end.
Servers matter. Servers are the core elements of all of this. The fediverse is a local-first, small social media space, dressed up as a big centralized one. We have to accept it for what it is.
Users need to decide which server they'll use, in the exact same way they do when using centralized social media. Only now, they'll be able to talk to people using other services. Whether you use Facebook or Reddit or Twitter matters. You have to choose which server to use between them. THey have different rules, and different cultures between them. This is true here, too.
Masking the server problem behind auto-assignments isn't going to work, because the developer doesn't own those servers. They have no formal relationship to those servers. They cannot vouch for those servers. If the closest fedi server to you is startrek.website and you hate nerd shit, you should not be auto-assigned to it.
If you want to simplify the Friendica signup for your friends and family, launch a Friendica-based website. Give them the URL. Now they don't need to make any decisions. Just like they don't for your Discord, or whatever else you may use that's smaller and personal.
A working mobile app. There is only one app I know of that is not even in beta, and I couldn’t get it work at all. Most people will not use a site if it doesn’t have an app.
Get coding.
Clean up of basic functionalities. Default to the most intuitive and user friendly options (no delete box enabled on posts/comments that aren’t yours, infinite feed on by default, prominent option dropdown to turn on darkmode or different styles, etc). I should not be taken to someone’s page when I click the “follow” button. Following should also be a two way street, and require consent. You cannot see someone’s content on facebook unless they approve your friend request. This is how it should be on friendica. Improve groups. I see they exist, but for the life of me I cannot figure out how to browse or search for them. Stop notifying me after I make a post. I know I made the post, I don’t need to be notified. Develop more appealing UI/UX overall that is easy for a layman to understand and use. Allow editing to show updates without needing to refresh the page. Etc, etc, etc.
Most of these are admin settings. Launch your own Friendica-based website and have at it.
Add expected functionalities. Tagging users, live videos, gifs, reaction emojis, marketplace, public events, unshare, reshare with commentary, recommend friends from contacts, etc.
Tagging works. Gifs work. Marketplace isn't going to happen, because it's a whole different product. A bunch of these need someone to support them.
So, start coding.
Friendica is not a social networking site. Lemmy is not a social networking site. Mastodon is not a social networking site. These are web servers that let you run your own social networking sites. Social networking sites that can connect with other small, independent social networking sites, creating an open social web.
But you should not be getting people to sign up to "Friendica". That's not a place on the internet.
It's a technology that drives places.
People really do be needing to look at the Local and Global timelines. There's a lot of chatter about regular, non-linuxy things there.
Honestly, I think I'm completely sold on the idea that the Local timeline should be the default.
When the precession of the equinoxes kicks in.
The solution there is to have them pick the instance rather than the underlying technology. To want to join, I don't know, tenforward.social and chat with other Trekies (and connect to other communities as a bonus) rather than to join "Mastodon".
But everyone's all focused on big social now, caysing usball to approach this backwards. Once you do that, things get more confusing and frustrating.
Alberta is a squeaky wheel, it gets a lot of grease. Plus it's still the spiritual and political seat of the modern Canadian conservative movement.
Not seeing this is not seeing how places not call Alberta, Ontario, or Quebec are treated federally.
It's an old Reform Party plank. Probably predates them, too. But it goes back at least to ol' Preston Manning.
Facebook: Now an unmoderated space, except for if you report on what Facebook is saying. Or criticize the actual social hierarchy in any way.
"If you aren't a programmer, don't speak" is about what I expect from programmers, yes. That kind of elitism is why most programmer-only projects are utter shit.
Nah. They knocked on the door and interrupt a stranger's day to sell Jesus. They need to learn to not do that if they're not prepared to deal with the responses.
Crazy how the only one of these airing criticism that says the budget isn't doing enough is the publicly owned one.
Most software developers aren't interested in being website admins for every Tom, Dick, and Harry. They're building the software for other people to host websites, not to run a social networking site for you.
It's not like the phpBB devs are hosting random car enthusiast websites.