I HATE :
- Users who put 20 hashtags on their toot
- twitter cross-posting toot
- bot which pollute timeline with pre-formated stupid toot
Let’s continue the list !
I can’t stand so many things about the twitter style of social media.
- Based around following people: not communities or topics. If I follow a person, I have to see all of their posts no matter how unimportant to me it is. I might like a person’s input on star trek, I really don’t care if they’re drinking their second red bull that morning.
- There are tags, but no voting, no sorting, and no moderation, so they’re mostly garbage.
- No way to see what’s popular: or sorting based on voting whatsoever. Updates stream in, which means you can’t subscribe to more than a few people unless you want your entire day to be gone.
- Length-limited content emphasizes gotcha soundbytes, and not discussion.
- No tree-based commenting: meaning I have to click into a lot of threads just to see replies.
AFAIK, some instances have a way to view popular posts on the “/explore” page. The instance I just migrated from had it, but the one I am on now doesn’t, so it isn’t all of them.
The only thing I really hate is the polarization. I like hearing different viewpoints from people who disagree with me, but oftentimes people will outright block you for disagreeing with them, or even associating with “the wrong people”.
Well but isn’t that their freedom to block whoever they want?
People who won’t stop talking about Twitter. My dude you’re preaching to the choir. Let’s just let past stay in the past and talk about how we can make mastodon better. Twitter cross posting people are definitely on my list as well.
I honestly don’t mind the hashtags because without a proper search function hashtags are the only way you reach other instances.
I’m having that feeling on Lemmy at the moment with Reddit topics, like holy cow I know it’s a dumpster fire, let’s find a new event horizon shall we lol
I’ve always hated the cross-posting Toot it is annoying to see
Calling posts toots. I can’t do it. I can’t call posts farts. Sorry. I’ll never say toot.
at this point I kinda like the twitter cross-posting bots… . . I wish you could respond to them. . .kind of a universal mastodon twitter account with sub-accounts … .also maybe a bit of promotion of mastodon on twitter . . …probably not doable
Not much “hate” here. I like the concept and I like the design (Especially now you can choose to have just one column in the middle) of Mastodon and the fact that it has managed to build up a significant user base. What I dislike are minor issues, like no really good default search for various things (Hashtags, words, URLs). And the RAM usage and the not so easy maintenance is uncool. However, there is … Pleroma. That software is awesome and light weight and has interesting options. Some time ago I ran a single person Pleroma instance, that was nice - software wise. But connecting to people via Mastodon was easier. Maybe Pleroma has improved meanwhile re: that.
well, I tried plemora, diaspora, friendica…but the problems is when you begin , with no followers, it’s just an empty space. In mastodon, the ‘noise’ in the local timelines is addictive for beginners.