@sydneyfalk ouch
So late Wednesday night USA time* the mastodon dot social admin dropped a very different web interface based on the contractor-designed iOS app. In my opinion it looks okay in single-column mode but REAL bad in "advanced" mode.
FYI @Eramdam made a style for the Stylus browser extension that claws back the previous design to some extent:
https://userstyles.world/style/7065/compact-er-mastodon
* in other words, the night before the Twitter exodus began, which was either genius or terrible timing to drop a large design change
re: -, trans, aging, traumatic dreams
@tessaracht that mood is massive.
@cadey cool
@unpretty everything is broken
@cadey can nixos mitigate that?
re: -, trans, aging, traumatic dreams
@tessaracht you're still here, which is pretty rad
@noracodes their internal apis may not be terribly stable
@noracodes that's totally fair.
@noracodes fwiw i don't see this as a zero sum game. activitypub isn't going away, and cohost will have growing pains.
how they represent themselves probably isn't a lie for them. that is to say i won't assume bad faith on their part until i feel it's warranted
federation is socially complex, and i can understand an implementer feeling like it's an anti-feature
also, i've seen a lot of people burn themselves out here. if cohost works, they'll be lessons for everyone on the way forward.
I am:
- no gender only gay
- a relationship anarchist
- nonhuman, otherhearted
- autistic, anxious, sick with: ME, MCAS, POTS
- housebound
- always happy to talk to people and make new friends. Please don't take slow replies as a lack of interest
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@noracodes i don't begrudge them the opportunity to make what is, right now, effectively an incubator.
i'm waiting to see what happens when they need more resources.
@noracodes i always assumed many problems we're caused or exacerbated by marginalized people trying to do a lot of this work with almost no resources.
Transitioning in mid-life
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