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Pros:

- Moderation seems reasonable, aggressively removing hateful/violent content but hardly ever banning people. So far this is keeping the more offensive bluechecks away.

- After my first few follows, the algorithmic feed quickly showed me a lot of my favorite follows from twitter, despite starting from a pretty bare follow list (I'm not much of an Insta user). So discoverability is excellent.

- UI is clean and light

- no Musk.

Cons:

- Lot of missing critical features. No thread search, no hashtags, no web-interface, no chronological feed.

- Zuckerberg.

- The algorithmic feed happily dumps an infinite list of inane celebrity and influencer fillter on you the moment you run out of your preferred content.

Mostly it's showed me how awfully Mastodon fumbled the bag with their terrible discovery. The end-zone was wide-open here.

Honestly, all Mastodon needed to win this game was the better search and some "friends of friends" kind of algorithmic feed. Now it's probably too late.




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