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2022-11-22 17:41:52

hans@social.woefdram.nl

If you're new to the #Fediverse and/or #Mastodon and get this feeling that it's not exactly what you expected, please read this. This is an excellent piece about #FediCulture.

TL;DR This isn't #Twitter, and that's by design> Here's why.

Stefano Zacchiroli wrote the following post Tue, 22 Nov 2022 17:12:51 +0100

Must read on #Mastodon culture for everyone (considering) migrating there from #Twitter: https://uxdesign.cc/mastodon-is-antiviral-design-42f090ab8d51

2022-11-22 17:56:26

Kenny Chaffin

kennychaffin@diasp.org

Unfortunately you can't read the article unless you create a login/signup... :)

2022-11-22 18:10:08

David

davidmorley@diasp.org

or https://12ft.io/https://uxdesign.cc/mastodon-is-antiviral-design-42f090ab8d51

2022-11-22 19:25:15

Tanja

tanja@hz.lazyteddy.eu

Very interesting read. Although it's all about Mastodon, specifically, most of it applies to the rest of the Fediverse as well, and some of it applies even more to Hubzilla / Streams. Hubzilla (minus AP) is definitely slower than Mastodon, especially if you sort your stream by "Posted date" instead of "Commented date", like I do.

Of course, I'm not exactly a prime example with my relatively small circle, but I did notice the difference between here and my Mastdon instance (which, incidentally, I ditched in the meantime.)

2022-11-22 19:38:22

Hans van Zijst

hans@social.woefdram.nl

@Tanja Yup, this is a nice explanation of the fundamental difference between the Fediverse and the birdsite. It's not Mastodon specific, but the author seems to cater for the misconception of new users that Mastodon is the name of this world. Missed opportunity, but he does a very good job explaining that this is not Twitter.

I too have noticed that Hubzilla is a bit slower than Mastodon. I assume that's because the Mastodon client connects to a streaming service where it gets immediate updates, whereas Hubzilla seems to run a piece of JavaScript code every now and then, that checks if there's anything new to display.