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nells | 3 years ago

Lol, the first answers are by “autinerd” and “ocdtrekkie”. Mastodon is really something else.

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mschuster91|3 years ago

> Mastodon is really something else.

My biggest gripe with Mastodon is just how bad their thread support is. With Twitter, it's easily noticeable which reply belongs to which chain, Mastodon just flattens everything.

superkuh|3 years ago

My biggest gripe is that it is just like twitter: there's no HTML page with text or images. There's only a javascript application to run. For twitter I could use a nitter mirror. For mastadon... I just close that tab because there's no way to avoid executing the javascript that I'm aware of. Does anyone know of a way?

edit I found a way. You can use the JS api, like:

https://mastodon.social/@bagder/109432034039353503

becomes,

https://mastodon.social/api/v1/statuses/109432034039353503

which returns the post in json form. Readable without execution.

nextstep|3 years ago

those are also their handles on Twitter...

https://twitter.com/autinerd https://twitter.com/ocdtrekkie

I don't get it

intelVISA|3 years ago

Perhaps the implication is that it's poor form to publicly announce you understand How Things Work so you should use a more neutral handle like SoyLord66 or DankM3mer - same reason nerdctl is a worse Docker.