It's incredible how much ActivityPub sabotages itself. This author speaks on the deliberately dysfunctional aspects of Mastodon as being a result of "open source software having to suck" when in fact the devs here chose to make it suck because they decided it was better, like removing quote tweets etc. Misskey variants do all this stuff perfectly fine, far more features than Twitter actually, although the base version is incredibly buggy and inhabited by pedophiles. There is no reason why Lemmy and its forks can't connect to these sites either. People are just incredibly confused on here and do not see their own potential.

Big fan of Movim by the way.

[–] p03locke@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

There is no reason why Lemmy and its forks can’t connect to these sites either. People are just incredibly confused on here and do not see their own potential.

The internet doesn't run on potential. It runs on actual fucking features.

The fact that I don't see a mix of Mastodon, Lemmy, PeerTube, and other mediums on my front page just makes me angry at the lost potential of what this protocol is supposed to be about.

[–] ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net 4 points 9 hours ago

Related to Movim; it just received Discord-like spaces a couple days ago! So it's now a pretty effective decentralized Discord that can do group audio/video calls, screen share, and even has blogging built in.

Highly recommend anyone thinking about ditching Discord to give it a shot. It doesn't even require an email to use, just a username and password :)

[–] chris@l.roofo.cc 14 points 18 hours ago (3 children)

Mastodon has quotes now. They chose to make quotes controllable and added a standard for it. That's why it took so long.

[–] 73ms@sopuli.xyz 5 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

That's why it took so long after they got convinced to do it but not really why it took so long overall.

[–] chris@l.roofo.cc 8 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

I think the founder didn't like the idea of talking about each other instead of with each other. After enough people said they really wanted it they wanted to give people at least control. And don't necessarily am thinking that was the right decision but it came from a good place.

[–] 73ms@sopuli.xyz 8 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago)

That's true, you may or may not agree with the decision but the motivation was certainly because Mastodon is trying to find ways to not repeat the destructive patterns of other social media.

[–] mistermodal@lemmy.ml 2 points 17 hours ago

That's nice for them, but I'm using good software now