The twitter model is way less popular in here Europe, where we mostly like private, narrow Facebook groups, I wish there were modern social networks that catered to that.
All I know about these is that they were hyped some time ago and never really had an exit from a narrow community, which Mastodon seems to be achieving:/
Federation relays look like a viable and less intrusive alternative to “followbots”, bots that run on a low-user-count server and follow lots of people in order to populate the federated timeline.
I used the docker containers and the upgrade was pretty painless. Assets are now compiled into the containers as well.
Federation relays looks like an interesting idea. It seems like it might help more people break away from the big servers.
So they worked on the UI but kept the ultra-narrow columns? So weird. I can’t even read the text the column is so narrow.
Try an alternate UI like pinafore, it has wider columns.
Wow, pinafore is really nice. Will try it out for a couple of weeks.
Yeah, that decision baffles me as well. Added some custom css to firefox to make columns wider.
Different themes have different column width. Try the “Photon” theme, I find it much more usable.
both the glitch-soc fork and the mastodon frontend for pleroma have growing columns… Why they don’t change it for mainline is a mystery.
The twitter model is way less popular in here Europe, where we mostly like private, narrow Facebook groups, I wish there were modern social networks that catered to that.
There is diaspora, friendica, hubzilla…
All I know about these is that they were hyped some time ago and never really had an exit from a narrow community, which Mastodon seems to be achieving:/
Federation relays look like a viable and less intrusive alternative to “followbots”, bots that run on a low-user-count server and follow lots of people in order to populate the federated timeline.