Re: Emigration from Usenet [was: Re: PTD was the most-respected of the AUE regulars ...]

Marco Moock <mm+usenet-es@dorfdsl.de> writes:

I've tried out mastodon and I don't like it. Only usable for chit-chat,
you can't open a "thread" in a new tab by middle click, so rather
uncomfortable to use.
The content is also mostly non-interesting, like Twitter. Some people
who hate Elon Musk now moved to mastodon and post their bullshit there.

I only can halfway bear Mastodon by ignoring the global timelines and
only focus on the local one of my preferred instance (emacs.ch), but
despite that I still need a break sometimes ('m in one right now).

A federation of nodes of not identical feature-sets has to fail.  Not
all of them support multiple markup variants, the diversity of the
maximum message length of the nodes is very diverse (IIRC from 500 chars
to some huge value) and not all nodes can use hashtags and the lack of
properly isolated groups increases that mess exponentially.

New Fedistan is just a federated mess.

Lets be happy about this: I already saw some New Fedistan inhabitants
join the Original Fediverse.  Not only for Usenet, but for Feedbase,
Gmane, Gwene too.

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