Which do you think is the better microblogging platform? Why?

  • @helenslunch@feddit.nl
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    27 months ago

    Haven’t used Pleroma. I use Mastodon and Sharkkey but both of them have major drawbacks.

    Mastodon - character limits are pointless, frustrating, and not good for anyone. Trying to follow a conversation is a nightmare.

    Sharkkey/Misskey - can’t follow hashtags. This is the one giant complaint I have with this service. It’s also very complicated and cluttered and confusing. I don’t understand why these new services need to reinvent common vocabulary for their services (ie: notes (which is a completely different thing on Twitter), channels, antennas, pages etc). It just makes learning them so much more confusing.

    • 0x1C3B00DA
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      37 months ago

      I don’t understand why these new services need to reinvent common vocabulary for their services (ie: notes (which is a completely different thing on Twitter), channels, antennas, pages etc)

      I don’t know about the rest of the terms, but note is actually the standard term for a microblog post. It was used by services before and contemporaneous to twitter and is the ActivityStream term for these posts.

        • 0x1C3B00DA
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          37 months ago

          I wasn’t claiming note was the first term used to refer to them only that it’s been used to refer to them for a long time

            • Dame
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              37 months ago

              It is cultural. Japanese SSN use the term note and re-note